Monday 25 November 2024 10:42:12 PM CDT
Thursday 21 November 2024 12:41:40 PM CDT
Like the
Executioner
books I read some of the early
Destroyer
books on the school bus. I believe they began around the same time, the
Destroyer coming along a couple of years later. While the Executioner books were straight-up action-adventure with just a bit of
philosophy Murphy and Sapir made the books a running commentary on American society (and human behavior generally) of the latter twentieth
century. It runs along the same lines as the Dirty Harry movies - commies are destroying the once-great Republic. The acerbic observations
of writers Murphy and Sapir are as much fun as the action.
Created, The Destroyer is the
origin story
as they say in comics which were still decent about that time. I read comics on the school bus too. Some of the kids read Mad Magazine
but I always felt as if innocent brain cells were dying a horrible death whenever I read it. Mad was funny at average IQ I suppose.
Anyhow Remo Williams is a Viet Nam vet that the spooks had their eye on since they saw him in action and tried to recruit him for spook
work. Failing to do so they him up to be framed for murder and apparently executed in the chair only they rigged the execution process
so it looked like they fried him but once they got his body out of the prison and revived it he was ready to be made into the ultimate
assassin. Much of the fun is Chiun constantly lecturing Remo on being sloppy and the decadence of the U.S.A. while one of the running
jokes is Chiun's addiction to
soaps.
Way back around 1985 or so there was a
film
that used the characters and that was about it. I liked Fred Ward better in the Tremors movies and Wilford Brimley was the best part of this
one. There was no way to do it even close to the books because it was made for a
Mad Magazine
level audience.
I saw the 'Florida man' and thought for a change the Jonestown/Paragould area was getting a predator....
What, Chris?
OK, a forager. But
this was in Hardy
and Hardy is a ways off from Jonestown. When a Dollar General gets hit it could be anywhere. They should invest in Elon's space company and have the
first Dollar Generals on Mars.
I think some
regulation on burning fields
would be good. Dunno how this will end up if they do it. I don't like to find myself in one of those rice field fogs, scary stuff and has got more than
one motorist killed.
New temporary mayor
Parkin is optimistic
about growing a place that has been shrinking like a popped balloon. I dunno what to do about towns dying like that execpt to un-incorporate and not be a
municipality any more, let the county handle law enforcement and maintenance and stuff. When you get to the stage Parkin is there ain't much that can improve
it. Them little places like Hickory Ridge that never was big being small isn't so much of a problem. A lot of those little places are fairly stable and are
shrinking real slow or even growing a bit. The places that were once bigger (Parkin goes from 1600 to 800 in the last two censii) can have problems.
Governor Sanders
proposed a budget
for next year. Arkansas is pretty good about most things, always runs a surplus and taxes are pretty low. I'm never
happy with Medicaid growing but the population grows and that includes the dependent part. It's unfortunate that we have to spend so much on criminals but if it
keeps them locked up I guess it's worth it. We'll have to see what the
haters of freedom in education
say about the school vouchers. A Republican groused about it some but was corrected in his error. The handful of Dims are more likely to be annoyed. Maybe when the
Department of Education is done away with
there will be some improvement in government schools. It can't make them any worse.
Friday 22 November 2024 11:44:04 PM CDT
I was never a
Boz
fan and in fact never bought any of his records. He was on the radio a lot back in the day, Lowdown and Lido Shuffle are the only
songs I remember right off them being on the radio constantly. Not sure what the former is about - sounds like some naughty behavior maybe - but Lido seems to be
about a small-time hustler always one step ahead of the law or creditors or something. Anyway I always liked that synth break and on some of the live performances
the keyboard player will lay it down a little extra. The Wickedpedia sez on the studio recording it was a
Moog or a Minimoog
or maybe both - don't see'em much these days but in the '70s
them and Hammond Organs the was key section for a lot of bands. Another thing it sez is that
Bud Shank
played in the horn section.
You can google the terminology and find out what a handle or a jukejoint is. Anyway it's in my singles playlists - the live versions of course. OK, enough culture for now.
