Archive for the 'obituary' Category
Thoughts on Jesus and Joey Vento
Hot off the griddle from Scrapple TV. Please share with your xenophobic friends.
And now a thought on Jesus and Joey Vento. No, not Jesus Christ: if he really was Yahweh made flesh, then whatever He and Joey have to talk about is not my concern.
No, I’m talking about Jesus Ayala, who I worked [...]
RIP Hazel Dickens
I honestly don’t know what to say: Hazel Dickens has died and the world is a sorrier, sadder place for it. She had a pure Appalachian voice, one of those old time voices that carry centuries of history in it. She was a strong voice for the working class, especially the unions and the [...]
Read More..>>RIP Sarah Jane
One of my favorite Dr. Who companions, Sarah Jane Smith, as played by Elisabeth Sladen, has died.
When I first started watching this crazy, obsession-inducing show, Sarah Jane Smith was a constant. She was one of my favorite companions from the classic series, perhaps my favorite. Her re-appearance in the new series was great too.
So [...]
Farewell to my Friend
I just got the news that my old friend Jake Jenkins died in a plane crash outside of his home in Lubbock Texas. His parents were in the plane with him: Jake leaves behind a wife and three young children.
That’s Jake kicking ass on the banjo in the video above, a few months after [...]
Philly Daily News and Inquirer Digital Editions: EPIC FAILURES
If you haven’t dropped by Philly.com and signed up for the free test run of their digital edition, I highly encourage you to do so: it’s simply the most exquisite and complete FAIL I have seen in some time. You really have to experience it for yourself, and although words cannot do it justice, [...]
Read More..>>RIP, Charlie Louvin
Charlie and Ira are together again. Here are some youtube clips of country music’s greatest brother duet.
Read More..>>the Inky calls for Lower Wages and an End to Public Pensions
here’s the garbage the Inquirer chose to peddle to its dwindling readership today:
“Americans Make Too Much Money, an argument for lower wages (predicated on the idea that desperate people with children to feed will be more likely to accept lower wages, depressing paychecks for everyone), and “We can’t Sustain Public Pensions”, which argues that governments [...]
Amateur Flyover Video: BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales
Around the 6:33 mark, the narrator/filmer, John Wathen, comes to a pod of 36 dolphins stranded in oil, “struggling just to breathe”. Another 18 are discovered later, and then A GODDMAN FUCKING SPERM WHALE TRAPPED IN OIL UP TO ITS GODDAMN BLOWHOLE. “Across his back we could see red patches of crude as if [...]
Read More..>>RIP Robert Byrd
Policiticians are dirty ugly people, and even the best are awful. So while i have a lot of respect for Byrd’s dedication to the Constitution and his opposition to the Bush criminals… well, the less said about politics, the better.
What’s not so well-known about Robert Byrd was that he was a lifelong fiddle player, a [...]
More BP BULLSHIT
Forward from my Gulf contact:
—— Forwarded Message
From: Deepwater Horizon Response External Affairs
Reply-To: Deepwater Horizon Response External Affairs
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
To:
Subject: Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events
DATE: June 23, 2010 19:19:38 CST
Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events
Key [...]
