After a morning that was a bad Monday to the third power.
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I don’t know that Pail Krugman can cure bad Mondays, but here’s his comments on yet more stupidity from the Know Nothings and the Damned If I’ll Change My Mind No Matter How Stupid I Ams:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/a-strange-madness/
ANDERSON’S AXIOMS, No. 137:
A Monday holiday cannot evade the Mondayness; it merely allows the Mondayness to accumulate interest, exorbitantly so.
Anderson: Like a frigging loan shark’s interest, Anderson. And then at lunch time, there was a guy with a baseball bat looking for my kneecaps.
And then at lunch time, there was a guy with a baseball bat looking for my kneecaps.
Well, any day where that’s still just a metaphor, things could be worse.
Sorry about your day, NMC. The worst part about it that it’s too early in the week to start drinking heavily. I guess that’s part of what makes Mondays (and Monday stand-ins) Mondays!
Feel free to join our Wednesday evening group therapy though. Email me for directions.
Dan Perkins/Tom Tomorrow Rock and Roll media story.
Written in The New York Times by Ben Sisario
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/arts/music/08pearl.html
Yeah to that, Chico– I’m glad to see Dan Perkins get both gigs (the return at Village Voice, and the Pearl Jam album cover).
Kennebunck:
Tomorrow I have to go pick up my son on the train after job hunting in New Orleans, so I may miss yet another session….
Ed Kranepool lives!
The only player ever whose baseball cards I collected, just because he was cool and played in New York, got some due in the New York edition of the Times yesterday, and the headline writer knows how to pay a compliment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/sports/baseball/09mets.html?_r=1&ref=sports
R.I.P. George “Bags” Brenner, who played for Johnny Vaught:
from The Commercial Appeal:
George Adrian “Bags” Brenner, a native of Memphis, Tennessee and a resident of Mobile, Alabama died Friday, September 4, 2009 in a boating accident with his wife, Donna Jo Young Brenner and his sister-in-law, Emma Jeane Young Crowson.
Mr. Brenner was a graduate of Messick High School in Memphis, where he was a three year letterman in football.
He was a High School All American and played football at Ole Miss under Johnny Vaught.
He retired from Scott Paper Company and started his own business, D & B Specialty Advertising. Mr. Brenner was preceded in death by his parents, William James Brenner, Sr. and Grace James Brenner; and one brother, William James Brenner, Jr. He is survived by two children, William H. (Susan Maynord) Brenner, of Daphne, AL and Mary Beth Brenner, of Atlanta, GA; one sister, Helen (Richard) Terry, of Big Springs, TX; two grandchildren, Brad (Claire Halliday) Brenner and Mary Kathryn Brenner; nieces, nephews, and other relatives. A Memorial Mass will be celebrated for George, his wife, Donna, and sister-in-law, Jeane at 2 P.M. on Thursday, September 10, 2009 from the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
At 7:30 Thursday morning on Supertalk Mississippi (105.5 in Oxford) there is prospect for humor as this is scheduled for broadcast (from the Supertalk Mississippi afternoon bulletin): “She appeared out of nowhere at the lumber yard, almost naked and dancing. After a quick getaway, the scantily clad streaker was arrested at the Farmer’s Market in the town of Horn Lake. WILBUR HERRING, a vendor at the market, was an “eye-witness” to the entire event. He gives us an up-close and personal report at 7:30.”
I’ll have a cassette tape rolling on “record.”
Is it just me, or has this blog really slowed down over the past month or so?
I think they all have. The internet is pretty much over.
I’ve noticed the same. Here lately there’s been a wedding perhaps someone spiked the punch. However it will be OK. I’m reminded by Kansas all we are is dust in the wind. Judge Green and the Irby’s are soon to dance before the public on why some drunk drivers cases are handled differently than others.
Oh, question. why is Judge DeLaughter still listed on the calender as the judge after his guilty plea? Boy that calender is really something.
Why isn’t judge Coleman’s contact info listed technically, it should be.
Columnist and Mississippian Bill Minor delivers a nice piece today about the 60th anniversary re-screening of “Intruder In The Dusk” at the Lyric in Oxford as part of the Oxford Film Festival. Minor recounts the conversation he had with Faulkner 60 years ago at the cast party in Oxford before the first premiere at the Lyric.
Here is today’s column:
http://nems360.com/pages/full_story/push?article-OPINION-+New+premiere+of+‘Intruder’+revisits+South’s+race+complexities%20&id=3564204-OPINION-+New+premiere+of+‘Intruder’+revisits+South’s+race+complexities&instance=secondary_stories_left_column
Will your outgoing U.S. Attorney face a probe for the mishandling of the Dr. Roger Weiner prostitution case?
http://rrracket.blogspot.com/2009/09/us-attorney-drops-ball-27-times.html
Jane @ 9:30 I hear that Waller instructed Coleman and Hilburn to carry on as before awaiting the governor to appoint someone. Hinds has an antique DOS based computer system and changing the dockets inside, temporarily for a few weeks, would be a real pain in the rear. Now, I don’t know this for facts, but heard it from pretty reliable folks.
