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t 3rd flCOR THIS WEEK AT „ THE Cantina 823-2368 201 W. 26th St. v Downtown Bryan Dixie Theatre Page 4 • The Battalion Friday * October 1^ -j,, 106 S. Main St., 822-0976 Located in Historic Downtown Bryan For private parties call Willie at 822-3743 We're lucky if we can avoid superstitio SE OURADEVBiY TUBDAYIN THE BATTALION! For private parties call Willie at822-3732 Drink Specials Wed. & Thurs. 5-10 pm Open 5 pm -1 am Wed. - Sat. 18 and older welcome Happy Hour: Wed. - Sat, 5-8 pm Drink Specials • Music • Pool Tables 18 and older welcome FRIDAY 10/13 Miss Molly & the Whips R&B $10 SATURDAY 10/14 Big Otis Motown Soul $8 FRIDAY 10/13 Storyville w/Tracy Conover Blues/Rock $8 SATURDAY 10/14 All Carribcan Band Liberation This event is not sponsored by the Carribean Club. Reggae $5 BUFFALO JOE’S Football Special Saturday, Sunday and Monday Nights $1.00 Hamburgers .50 Hot Dogs $1 Domestic Longnecks T-Bone Special M-F after 2:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday All Day 16 oz. T-Bone Salad, FF or BP, Texas Toast $8.99 1501 North Sims Ave. 822-7025 My grandmother is a witch. And it must be genetic, because 1 think my mom is one, too. It doesn’t really bother me, mostly because I’m largely skeptical and I’ve managed to stay on their good side. But my mother, Samantha, learned some tricks from En- § : | Michael f* Landauer AGGIELIFE ^jgl Editor ' dora, my grandmother, about how to make people’s backs itch without touching them. My mom had a great time twitching her finger in the direction of fellow passengers on train rides when she lived in New York. She could also focus on people during ten nis matches to make them win. I played ten nis for a while, but only my dad ever came to see me, and when he did, I fell down and broke my wrist. But the point is, that today is Friday the 13th, a day when witches and bad luck and all that other eerie crap makes us think. Having grown up around witches, I should be some what aware of the strange and mysterious forces at work today. But there is nothing special about Friday the 13th. People like to say it’s special — “It only happens like twice a year, man.” But guess what, Friday the 28th comes just as rarely, and they haven’t even made a movie about that day yet. But someone will have a crappy day today and say, “Well, it figures. It’s Friday the 13th, you know.” Once I heard this spooky story about someone who had a bad day, and it wasn’t even Friday the 13th. Samantha and Fndora may hex me for say ing this, but chalking up bad luck to mysteri ous cosmic forces is a little childish. Yet, we still believe. Psychic hotlines won’t survive without making new friends. Astrologers can o^ily get rich if they strike a few lucky chords with the people with deep pockets. But no one makes money by telling people to control their own destiny, to suck it up and to live life for what it is. Well, no one except the makers of Forrest Gump, maybe. Even worse than blaming a calendar for bad luck is the ancient art of chain mail. No one really makes money on the scheme, mostly it just exists for annoyance. I got a letter last summer that said St. Jude had started this whole phenomenon by placing good luck into a letter. Then it fell into the hands ofsomewiti probably a relative, who passed friends to keep the chain growing. Among the people who linked up chain were the Lucky Charms Buster I )ouglass and O.J. Simpson One guy followed the letter’s instnidii and won S3 gazillion in the lottery, ; But another unlucky soul threw the!* away only to have his girlfriend dumpht, and a piano fall on his head. Miraculously I have survived. I stared at the letter for a while. 1 won dered what terrible woe would befallme»i I threw it away. A||H| But then I thought about the millionsol people who have probably thrown thelette away since Jude’s time who didn’t getther stories included in the letter’s history. For example, Bob may havethrowni: and stubbed his toe the very nextday.Ma;- a really old guy got the letter anddiedofa heart-attack soon after. These strangec«:q fences were omitted, and for what? 1 have an idea, but it seems pretty silly.! might be because luck is what you maked life, not the other way around. Michael a ndauer is a jr, journalism a PEOPLE IN Bergman rewarded for his long-lasting love NEW YORK (AP) — Ingmar Bergman’s boyhood love for Lil lian Gish had a happy ending: a $200,000 award from the late actress’ estate. The 77-year-old Swedish direc tor is this year’s recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Gish, who died in 1993, creat ed the honor in her will, stipu lating that it go to a person “who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoy ment and understanding of life” through the arts. Linn Ullmann, Bergman’s daughter with actress Ldv Ull mann, collected the award Wednesday on his behalf. She read a statement from him thanking Gish and noting that, at age 9, Bergman fell in love with the actress after seeing her in a film. “Ever since that Monday night in March, nearly 70 years ago, I have tenderly preserved my young love for Lillian,” Bergman said. Bassett found late filming strange E NEWS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Filming Strange Days made for some strange nights for Angela Bassett. An early-to-bed type, she said she found the nighttime film schedule on the Los Ange les streets grueling. “There were all these people in these outrageous outfits,” she said of an army of extras. “And half of them, that’s the life they live. Those are the hours they’re up anyway. I mean, you would think these extras would Bassett be exhausted, but they seemed to be perfectly com fortable with that after- hours kind of living.” The film, co- starring Ralph Fiennes, re volves around a series of murders recorded on a new type of video device that allows users to relive the memories of others. Bassett, whose portrayal of Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to do With It won an Oscar nomination, said she was pleased with Strange Days. “Just as an actress, and then as a black actress, to be this hero for the 21st century in this big ac tion thriller, that’s pretty amaz ing and exciting,” she said. Miss America goes home for celebrai Sq 1 C TULSA, Okla. (AP)- America Shawntel Smitli home to Oklahoma for thtii time since winning them last month. “I have been countin' days until I came back to homa,” the 24-year-old Smith told a crowd ol Wednesday that included aunts, uncles and friends. Her tiny hometown: Muldrow on the Oklahoi Arkansas border is throii her a parade Saturday. The number of floats has creased from 25 to 85 in past two weeks. “My mom told me t have to double up the entne it won’t take two to tin hours,” she said at a newsc ference Thursday. Vc We think your life would be vastly improved if you possessed this knowledge: Macintosh;'computers are now available for less than the already affordable student prices. What’s more, with the Apple 9 Computer Loan and 90-Day Deferred Payment Plan; you can take home a Mac™without having to make a single payment for 3 months.Just think, if you had a computer, you’d get your homework done faster. Then you’d have plenty of time for the ^ more important things in life. Anyway, we’re sorry to a ^ i Mg disturb you. Macintosh. The power to be your best! TuJUitz mm. Serving Texas AdrM University students, faculty and staff since 1985. 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