Tuesday 29 October 2024 10:12:24 AM CDT


Friday 25 October 2024 11:12:49 AM CDT

Gold was released in 1979 but I didn't acquire it until several years later when it was available on CD. I never was much for 'hits' collections but JS is one that works. They were hardly political at all by the time they became Jefferson Starship and while they had gone commercial the quality was better than ever. As polished as ABBA and probably got as much airplay albeit in different markets. It's almost an hour of the best of JS - they were increasingly commercial going forward. High quality commercial but it seemed they were in it for the money.

I don't have any favorites, it's just something I put on and sometimes loop if it's gonna be a couple or three hours. I noticed a while back that I'd missed a live album they recorded to memorialize Papa John Creach when he passed away in 1994 . Need to find that one, listen to it along with Gold. Now that I think of it Grace did a couple of solo albums that were pretty good - need to dig those out and listen to them again.

Okey-dokey, where was I?

Just noticed that the new Left Memphis schools super was an assistant at Wynne. Guess that's technically a move up but I wouldn't want to live in Left Memphis. Maybe it pays enough. The state senator from where I live talked about business there in the capital, about tourism. Said California was the source of a lot. Lot of people leaving California they may be here looking for real estate. I know there's people moving in from all around, sold a place I owned in Paragould a couple of years ago to a guy from California. He looked at it and went back to California to talk to his girlfriend about it, called back a day or two later and told me don't sell it, he's flying out with a check. Met people from Illinois, New York and a couple of other non-southern states that moved here in recent years. For now Arkansas is under the radar as people fleeing the crazy places go but as Florida and Texas get more crowded it'll get more attention. Tennessee is another popular destination. Missouri and Oklahoma are good places to get away from it but don't know how their numbers are.

Not much big news and here the weekend is about here. Some guy was being tried for some serious crimes, looking at heavy time, just ran away before they sentenced him. Maybe they shoulda slapped the cuffs on as soon as the jury said 'guilty'.

And just like that an AP article shows up on the KAIT site. Attacking Trump of course. A woman claims he did something inappropriate to her thirty or so years ago. They'd never run an article about Cackles plagiarizing but then AP and CNN would never have one.



Saturday 26 October 2024 16:22:19 AM CDT

Business slow this Sadderday, nothing but sports. Hope that means no major crime but it's early yet. I see a former mayor of Jonestown declined to endorse one of the candidates. In other news my best girl called and asked if I wanted to do Mexican tonight - I'd been thinking about pizza all day but OK, es bueno. Just kidding, the former mayor is the one that was the president of Mercantile Bank back in the day when being president of a bank meant something, kind of. Before all the little banks got gobbled up by the big ones and you don't know what's where. Back then a couple of the banks I used - Mercantile being one of them - got acquired by banks that got acquired until I was constantl having to check and see if my accounts were still there in the new bank.

I worked for a software company back in the day, did banking software. Something goes wrong in a conversion and peoples' money disappears it ain't good. Never happened to us but I knew a couple of the big boys it happened to. We were little and couldn't afford screwups. The ones I'm using now have been pretty stable for a good while and hope they stay that way.

Anyhow Perrin left - maybe when Mercantile got bought - don't remember. Disappeared from Jonestown a long time, came back and ran for mayor. Did twelve years, pretty much what you'd expect. Dunno why he decided he needed to make a statement - rumors going around maybe? Dunno why anyone would give a flip what he thinks about anything. I figure they'll either keep what they got or elect the politician that wants the job. If he gets it it'll be interesting to see what happens - I don't expect actual improvement. Like the kid that Major Denton told maybe the world would return to normal without anybody doing anything said 'nothing good ever happens all by itself'. It sure ain't gonna happen with politicians messing with it



Sunday 27 October 2024 18:22:19 AM CDT

Hope no news is good news. That is if there's nothing but sports then there ain't been any serious crime or natural disasters or such. Looked at the Jonestown Sun like they would have anything less than a week old, scrolled down a bit, lots of football, editorials about the election. Pot and gambling amendments. Okey-dokey. Did I mention they need some new cartoons? Problem with humor is it isn't funny unless there's an element of truth. Totally devoid of anything resembling facts is also devoid of funny. Whatever.



Monday 28 October 2024 16:12:29 AM CDT

I guess the crime doesn't get reported real immediate-like, not like Kolchak listening to the police scanners. That was a pretty decent show as TV goes, might watch those again some day. The movie that started it was best being as doing a decent show in an hour is difficult. And vampires were always my favorite monsters. Until the last two or three decades when they became part of pop culture. Like Trekkies the newbies ruin everything. Still can watch the old Hammer films with Chris Lee and Peter Cushing. Those were well done considering the budgets. Chris and Peter may have suffered reputation-wise from doing so many horror films as both were superb actors. Chris did get some love later in his life. He had an interesting one.

I liked Darren MaGavin in about everything I saw, in the Night Stalker stuff he did flaky perennial failure reporter thing pretty well. Had that distinctive voice, kind of like David Jannsen. For some reason I don't remember that much of their work but occasionally see something they did and liked it.

Anyhow in local crime let's get the shoplifting school principal out of the way first. Assistant principal actually, Douglas MacArthur Junior High in Jonestown. Dunno much abou it, drive by a lot when I go to that side of town. Wonder if someday General MacArthur will be found to have said something not nice about a special type of people or maybe his ancestors owned slaves and gets canceled and they have to change the names on the schools. Or maybe the Republic will be revived starting next year and some of this foolishness will cease or maybe it won't and we'll have more foolishness.