What happening in the northeast corner of Arkansas.
I was hoping
Danny-boy
wouldn't get reelected even if it meant there were seven dims in the state senate instead the half dozen they got now. There ain't enough in
either house to make any serious trouble. Anyway folks here vote straight ticket and if more of them had
known about him
he might have been successfully primaried.
Guys want to be mayor of Jonestown
getting a little nasty. The non-incumbent probably won't
be any better than what they got now but it'd be hard to be worse.
KAIT had
a piece
attributed to the parent company instead of the Disocciated Press. It's pretty much like everything else on the subject. I imagine they don't enjoy writing this stuff
so it's pretty perfunctory. They saved a
bunch of drug busts
and put them all in one place. Had some from New Jersey, New York and California. And one from Memphis.
This one
isn't from this weekend - looks like it was a few Fridays ago. Nothing to see, just more Memphians coming to Jonestown to do crime. There used to be some
magazine I read - probably a gun rag - that had a dumb crook section. Every month it had a bunch of short pieces about dumb criminals doing stuff like leaving their
ID at scene of the crime. We're fortunate that most criminals aren't very bright of they could cause a lot of trouble for people. One more Memphian in the
Jonestown jail.
Memphis
Dodge Charger story
du jour, pretty much the usual.
Saturday 23 November 2024 11:21:54 PM CDT
It's too early to say if any of the stuff in there will come to pass in some form or other. The election of President Trump could be a
spanner in the machinery.
as the Brits say. If we're lucky it'll be a big three foot
Stillson. The good folk are happy that the immediate threat is on hold
and the enemy is like a bunch of chickens with their heads chopped off running around. Thing is with chickens they flop over and expire - I have
no illusions that these foul fowl will go as quietly. I admit that when that President Trump moved his head just in time I began to think it
might be about to get better but I was nervous as a short nun at a penguin shoot until after midnight of, whatsit, three Tuesdays ago? There a
long way to go though and Satan don't sleep.
The Dissociated Press (where most of KAIT's national articles come from) is seriously butthurt like all the dinosaur media. So are about all the
others while the vast right-wing conspiracy types are having a ball. The commies have fled to Bluesky (an abandoned Twitter project that works
like Twitter-now-known-as-X) and are doing whatever commies do when they're losing. KAIT had a survey on their site:
Okey-dokey Smokey. My kitty cat named Jessica had kittens and three of them were solid-color. The orange one is named Reuben (a niece got him and
is spoiling him rotten) while three grand-nieces got the black one and predictably named him Midnight. I kept the medium grey one and I guess at some
point I'll start calling him Smokey instead of just kitty-cat. He's spoiled too naturally.
Sunday 24 November 2024 09:34:12 PM CDT
Al Stewart's 1976
Year of the Cat
is hugely famous for the title track. At nearly seven minutes it was way too long for the bubblegum stations but just fine with
the more mature FM audience. Not that the vapid teenyboppers didn't get their own FM stations before long. Anyway for a while I'd hear it several times a day if I was
listening to the radio much. That is too lazy or not going to be driving long enough to stick a cassette of Styx or ELO or Deep Purple or whatever into my Pioneer
Supertuner and crank through the Jensens - 6x9 Triax in the back and 4-inch coax in the front. Maybe Al is a history nerd like me - he seems to use people and events
of the past as subjects. Time Passages followed YOTC and was pretty much all based on history stuff. YOTC and TP are my faves and his most successful I reckon.
What, Chris?
It's about wars and stuff going on then, the Basque guys in Spain and the mess in Rhodesia. I mean Zakanda or Zimbabwe or something, to which peace has come. Now
what was I talking' about? No new news from the usual suspects but it'll be Monday at the earliest before we head about any killings or beatings or robberies. Who's
gonna work on weekends to update those sites? Not sure why they have them except for the ad revenue. Paying for the site is trivial, a few bucks a month. Hire
somebody that can learn to select links from a feed and check to see that nothing broke. They'll do some sports and that's about it. I looked at the Memphis TV
because sometimes they have NEA stuff before the local folks get around to it. Didn't see anything interesting but one of them had this:
Idunno why they run those things. It's not like they don't have some idea of what the response will be. Or do they?
