Local Girl Makes Good (Again) & Mentions Trailer Life

It was great seeing Hillary Swank talk about life in a trailer park (Bellingham, Wash.) at the Academy Awards. While my bloodline runs about 51% hillbilly, I never actually lived in a trailer. I did, however, spend a lot of time at the Angle Lake Mobile Home Park visiting my both my Aunt and Uncle and my Grandmother in their respective single-wides.

Cage The Beast??

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The Sun today reported that Saddam Hussein will sit in a Hannibal Lecter-style cage during his trial. Are we expecting some dramatic bust-out?? Click on the title to link to the article in The Online Sun... /jack

Heroes And Villains No. 20--> Two More Catholics--> Keelin Curran & Pope Alexander VI a/k/a Rodrigo Borgia a/k/a "The Bad Pope"

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Heroes And Villains No. 19--> Two Americans Born in 1903--> Zora Neale Hurston & John Dillinger

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Thompson's Wake

ASPEN — Hunter S. Thompson heard the ice clinking.

'Loving' farewell to writer
Wife details family gathering with Thompson dead in chair

By Jeff Kass, © 2005, Rocky Mountain NewsFebruary 25, 2005

The literary champ was sitting in his command post kitchen chair, a piece of blank paper in his favorite typewriter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot through the mouth hours earlier. But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir — Chivas Regal on ice.

Click on the title to link to this strange story in The Rocky Mountain News. /jack

Heroes & Villains No. 18--> Joni Mitchell and Maier Suchowljansky (a/k/a Meyer Lansky)

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Heroes And Villains No. 17--> Erzsebet Bathory, Countess Of Transylvania (And Vampire) & Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, a/k/a Mother Theresa

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Our Sauron

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Some Quotes On Heading To The Laughing Academy

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.

~G.B. Burgin

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.

~Emily Dickinson

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

~Rita Mae Brown

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

~Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres

Heroes And Villains No. 16 --> Josef Stalin and Calamity Jane

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Bob Says The Music Is Boring (and he's at least 90% right)

From the New Music Express web edition (click on title to link):

BOB DYLAN has launched a withering attack on contemporary rock bands in the programme notes for his latest American tour.

"I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviours of rock'n'roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from," he wrote, adding, “I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times... I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that."

Dylan’s latest leg of his so-called 'Never Ending Tour' opens in Seattle on March 7.

Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese's two-part Bob Dylan documentary, ’No Direction Home’, is now likely to air on BBC2 in late September.

Concentrating on Dylan’s career from his arrival in Greenwich Village until his 1966 motorcycle crash, the film will draw on previously unseen archive footage from the singer’s own personal collection, plus new interview material.

Heroes And Villains No. 15---> Gertrude Stein And Richard M. Nixon

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