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A Little Bit of Awesome: 5 6 2020 Edition

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A Little Bit of Awesome: 5 6 2020 Edition

A principal in North Carolina wanted to make sure that each of his graduating seniors got the recognition they deserve even through quarantine. He visited all 220 of them at their home to say congratulations and drop off a graduation yard sign.


Scott Kramer from Chicago is awesome. Scott and his wife will donate $10 to a charity helping kids with cancer for everyone who cuts their own hair at home and uses the hashtag #MyQuarantineCut. The couple lost their three-year-old daughter to cancer two years ago. Check out their full story RIGHT HERE.


I’m not sure who is more awesome here: The kid who smacks it out of the park, or his dad who does a World Series sized celebration.


I don’t know what, or even why this is, but it’s awesome.


For Wayback Wednesday, here’s a great rock and roll success story: The same day Brian Johnson auditioned to replace Bon Scott as AC/DC’s lead singer, he recorded the jingle for a Hoover vacuum cleaner commercial. Apparently, he wasn’t that confident about AC/DC, because he thought, at 32, he was quote, “an old fart.” Plus, the Hoover gig paid around 700 bucks. But his AC/DC audition blew the band away, and he was announced as their new lead singer on April 1st, 1980. That same month, his Hoover commercial aired. And to this day, no vacuum cleaner has risen to that level of coolness again.


We already talked about it in The Scoop today, but if you’ve ever wanted to have Daniel Radcliffe read “Harry Potter” to you . . . well, thanks to the coronavirus, it’s happening. It’s for an ongoing series called “Harry Potter at Home”, which J.K. Rowling announced last month. Future chapters will be released each week throughout the spring and into the summer. Some of the future readers will include David Beckham, Dakota Fanning, Eddie Redmayne, and Stephen Fry, who read the British version of the “Harry Potter” audiobooks.


 

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