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George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.

Sylvester Stalone is attached to star in "Rambo IV," the first film about the one-man killing machine since 1988.

ABC has given the green light to a comedy pilot to be executive produced by Elton John. I'm not making this stuff up.

Belgium's history of linguistic bickering between Flemings and Walloons entered a new phase this week when police arrested a Flemish woman for calling her Walloon husband lazy. That's right. Go to jail ho. hahahahahahaha

A man who twice missed while trying to shoot a friend's cow only to accidentally shoot a passer-by in the leg was fined Wednesday for what an Australian court described as a freak accident. Imagine what nicknames he'll go by from now on. Trigger. Shotgun. Buckshot.

When Emily the cat went missing a month ago, her owners looked for their wandering pet where she had ended up before — the local animal shelter. This week they learned Emily sailed to France.

A woman bought a winning lottery ticket worth $1 million with a stolen credit card and could wind up with nothing if convicted.

Police say something bad was bound to happen when a butcher knife, the movie "Halloween" and a group of drinking men came together at a Rogers motel room.

A man who led police on a high-speed chase after a bank robbery in May says he was driven to commit the robbery because he missed his mommy.

Sweden's prison service may allow babies to live in prison with their fathers, putting men on an equal footing with women in prison parenting. Does anyone see this as a bad idea?

.....and Music (did you know my good friend Pete Townsend has a blog??? Okay so I wish he was a friend of mine. His music is a friend of mine anyway.)

1936, country singer Hank Snow records for the first time ... the songs are "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy"...

1958, Tommy Edwards' "It's All in the Game" is the Billboard No. 1 hit ... the melody was written in 1912 by Charles Gates Dawes who later became a U.S. vice president...

1964, "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbinson turns gold ... it is his ninth and last Top Ten single ... The Supremes release "Come See About Me" ... The Dave Clark Five appear on The Ed Sullivan Show during which the tic-ridden host refers to them as "nice, neat boys" in contrast to the Rolling Stones, with whom Sullivan had had run-ins...

1966, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler scores a #1 hit with "The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sadler had been a medic in the Special Forces celebrated in the song ... he later worked as an actor, ran a Nashville bar, wrote a guide to the music biz, then wrote dozens of military adventure novels ... Sadler also was a soldier of fortune hiring himself out as a mercenary and was arrested in 1978 and 1981 in two separate incidents involving shootings ... in 1984 he settled in Guatemala City where he often gave locals medical care and established a trust fund for Vietnamese orphans ... he died of brain injuries in 1988 after being shot in the head while riding in a Guatemalan cab ... there are three versions of how he came to be shot: He was the target of robbery; he was assassinated; he accidentally shot himself while showing off his .380 Beretta ... Sadler finally dies in the V.A. hospital in Murfeesboro, Tennessee...

1967, hippiedom makes its way to the formal stage when Hair premieres off Broadway at The Public Theater in the East Village ... the musical production features a scene in which the entire company appears nude ... Hair will soon make the big time with 1,742 performances on Broadway ... the original cast makes an album of the score that produces three hit singles all penned by Jerome Ragni and James Rado: "Aquarius," "Let the Sun Shine In," and "Good Morning Starshine"...

1970, Jim Morrison is sentenced to eight months of hard labor for exposing his privates in Miami ... Morrison will never actually serve the time ... he is freed on bail pending appeal, skips to Paris, and dies in his bathtub of asthma-induced heart failure the following July ... Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas (the hot one) marries actor Dennis Hopper ... they divorce eight days later, proving wrong those who said the marriage wouldn't last a week ... "Cracklin Rosie" by schlock hook-meister Neil Diamond gets the gold...

1971, 24-year-old Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident near Macon, Georgia...

1972, Philly soul singer Billy Paul gets on the soul charts with "Me and Mrs. Jones" ... the song will hold the top position for three weeks and will become a soul classic...

1973, the Who's Quadrophenia--a grand-scale rock opera about a young British Mod with multiple personality disorder--goes gold...

