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Today in Awesome

Girl Expelled For Science Experiment Has Criminal Charges Dropped, Is Now Going To Space Camp

by Jill Pantozzi | 3:58 pm, May 18th, 2013

That turned out unexpectedly well. 

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and let it be known

Erin DiMeglio Might Be the First Girl to Play Quarterback on a Florida Highschool Football Game

by Susana Polo | 4:14 pm, August 30th, 2012

If you’re of a certain age (*ahem* my age), there’s a good chance that when you were in elementary school, they didn’t let you outside for recess when it was raining or snowing, and instead you sat inside and watched movies. There’s also a decent chance that one of the movies you watched over and over again was a donated VHS tape of The Little Giants, featuring Becky “Icebox” O’Shea, a girl whose own uncle wouldn’t pick her for the pee-wee football team no matter how kickass she was… because she was a girl. The movie’s got a lot of stuff going on, but Becky’s plot arc is one where she struggles with being the only child of a single parent, a teen with her first crush, a tomboy who feels pressured to conform to femininity so that boys won’t overlook her as a romantic prospect, and so good at football that she scares the pants off her teammates. In other words, she was awesome.

Erin DiMeglio, though, is another level of awesome, as a high school student who may be the state of Florida’s first female quarterback to play in a regular season high school football game.

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Braaaaiiiinnnnns

Is A Zombie Apocalypse Happening Right Under Our Noses?

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:17 pm, May 29th, 2012

At one time or another, those of us who love zombie fiction have thought about the possibility that something like that could happen in the real world. This happens to varying degrees of course. Some of us think some type of biological event could spread as quickly as any “zombie disease” while others have a back in their closet with maps, waters, and weapons they’d need in the event of a legit zombie attack. The former may want to make friends with latter. Some weird crap has been going on in the world the last few days. 

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For A More Civilized Age

Not Even Darth Vader Can Escape the Ongoing Pepper Spray Scourge

by Jamie Frevele | 12:55 pm, January 7th, 2012

Orlando, Florida is a magical place. And strange, fantastical things are not limited to the theme parks, I can tell you that! And so can Darth Vader. At least once he sobers up. Because the Dark Lord himself — or at least someone dressed exactly like him, and by “exactly,” I mean “he was wearing a Darth Vader helmet” — has found himself in the vicinity of the happiest place on earth, fending off a shower of pepper spray. By noble Jedi warriors? No. By Florida highway troopers from Earth. Occupy Tattooine!

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Stupid Human Tricks

Just Your Classic Tale of Man Meets Vampire, Vampire Eats Man

by Jamie Frevele | 12:30 pm, September 9th, 2011

Whenever you hear about a weird story happening with people either injuring themselves while attempting an inadvisable stunt or causing injury to someone else after making some wild, crazy claim, it’s not a nice thing to assume it happened in Florida. But honestly, much of the time, it happens in Florida. And in today’s installment of “A Weird Thing Happened in Florida,” a woman tried to eat a senior citizen who was confined to an electric wheelchair while telling him that she was a vampire.

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