It should come as no surprise that the sci-fi robot movie “WALL-E” topped this past weekend’s box office list with a $62.5 million take.
In this business, if you stay around long enough, you get to interview any number of famous people. Most of the time, it’s no big deal, because you’ve discovered there’s no reason to be starstruck. It’s just part of the job.- 4:46 PM
Ali-Frazier. Yankees-Red Sox. Gamecocks-Tigers. And now there’s Knotts-Shealy. The GOP primary runoff for the Lexington County state Senate seat between incumbent Jake Knotts and challenger Katrina Shealy has turned into an epic brawl. In any knockdown drag-out, you’ve got to like the chances of a tough 300-pound bruiser like Jakie Knotts. Heck, he even looked tough wearing a lovely evening gown while winning the 2000 Miss Vista Queen Pageant.- 7:11 PM
You have to love Rolling Stone magazine. There’s nothing to get people talking about the new issue than to put a comprehensive new list in it and plaster words on the cover that say, “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time,” over a picture of Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King, Jimmy Page and Omar Rodriguez Lopez.- 7:36 PM
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. And don’t go to the voting booth either. It seems many people took that advice this week, where election news topped a long, hot, dull week of headlines.- 6:22 PM
In a presidential campaign, every little thing gets magnified, whether it be a gesture, an outfit or an offhand remark. But nothing in the Democratic race sent the campaign’s blogosphere and assorted other print and television newshounds into delirium quite like what Barack Obama did before he delivered his triumphant speech in St. Paul, Minn., in early June.- 6:18 PM
Is this a great city or what? Every four years or so, just like the country picks a new president, the city of Columbia begins the process of picking a new slogan.- 5:54 PM
What a week this was. The White House catches heat from one of its own. State lawmakers decide cheap cigarettes are more important than public health. They’re swinging and ducking over gay issues at Irmo High once again.- 7:41 PM
THERE’S A LOT OF THINGS I don’t get in this old world, which probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many of you.- 9:06 AM
When news broke this week that 19-year-old Jonathan Vargas of Gaston was this state’s first Powerball winner after hitting a $35 million jackpot with a ticket purchased at the Raceway station in Cayce, one thought crossed my mind.- 5:34 PM
Everybody knows about Mount Rushmore, right? At least I hope all of you were awake in history class that day. Mount Rushmore, of course, is the iconic national monument that features the faces of four of this country’s greatest presidents — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota. Now I’m not altogether sure why these guys got the nod over, say, Millard Fillmore or Rutherford...- 5:18 PM
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