1975, wearing a sequined Dodgers uniform, rock pomp giant Elton John takes the stage for a second SRO night at Dodger Stadium ... Bruce Springsteen appears simultaneously on the covers of both Time and Newsweek, causing great embarrassment to both publications ... Joan Baez signs on as a member of Dylan's The Rolling Thunder Revue...

1978, Boston's Rat Club hosts the first U.S. concert by the Police...

1980, Paul Kantner's brain starts bleeding during a recording session ... fortunately, a few weeks in the hospital is all it takes to bring him back to 100%...

1983, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon becomes the longest-listed album ever on the Billboard chart--491 continuous weeks...

1984, Linda Ronstadt debuts her operatic singing voice with La Boheme in New York...

1986, The Beastie Boys release their album License To Ill which will become the first rap album to reach number one on the album chart....

1994, Madonna feels the papal wrath when Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees as a protest against Madonna's first concert there ... the churches keep their doors open all night as an alternative place to hang...

1995, Yolanda Saldivar, the former president of Selena's fan club, is convicted of murdering the Tejano star that previous March ... the jury hands out a life sentence ... the same week, Gloria Estefan shows she ain't no Madonna when she performs for Pope John Paul II ... she is the only pop act asked to play the pope's gala celebration observing his 50 years in the priesthood...

1998, having trouble completing the lyrics to his tune, "What's Really Happening," David Bowie turns to his fans for help, hosting a contest to finish the piece ... the winner is 20-year-old Alex Grant, who will be allowed to sit in on the recording session...

2004, shockjock Howard Stern calls in to a talk show on San Francisco radio station KGO ... the station is interviewing FCC Chairman Michael Powell whose agency had previously issued big fines against Stern and the stations carrying his broadcast for indecent on-air remarks ... Stern accuses Powell--among other things--of getting his government gig by virtue of his father Colin Powell's heft as U.S. Secretary of State...

Now That's Interesting!!!!

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Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world's largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales. Now that's interesting. While everyone in the U.S. is going broke, some losing jobs, and some going out of business because the cost of fuel has exploded......and these cocksuckers make a record profit??????? I look forward to the day when oil doesn't rule the world and the exxon dicks have to work like the rest of us. I've just learned who not to buy gas from. DIE EXXON!!!

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reported a 68-percent surge in third-quarter net profit, owing to record energy prices and asset disposals, but the recent US hurricanes forced it to cut production estimates. Now that's interesting. Does anyone see a pattern here? Oil shortage my ass. Where's my solar car? My bicycle looks better and better each day.

Mars is ready for another close-up. For the second time in nearly 60,000 years, the Red Planet will swing unusually close to Earth this weekend, appearing as a yellow twinkle in the night sky. Now that's interesting. You might wanna take a look at this. You'll be really old the next time and probably won't enjoy it as much.

King Tutankhamen was a red wine drinker, according to a researcher who analyzed traces of the vintage found in his tomb. What comes to mind when you read this? "Red, red wine.... stay close to me e e e, don't let me...." You get the point. Now that's interesting.

A woman who took an unpaid leave of absence from work to see her husband off to war with an Indiana National Guard unit has been fired after failing to show up for her part-time receptionist job the day following his departure. I bet she worked for those Exxon bastards.

The city of Rome has banned goldfish bowls, which animal rights activists say are cruel, and has made regular dog-walks mandatory in the Italian capital. Now that's interesting. I can see it now. A guy with a trench coat on a street corner. He calls you over and opens his coat. "goldfish man, goldfish".

Amid record-high earnings from oil companies, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Thursday ordered a Senate hearing with testimony from major oil company executives on why energy prices are high. Now that's interesting. Here we will find out Mr. Frists pay off price. Hopefully he will be strong.

Do you have memories of being abducted by aliens and whisked away in a spaceship? If so, you should read this. If you don't have these memories, you shouldn't sleep another wink until you read this.

Friends and classmates mourned the death of an Illinois State University senior as authorities continued investigating how the missing woman's body ended up in a burned-out chicken coop in Mississippi. Now that's interesting. I'd check with Exxon. You know how those people are.

The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration. Wow, that looks almost real.

