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Swift boating
Major eye & ear candy superstar Taylor Swift was in town yesterday, ending her tour. She filled Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA (home of the N.E. Patriots) with 56,000 fans, matching the attendance at Shea Stadium for the Beatles in 1965. Good thing she isn’t here today, because we are suddenly having the seriously bad rainy weather that hit the Midwest yesterday, that is undoubtedly affecting WUMB’s music festival right now.
(Wait! It’s sunny! No, it’s dark with downpours again! Now it’s clearing up….!)
Congrats to the glad grad!
Covered in glory, with $16,000 per year in scholarships for college (which is still going to cost a lot), Eric is now officially a high school graduate.
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Stephen Colbert… bullfighting fan?
Lia Pamina of Spain is no fan of bullfighting. She calls it torture. This is Lia expressing her opinion in a bullring.
Recently, matador Julio Aparicio was on the receiving end of some bullish wrath in Madrid. Stephen Colbert calls it one of the craziest f#?ing things he’s ever heard.
| The Colbert Report | Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
| Craziest F#?ing Thing I’ve Ever Heard – Gored Bullfighter | ||||
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Stephanie Courtney’s progress
Another popular target for hits in May was actress Stephanie Courtney, who plays Flo, the funny, upbeat and perky Progressive Insurance girl. This was a bit of a surprise, because I mentioned her only once, in a post that was primarily about Annie Little.
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Let’s talk numbers
Click the picture to see the blog stats for May.
This is yet another record month for the site. I have almost none of the videos posted that got me into trouble with my former hosting service, for using too much of my “unlimited” storage. I’m now streaming video from YouTube as much as possible, and yet nearly 30 GB of bandwidth was consumed. Why? Because of one set of videos I uploaded after switching the hosting service. I wanted to be sure they were online before the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions aired. The hits and the bandwidth were, once again, for Larissa Kelly.
The last time the site stats set a new record was when Larissa’s appearance on the 2009 Tournament of Champions was re-run. Before that, the tournament with Larissa blasted the previous record, which was set when her original appearances were re-run, and before that…. well, you get the idea. You know how Stephen Colbert likes to boast about the Colbert Bump? This site gets the Larissa Bump.