Hey kiddos, this is pretty cool.
James Franco, one of the most interesting and perplexing (really just another word for cool) actors of our generation has decided to give teaching high school kids his craft a shot.
Franco announced on his Instagram page that he would be teaching a course for high school aged students in Palo Alto, CA at Palo Alto Senior High School.
The actor is a 1996 graduate of the school and is looking to teach 24 students in the film workshop.
Franco is well known for his serious commitment to education. After all, how many Hollywood superstars have actually gone on to teach college level courses and pursue an Ph.D?
According to the entertainment website Hello Giggles, Franco is used to being in a college classroom:
“Since 2006, he has attended UCLA, Columbia University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Brooklyn College, Warren Wilson College, Yale University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He has studied filmmaking, English, creative writing (including poetry), and more.”
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This Minnesota Twins Bat Boy Is Our Spirit Animal
The Minnesota Twins are battling it out for a chance to make the postseason for the first time since 2010 and it is sure to be a grueling few weeks for the squad moving forward.
Enter a hero. (Also known as a team batboy who can dance really good).
Tori Hunter, a longtime star for the team posted to Instagram this video of a (currently) unnamed batboy totally nailing the “Hit the Quan” dance.
He is the hero we all need right now.
Cover Photo Credit: Screenshot/ Tori Hunter (Instagram)
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Miss Alabama Totally Flamed Donald Trump On National TV
I’m not going to pretend to have watched the Miss America pageant. But something somewhat interesting did take place late last night.
Miss Alabama Meg McGuffin- a 22-year-old Auburn University graduate had some choice words for the Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Take a watch for yourself courtesy of the War Eagle Reader:
That comb over is ablaze. Well, not really. But at least her answer was better constructed that this:
Photo Credit: Screenshot-War Eagle Reader/Youtube (ABC TV)
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No Internet, Casey Anthony Is Not Dead
Facebook has been awash in shares of a story about the death of Casey Anthony, the woman who in 2011 was found not guilty of murdering her young daughter in a trial that grabbed international headlines.
Could it be really true?
Well it is according to two so called “news” websites- Breaking13News.com and Now8News.com who posted identical stories.
From the two sites:
“According to “Unconfirmed reports coming out of Warren, Ohio state that the body of Casey Anthony was found in a rest stop near I-71, bludgeoned to death. At 1:37 PM on Monday, a traveler noticed a body in the back of a pickup truck abandoned in a grassy field about 20 yards from the parking area as he was walking his dog. The man said as he approached the vehicle, there was a horrible stench in the air. He was shocked to find a young female, in her late 20’s to early 30’s, partially dismembered.”
The tale of Anthony’s untimely demise has been shared thousands times on Facebook and has been popping up on people’s news feeds for a few days now.
But Internet fact checker Snopes.com has called foul on the report, deeming it to be untrue and little more than an attempt to make money with click bait headlines.
From Snopes:
“This report is false: Casey Anthony has not died. Breaking News 13 is one of many fake news sites on the Internet that mimic the appearance of local television news outlets and publish fictitious stories masquerading as real news accounts in order to lure in readers and thereby generate social media shares and advertising revenue — and because of her controversial stature, Casey Anthony is a favorite subject for eyeball-grabbing headlines.”
Rise News called a number listed on the BreakingNews13.com website to allow the operators a chance to respond, but it did not seem to be connected.
Button line people: start paying closer attention to the sources where you get your news from.
H/T to Inquisitr.com for first reporting the existence of Now8News.com.
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Cover Photo Credit: Screenshot from BreakingNews13.com
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