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In which James explores America's obsession with the lottery.

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In which the RZA discusses how to find your true self.

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In which Elon Musk and other bosses scheme to kill working from home.

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Ending the year with David Bowie and one of my favorite hometown tales.

In August, former president Donald Trump and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani joined a long list of people immortalized in mugshots.

And they were glorious.

The expressions were fascinating and reminded me of one of my favorite mugshots: David Bowie's.

Bowie's arrest happened in my hometown of Rochester, New York.

On a Friday night in 1976, Bowie and Iggy Pop, who our newspaper identified as James Osterberg Jr., played our arena, then known as the War Memorial.

Pop and Bowie and several members of Bowie's entourage were arrested in a hotel after the concert in charge with marijuana possession.

Reports say they had about a half pound of pot.

Back then, that was a low-level felony.

Bowie bailed everybody out.

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He drove to Springfield for his next show that night.

Word spread of Bowie's arrest and his arraignment a few days later.

About 200 fans showed outside a Rochester, New York courtroom to greet him, minutes before he pled not guilty.

After a quick chat with a lawyer, Bowie made a six-ish hour trip to New York City in a limo.

The limo, which was parked outside his lawyer's office, was ticketed for parking in the space for too long.

iggy pop marijuana

But as the Democratic & Chronicle described, a plainclothes officer took the ticket and put it in his pocket.

A few months later, Bowie faced a jury.

He wasn't indicted.

And that's the last time that David Bowie set foot in my hometown.

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And have you ever had a mugshot taken of you?

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It seems like every day I hear or see or read something that contradicts some long-held belief banged in my head by society.

The latest one is that opposites attract.

Apparently, most straight ones don't.

A study in the journal Nature looked at the results of nearly 200 studies on heterosexual relationships.

This mega meta-analysis featured a sample of around 8 million people from around the world.

Overall, they found that a vast majority of participants shared at least 18 of 22 characteristics with their partner.

These traits ranged from political and religious views, education and IQ levels, opinions about drug and alcohol views.

They even shared similar levels of happiness in whether they were introverts or extroverts.

The researchers also did their own study with more than 100,000 volunteers in the UK.

The participants shared a whopping 89% of these traits with their partners.

And strangely enough, many couples in the study even drank the same amount of water each day.

I'm left to ask, what came first, the chicken or the egg?

Do we simply want someone like us?

Or as I tend to believe, are we the sum of our relationships?

The longer two people are in a vice grip together, the more they compromise.

As Abe Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand.

What do you think?

Is your partner like you?

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It's Wednesday and it's time for some wit and wisdom.

This week's wise words come from Jon Stewart; the comedian best known for his work on The Daily Show.

Stewart and I don't have much in common, but we do share one belief on where good content comes from.

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During a 2010 interview with Fresh Air with Terry Gross, he said:

You'd be incredibly surprised at how regimented our day is and just how the infrastructure of the show is very much mechanized.It you know, we come in and it's not people always think the Daily Show you guys probably just sit around and make jokes and we've instituted to be able to sort of wean through all this material and synthesize it and try and come up with things to do.We have a very kind of strict day that we have to adhere to.And by doing that, that allows us to process everything and gives us the freedom to sort of improvise.I'm a real believer in that creativity comes from limits, not freedom.Freedom, I think you don't know what to do with yourself, but when you have a structure, then you can improvise off it and feel confident enough to kind of come back to that.

Or as I see it, the horizon is the motivator.

Knowing a summit is near helps you do what's necessary to get there.

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Google searches on cheaper food and knockoffs soared in 2023

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And have your habits changed with high inflation rates?

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In which James wishes we could bring intermissions back to the movies.

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From my home to yours, I hope you have a holly jolly Christmas.

On that note, I’m James Brown and as always be well

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It's Friday and it's time for some comfort food, Christmas themed comfort food. 

This moment of joy happened years ago at the New York City Radio Station Power 105

That’s when the late DMX was challenged to have a little fun.

And that my friends is what joy sounds like.

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From my home to yours, I hope you have a holly jolly Christmas.

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Every generation wants something a little bit different from their media, and according to a recent survey by UCLA's Center for Scholars and Storytellers, the Homelanders, or Gen Z, are no different.

Many young people between age 10 and 24

want to see less romance and promiscuity in movies and TV shows.

Nearly 50% of them say that sex is not necessary for most stories.

And a little over 50% of them want more plots centered on platonic friendships.

According to the study's author, what the survey is really saying is that they want more in different kinds of relationships reflected in media.

adolescents aren't pumped about other reoccurring Hollywood storylines.

Among their bugaboos are stories about how relationships are necessary for happiness.

Plots where the male and female leads always end up together romantically.

They don't like happy endings.

And of course, love triangles.

My takeaway is that these young people want stories that feel more authentic and real and familiar.

Stories that give them a sense of belonging in an unstable world.

What do you think?

And do we use too much sex in media?

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