What's Goin' On

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* Jamie Fox and Colin Farrell heat it up in Miami Vice. By the looks of what Jamie Fox is doing with his hand, it got really heated. Colin, you had your turn. I'm next.

* Albanian police were speechless when around 30 Scandinavian women went topless, shocking local bathers and causing an uproar in an Albanian beach resort.

* A British woman has been ordered by police to take down a sign on her garden gate which read "Our dogs are fed on Jehovah's Witnesses." You're British, you can't have an opinion.

* It started as an April Fool's joke but an Irish bookmaker's proposal to hold the world's biggest strip poker contest will become reality next month.

* 'Harry Potter' actor to be naked on stage. Will we get to see his wand? blahahahahahaha

* CBS appeals fine for Janet Jackson breast flashing. I want my freedom back on tv. Thank you Janet Jackson.

* Station changes format from God to sex. I never thought I'd put God and Sex in the same sentence.

Happy Birthday:
1907 Earl S Tupper invented Tupperware
1929 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1st lady (1961-63)
1945 Jim Davis cartoonist (Garfield)
1945 Richard Wright rocker (Pink Floyd-The Wall)


We miss you:
1540 Thomas Cromwell King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed
1750 Johann Sebastian Bach German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65
1794 Maximilien Robespierre Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined

Today in History (that I think's interesting):
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1896 City of Miami incorporated
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Retired Colourman"(BG)
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.
1931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia . Yes I said liquidate. Sad, very sad.
1942 - World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
1943 Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1973 Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith
could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.
2061 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

Is This a Dream?

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Can you find any funny pictures to go along with any of my topics? If so, email them to me at bradsarcade@yahoo.com.

* Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's baby went on display Wednesday - at a wax museum. How sad is that? Check out the picture.

*David Hasselhoff, Pamela Bach part ways. He's single again? Oh yeah! I'm there. Rrrrright.

* Pamela "clueless" Anderson and Kid Rock to wed, several times. I have but one word of advice for the Kid. RUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!

* The U.S. government's crackdown on media indecency could prevent World War Two veterans from sharing their stories in an upcoming TV documentary series by Ken Burns, the head of the Public Broadcasting Service said Wednesday. Thank you Janet Jackson.

* The artist formerly known as Prince is now formerly known as married. How convenient. He and Hasselhoff should get together.

*Exxon Mobil makes over $10 billion. When you can't get a gallon of regular unleaded for under $3 a gallon, of course their getting rich quick. I demand cheaper fuel. Give me cheaper fuel or give me death. Well, that's going a little too far but you get my point.

*Office drone by day, stripper by night .

Happy Birthday:
1931 Jerry Van Dyke Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)


Today in history:
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia
1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1844 Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dancing Men" (BG)
1904 Dr. Herbert Hills of Flint, Michigan, purchased the first Buick automobile ever to be sold.
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m
1916 Germans execute British seaman Captain Charles Fryatt
1923 John Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1940 Bugs Bunny first appears on the silver screen in "A Wild Hare."
1943 Stalin issues Order No. 227-outlawing cowards
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1949 Havilland Comet 40-passenger airliner makes maiden flight
1960 VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
1974 Nixon charged with first of three articles of impeachment
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
1988 Radio Shack announces the Tandy 1000 SL computer
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 Rocker Jani Lane, (Warrant-Cherry Pie) marries model Bobbie Brown
2002 Fighter jet crashes into crowd at air show

What does gay mean?

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gay (g)
adj. gay·er, gay·est

1. Of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex.
2. Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
3. Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
4. Given to social pleasures.
5. Dissolute; licentious.

N'Sync's

Lance Bass is Gay..... and I don't car
Lance Bass is Gay..... and I don't car sing it with me
Lance Bass is Gay..... and I don't car......

oh well. That was fun.

*Wash. court upholds gay marriage ban. Let me just say, I'm very straight. I have some gay friends. Who cares??? Whatever happened to land of the free? It's the land of the free as long as it agrees with you, her, him, me, and the others trying to take away your freedom. This shouldn't even be an issue. Read the Constitution you bigot idiots. And that's gonna be the title of my new song Bigot Idiot.

*New Monopoly game uses debit card, no cash. Gotta get this to go with my other 7 monopoly game sets.

*Saddam prefers firing squad to gallows. Well, that's good to know. Next...

*Californians expect another sweltering day. Yeah, 'cause it's only hot in California.

*Senate passes interstate abortion bill. Do you know what the next to the last line of the national anthem is? "and the land of the free!" What a joke. I'm not saying I believe abortion is right in every case or wrong in every case. Let freedom ring!

