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Thursday, April 25
As reported here earlier, Rockford's 7-foot-tall sock monkey named Nelson has been hitting the Big Apple. Christina Magee held up Nelson today during an interview on the Today Show with weatherman Tony Perkins. And just to prove that blogging has gone mainstream, that monkey has his own online diary.