American Idol winner and Blue Springs native David Cook sang the John Lennon classic "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" at Rockefeller Center early this month. It was a gorgeous rendition -- except for one thing:Fans of the Christmas classic might have noticed something kind of important missing. As Roger Catlin, a vigilant TV writer for the Hartford Courant, noted:
The most shocking thing about "Christmas in Rockefeller Center," an event that's usually benign holiday fun, wasn't the amount of people in
While you were sitting on the couch with your hand in a bag of donuts and a bottle of Ranch wedged in your double-chin, someone at MTV was actually hard at work live blogging the show you were both watching. Said live-blogger writes:
8:22 pm - "Backstage at the Kodak Theater, Von Smith is preparing for his performance." Which means he's getting ready to unhinge his jaw and scream like a banshee. Can't wait!
8:22 pm - Stephen Fowler is singing a hard Stevie Wonder song well. Jorge Garcia is doi
Science Whatever: Apparently, scientists have known for years that blood comes squirting directly out Antarctic glaciers, but didn't bother to tell anyone because when Antarctica's "Aunt Flo comes to visit" or whatever, it's a really private, sensitive time. Congratulations, Miss Polar Continent. Now you are a woman. And it's not actually blood, you guys, it's a salty, red, iron-rich liquid. Uh. Like blood. So, what the hell, the scientists went ahead and called the eruptions "blood falls," j
