Goodbye to 2009!
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in bad hair,ends,sensations,sorry -- had to,unfortunateFrom the monthly archives:
December 2009
Can’t a guy catch a break?
While on vacation in Hawaii, President Obama took time out from his time out to address the nation’s concerns about security lapses in the foiled plot to blow up a jetliner on Christmas.
The CIC said he’d get things fixed right away.
And then he went back to his vacation.
Feel better now?
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Justin Pasfield #20 and Matthew Smith of the Fury celebrate after wining some match in Australia.
This has been Chexy’s Sports Roundup, Bite-Sized edition.
Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images
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in Chexy's Sports Roundup
Shiite Muslim men and boys assault themselves with chains and blades in Kabul, Afghanistan during Ashura — a 10-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, who was killed in a battle in Iraq in 680 AD.
Self-flagellation… when you care enough to send the very best.
Majid Saeedi/Getty Images
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Rioters in Tehran…
…and shoppers in New York.
Remember where you live.
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Ladies and gentlemen (the rest of you know what you are*), here’s the Lady Gaga of her day, the late Blossom Dearie, singing and playing exquisite piano on Duke Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady.”
*Belle Barth
for M
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Here’s Diana Krall backed up by the swingin’ Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, with “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”
Filmmaker Nicholas Kritter with a visual poem set to Mattie Stepanek’s “I Am.”
Sixty years ago, Gene Autry was all the rage at the Saturday matinee. Here’s why…
From 1950, “Misty” June Christy sings “Taking a Chance on Love.”
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in chexy's saturday matinee
Betty Deuce donned her festive holiday look for the royals’ annual trek to Sandringham Church for Christmas services. While Her Majesty opted for this homage to St. Nick, Camilla went with the more traditional Cossack look.
The Duchess burned no villages.
Getty
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The “HO” in the rooftop neon of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Christmas Eve, 2009.
Photo by Chexy
TY Brad and Eden
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