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Facebook and Twitter are necessary evils now for lots of small retail biz just starting up
There was a Paul Lynde type in England too who was just as hilarious – Kenneth Williams.
Kitty Genovese.
Donatella, new rules re travel to Cuba:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/25/133218509/U-S-Further-Loosens-Cuba-Travel-Restrictions
summary online, audio online after 7.
I hate social networking but I finally went on FB for business reasons. And I have to admit to loving texting and email because finally my hearing is not an issue. But people do still come together to rally- and sometimes FB is the agent. To wit- events today in Egypt, and last week in Tunisia.
Kitty Genovese, PB.
PB, you text plenty, and I don’t think you’re antisocial?!
“wouldn’t people really have enough natural ties to one another to rally together after such a tragedy? Not now.”
What was that murder in Queens in the 1950’s? Genovese or something?
“I’ve come to hate talking on the phone”
Me too. I don’t have the excuses of facebook or lots of texting to make up for it though (& always hated it even before those came along). I’m just anti-social.
Texting wouldn’t kill you, ArPUMA.
And, God no to the cat, bxgrl. You have more than enough for the both of us.
I think a lot has been written about Paul Lynde as a transitional figure in terms of the eventual acceptance of gays and gay style and sensibility on television. I am sure tons of folks loved him on Hollywood Squares, Bewitched, etc. who had no clue.