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ICYMI: Lindsay Lohan Wants To Meet Vladimir Putin
Dodger Stadium. (Photo by el_molino12 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
- The Huntington Library is in the midst of decoding nearly 16,000 telegrams sent during the Civil War that had previously been gathering dust in some random old timey wooden storage unit for the last 100 years. This Civil War nerd is salivating.
- That's "Olympic Gold Medalist"-DeAndre Jordan to you, now.
- This L.A. Times profile of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and lifelong Angeleno Nick Ut is quite an excellent read.
- The Olympics are over :(. Look at these best Olympic memes and remember all the good times we had.
- A Russian talk show is desperate to interview Lindsay Lohan, but LiLo won't do it unless some demands are met, which include: a private jet, a manicurist on board said jet, a penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton, a one-year Russian visa, and...a meeting with Vladimir Putin? You won't get it unless you ask, I suppose!
- And finally, happy birthday Joe Strummer! The Clash frontman would have been 64 today (he passed away in 2002). Here's "Death or Glory":
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