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Uhhh! What are you lookin' at?


Across the Bible Belt this Halloween, some little ghosts and goblins might get shooed away by the neighbors — and some youngsters will not be allowed to go trick-or-treating at all — because the holiday falls on a Sunday this year. Halloween is simple, harmless fun. Nowhere during the celebration of Halloween is anything satanic done by me or any of my friends. It's just a time to get together and dress up in fun costumes and have fun. Loosen up people.

More men are willing to have sex with their bosses to get a promotion or a salary increase than women. I don't know, I think my bosses beard would tickle. Nasty.

Nineteen firefighters in Sacramento, California have been disciplined for using city fire engines to meet women, including at a local event in which people dressed as porn stars. I wonder if they ever thought of looking into the police force for that very thing? Many of my former co-workers used the badge to get women. Of course, I never did. Speaking of cops... A German pensioner angry at being stranded at a railway station smashed up a police car with his crutch when police refused to drive him home or get him a hotel room. German cops must be rude.

A German man tried to fight off a repossessor with a chainsaw and gasoline bombs before being arrested by police special forces. When put into the patrol car, he continued to release stink bombs to further agitate police.

A sad movie and a night of heavy drinking led a south Georgia man to set his house on fire. Women, this should be a lesson to you. When your guy takes you to a movie this weekend, keep this in mind.

A Croatian armed robber abandoned a bank hold up after the cashier laughed at his order to stick 'em up. Ha. Idiot.

Court documents filed in Clallam County Superior Court tie an alleged arson in an apartment complex to a smelly cat litter box. What is it with people burning stuff over minute things?

A high school graduate was sentenced to up to two years in jail for streaking the graduation ceremony from which he had been excluded.


Halloween is a time to do strange things to pumpkins. I'm third from left. Not really.

MUSIC HISTORY THIS WEEK!!!

1926, Chuck Berry is born in San Jose, California ... his melding of blues with rockabilly elements will help shape the blueprint for rock 'n' roll ... in 1972 Berry's single "My Ding-a-Ling" nails the top slot on the Billboard Pop Chart ... the dirty ditty is to be his only No. 1 hit...

1941, Jim Seals is born in Sidney, Texas ... before enjoying a '70s career as one half of the soft-rock duo Seals and Crofts that cranked out hits such as "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl," the pair were a part of The Champs that rocked the world with their instrumental "Tequila" in 1958 ... Seals also blew sax with rockabilly legend Eddie Cochran...

1958, an article in Billboard reports that Phil Spector, the writer and arranger of the Teddy Bears' hit "To Know Him is to Love Him," is studying to be a court reporter ... though the reclusive producer famed for creating "wall of sound" recordings in the 1960s never takes up that profession, his indictment for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003 promises to provide him with lots of courtroom experience...

1962, "Monster Mash" by Bobby Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers is the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit ... cannily released to coincide with Halloween, the novelty tune with a Boris Karloff-like spoken vocal reappears on the charts in 1970 and 1973...

1966, Joan Baez is arrested along with 124 others at an anti-draft demonstration outside an induction center in Oakland, California...

1968, The New Yardbirds, later to become Led Zeppelin, plays its first British show at Surrey University ... RCA releases Jose Feliciano's bluesy rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" despite the blind singer having been roundly booed for his performance of the song at a World Series game earlier that month...

1971, Creedence Clearwater Revival is sued by a music publisher claiming that John Fogerty's song "Travelin' Band" is a ripoff of "Good Golly, Miss Molly" ... the suit is later dropped ... the next evening, a crowd expecting '50s teen idol Rick Nelson to play all his old hits at a Madison Square Garden show turns surly when he insists on performing new material ... the hostile reception is later memorialized in his song "Garden Party" that becomes a hit the following year ... a line from the song goes, "If memories are all I'd sing, I'd rather drive a truck" ... 21 years later this same week, Sinead O'Connor is booed off the Garden's stage at a concert honoring Bob Dylan ... the hostile crowd is reacting to the singer's appearance two weeks earlier on Saturday Night Live when she tore up a picture of the Pope...

1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival announces that its members "will devote our time to individual rather than group projects" ... the statement goes on to say, "We don't regard this as breaking up. We look at it as an expansion of our activities." The band never records or performs together again...

1973, The Rolling Stones' "Angie" is the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit ... reportedly a paean to David Bowie's missus, the song is covered by Tori Amos in the '90s ... that same week the Supreme Court refuses to review a Federal Communications Commission directive ordering broadcasters to censor songs with drug-oriented lyrics before airing them ... it will be another three decades before the FCC becomes concerned over breasts...