Danny DeVito has a $26 check waiting for him from Allstate Insurance. Reese Witherspoon is owed nearly $100 by Tiffany Co. And California first lady Maria Shriver has more than $300 waiting for her in the state's unclaimed property vault, according to the state controller's Web site. Now that's....not interesting at all. Moving on.

The bodyguard who once protected tiger tamer Roy Horn of the Siegfried & Roy magic duo claims that Siegfried Fischbacher is a "tyrant" who overmedicates and humiliates the ailing Horn, who is still recovering from a tiger-mauling incident. Oh c'mon Siegfried. Be a man. Oh yeah, nevermind.

A recovering crystal meth addict in Canada is suing the dealer who allegedly sold her a near-fatal dose, claiming he did so fully aware that it was likely to harm her. Isn't it great to live in America, where everyone is free to be stupid.

Janet Jackson has been exposed — and this time, Justin Timberlake is nowhere to be seen. A video clip showing Jackson sunbathing naked has been circulating on the Internet and was still playing on some Web sites Thursday.

1951 Plymouth Concord Update

"Louie", my 1951 Plymouth Concord, came to life Sunday (10-23-05) for the first time since I've owned him. He's been able to crank and run but not move under his own power. Needing brake work, I knew that I had to get him out of the garage. Keep in mind, I have no brakes whatsoever. That'll all be fixed in a couple of days. All I will need then is new tires.

I know you've been wondering.... So what was happening in 1951. Well, sit down in front of the fire and let me tell you the story. It went something like this. It was a cold January.

January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.

January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.

January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

February 4-8 - Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in 96-hour long operation in Chicago, Illinois. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg / 308 lbs

February 19- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her two pimps are hanged for the murder and tourture of a 73 year old bookmaker.

February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

March 6 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

March 12 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.

March 29 - Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.

May 3 - The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

October 26 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden

November 1 - First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert

November 10 - Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

Birthdays:
January 12 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
January 12 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality
January 30 - Phil Collins, English musician
February 15 - Jane Seymour, English actress
February 18 - Dale Earnhardt, American racing car driver (d. 2001)
March 17 - Kurt Russell, American actor
March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
April 10 - Steven Seagal, American actor
April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
May 19 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
May 26 - Sally Ride, astronaut
September 22 - David Coverdale, English singer
October 7 - John Mellencamp, American musician and songwriter

According to Wikipedia.com, Dale Earnhardt was born twice in 1951. What a truely lucky guy.

Pauley is a Fine Lad

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This past weekend, the gang and I went to the Renaissance Fair at the Monroe Zoo. It was nice to see men wearing dresses. Yes, I know they're called kilts. It was a good day with beautiful weather, good food, and good music. We ate hamburgers made from real Highland Beef, no fake Highland Beef like you would think. It was actually kind of strange. Just a few feet away from the grill stood two Highland Beef cows. Do you think they had any idea? If they did, I don't think they would've been so calm.

Paul finally got to try his hand at Keltic Games.






Paul threw the weight so quick, the camera didn't pick it up.


the gang

Halloween is Upon Us

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That's right. Halloween is almost here. Forget Thanksgiving! Forget Christmas! Forget the 4th of July! Give me Halloween anyday. Have you carved your pumpkin yet? Try this out. It's very neat. Carve your pumpkin online. Don't worry, it's absolutely free and there aren't any advertisements to go through to get there. Do you have your costume yet? Look at these strange costumes.

This is the week that was in matters musical...

1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House...

1908, Columbia takes out an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records...

1949, future Dead Boys leader Stiv Bators is born Stivan John Bator in Youngstown, Ohio...

1956, "Love Me Tender" is the first song to enter the pop charts at #1 ... Elvis' slow dance tune also appears on the Country and Western chart and the R&B chart, not to mention the Top 100 chart...

1961, 20-year-old Bob Dylan records his eponymous debut album accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica ... studio cost is a whopping $400 ... filling out the studio's tax reporting form, he lists his name as "Blind Boy Grunt" ... the young folkie goes on to become one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century...

