Other celebrity highlights included Usher demonstrating dance moves he helped craft for "Dance Central 3" and "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker talking up "South Park: The Stick of Truth, " a video game due to be released in March.

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When the rector at All Saints' asked Lance to explore starting a mission in a poor neighborhood, Lance went door-to-door in MacArthur Park, talking to Latino residents.

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Believe it or not, you can actually visit the Forbidden Corner in Middleham, North Yorkshire, an insane amusement park infested with talking statues, shrinking rooms, giant statues, secret doors and endless underground labyrinths.

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And when we come back we're going to be talking about an updated version of Monopoly where Park Place and Boardwalk have been replaced by Fenway Park and Times Square.

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For me, though, the presence of a talking goat put me in a different "South Park"-ish mindset.

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Yesterday I got talking with Mike Shinoda, producer, song writer and singer of the wildly successful Linkin Park.

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It happened like this: after a walk in the park with a friend, I saw a young woman sitting in a car talking to a dog.

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We pressed hard, but the speaker ultimately did not rehearse beyond talking through the script in a 10-minute session in his palatial apartment overlooking Central Park in New York.

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At Ericsson's sprawling campus in Kista, a technology park near Stockholm, Jan Lindgren, vice president for mobile Internet solutions, is guarded when talking about the competition.

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