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ICYMI: Trump's Campaign CEO Once Wrote A Rap Musical About The L.A. Riots
Outside Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House. (Photo by PROMichael LockeMichael Locke on Flickr)
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- Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign CEO and former head of Breitbart, is a man of many talents. He's a scribe, for instance, and he's penned a rap musical about the 1992 L.A. riots.
- Why are researchers trapping lizards out in the Santa Monica Mountains? They want to test the genetic diversity out there. The area, surrounded by freeways and the sea, is trapped in, which may force animals into inbreeding.
- A football recruit at the University of Michigan has left the program after it had sent him a thank-you note for attending a school barbecue. The problem was that he hadn't gone. Also, they misspelled his name.
- You'll have a chance to win the outfit that Britney Spears will be wearing at the next Video Music Awards. Sounds like a magnet for creepers. But hey, all proceeds are going to victims of the Louisiana flood, so it's all good.
- Father John Misty, who was once a culprit in the Moon Juice Heist of 2016, has released some merch that looks
a littlea lot like Kanye's "Pablo" line. - Tourism might actually be bad for Yellowstone (at least for the wildlife).
- Trump may have finally met his match...in Cher.
- Do aliens exist? Leonard Nimoy will tell you:
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