Monday 25 November 2024 11:43:42 PM CDT
Burt did some pretty good action/adventure stuff. Dunno how much 'serious' stuff he did and I probably ain't seen but one or two. He was pretty good
in
White Lightning
as were most of the cast. Lot of times people tryin' to do a southern accent it don't work but then southern accents, like
the right thing,
changes from state. WL was set in Arkansas and aside from the fact that the ASP wouldn't touch a Ford with a ten-foot vaccinated fully vaxed corn cob.
Idunno where I heard that but it's silly enough to be funny. To me anyway. Anyhow I never saw a Ford ASP car until they couldn't get big Chevys any
more. Don't remember if they used Dodges or Plymouths either back then, used Ford Crown Vics after Chevys and now it's about all Dodge Chargers and
Ford Exploders and such. Convenient for criminals, do the crime in a Dodge Charger and when they get pinched you ride to jail in one. I seem to remember
having already used that a time or three.
Anyway wherever WL was supposed to be - I guessed southern Arkansas. There ain't no Bogen County in Arkansas -
Logan County
over on the west side of the
state is pretty countryfied. I got over there a few times back in the day and was surprised to learn there's a
monastery
there. I wondered if they made
beer or wine - seems they do. Beer anyway. Anyway when I watched WL I thought of NEA - the county south of me that is. Ned Beatty's character coulda been the sheriff
of St. Francis County in the 70s or maybe even today. I don't cross the south county line if I can avoid it and been that way all the time I lived here.
Anyhow it was pretty successful and Burt did a sequel called
Gator.
Jerry Reed was the baddie in that one. Lauren Hutton didn't pull off the
southern act as well as the gal in WL but that's OK, I wasn't crazy about the movie anyway. Jerry was pretty good as the hick crime lord.
Okey-dokey, what happening in NEA? Or what the news people told us about so far... little earthquake around Blytheville. Get little ones around here occasionally,
dunno if they're related to the
big one they keep promising us up in Misery. KAIT got the latest
Microsoft debacle
off the parent company feed. Dunno of many people using anything Microsoft on the server side - they used to have some market share in the Medical Industry
and manufacturing but I wouldn't be surprised if those are about gone.
Listening to Clay and Buck and they just announced
this.
I'll give the guys time to pop a few tops to celebrate and see what they have to say - I got to drive into town after the show so no adult beverage for me until later.
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But what would he inscribe? Advice? A note? To whom? For what? What
would he tell them? That you do your job, you're promoted, and one dark
night they find a dead dope-pusher in an alley on your beat, and he's got
your badge in his hand, and they don't give you a medal, they fall for
the frame-up, and you get the chair. It's you who winds up in the death
house - the place you wanted to send so many men to, so many hoods, punks,
killers, the liars, the pushers, the scum that preyed on society. And then
the people, the right and the good you sweated for and risked your neck for,
rise in their majesty and turn on you. What do you do? All of a sudden,
they're sending people to the chair - the judges who won't give death to the
predators, but give it to the protectors.
Created, The Destroyer
Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir
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Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack
But that was all he missed and he ain't comin' back
A tombstone bar in a jukejoint car, he made a stop
Just long enough to grab a handle off the top
Next stop Chi town, Lido put the money down and let it roll
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road
Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh
He's for the money, he's for the show
Lido's waitin' for the go
Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh
He said one more job ought to get it
One last shot 'fore we quit it
One more for the road
Lido Shuffle
Boz Scaggs
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Sinanju Master
1 hour ago
What to know about Pam Bondi, Trump's new
Pick for attorney general
I wasn't the first by any means to suspect that Gaetz was a decoy/sacrificial lamb and
Bondi or someone similar was what he wanted. I'd say he's got some pretty sharp
strategists and has more discipline so doesn't go off the cuff so much.