Anyhow getting busted for shoplifting is a bad look for anybody. If I was gonna do crime it wouldn't be something embarrassing like that, especially if they arrest you there in the story with everybody looking at you getting arrested. And I wouldn't be in a Target store to shoplift or anything else. I suspect being a full principal is not in her future but you never know.

The piece of human debris that murdered a jogger in Memphis just over two years ago copped a plea. You can read and see what all he did to the victim. Since he didn't get the big sleep there won't be years and millions of dollars trying to get it done - he's going into prison and probably never coming out except in a box. Somewhere someone has written more about it and explained it better than I can

Couple of non-killings, that'd be a non-fatal shootin' and a sex crime. Way these people write you wonder what they're talking about:

Upon placing him into custody, officers found a gun on his person which was reported stolen out of the Blytheville Police Department. (jonesbororightnot.com)
OK, I can believe that a gun was stolen 'out of' the Blytheville Police Department. Someone who reads the way those folks write might think that the person was stolen out of the Blytheville PD.

What, Chris?

Well, it is. Isn't it?



Speaking of Memphis they write about the way they do here. They expect you to watch in on television so maybe they don't figure they need to write so much. Anyway they had this thing about a big drug bust. Pics of the indicted persons but no other info except they was indcted. So I googled the headline and looked around a bit and found this. It's all there in....

What, Chris?

I wasn't going to say it.



Tuesday 29 October 2024 11:54:28 AM CDT

Gonna close early today, outside stuff to do tomorrow and early dark coming next week. Noticed Wynne had a fair-sized drug bust, perp count anyway. Guy from over at Pocahontas won big money on Wheel of Fortune. Used to watch that a lot because Jeopardy came on after and for some reason I was in the house about that time most days. Liked Alex but for some reason quit watching long before he passed on. Seemed like a classy guy. Pat probly is too. Gotta know a lot of stuff to win on Jeopardy. Reminds me of that Weird Al song.

The TV stations around Memphis still had nothing on the drug bust over there. Not a problem, Sheriff's Office had it all. Bunch of older dudes, operating at a club there. OK, I'm outta here.






























































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Prime Chuck Norris 1 hour ago Trump accused of groping a woman in 1992 while Jeffrey Epstein watched Does the station decide which AP articles to run or does Gray corporate tell them? I know they're always running something bashing Trump or Republicans generally but if this is the best they got why bother? When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you. Reply 1947 -) Rosetta Stoned 48 minutes ago They still try to find a way to tie Trump to Epstein. If they had anything it would be out there already and there's nothing. This is pretty pathetic though. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana Reply 2G[-) DePloraBelle 31 minutes ago The only verifiable contact with Epstein is when Trump threw him out of Mar-a-Lago. There were probably other encounters but they weren't hanging together. Maybe when Trump is back in office we'll finally see the Epstein black book. What difference, at this point, does it make? Reply 104] -) Goldry Bluszco 20 minutes ago An old sales technique I've hear attributed to IBM back when they were the big evil is CRAWL - Combat Real Arguments With Lies. Long ago adopted by the Dimocrats. It was pittie one so wittie malcontent, leaving reason should to treason so be bent. Reply 104] -) Mandroid 11 minutes ago Well, Democrats are the big evil. Electric eye, in the sky, Feel my stare, always there, There's nothing you can do about it, Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows. Reply 0G ]-)
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Twisted Mentat 1 hour ago Lefty cartoonists aren't funny. Probably the funniest one I remember is Doonesbury and he was mildly amusing about once a week if that. Bloom County was funnier but that's not saying much - maybe twice a week. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. Reply 994 [-) Remo Williams 39 minutes ago Those still around? I seem to remember Trudeau being married to some big-shot reporter. Something about staging those GM truck explosions on a 'documentary' or maybe it was the Food Lion scam they did. That's the biz sweetheart. Reply HG Twisted Mentat 11 minutes ago I think Bloom County may have gone away, I'm guessing Doonesbury is in the newspapers. Who reads newspapers? Jane Pauley is probably who you're thinking about, worked for NBC then. Have no idea where she is and don't care. I believe it was ABC that did the Food Lion fraud. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. Reply HG Belushi Speedball 22 minutes ago Conservative cartoons are hilarious - Branco and Garrison are my favorites but there are a bunch of good ones. Ever notice they draw better? Those who are inclined to suffer fools gladly should plan to spend a lot of time suffering. Reply +2G[-) Jessica Atreides Marshall 9 minutes ago Probably because they don't have to make stuff up - just use the facts as they are. Scott Adams (Dilbert) was the master but when he got canceled he went to paid subscription. He's probably making more money now than when he was in the papers. We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply oG
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Mandroid 54 minutes ago Jonesboro man accused of shooting at 16-year-old given $225,000 bond The one guy shot a 16-year-old female and the other molested a 14-year-old female? Got it, fine people running around here. Electric eye, in the sky, Feel my stare, always there, There's nothing you can do about it, Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought, And so my power grows. Reply #8 [- Jessica Atreides Marshall 32 minutes ago Jonesboro has been going downhill for a long time. It used to be if you weren't in certain parts of town you didn't notice but it seems to be spreading into formerly decent areas. Working-class but clean and quiet. I don't know what happened to the people who used to live there but would guess they moved. ® We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives. Reply 42(+]-) Rosetta Stoned 19 minutes ago They try to sweep police screw-ups and misconduct under the rug. Do they expect the criminal class to improve their behavior? Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana Reply 0G ]-) Sinanju Master 3 minutes ago One of the guys who wants to be mayor says he's going to fix all that. © Before you can learn anything, you must know what you are studying Reply 0
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