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Submitted by Graver on Wed, 07/12/2006 - 09:38.

Found this on the front page of Google News. Another Grinnellian in a slightly more dubious limelight. We're all glad you're alright, Marti.

AP story:
Marti Palermo escapes the Blue Line

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wadsbone's picture

Get Your Ass To Mars!

Submitted by wadsbone on Wed, 07/12/2006 - 13:11.

Er... Champaign, I mean. I haven't been involved in a single train fire since arriving in Champaign.

(The Blue Line bar on Damen was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title. I thought maybe there had been a riot over excessively high PBR prices.)

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EVerybody knows rita

Submitted by jarrod on Thu, 07/13/2006 - 15:52.

awesomely, that reporter fabricated each of those quotes. i'd even met ms. rita bacon (her real name) before, through marti.

a more accurate account of her travails is located on the chicago tribune website ("one victim's story" - guh!?), for the registered. it's unclear how she became a media darling.

in champaign marti's accordian bus will be stretched to a hilariously dangerous extreme before springing back and launching her (somehow) into the front office of the news-gazette...

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wadsbone's picture

Tribune Article

Submitted by wadsbone on Thu, 07/13/2006 - 18:01.

Link to the Tribune article.

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sundaykofax's picture

media darling = good name (not Rita Bacon)

Submitted by sundaykofax on Fri, 07/14/2006 - 16:54.

She's a media darling because her name is MARTI PALERMO. The first time I heard her name was, I think, the first weekend I went to a party in Chicago with the jeaun crew. I announced then and there that Marti Palermo was the best name ever. I stand by that claim. (I did not, however, meet Ms. Palermo until a later date.)

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