Before you can learn anything, you must know what you are studying
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Goldry Bluszco
43 minutes ago
A decoy that also gets the enemy blood pressure up. He's probably laughing his arse
off watching the reaction. I'm thinking look for more. As Sun Tzu said it's all based on
deception.
It was pittie one so wittie malcontent, leaving reason should to treason so be bent.
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DePloraBelle
30 minutes ago
As far as I know Bannon isn't officially in there but I bet he's putting his two cents in
and this time Trump is paying attention. I see he just put up a Branch Covidian
doctor for Surgeon General. I wonder if she is another distraction.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
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Jessica Atreides Marshall
22 minutes ago
Rand Paul will eviscerate her and she deserves it. She'll probably renounce
everything to save herself but I hope they don't let her in. The Florida SG is better
and I wouldn't be surprised if Trump puts him in after this one is booted. BTW I just
posted this on the main forum in case you guys are having too much fun here. ©
We have entered the time when all will turn against us and seek our lives.
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Twisted Mentat
19 minutes ago
Plans within plans. He's got some sharp ones and it doesn't hurt that the Dims are in
chaos.
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.
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The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud, τhe ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border
On my wall the colours of the maps are running
From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night, the hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border
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Prime Chuck Norris
1 hour ago
Thus far it has been amusing to see the state-run media. It looks like MSLSD and
probably CNN are goners. Whether they'll be bought by the enemy or someone
friendly remains to be seen. Elon could easily start up new ones but the name
recognition would be nice. What's really nice though is the anguish of the current
occupants.
When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you.
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Phantasm Lord of the Dead
44 minutes ago
Time will tell I suppose. Elon can outbid anyone, even the evilist minion. I suspect he
would like to have MSDNC or CNN just because - taking another toy away like he did
with Twitter.
You play a good game, boy, but the game is finished. Now you die.
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Rosetta Stoned
31 minutes ago
The Trump admin has a fight on their hands. As someone said when you're up to your
ass in alligators it's hard to remember the plan was to drain the swamp. I believe
they're up to it but it's gonna be interesting.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~
George Santayana
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Mandroid
22 minutes ago
We still have to get to 20 January. If they make another attempt it will show just how
little they understand - if they managed to take out Trump they would have to deal
with Vance. Vance would be their worst mightmare - idealogically he's Trump on
steroids and he has the good looks, charisma, everything he needs to be a real cult
leader. That should terrify them.
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.
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DePloraBelle
9 minutes ago
That makes even me a little uneasy. But it's better than the alternative.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
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You know something? I just got out of prison. Running cars, stealing cars, running moonshine.
I ain't never... I ain't never done nothin' good in my whole life. And then along come Donny.
And he's the only one that ever went to school. The only one that ever accomplished anything.
The only one who ever did anything in the whole family... What the hell does it mean?
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Mack Bolan
55 minutes ago
oud
It was almost anticlimactic. I guess the regime media knew it was coming and fatigue
is setting in. Knowing that the tools at CNN and MSLSD are looking at losing their
jobs as they report it makes it more enjoyable.
For every action there is a reaction, for every good an evil, for every strength a
weakness, and for every injustice there is somewhere a final justice.
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Belushi Speedball
41 minutes ago
We still have the other cases but they probably won't be much more fun. Whether Fat
Alvin and Fat Fanny and Latisha give up or the Trump DOJ has to prosecute them it
could be enjoyable. Personally I'd like to see them arrested and perp-walked. All are
stupid enough that they may refuse to give up. Of course they may be overturned
anyway. I guess either way is good.
Those who are inclined to suffer fools gladly should plan to spend a lot of time
suffering.
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Jawbreaker
29 minutes ago
The old hag that sued him will be a good one. She probably actually thinks she's
going to get all that money.
And all the pressure that's been building up, For all the years it bore the load, The
cracks appear, the frame starts to distort, It's ready to explode.
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