Duane framed by groovy light show
Fillmore East, 6-27-71
Wail on, Skydog!
In light of Mackenzie Phillips's new autobiography and appearance on Oprah, I asked myself: do scurrilous tales about the defenseless dead sell books? Damn skippy!. Since offering proof isn't necessary, I'm not going to hold back when I write my own memoir. In it I will reveal among other things that:
*Harry S. Truman snorted coke off my ass and his nickname for his wee-wee was a reference to the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki.
*Paul Lynde's whole flamboyant Aunt Nellie persona was an act. He was a secret square.
*Julia Child ate Spaghetti-Os straight from the can using a spork.
*Bambi sold out his mother for a bushel of crisp, delicious crabapples.
This and much more is coming your way as I mine the many, many encounters I've had with famous (and dead) people.
Some family reunions are more eventful than others:
Bossier [, Louisiana] Sheriff Larry Deen says a mother and daughter were arrested Tuesday morning and charged with battery.
Destinie Rechelle Duvall, 37, of Willis, Texas, and her mother, Patricia Ann Hacker, 62, of Benton, were taken into custody after they got into a physical altercation with each other. During the confrontation, Duvall knocked Hacker out of a chair, then kicked her in the head, causing her to lose consciousness. While Hacker was unconscious, Duvall defecated on Hacker’s back.
When Hacker regained consciousness, she and Duvall began to hit each other and wrestled one another to the ground. The altercation stopped momentarily, but started again when Duvall was told to leave the residence. Duvall bit Hacker on her bottom lip, causing a one-inch cut. Hacker grabbed a steel pan and struck Duvall five times.
Both were taken to L.S.U. Hospital for treatment, with Hacker suffering the cut to her bottom lip and bruising of the ribs. Duvall suffered a possible broken hand and bruising to both arms.
Duvall was charged with two counts of second-degree battery and two counts of simple battery. Hacker was charged with aggravated battery and simple battery.
Both women were transported to the Bossier Maximum Security Facility and booked. Their bonds are pending.
Someday they'll laugh about this.
Last week at midnight in a nearby swamp, I laid a pack of Kools on a stump, backed off, and got my camera ready.
Wail on, Skydog!
Bonus: somebody put together a nice compilation video:
I don't know why so many people are complaining about unemployment. American student Natalee Holloway has been missing for years but she's still able to punch a clock. Here she is on Myspace hard at work for the company Zwinky:
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Georgia boy Christopher Barrios also proved industrious post-disappearance (and murder). His image was used as a prop on the soap opera General Hospital.
Wallpaper border made of heinies.
Dapper dad, demolisher of any goodie made from coconuts.
Medical student and Bushido bladesman:
A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said.According to preliminary reports, a resident of the 300 block of E. University Parkway called police about a suspicious person, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. An off-duty officer responded about 1:20 a.m. to the area with university security, according to Guglielmi. They heard shouts and screams from a neighboring house and found the suspected burglar suffering from a nearly severed hand and laceration to his upper body, he said.
The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. Based on the initial investigation, the student killed the man with only one strike of the sword, according to Guglielmi. The medical examiner will make the final determination, he said.
The student told police that he heard a commotion in the house and went downstairs armed with the sword, Guglielmi said. He saw the side door to the garage had been pried open and found a man inside, who lunged at the student. There was no indication that the suspected burglar was armed, however, according to Guglielmi.
Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student's home Monday, Guglielmi said.
Dennis O'Shea, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins, said all four residents of the house are undergraduate students at the university. Police had released three of the roommates by Tuesday afternoon. The student who wielded the sword remained in custody while investigators worked to corroborate his story with evidence and witness statements. Police have not released the name of the residents, but department sources identified the detained student as John Pontolillo, 20, of Wall, N.J.
Though the burglar, Donald D. Rice, was a career criminal with a rap sheet as long as his one remaining good arm, the police are giving the homeowner grief. Such are the strange customs of our Northern cousins.
Another in the series of shots that didn't make it onto the cover of Fillmore East.
Looks like Duane is having some difficulty here. Whatever could be the matter?
Wail on, Skydog!
I've been following this case. What a waste of that girl's marvelous potential.