*'Star Trek's' Scotty sending ashes to space. Cool.

*Man freed after murder victim found alive. He was in jail for three years. That would make me want to kill someone. Like the person he was in jail for killing.

*Metallica Caves and joins iTunes. It's all about the money.

*Lindsay Lohan overcome by heat. Well, she is hot.

*How did Nicole Kidman re-marry in a Catholic church? Because she's Nicole Kidman... C'mon.


*Survivor winner Richard Hatch moves to jail for 51 months or 4 years 3 months. Isn't that a little harsh?

* A never-released recording by legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix will be sold at auction in New York this fall.

Have you ever wondered how many people have been murdered this year in LA County this year? Last year? Check this out.

Today in Histroy:
1775 Benjamin Franklin becomes 1st Postmaster General
1945 Churchill resigns as Britain's PM
1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers. and next in redneck news..
1957 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1964 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud & conspiracy
1971 Apollo 15 launched to the Moon
1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket

1991 Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing
himself at an adult movie theater. Isn't that why you go there in the first place?

Happy Birthday to:
1739 George Clinton NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12) No, not the funk master.
1856 George Bernard Shaw Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925)
1902 Gracie Allen SF Calif, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1941 Brenton Wood Shreveport La, rocker (Gimme Little Sign) who???

1943 Mick Jagger Rolling Stone, never gathers moss
1949 Roger Taylor rocker (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody)

We'll miss you:
1863 Sam Houston president of Texas, dies at 70
1941 Marx Dormoy French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein dies

Boys Will Be Boys

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In the ever boring town of Saline were two guys looking for something to get into. Paul usually had the ideas and I usually followed along on the ones that seemed of interest. It was a hot steemy day. What should we do. We could hold up the old gas station in Lucky. That would be fun. What could possibly get our adrenalin pumping more than that? I had never been involved in anything like this before and I don't think Paul had either. Paul kept a stick in his pocket as a pretend gun and gave me one also. A bad idea I thought. I tried to talk my way out of it but Paul just wouldn't let up. After being referred to as a wuss for longer than my pride could handle, I gave in. In and out, quick and easy. So we're going over how this is supposed to work. Here was our plan. 1. Paul would go in first and I would follow. 2. We hold our pretend guns in our pockets and get the cash register money 3. peacefully exit the store, only stopping to get a candy bar or such. 4. driving home like nothing ever happened and counting our loot which could be up nearly $60 in such a small town. No one would ever think it was us. We've never been in trouble before.
We borrowed my moms 1985 bright green Toyota station wagon with no air conditioning that we cleverly called "the Pickle" for the heist. That was mistake #1. Everyone within a fifty mile radius knew who that car belonged to. It was definitely an attention getting car but for the wrong reasons. I miss that car. I let Paul drive because I was so nervous I could hardly remain sane. I was sweating so nervously that I couldn't hardly see. Good thing we were both wearing shorts. As we're driving Paul pulls out two pair of panty hose. I was completely confused. "Wear this for the heist" Paul said. With one eyebrow raised, I took the panty hose. At this point, although he'd never admit to it, Paul began to show nervousness too. A calmness came over me when I realized I wasn't alone in my state of fear.
We run into the store with our sticks in our pockets like we were gonna do something. We go to the cashier, which was also the owner. He looked frightened at first, looking at Paul, then down towards his, what he thought was a gun. Then he turned to me. His look completely changed. He looked back at Paul then back at me. It was an awkward moment of silence. Paul finally looked over and his whole facade broke down. "Damn it, Brad!" Paul said.
You'll remember the eyebrow raising over the panty hose? I was so nervous and scared that I didn't realize that the panty hose was for me to put over my face. Picture this. A boy about 15 trying to rob a store with a tank top shirt, high top tennis shoes, and panty hose from shoes up to my waist over my sweaty shorts, and a look on my face like it was my first day on Earth. Now what do we do? Paul, being the quick thinker he is, told the cashier/owner that it was all just a prank on me. The owner laughed at me like no one had before or has since. He even called his wife in from the house behind the store to look at this. She brought her camera. My picture is still in his store like one of those FBI's most wanted pictures. That was the beginning and end of our robbing spree.

It's True If I Say It's True

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Man in coma for 19 years asks to go back to sleep. I'm not making this up. You should really read why. Sooooo funny and soooo true. Still love ya, George W.

And today in history:
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. What a crock. How do you tell if she's a witch? Toss her in the river with her hands and legs tied. If she floats, she's a witch and will be executed. If she doesn't float and drowns, she's not a witch.