A probe in the Weiner case? A very pointed question indeed, Rove Racket…
The Thacker Mountain Radio show tonight
http://www.thackermountain.com/index.php
I think is going to be one of the best of the season and I’m sick I have to miss it for this family thing:
My brother Mike McCarthy was adopted at birth in a garage parking lot in Tupelo and we reconnected by chance 30 years later. He’s a filmmaker and his new movie, Cigarette Girl, premieres tonight in Memphis. I’m looking forward to the after-show at the Antenna Club. John Beifuss has a good story about the whole deal in The Commercial Appeal:
http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2009/sep/ … in-cinema/
Previous movies Mike as made that you may have heard of include Teenage Tupelo, Damselvis, The Sore Losers and When Elvis Met The Beatles. He’s one of those guys who does great in Europe but on these shores only with the arthouse crowd.
His studio:
http://www.guerrillamonster.com/index2.html
Crim Justice @ 1:05 p.m., you are correct on both the judge situation and the docket software. Hilburn is still handling the criminal matters, and Coleman the civil. Contact information for both is the number and address for DeLaughter’s old office. Same court administrator and clerk. Hilburn and Coleman will be there until Barbour makes an appointment.
As for the docket, we use an old UNIX system for docket management for Hinds Circuit, Chancery, County, and Justice Courts. It’s actually a pretty good system once you get used to it. The change will be rather involved, and not worth it until a permanent replacement is named.
CJ @ 1:05 and Matt @ 3:34 thanks. TOJ @ 9:16 oh, no please say it isn’t so.
rove and phantom: greenlee needs to be probed for giving ed peters the sweet immunity deal.
nmc: are you okay?
Ampal: I think that if you check it out, you’ll find that the immunity grant came from DoJ in Washington.
“All” Greenlee has done is bring to justice a bunch a scoundrels who have trampled upon our legal system —- something our MS AG has been unable and unwilling to do. By all means, lets call for a probe and punish him. That’s the ticket.
Hey, afol, stop talking so bad about our MS AG’s “family”!
Our MS AG is too busy suing the MS Governor—he said he just trying to make the governor “do what is right.”
Answering questions above:
The last 2-3 weeks have slowed me down, terribly, for reasons to do with work (work, I might add, of no particular general interest, although one odd matter– the Bost’s tomato farm– was on the front page of today’s Oxford Eagle). Normally, in the past 21 months of blogging, I’ve carried a heavy work load and blogged a lot. This month, that has not been possible. There may be a light at the end of the tunnel, right out ahead of me. I hope it’s not an oncoming train.
Well here’s what you missed while screwing around with work:
SCRUGGS ELECTED PRESIDENT
That’s not a misprint.
The Rev. Julius Scrugs, Huntsville, Ala., was elected president of the National Baptist Convention this week in Memphis. Willie Herenton likely entered his own name as a write-in candidate.
Scruggs defeated The Rev. Henry Lyons, of Tampa, whose baggage preceded him at the convention: Lyons was forced out as president in 1999 after an investigation revealed he abused his power to steal about $4 million, spending it on luxury homes and jewelry. Lyons was eventually convicted and served almost five years in prison. Me … if I had stolen $4 million I woulda spent most of it on wimmin and liquor, and just wasted the rest.
NMC, have you considered calling Madame Lotus out of the bullpen to toss us a squib or two when you’re snowed under? I bet she’d do it gratis.
Lyons was the subject of a huge expose in the St Petersburg Times. He is even tied in to the huge verdict in the big funeral home case that was tried in Jackson a number of years ago. There’s a great story in the New Yorker about that trial. I think it can be found online.
ben: even if peters’ immunity came from dc, greenlee’s staff recommended or endorsed it without objection. that’s why they are so defensive. greenlee’s staff is also responsible for unprofessionally releasing damaging information on eaton corp. to the media.
Sweetie went to Wal-Mart today and came home to admit she cursed out loud in the parking lot upon leaving. Seems she saw a young man there in a wheel chair with an obviously new orthopedic leg sticking out on one side of the chair. As he maneuvered around the store she read “Vet” on his shirt. Her thought was this is such a waste for that wasted cause in Iraq. A war that so far well exceeds WW2 in duration and is beginning to rival that other waste called the Vietnam War. Her curse? “Damn you to Hell Bush!”
I think she’s right even if she is cute and blond.
Starting a stupid war is a stupid way to commemorate 9-11.