1975, Neil Young undergoes surgery on his vocal chords ... his recovery is slow and he is obliged to quit midway through a tour the following year with Stephen Stills due to the strain on his voice...

1976, Ike and Tina Turner split up their act...

1986, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards rock out at an affair honoring Chuck Berry on his 60th birthday...

1991, John Mellencamp is hospitalized in Seattle after suffering a dizzy spell ... a doctor later attributes his malady to "too much coffee, stress, and not enough breakfast"...

1992, country singer Lynn Anderson is sprung from a Nashville jail after doing two days for contempt of court ... the sentence stems from Anderson cursing at her former husband in front of their teenage children...

1995, Sting's former financial adviser is sentenced to six years in the cooler for bilking the performer out of $9.4 million...

1996, Madonna gives birth to daughter Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon ... the father is Carlos Leon, the singer's trainer ... there is no word on whether it is a virgin birth...

1997, Sir Paul McCartney receives six curtain calls at the Royal Albert Hall for the world premiere of his symphonic poem Standing Stone performed by the London Symphony Orchestra ... despite popular acclaim, critics give the composition low marks saying it's forgettable and dull ... the same week, Virginia concert promoter Patricia Richardson brings a suit against Snoop Doggy Dog and his manager charging that they duped her into bringing packages with seven pounds of pot to a venue where Snoop was performing, leading to her arrest...

1998, The Crossroads Center, a $6.5 million recovery center for drug addicts, opens in Antigua ... the facility is underwritten by Eric Clapton, a former heroin addict...

Birthdays:

October 13: Paul Simon (1941), Robert Lamm of Chicago (1944), Sammy Hagar (1947), Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention (1950), Marie Osmond (1959)

October 14: Victoria Spivey (1906), monster picker Mickey "Guitar" Baker of Mickey & Sylvia (1925), Bill Justice of "Honky Tonk" fame (1926), Robert "Barefootin" Parker (1930), Barry McGuire of The New Christy Minstrels (1935), Marv Johnson (1938), Cliff Richard (1940), Colin Hodgkinson of Whitesnake (1945), Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward (1946), Thomas Dolby (1958), A.J. Pero of Twisted Sister (1959), Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks (1974), Shaznay Lewis of All Saints (1975), Usher (1978)

October 15: Richard Carpenter of The Carpenters (1946), Chris DeBurgh of "Lady in Red" fame (1948), Tito Jackson (1953), Ginuwine (1970)

October 16: Nico of the Velvet Underground (1938), Fred Turner of BTO (1943), Bob Weir (1947), Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet (1959), Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers (1962), Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips (1969), John Mayer (1977)

October 17: jazz drummer Cozy Cole (1909), recording expert John Mosley (1914), trombonist Rico Rodriguez of The Specials (1934), Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts (1941), Gary Puckett (1942), James Tucker of The Turtles (1946), Mike Hossack of the Doobie Bros. (1948), Ford-driving country singer Allen Jackson (1958), Rene Dif of Aqua (1967), Ziggy Marley (1968), Eminem (1972), Wyclef Jean of The Fugees (1972)

October 18: Chuck Berry (1926), Ronnie Bright of the Coasters (1938), The Association's Russ Giguere (1943), Laura Nyro (1947), Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon (1949), Doobie Brother Keith Knudson (1952), Wynton Marsalis (1961), Peter Svensson of The Cardigans (1974)

October 19: Dave Guard of The Kingston Trio (1934), Peter Tosh (1944), George McCrae (1944), Jeannie C. Riley (1945), Wilbert Hart of The Delfonics (1947), Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers (1948), Karl Wallinger of World Party (1957), Jennifer Holliday (1960), Dan "Woody" Woodgate of Madness (1960), Pras Michel of the Fugees (1972)

Deaths:

October 13: Shirley Brickley of The Orlons (1977), Ed Sullivan (1974)

October 14: Leonard Bernstein (1990), Bing Crosby (1977)

October 15: songwriter Terry Gilkyson (1999), Cole Porter (1964)

October 16: jazz vocalist Etta Jones (2001), singer Ella Mae Morse of "Cow Cow Boogie" fame (1999), Art Blakey (1990), Gene Krupa (1973), Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records (1969)

October 17: Tennessee Ernie Ford (1991)

October 18: singer-actress Julie London (2000), Broadway singer Gwen Verdon (2000)