LOOKING FOR HIS LOOMPA?

STEPHEN KING ON GUNS

“This is an afterword(to 11/22/63), not an editorial, but I hold strong opinions on this subject(guns), particularly given the current political climate of my country. If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder Film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy’s head explodes.” 

GALAXY NGC524

A/K/A: Ringu 3: The well in space…(creepy, eh?)

FRIDAY FUNNIES

BUY AN AUDI

Get a dead frog free!

(And yes, it's real - I took the picture after seeing 

the dead frog in the headlight.)
(ps:Not my Audi!)

WHO KNEW?

Taser is an acronym for 'Thomas A Swift's electric rifle', a creation of fictional inventor Tom Swift.
NASA physicist Jack Cover was a fan, and went on to create the first real life device.

WELCOME BACK TWINKIES

TWO WOOLWORTH STORIES

I was reading a book today on my Kindle, and in it was mentioned “…a kitchen clock that looked like a chicken.” Which was kind of funny, since we had a clock in our kitchen that we bought when we first got married(1974)that looked like a chicken.

 For some reason we called it Superchicken and it ran for years before it finally died, and we never could find a replacement. We had bought it from a Woolworth’s, actually the only Woolworth’s we ever saw that was a 2 story Woolworth’s.

 And a few years later, while at the same store with our baby daughter in her stroller, we exited into the mall and realized she had picked up a book from a book dept rack in the store…and not just any book, but Dr Spock’s Baby & Childcare book! I guess she was attracted to the picture of the baby on the cover.

Of course we kept the book, it seemed like fate since we hadn’t previously owned a copy!

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEER

Only 2 minutes...so enjoy!

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

‘The editor wanted a surname beginning with C, Waites says, because shoppers' eyes are naturally drawn to the top of the second bookshelf in a book shop. That is normally where books by "C" authors live.

"When I was writing as Martyn Waites, I was right at the end. People had to bend down to the bookshelf and get them," he laughs. "They wouldn't bother and they'd get Lee Child instead."’

(From BBCOnline article on picking an author’s pen-name)

(...And not having heard of C. Waites (what does he wait for - buyers?) 

I would be more than happy to pick up a Lee Child book.)

WATCH OUT FOR THE JESUSMOBILE

Apparently he hangs out at International Market World on weekends, who knew?

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN

 “…corporations are essentially immortals with all of the rights of people and none of the consequences or responsibilities, and whose profits have been declared free speech that can be used to influence our politics.”
(from Brookston Beer Bulletin)
                                                     Read the whole article here

Which is actually about beer in Mexico; but the quote above pretty much covers every big business, doesn't it?

FRIDAY FUNNIES

In honor of Twinkies being resurrected this

 coming Monday...whoopee!!

RIP: PEPPI MARCHELLO

Long Island rock legend Peppi Marchello, who for decades fronted The Good Rats, lovingly dubbed "the world's most famous unknown band," died on Wednesday of an apparent cardiac arrest. He was 68.

 A band I first saw in 1973 when they played at the Fore-N-Aft in Westport, CT, (Where I met my wife).
A great band, led by a great singer with a sense of humor. When they used to play cover songs Peppi would change the words to something obscene. I still remember Clapton's Let It Rain coming out as "If I give my love to you, you'll let me sniff your crack". Yeah, really. And after I mentioned to him years later about meeting my wife at a Good Rats show, he signed the Play Dum CD and let me know I owed him for my sex life after 1973 - on the CD! 
What a guy, wish we could have got back up north and seen one of the reunion shows...
 Rock on Peppi, rock on...

ERNEST HEMINGWAY ON BEER

“I would not have thought of       eating a meal without drinking a beer”

THIS YEAR'S CLASS PICTURE

By Dan Simmons (from The Living Dead, J.J.Adams,ed.)

‘There would be only the dead eyes, the slack faces, the open mouths, the aimless, mindless stirrings,

and the soft stench of rank flesh.

It was not too dissimilar from her years of teaching live children.’

GREGORY PECK: BEER COWBOY

WALKING (AND TALKING) DEAD

C'mon. you know it's funny...yeah really!!

CAN I GET A DOUBLE SHOT...?

Yeah, actually drove by this in Tampa a few weeks back...figured hey why not, everyone's buying gold these days!!

GROUCHO MARX ON TELEVISION

“I find television very educating. Every time

somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

FRIDAY FUNNIES

TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL

“Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity.

I don’t like ambiguity. I don’t trust ambiguity.”

(John Wayne)