Cyber Exes and the lure of fake reality in media age
In a playful yet pointed column, Sonja McGilli vray muses on a fantasy cyber spouse business to vent life’s woes and the desire for idealized outcomes. She jokes about cyber sons and cyber schooling, then pivots to critique the American Film Institute list led by Forrest Gump.
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O.J. Simpson
Harvard
Yale
Merchant Marine
Cyber Space
American Film Institute
Vietnam
Odessa resident backs prayer over rally to heal race relations
Alice Patterson of Pray Texas, granddaughter of a Ku Klux Klan member and a Texas civil rights adviser, urges peaceful prayer rather than confrontation at the Ector County Courthouse rally. She cites healing through faith and reconciliation after a Jasper protest following James Byrd Jr. death.
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Odessa
Alice Patterson
KKK
Ector County
Patterson
Pray Texas
Texas
US Commission On Civil Rights
Jasper
James Byrd Jr
Byrd
Pecos Cantaloupe sheds onions in first harvest
Hundreds of pounds of white onions cascade onto the conveyor as Pecos Cantaloupe Shed Inc begins its annual harvest. The firm expects to ship over 900000 bags this year, all from own fields, with onions distributed across the eastern United States and some to Las Ness. Heat at 115 degrees affects size and shipping. Transplants from Arizona will yield larger onions later.
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PECOS
Clay Taylor
Pecos Cantaloupe Shed Inc
Pecos Cantaloupe
Taylor
Arizona
USDA
Scottish wedding in Texas as 32 men wear kilts
Sean Roden and Sonya Crump plan a Celtic themed ceremony at The Oasis Ranch Dryden with 32 groomsmen in tartan kilts. The groom, an ER physician, and Crump, from Midland, courted in February. Kilts were ordered from Scotland at about $500 each plus accessories.
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Scotland
Oasis Ranch
Dryden
Sean Roden
Sonya Crump
Midland
Roden
Crump
At Corporation
Timothy Crump
Toby O’neil
Houston
John Corrigan
Dallas
O’neil
Corrigan
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Nick DE LA Torre
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