A number of sweaters Bill Cosby wore on his hit “The Cosby Show” will be auctioned off on eBay for charity. Cosby’s daughter Erin unearthed the sweaters while cleaning out a closet.
The charity in question is the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation, which benefits educational programs and was started in the name of Cosby’s late son. It will be held from June 2-12 — just in time for Father’s Day.
“The Cosby Show” aired from 1984 to 1992, and the star’s colorfully-patterned sweaters were instantly recognizable. To me, they are as essential part pop-culture Americana as the Fonz’s leather jacket or the Cheers bar.
The woman had smuggled a mattress and several plastic bottles in her temporary residence, and, when confronted by police, said she had no place to live.
Then the man and woman realized that fate had thrown them together, and decided to get married, which I’m totally making up because it would have been really cool. I mean, can’t you see the American remake of this story with Adam Sandler and Sarah Jessica Parker?
Times Online reports on the disturbing increase of attacks on teenagers extolling the “emo” lifestyle, a lifestyle the article describes as a “gloomy, gothic teenage rock cult, which began 20 years ago in America.”
Among recent attacks in South America:
Mexico, March 7th: a mob of 800 roam the streets of one town, looking for emo kids to beat up.
Chile: There are reports of skin heads targeting emo children.
Brazil: Emo kids are regularly attacked.
Peru: A gang of “anarchist punks” attacked emos
Meanwhile in Great Britain, emo is under attack in the media, after 13-year-old emo teen Hannah Bond hung herself in her bedroom. And 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster was stomped to death for wearing emo clothes by a bunch of drunk teens.
Of course, there have always been fads and fashions among young people that have given parents and other authority figures pause, and have caused some level of persecution for being different. But this trend of targeting emos is still rather disturbing.
