Terry Pratchett: 'Fantasy is uni-age'. Despite his Alzheimer's diagnosis, Terry Pratchett is still marvelling at the world and still writing. Terry Pratchett's entourage has taken over a corner of the White Hart hotel in Salisbury, a long-standing haunt of the writer, who has a house just outside the town.
BJ's Wholesale Club to accept food stamps. NATICK, Mass. - BJ's Wholesale Club says it will begin accepting electronic food stamp payments at all of its 180 stores. The Natick, Mass.-based chain said today that effective immediately, members can purchase food with government-issued food stamps through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) payments.
Then, as network executives began to see the potential of such an interspecies pairing, we were treated to a lighthearted weekly series called BJ and the Bear. Debuting in 1979, BJ and the Bear starred Greg Evigan as the big-rig driving BJ (Billie Joe) McKay, and his accomplice, a mischievous chimpanzee named Bear. Together they roamed the highways in a red and white 18-wheeler and frequently sparred with their shared nemesis, one Sheriff Lobo.