Had No Idea

Story behind Lynrd Skynrds plane crash.

"The legendary Southern rockers had just released their 1977 album, Street Survivors, when they chartered a plane to take them from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Engine problems caused the plane to run out of gas and crash into a wooded swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and vocalist Cassie Gaines were all killed, and most of the rest of the bandmembers were seriously injured. Rumors that Van Zant had been decapitated in the crash by a Betamax video player persist today despite copious evidence to the contrary. Immediately following the crash, drummer Artimus Pyle ran nearly a mile with broken ribs to get help from a nearby farmhouse, but the farmer freaked at the sight of the bloodied drummer and shot him in the shoulder with a shotgun, further injuring him but sparing his life. " Blender.com

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Christmas Missives

• Had Christmas at our house this year. I killed with grilled steaks and smoked ham.


• The Christmas lights went up without a hitch- yesterday


• I lost my brother in laws present. I have no answer for where it was other than just misplaced from I thought it to be. When I told him I don't think he believed me but, now I think were good.


• Corn- what an abomination.


• Chicken Express yeast rolls are one of natures most perfect foods.


• I got a very nice coat and a good pair of gloves along with a nice winter beanie. Oh, almost forgot the really good quality socks.


• I think I was being outfitted for homelessness.


• My mind may be changed with other games and a better television but, I was disappointed in the Wii Sports on the Wii my children received.


• Oh man my kids great grandfather is back in the hospital. The stroke he had was a bleed type. Hope is gone for him in this life.


• If we lived every year and spent every gathering like it was our last we might find ourselves wishing for one more less often.


• Young women (way too young) have a habit of firting with me and I don't know why. My bald head gets rubbed a lot and I get told I Look pretty good for an old guy etc. More than one woman I've been around has said something to the effect,"If that chick touches you one more time I'm slapping the..."


• My neighbor died the day before Christmas Eve. It wasn't actually true I know but, when I went to the car for something yesterday evening the world seemed colder and darker when I thought of him.


• I can be as hard headed as any man about my health but, I promise if I ever start having chest pain to immediately take an aspirin and call the doctor or go to the emergency room.


• I have never made a New Years resolution.


• My niece told her husband she was bringing Pumpkin Tarts for the dinner he got Pumpkin Sours stuck in his mind and could not figure out what on earth that could be and why anyone would eat same and at first cringed when he saw people reaching for one.
• Smoked ham, broccoli and cheese cassarole, candied yams and yeast rolls with green tea- it's what's for breakfast, at least it was this morning.

Danny's Truck

This is my friend and neighbor Danny's truck. He died the day before Christmas Eve.

Philogelos (Lover of jokes)- Ancient Book Of Jokes

" An intellectual was eating dinner with his father. On the table was a large lettuce with many succulent shoots. The intellectual suggested: "Father, you eat the children; I'll take mother."



This is from a collection of 200+ jokes written in Greek about AD 400. It was compiled by Hierokles and Philagrios of whom very little is known. Supposedly the key to getting this joke is to understand lettuce was considered a powerful aphrodisiac in the times.

I still don't get it.

Musically Speaking

Accidentally rediscovered two bands I really like this afternoon and when I look at how different they are I realize I am schizophrenic. The first was Mad Season formed by members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees (who I also like A lot) 2 of the 4 guys who founded Mad Season ODd on Heroin. Layne Staley was the lead singer.

"When police kicked in the door to Layne Staley's University District apartment on April 20, there, on a couch, lit by a flickering TV, next to several spray-paint cans on the floor, not far from a small stash of cocaine, near two crack pipes on the coffee table, reposed the remains of the rock musician." The article also stated that the 6' 1" Staley weighed 86 pounds when his body was discovered. The autopsy report later concluded that Staley died after injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a "speedball"."

The Dresden Dolls are a duo formed in Boston by Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione. they remind me a bit of groups like Berlin from the 80s.

"The two describe their style as "Brechtian punk cabaret", a phrase invented by Palmer because she was "terrified" that the press would invent a name that "would involve the word gothic."

The band's first name was Out of Arms. At some point, the name became The Dresden Dolls. The name, according to Palmer, was "inspired by a combination of things," including the firebombing of Dresden, Germany and the porcelain dolls which were a hallmark of pre-war Dresden industry; an early song of the same name by The Fall; and a reference to the V. C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic where the classically blond and blue-eyed protagonists are called "the Dresden dolls." The name also evokes Weimar Germany and its cabaret culture. Additionally, she "liked the parallel between Dresden (destruction) and Dolls (innocence, delicacy), because it is very much in keeping with the dynamics of the music, which sometimes goes from a childlike whisper to a banshee scream within a few seconds."wikipedia

My Neighbor Danny Died This Morning

So sad- you could not ask for a better neighbor. He was funny, helpful and generous to a fault. Good guy, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with him. I've never personally seen anyone who worked as hard as he did spend so much time with his family. I don't know how many times I've seen him go straight to the pool or play ball with his son right after working all day.

Crash ends local man’s life
Danie M. Huffmanwdreporter2@yahoo.com
Traffic was slowed for hours on North Main Street when a man died in a crash near the railroad tracks at the intersection of North Main and Front streets. Weatherford Police Officer and Accident Investigator Eric Warren said the man was traveling near the railroad tracks in a white Ford pickup and crashed into a telephone pole on the west side of the roadway. He was pronounced dead on scene by a Tarrant County Medical Examiner. Police said the man appeared to be in his 40s. His name is being withheld until he is positively identified and his family has been notified. A train added to a traffic halt, which was diverted for hours. A Weatherford Electric crew repaired transformer connector wires which were downed and damaged due to the crash. Numerous emergency personnel from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office, Weatherford Police, Weatherford Fire, LifeCare and a wrecker service remained on scene until after 8 a.m. investigating the accident, sorting out reports and clearing debris. Warren said it is unknown if the crash was due to a medical problem, but he added alcohol and drugs were not suspected as a contributing factor in the wreck.