1862 Swift-Tuttle Comet is discovered by Horace Tuttle in Massachusetts. It had been independently spotted by Louis Swift in New York three days earlier. It has a 1 in 10,000 chance of colliding with Earth in the year 2126. If this occurs it will probably end civilization. I'm planning ahead. Sell everything on ebay. Spend the money quickly. The world is coming to an end!!!!!!!!!

1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon. It may be the first time but it won't be the last.

1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
Holy meteorite fragments Batman

1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.

1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet members were assassinated. as in keelt?

1957 First U.S. rocket with a nuclear warhead is fired, at the Nevada proving grounds. The world will never be the same.

1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.

1985 - US Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle (see Space Shuttle Challenger). We all know how that turned out.

1985 - 268 people are killed after a dam collapse in Val di Stava, Italy. Damn dam.

1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying 296 aboard crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive. (See United Airlines flight 232).

1991 Mike Tyson has sex with 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington for which he was later convicted of rape. Strange enough, it looks like Mike's getting raped in this picture.

1993 President Bill Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity. You tell 'em Bill.

Happy Birthday:
1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderess (d. 1927) You should read about this. There are several very good non-fiction books about her murdered parents.

1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939) Investers included Jonathon white, Colonel Walter Mustard, and William Ham.

1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)

1952 - Allen Collins, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)

Yo Ho Ho

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Today in History:

64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps
1927 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched.
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old. Huh?
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne & Sen Kennedy plunge off Chappaquiddick bridge
1970 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1980 Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif

the Who???

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Did anyone help me out with my "The Who" dilema? If so, please leave me a comment. Don't you just love Pete Tonwsend? You should check out Pete's diary. What an interesting being.

The Who!!!!

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I need your help!!!! My favorite band, The Who, are gonna be on their North America tour soon. The only problem is I live in Louisiana. All of the tour dates are for the northern states of the U.S. I can't fly 1,000 miles to go to a concert. (spoken in a whiney old lady voice)"Then obviously you're not a big enough fan and don't deserve to see them. You'd rather sit on your bum and let them come to you." That's not the case. I'm a huge fan.....bigger than huge. I'm a super-size-it fan of the who. So unless my faithful readers would like to pitch in and help me buy a plane ticket, I say let's get them down here. If you help me in emailing them, we can do it. I know it to be true. Please help me. It may change your life. To see their tour schedule, go to The Who website TheWhoTour.com You can email management for the who at info@thewhotour.com and request that they come down. You can tell them that Brad sent you if you want.

Also, take a look at this neat link. http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
It's a lot of fun.
Bring the Who down south.

Routers, Modems, and crap like that.

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I finally broke down and got away from dial up internet. I got dsl. It worked fine for 3 whole days. Then I get home from playing with my band at the club and the internet doesn't work. I spent about 2 hours yesterday with a.......I am not racist at all..... crackhead from another country that tried to tell me that my phone line was too long. What the hell does that mean? He said to hook my modem up to a shorter phone line and it should work fine. "We can send a tech out for $80. If it's a problem with our equipment, it won't cost anything." I said I'd call him back. I hook up the short phone line, still nothing. It's a modem problem I tell the tech. Finally, after trying to decipher a lost language, speaking to someone in a village with a population of about 7 in Aguanda, I tell him to send the tech out. After verifying that I am who I say I am, he says a tech will be by tomorrow morning before 12.
So, this morning my phone rings. It's the bell south dude. He said it's a problem with one of the filters on the phone line and that he checked out the phone line on the outside of the house and has already left. This does me no good. Finally, he's convinced to come back to my house. Guess what? The modem isn't working right. Hmmm Who would've figured that??? He put another modem on and....BLAM!!!! internet works again. My first thought..... Bellsouth is selling cheap pieces of crap modems for $75. Mine worked for 3 days. That's only $25 a day for a modem. They had better not put that replacement modem on my phone bill. Or I'll..... I'll.... pay it and post a nasty message on my blog site about it. Damn!!!

It happened one day, this day....

1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state
1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show . Yes folks, that's news.

Extreme Caution

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My band, Extreme Caution, is playing at Ropers in Bossier City, La. tonight and tomorrow night if anyone wants to come by. I'd love to meet some of you bloggers.
Crazy B

A New Record

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I have acheived a new personal record on ebay. until yesterday, the most people I've ever had look at a single item of mine was around 1,100. I broke that record yesterday with a 1942 Harley Davidson with 2,282 views. I've broken that record again today. I have a 1961 Chrysler Imperial Lebaron Coachwork with 2,994 views. If only that were the number of bids. Whew. Gotta love Ebay.