- National Geographic Traveler has up a nice short piece about Taylor Catfish.
- The Clarion Ledger story about the apparent suicide of the Panola County sheriff has this sentence: “Batesville Mayor Jerry Autrey said Bright killed himself while at the home of his girlfriend, shortly after spending the morning with his wife.”
- Alan Stanford got in a jailhouse fight and was beaten up.
- Jim Craig at Ipse Blogit reports that Jim Hood has joined (on behalf of the State of Mississippi) in the Texas’s brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to take review of cases about whether the 2nd Amendment applies to the states; Texas and Mississippi (along with Hood) are of course on the side of ruling that the 2nd Amendment does apply to the states. Does this make our 2nd-Amendment-interested readers like Jim Hood better? I didn’t think so.
A good man turns 74 today:
JERRY LEE LEWIS
What he’s got booked:
Friday, October 30 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden
Thu 11/05/09 Paris, France Grand Rex
Sat 11/07/09 Stavanger, Norway Imikirken
Mon 11/09/09 Prague, Czech Republic Tesla Arena
Thu 11/12/09 Groningen, Netherlands TBA
Sat 11/14/09 Frankfurt, Germany Ballsporthalle
Tue 11/17/09 Linz, Austria Intersport Arena Linz
Thu 11/19/09 Rome, Italy TBA
Fri 11/20/09 Linkoping, Sweden Cloetta Center
Sat 11/21/09 Stockholm, Sweden TBA
I’d like to be at every one of those venues … anything can (and likely will) happen.
Maybe we’ll get together someday and I can recount the time our high school prom planning committee wanted to book JLL for the prom. This was 1959 and JLL was still reeling from the blowback of his third nuptial event, that time to a “cousin” according to some degree of kinship. But adults, which was anyone over about 27 then, considered JLL to be the antiChrist and they were determined to protect us precious teenagers from his lascivious, lustful, testerone-explosive music. My personal standards and sense of common decency prevent my repeating what label they affixed to JLL’s music, but this is still Mississippi … use your imagination.
So our prom committee offerred a compromise: if we can’t have JLL, then we want a popular black music group who appeared regularly in the local honky tonks where our morals had already been placed on the altars of hot music and cold beer. So the high school faculty and principal faced a dilemma. No one can turn a simple decision into a debat majeurelike school teachers and principals.
Cutting to the chase: the school board finally decided that our morals (such as they were) would be imperriled less by a black band than by JLL, and so it went.
So here’s to you, Killer. Happy birthday. You rock.
My moral destruction, which was inevitable in any event, was at least delayed by the timely, decisive, and pure chickens#*t actions of the school board. If I were still a drinking man, I’d toss a bumper down the hatch in your honor. But I’ll have to settle for prune juice.
“I’d toss a bumper down the hatch…”
I don’t know the origin of “bumper” in this context, but this is a phrase I’ll be using…
“Toss a bumper down the hatch” is a phrase for toasting and honoring and respecting I picked up from Australian Marines in Vietnam, back during that unpleasantness. We tossed a lotta bumpers during those years. Bless ‘em all ….
Craig is just a tad late on this story about Hood’s involvement in this new second amendment case on behalf of the state of MS —- I read an article about this many weeks ago. It is an easy “tag-along” for Hood. Glad he is doing it, but you are correct that it will not change my opinion of his previous behavior.