The Sargeant and Gomer Pyle - a hi-fi clip from a show I watched in my youth

Oddly enough, Jim Nabors (Gomer), who was (is?) a good pal of Burt Reynolds, got his start on the Andy Griffith Show (or was it called Andy of Mayberry?). This show was his spinoff/star vehicle. It's right up there with some of the other shows we watched, like My Mother The Car, Car 54 Where Are You. Gomer Pyle was something else. Someone mentioned this show on the WFMU blog, because this is the Sargent's 85th birthday...


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Governor Schwarzenegger sends a hidden message (F*** You!) to Tom Ammiano

Governor Schwarzenegger sent a hidden, but very public message (F*** you) to Tom Ammiano, the San Francisco Democrat, in a letter vetoing a bill Ammiano sponsored. You may remember Tom Ammiano from the movie Milk, in which he played himself. You can find the details of their feud elsewhere, but the imbroglio started when Ammiano heckled the Governor during a speech...

Here is the letter (emphasis added by us).


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Alien Lore No. 161 - Alien Implant Rejection Techniques

Cerebral eviction was in times past
Always fatal.
You used an axe
To force open the skull
And remove the ganglion.
There was no question
Of the “patient’s” survival.
In our enlightened times
The Alien Rejection Technique is employed.
The ganglion is poisoned within the host
And half the patients survive.
As the alien ganglion is rejected
Or forcibly removed,
It emits a distress pulse
On the Hive mindband
And every hive member
Within five miles
Responds to the call to arms.
Within minutes the Hive swarms
To the location of the distress pulse
And instead of one alien,
You are now faced
With dozens from the Hive
With one purpose:
To end your tenure on earth.
With unfeeling insect eyes
They march dead ahead,
Converging upon you.
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Digital art: Link (a/k/a President Abraham Lincoln)

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Poem: The Mission

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Poem: The Mission

The President
And the Masters of War
Don’t tell you

As they bob and weave
To finesse the mission,
That the army,

When all is said and done,
Has two duties:
To break things, and kill people.
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Priest Sentenced For Jogging Naked In Colorado

Father Whipkey will now become a registered sex offender. The lowdown is here.
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My niece Melanie and BF Mitch perform a bit of Americana in a Trattoria in Rome

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SP No. 48: On fire!

Alien Lore No. 160 - Random photographs from the archives

Asleep at the wheel? Stoned? An Northwest Airlines jet misses runway by about 150 miles

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runaway 'plane flight Wednesday night where Northwest pilots approaching Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in an Airbus A320 overshot the airport by around 150 miles. They had to circle back to land. To the panic of the air-traffic controllers, they also lost radio contact. Controllers knew the plane hadn't crashed, but there was no response for an alarming period of time. The NTSB is trying to figure out exactly what really happened up there.



It happened on another plane recently, as well.



According to the Associated Press, the crew claims they were distracted by a heated debate on airline policy and lost track of where they were. Really?


Were the pilots momentarily abducted?

Northwest had another snafu this week when their crew on a 767 from Brazil to Atlanta landed on the taxiway instead of the runway.
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You never stop being a hero - an 86 year old veteran speaks up on Gay and Lesbian rights

An American hero re-emerges and gives a heartbreakingly great speech

"The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"
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Poem: The Reverse King Midas Touch

Sending out feelers
And testing the ground,
The right place was the one
Place he couldn't be found.
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