1962, the artist known as Little Stevie Wonder makes his first recording ... Steveland Morris Judkins doesn't have instant success with this first record, but the accolades are not far away ... also this week in '62 "Live at the Apollo, Volume 1," one of James Brown's most brilliant performances, is captured at the Landmark Theater in Harlem ... the album will outsell all previous R&B records with over a million copies sold...

1964, a London band known as the High Numbers is rejected after an audition with EMI ... formerly known as The Who, the four young rockers have recently come under the influence of manager Pete Meaden, who suggested the name change and dressed the boys in mod suits ... Meaden's all wet, but the kids are alright ... they'll resume their name and climb to fame...

1969, The Who start a six-night stand at New York's Fillmore East in support of Tommy ... in another boost for rock and roll, Led Zeppelin II is released...

1976, Led Zeppelin's film The Song Remains the Same premieres in London...the film is mostly poorly edited concert footage from a three-night stand at Madison Square Garden in 1973...fantasy sequences created by the band are interspersed with the performance footage...also in '76, Keith Moon plays his last show with The Who...the legendary drummer will die within a year...

1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week when they learn that band members Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a plane crash in a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi ... the band is flying between Greenville, SC, and Baton Rouge, LA, when their chartered plane goes down, probably due either to mechanical failure or lack of fuel ... the whole band is aboard and the surviving members are all severely injured ... three days earlier marked the release of their sixth album Street Survivor, the cover of which featured the band members surrounded by flames ... the cover is changed after the catastrophe ... the crash marks the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd until the survivors reform the band a decade later...

1978, Sid Vicious attempts to off himself at New York's Rikers Island jail, where he's awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen ... the bad Pistol will get out and OD before he can be prosecuted for the crime ... also in '78, Keith Richards receives a suspended sentence of one year after pleading guilty to heroin possession in Toronto...

1988, Fantasy Records, after more than a decade of rancorous relations with John Fogerty, launches a suit claiming he plagiarized his own song, "Run Through the Jungle," during the composition of "The Old Man Down the Road" ... it will be 1995 before it is finally decided that Fantasy is tripping...

1992, long before her career as a writer of children's books, Madonna releases Sex--a steel-bound book of erotic photos of herself and other beautiful people that sells out the first run of a half million copies in no time ... she also releases her album Erotica this week ... it will sell over 2 million copies...

1995, Generation X loses another of its greatest voices when Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon is found dead of a cocaine overdose on the band's tour bus in New Orleans...

1998, the company with publishing rights to Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" files suit against Cooper's primary make-up rock emulators, KISS, claiming they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song, "Dreamin'" ... Cooper has nothing to do with it, and hasn't even heard "Dreamin'" when the suit is filed ... asked about the outcome years later, Cooper says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing"...

2001, VH1 hosts its Concert for New York, which raises over $30 million for victims of 9/11 with performances by such heavy hitters as The Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elton John, and Bon Jovi...

2003, singer-songwriter Elliot Smith takes his own life in his Los Angeles apartment ... a hero of the Portland, Oregon, indie-rock scene in the '90s, Smith gained national prominence after director Gus Van Sant tapped him for the soundtrack to the 1997 film Good Will Hunting ... Smith's song "Miss Misery" was nominated for an Oscar the following year ... a posthumous release, From A Basement On A Hill, includes material the singer was working on when he died...

2004, crusading New York Attorney general Eliot Spitzer announces that he has launched an investigation of payola practices in the music business ... EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony-BMG, and Universal all receive subpoenas demanding that they produce communications with independent record promoters, the middlemen paid by record companies to get airplay ... also this week in 2004, "singer" Ashlee Simpson gets busted for lip syncing during a performance on Saturday Night Live ... apparently her drummer cued up a backing track for the same song the band had played earlier in the evening, catching Ashlee and the band off guard ... the real fun begins when a pre-recorded vocal track begins to play, revealing that the song had been lip synced ... the track is quickly faded, but Ashlee is busted, and after dancing an awkward, vaudevillian type of jig, exits stage right ... the band continues to play along to the first song as the network cuts to a commercial ... to add insult to injury, at the show's closing credits, Simpson tries to explain the flaw by saying "My band played the wrong song" ... during the media s***storm that follows, Simpson's excuses for the pre-recorded track change from having acid reflux to laryngitis, until finally, during her Orange Bowl halftime performance the following January, it becomes apparent that the track was clearly used to hide the singer's tone deafness...

