When family annihilator John List passed away in prison two months ago, none of his family was alive to come claim his body.
Food for thought about poor planning.
What's nicer for you fellows: Having in your home all these pretty guitars that you've made:
Or:
Having the workshop in your backyard to make them in?
(Photos of brother-in-law via Nancy.)
Before Country radio sold its birthright for a mess of Big & Rich, talented and authentic musicians such as Foster & Lloyd were frequently heard on it singing great songs like "Texas In 1880." It's hard to believe, and yet it really happened.
Bonus: "What Do You Want From Me This Time?"
Bad video, great cover of Richard Thompson's "Tear-Stained Letter." If you don't think anyone can rock an accordion, you haven't heard Jo-el Sonnier. He's got a sideman seriously rocking a guitar, as well.
I like fried catfish, but it sure does have a lot of bones:
For the second time in his life, Patrick Tobias is facing prison for murder.He was paroled after six years of a 13-year sentence for a second-degree murder in Breckenridge Hills more than 20 years ago.
This time he will get life without parole for hiding in his wife's car trunk and popping out to shoot her lover at a rendezvous in north St. Louis County in 2006.
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Sherron Tobias testified that on the night of Dec. 11, 2006, she drove from her home in Black Jack to a store in Town and Country to drop her son off at work and then visited a friend in the Ballwin area. From there she stopped at a Schnucks store in West County and finally drove to Earl Drive in the Castle Point neighborhood of North County to meet her boyfriend, Ashley Jamerson, who lived there.Prosecutor John Quarenghi said Patrick Tobias hid in the trunk all the while, for about two hours, which showed premeditation.
Quarenghi showed the jury photographs of the trunk that showed a pillow, a partially-eaten order of fried catfish and french fries, and a device to unlock the lid from the inside.
Officials said Tobias emerged from the trunk and shot Jamerson, 21, in the neck, stomach and thigh, killing him almost instantly.
I can't imagine he'd choose fries over hush puppies, but maybe he'd already eaten them. The story isn't clear.
Elvis sings Nirvana. It's like a delicious chocolatey-peanutbuttery Reese Cup, if Reese Cups went on death trips and sang:
Danger, Will Robinson -- you could get a contact high.
A repost of a surreal visit to the Whiskey by the cast of "Lost in Space."
Wail on, Skydog!
A Texas father who is the lone survivor of the massacre of his family which was planned by his 16-year-old daughter and carried out by her boyfriend, has asked the judge to let her come home with him:
16 year old Erin Caffey made her first appearance before a Rains County Judge Monday.Caffey and three co-defendants are all accused of killing her mother Penny Caffey and her brothers Matthew and Tyler Caffey, before setting the family's house on fire in Emory. Erin Caffey's father Terry was shot several times in the attack, but survived. Ironically, he was one of those in court asking for Erin to be allowed to come back home.
Before the judge issued a gag order, defense attorneys confirmed that Terry Caffey testified on his daughter's behalf, asking that she be allowed to go home with him rather than staying in juvenile custody in Hunt County.
The judge said no.
It was probably a wise decision considering both the severity of the crime and the fact that she'd only known the guy a couple of weeks before deciding he was worth killing her interfering parents for. I guess the little brothers' murders were something of a freebie.
Ah, daughters. They're so tough to raise. Sometimes the best you can do is put them on the pill and point them in the direction of the football team.
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Prior posting:
I Love You, Hellspawn
In 1914 The New York Times published a special cabled article out of Italy of a Baron who'd kept his sisters locked in the dungeon for 18 years. Almost a hundred years later, there are two cases in nearby Austria of commoners aping their betters by imprisoning girls in secret basement rooms.
In olden days there were laws about this sort of thing. No matter how rich you were, there were certain things that just weren't allowed for those not of royal blood -- like wearing beautiful clothing or immuring people. Truly an age has passed.
Unfortunately for the sister who managed to survive the full 18 years in her brother's dark, dank prison, bad timing and complete insanity prevented her from getting any couch time with Oprah Winfrey.
Oh wait, there is. But we all knew that Disney's "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus wouldn't rest easy until she'd exposed herself in public. Despite all the recent brouhaha about her image, she's managed to succeed. Here's the photo for the inevitable "Miley Cyrus in Bare-Breasted Pic" headline.
