Wing Man

THE SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL announced that Florida KFC’s were giving the venerable deep-fried, biscuit-eatin' chicken icon Colonel Harlan Sanders a face lift. All the better to reel in the younger customers, my dear. As if the 18-to-35 demographic ever needed an added enticement to scarf down junk food.

Company spokeswoman Bonnie Warschauer explains, “Yum! Brands Inc., which operates the fried-chicken restaurants, is testing a more youthful version of Sander’s image and bringing back the Kentucky Fried Chicken name to 50 stores that it’s opening.” Ask yourself: just how buff do you want the Colonel to be? What’s the proper BMI to attract a new generation of iPod zombie gravy-slurpers?

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It Is Alive!

IT’S THE SEASON TO ASK THE TOUGH QUESTIONS, LIKE: Can a vampire be photographed with a digital camera? It depends upon whom you’re asking, or from which movies you gather your monster knowledge.

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LOYD IS ALERTING NEWCOMERS AND OLD FRIENDS that he is writing an experimental Twitter novel (that means weird and funny) one tweet each day. At this rate, Loyd calculates he will be done in 5,665 days, or more than fifteen years, probably long after Twitter lies a-moldering in the digital dustbin of history. No matter. Warm up your thumbs and send in your own sentences to help write the anti-saga of Minimal Boy

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