Stupid is as Stupid Does

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Dumb ebay auction titled "I Sweat Michael Jordan Silhouette on my XXL Nike Shirt". You can buy it now for$2,345.00.

In Katrina's wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans??? Thank you fema.

A group of four flawed, early U.S. airmail stamps, originally priced at 24 cents each, sold at auction for $2.97 million.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday easily passed the so-called "cheeseburger bill" that would block lawsuits blaming the food industry for making people fat. Take responsibility for your own actions. Here's what you do. When you order your food, look at it and think how much of it you usually eat. Let me give you an example. If your lunch consists of a greasy burger, fries, and a coke, cut your burger in half. One half of your burger is contaminated with west nile virus. Pour your fries out on your tray. Take half of them and throw them on the floor. No one wants to eat food off of a floor. When you get to the self serve soda fountain, only pour half. A full glass weighs almost twice as much as a half full glass. You have to take the weight of the cup into accout. Here's another thing. Don't send your kids to fetch you things. Get off of your lazy ass and get it yourself. This is known as the Dison diet. It will work for you or your money back.

How many men does it take to change a light bulb in a British church? Thanks to the European Union's "Working at Heights Directive" the answer is four -- over three days at a cost of more than 1,300 pounds ($2,299.70).

An Orange County sheriff's reserve deputy was ordered to trial for allegedly pulling a gun on two slow-playing golfers and threatening them at Los Serranos Golf & Country Club.

Payback is a Bitch

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Global warming? Act of God? Nope, says one Idaho weatherman — Hurricane Katrina was part of a man-made plot against America. You must go to the link to understand.

Strange News

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Remains of Star Trek's "Scotty" headed for space.

Happy Birthday Saline

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Happy 100th Birthday Saline

The festivities started early with a parade at 10am. We even had a marching band. I don't ever remember a marching band at a parade in Saline.

Mayor Peggy Choate













Arcadia High School Marching Band


Caney Lake Swingers members include Muriel Sullivan, Lavon Sullivan,and Shavon Sullivan.

Extreme Caution band played from 3 pm to 7 pm. From left to right: Eric Lacour guitar, Brad Dison bass, Terry Reese drums/vocals, Tim Gardner guitar/vocals, Tony McCarthy vocals.

Happy Birthday John

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Happy Birthday! For a John Lennon crossword puzzle, click here. "It's your birthday, gonna have a good time"


"Can I get a HELL YEAH!!!"

I know it's not actually Halloween yet but I'm in the mood. Halloween is the most fun time of year. One word. Haunted Houses. Turns out, I don't remember how to count. I love haunted houses. I just learned of another one in just south of here. It will be fun. Did you see these headlines?

An Australian man who works for a company that makes road signs warning motorists of kangaroos has been involved in a motorbike accident -- with a kangaroo. Doh.

A New Orleans storm victim shelled out $4.25 in quarters and won a $1.6 million jackpot at a Louisiana casino where she had stopped to play the slot machines on her way to shop at a Wal-Mart discount store.

Gregg Miller mortgaged his home and maxed out his credit cards to mass produce his invention — prosthetic testicles for neutered dogs. Just what the world needs. And just in time too. You saved us mr. Miller.

A Syracuse-area man has been accused of sending an imposter to take a court-ordered paternity test. "She's just a girl that claims that I am the one, but the kid is not my son". Who sang it?

LONDON - The National Trust launched a campaign on Thursday to find the country's ugliest vegetable. Next week they'll try to count all of the yield signs in town. This is exciting stuff.

The First Assembly of God Church has a Fear Factor ministry that lets youths swallow live goldfish in order to teach them about fear. Looks like someone needs to re-read their Bible. Idiots.

Santa Clause gets a code of conduct. Looks like Santa's not gonna be bad this year. I always wondered why Santa kept a candy cane in his pocket. And why he always said Ho Ho Ho.