[smith] tommy orange, welcome. Orange] thank you for having me. [smith] thank you very much for being here. So, i love the book. I wanna talk all about tt book and talk all abu, but i wanna talk about the title of the book first. So i didnt actually get the reference until after that this is Gertrude Stein. [orange] mmhmm. [smith] right . Like you, an oaklander. Is that the right way to say it . Oaklandit [orange] oaklander. [smith] oaklander. [orange] yeah. [sth] so Gertrude Stein mously said of oakland, theres no there there. And this is esponse, this is your rebuttal of Gertrude Stein. [orange] and its also, i wouldnt put so much of the weight on Gertrude Stein as more on people who have sort of misused that quote. Because she was just talking about her childhood home. [smiry specific. [orange] and it was developed over. So in her everybodys autobiography, somebody asks her, why dont you write about oakland . There is no there there. Shes just talking about r experience. And so peop
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Misdemeanor charge. This woman would not believe why her phone rang early wednesday morning. I received a call from my daughter saying that clown was chasing her. You heard that right, a clown. Some friends were walking to their bus stop. She passed a bush and noticed something strange and when she saw it was a clown, they all ran away. But the clown chased them one more time before they could get on the bus. You never know who is behind the clown mask. Could be a pedophile, well t wee tons of them in this area. It was a white mask with yellow eyes and red hair. You just one of a series of recent reports of creepy clown sightings across the country. Have on a clown mask, but when you start harassing others then it does become illegal. While we were shooting video a group of kids claim they had just been chased. The people that are doing that are not clowns. They are dressing up like clowns. Joyce teaches caring Clown College at largo medical center, and she fears that tarnish the reput