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Narrow New York house for rent

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (AP) - The owner of the narrowest house in New York, measuring only 9 1/2-feet-wide is the list of properties to rent for $ 14,000 per month.

The Greenwich Village home, which was renovated after it was bought for 2.175 million dollars in 2010 and is now worth an estimated $ 4.3 million, was once home to celebrities including Cary Grant, Margaret Mead, Edna St . Vincent Millay and John Barrymore, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday

The 990-square-foot house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and four fireplaces.There is also a garden shared with two neighboring houses.

Courthouse gets 200 extra jurors

FRESNO, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) - Officials at a court in California said a computer input error resulted in 300 people presenting to a jury, over 200 were required.

Sherry Spears, juror and public services manager for the Superior Court of Fresno County, said an employee made a bad computer entry, resulting in long queues forming outside the meeting room of the jury, The Fresno (Calif.) Bee reported Wednesday.

Spears said 100 of the potential jurors were retained for two courtrooms and the other 200 were given the opportunity of waiting to see if they would be needed or calling back at 5 p.m. for future instructions.

Spears said court employees gave the potential jurors free parking passes to lessen the stress of the experience.

'Schweddy Balls' ice cream irks group

BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's is facing protests from a conservative group over the naming of its "Saturday Night Live"-inspired flavor, Schweddy Balls.

One Million Moms, an offshoot of the American Association of conservative family, said he wants the ice cream maker to finish with the "bad taste" name was inspired by "SNL" skit featuring Alec Baldwin as the Bakery owner Pete Schweddy, whose signature creation was Schweddy Balls, Gannett News Service said Wednesday.

Saturday Night Live – January Jones/Black Eyed Peas

This episode only served to prove that last week’s episode really was one of the better of the season, if not the best so far. Tonight felt like we were getting the scrapings from the bottom of the writers’ barrel of material. I held out hope for something really remarkable to come out of it, but wound up disappointed. At least the pre-taped Party segment was decent. It was a shame that we didn’t get a traditional sign-off, though. ‘Peas fans probably loved it.

Cold Open: Vice Presidential Address — Oh, what a surprise: more politics. However, I’ve always loved Sudeikis’s Biden impression, so this was one of the better ones in my book.

Musical Guest: Black Eyed Peas — Wait, I thought it was totally bad form now for artists to use auto-tune. Doesn’t it pretty much spell out that you can’t sing? Not that these guys aren’t successful, with or without auto-tune. They did cap things off with a rate third number, so they get props for that for sure. The thing is, it spelled out that there just wasn’t enough skit writing material to keep this episode together.

Weekend Update — My favorite quote this week: “This year’s Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree is a 76-foot-tall Norway Spruce from Easton, Connecticut. So come on down to Rockefeller Center and watch a tree slowly die.”

SNL Digital Short: Toilet Guy — Oh, we’ve all done it. You knock and you knock on that bathroom door, it’s unlocked or even ajar, but when you open the door fully you get yelled at by your roommate who’s sitting there taking a crap. I get the feeling one of the guys in the skit had this happen to them recently, so this short was born. It went a bit too far but paid off in the end.

November 15, 2009 at 11:52 AM

With few exceptions, the episodes I have high expectations for (like last night’s) fall flat, and the ones I have no expectations for (Taylor Swift, Ryan Reynolds) end up being pretty good.

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