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I'M ON A ROLL - and so is the earth!

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The VA Earthquake: Two Ways I. Girard, PA My boss had just left the gallery in Girard a bit before 2 p.m., and I was drumming my fingers on the desk, staring at the computer screen and trying not to nod off. I felt this strange shaking - a tremble, really, and my hand shook on the desk. I looked to the glass display case to the side of me and it, too, was trembling. I looked up then, and saw that the walls and windows were vibrating. It only lasted about ten seconds, and since I'm kind of crazy, I thought it might be just me. Then it occurred to me it might actually be something news-worthy. I mean, in Erie, when someone throws up outside of the Cellblock it's on the news. I went to the yourerie.com website and LOOK AT THIS: http://yourerie.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=188997 RED EARTHQUAKE GRAPHIC INDICATES FIERY SERIOUSNESS OF INCIDENT --- Also, whoever does the online web editing for yourerie sucks major donkey balls at their job. They initially misspelled 're...

omg ERIE IS IN A MOVIEEEEE

Who doesn't love Cormac McCarthy novels, seriously? Hollywood does!!!!!!!! In a very positive touch for the Erie region, the film The Road (based on a book by Cormac, books, that's right, they exist) which was filmed largely in this area over the course of spring 2008 was released to theaters today for some delightful, positive Thanksgiving movie-watching. not, not really. um, it's set in a post-apocalyptic world. starring the men many women (not me obviously) swoon over (Viggo Mortenson) and some pretty good other people (Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron) and it's already generating, THAT'S RIGHT, OSCAR BUZZ. read an interview with Viggo here and watch the trailer (I redirect, because I can't get no Viggo interviews:) http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/viggo-mortensen-interview/ wow, I'm glad Erie's the sight for the apocalypse. AWESOME!!!! TOTALLY POSITIVE! well hopefully more movies will be filmed here and when I say that I mean movies of this tier (g...