RIP: SKY SAXON

On June 25th, of an unspecified ailment. Don't know who he is? Well, shame on you, he was lead vocalist for the 60s psych band The Seeds of "Pushin' Too Hard" fame. Later went on to other things, including recording with Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins).

Rock on, Sky, rock on...

SEATBELTS...MAKE $$$$

So the new seatbelt law took effect June 30th; now is it not only illegal to NOT wear a seatbelt, it's a primary infraction. Now the police can pull you over or set up traffic stops just to check if you have your seatbelt on, just as if they were checking for DUIs! And if they catch you comitting this heinous (what a great word - reminds me of anus) crime, its a $99 ticket, per person in the car not wearing it, I would suppose.\

Now, I'm all for wearing seatbelts, though there was a time I didn't, but is it really a $99 crime, and aren't there better things for the police to be doing? Like...catching criminals, drunk drivers, speeders, tailgaters, etc. I mean really, if someone wants to kill themselves in a car accident, isn't that their problem?

It can only help the gene pool, the way I look at it...

RIP: FRED TRAVALENA

At only 66. But you may not know him, he was an impressionist back in the 70s, who was once quite well known. But not enough where you'd say "Hey, I wonder what happened to Fred Travalena?" I guess he may have been the poor man's Rich Little back when he was famous.

But gone nevertheless, in the month of June when too, too many famous & semi-famous people died.

RIP: FARRAH FAWCETT

Dead of cancer at 62. At one time, she was arguably the sexiest woman alive. Who didn't at one time have that famous poster of her in a bathing suit (and you could see her nipples! - pretty risque in the mid-70s) or if we were married, wish we had the poster. Yeah, never was going to be one of the top talented actresses, but definitely was one of the prettiest.

Sorry to see you go Farrah, but we'll catch you on the Charlie's Angels re-runs...

MICHAEL JACKSON

Dead at 50...

THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD

...Who actually isn't that great, but doesn't realize that he's really a washed up mentalist. But what a great movie, saw it this afternoon at the Polk Theater. If you don't have a small independent movie theater near you, you may not get to see this until it comes out on video. John Malkovich is incredible as the hand-shaking Buck Howard, and Tom Hanks' son Troy is the narrator and Buck's new personal assistant. The neatest part of the movie is all the cameos by famous and no longer famous people - Tom Hanks,George Takei, Tom Arnold, Ricky Jay, Steve Zahn, and even Donnie Most (Ralph Malph on Happy Days!) Plus others too numerous to mention. A great story, with a happy ending, something any fan of John Malkovich needs to see. Or just movie fans in general...

C'mon, get off your ass and track it down...you won't regret it...

RIP: BOB BOGLE

Co-founder of The Ventures, one of the biggest bands of the early sixties. Never sang, but man could they play! Walk Don't Run(twice!), Telstar, Out Of Limits,Hawaii 5-o theme. And finally into the R&RHoF, in 2008, but should have been sooner. I mean, these guys practically invented surf music & influenced a generation of guitar players.

So now gone at the ripe age of 75, to join the band...

Rock on, Bob, rock on...

JUST SO YOU KNOW

For all you gambling Pentacostals out there (and I know there's some)...

Did you know the numbers on the roulette wheel (1-36) add up to 666?

Hmmm...might want to think that over before going to the Indian Casino next time...

HEAVY BREATHING?

I woke this morning sleeping on my back; it was early, so it wasn't time to get up yet. As I lay there, I heard heavy breathing in the same room I was in..

Well, it turns out it was...ME!

Because of my tinnitus, my hearing has become very monoraul, and many sounds,voices, etc don't appear to be coming from the direction they are actually emanating from. So apparently I had a breathing noise coming from my nose, but sounding like there was someone to the left of the bed that was breathing. Pretty creepy until I figured it out...hey it was 5 A.M., what do you expect?

But remember, if you hear a noise in your bedroom at 5 A.M. and don't have mono hearing...

you might want to run like hell!

TAG SALE

First off, it sucked, spent 6 hours in the heat and only made $45.00. Yeah, it sucked, won't be doing that again for a long,long while. And while we're on the subject, why don't they call it 'tag sale' everywhere (like we did up north)? Down here in Florida, we call it yard sale, garage sale, carport sale, porch sale, estate sale, etc. Unless it's in a church, or community clubhouse, then it's a rummage sale. I do like rummage sale, though, because I do like to rummage around for stuff (stuff good - me like stuff).

Anyway, the real reason for this post is this. After our yard sales, we go through the leftovers and decide what to keep for next time, and the rest goes to the Salvation Army (NOT Goodwill - they're a ripoff). The odd thing is, however, that they won't take computer printers ("Too hard to sell"), but they will take typewriters (?????). And, they won't let the employees take them if you want to give it to them (unless they sneak it to their car).

Which seems kind of like the dog in the manger;

and if you don't know what that is, shame on you.