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20 DEC 03: I-M CATCHING UP
After thinking so much about homeless people for a couple of days, let's send some Instant Messages to make up for what we've missed:
+ To Anthony Carter of the National Action Network: What do you mean some suspects in killings of African-American men in Columbus were "unsuccessfully prosecuted?" Don't you know how to say the wods, "not guilty?"
+ To the Columbus Chamber of Commerce: That's a good deal you have - buying a brick on your new "Business Walk of Recognition" for $100. Any old rap star with a criminal record can put his name there....
+ To whoever owns the Central Park hot dog stand on Macon Road: You can reopen it now. The construction is over - like about six months over.
+ To WHAL-AM: I'm glad the "Feed 98 Families" event went well Friday at Crawford's Cafeteria. But did you really mean to ask on the air for donations of "warm WEATHER clothing?" How many layers of tanktops do these families need?
+ To the Shearith Israel synagogue: Thank you for having a public menorah-lighting ceremony Friday evening, to mark the start of Hanukkah. Rabbi Friedmann at Temple Israel is such a killjoy about that festival.
+ To the Walgreens store on Veterans Parkway: How did you wind up with Time magazine covers of Jesus and "The Lost Gospels" - the cover that supposedly was changed for the capture of Saddam Hussein? Was this a special request, because Columbus is a Bible Belt town?
+ To Fort Benning: Thanks for the alert that you're closing two entrances to add security checkpoints. The folks at "SOA Watch" especially thank you - because they didn't know they could go in that way.
+ To the Atlanta Falcons: What are you guys doing - beating Tampa Bay this afternoon? Don't you WANT the top draft pick again?
+ To the Columbus Riverdragons: My apologies for claiming your games were not on radio this season. I didn't realize they were on "Boomer 95.3" FM - and I thought that part of the FM dial was playing nothing but Christmas songs this month.
+ To Columbus High School girls' basketball coach Ashley Powell: Are we seeing things -- or you are the second coming of Jill Arrington? (Yes, you may consider this a pickup line.)
COMING SOON: We'll begin a "year-in-review" series, with new perspectives on 2003's most interesting events....
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