Sources have identified the person of interest in the killing of a Yale Graduate Student as Raymond Clark.Sources told Eyewitness News that police are investigating Clark as a person of interest in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le.
Clark formerly lived in Branford, but moved out of town four years ago. Members of the Branford Police Department told Eyewitness News that they were contacted by members of the New Haven Police Department regarding a resident that used to live in town.
Sources have told Eyewitness News that Clark now lives in Middletown. Police sources confirmed to Eyewitness News that New Haven police were conducting surveillance at a Ferry Street address in the city.
The name on the mailbox at that address is “Ray Clark.”
The manager of the apartment complex told Eyewitness News that no one has seen Clark since Thursday.
"We didn't know what was going on, we saw cops all around here," said neighbor Sana Cotten.
According to the Yale University directory, a Raymond Clark works as a lab tech at the Animal Resources Center.
The remains of Le were found inside a wall the basement area of a Yale lab on Amistad Street on Sunday, Le’s would-be wedding day. The area where Le’s remains were found is used to store animals used for research.
Le was working in the Amistad Street building as a graduate student in pharmacology. The office where Clark worked is very close to where Le was performing her graduate work.
Students told Eyewitness News that the area is secure and that key cards must be swiped twice to access the area.
Le had been missing since Tuesday, when she was last captured by some of the school's 70-plus surveillance cameras entering the lab.
The medical examiner identified the remains as Le’s on Monday, and said the release of the cause of death would be delayed to assist in the investigation.
Sources told Eyewitness News that police had identified a Yale lab technician as a person of interest in Le’s killing. They said the technician had defense wounds on his chest and had failed a polygraph test.
I believe I've found his Myspace here, but he hasn't done much with it. He might have missed his chance. The social networking in the pen just isn't the same.
UPDATE:
Cause of death: traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression. It sounds like manual strangulation, but it could be a choke hold as well.
Tea party rally, Washington, DC.
Good news. It's OK to say that Kanye West is a jackass.
An apparently left-handed Oregon rummy gets something to cry about:
Klamath County authorities believe a dispute over a missing bottle of rum prompted a shooting inside a Beatty home.Sheriff Tim Evinger says 24-year-old Mark Farrell was shot late Tuesday after entering a home with a baseball bat and trying to strike 21-year-old Jim Westman.
Westman fired one round from a .22-caliber rifle, hitting Farrell in the right forearm.
The sheriff says Farrell, though shot, continued to try to hit Westman with the bat.
The incident ended when Westman's mother grabbed the bat from Farrell and hit him on the head several times.
He definitely should have factored in the mama when he headed over that way, but I suppose that people who grab a bat over a missing bottle aren't too good at factoring.
Our favorite way to pass the time on long drives is to listen to podcasts of "This American Life." You can count on getting a good true story told well. I also listen to them in the house. The show pretty much beats whatever's being offered up on television.
Today I listened to "The Ghost Of Bobby Dunbar." I'd heard the disappointing part of doing genealogy is finding the horse thieves in the family. Margaret Dunbar Cutright delved into the family legend of the kidnapping and recovery of her grandfather when he was a child and discovered a lot more than equine expropriation. It appeared another family also had a family legend of a kidnapped grandfather-- one in which her family were featured as the bad guys.
Give a listen and tell me what you think.
Duane's applauding something. Perhaps a faithful fan's birthday?
Wail on, Skydog!
No birthday's complete without a cake. Happy Birthday, Willard!
Now begins those special years when you start going a little green around the edges. Mr. Cracker has to get his thyroid out. Then he'll kick back in a hospital and take some radiation pills.
We'd say this is a souvenir of his year in Kiev, but his great-grandmother also had to have hers out.
Some cancers are scary like Darth Vader. This one's annoying like Eddie Haskell.
That's a handsome tie, Mr. Cracker.
I love this video. Literally:
(Via Dan. His literal fave is the Tears for Fears vid.)
From Jaime in e-mail come the following pics. They are from a rock website who want an arm and leg for a print, but we're not sure if they are legit, even though the photog is known. We've all seen misidentified pics of him before:
Look at those neat sideburns. Heck, look at the neatness in general.
Looks like Gregg to me.
This would like random sleeping hippie were it not for the pic that looks like Gregg.
It *still* looks like random sleeping hippie to me, muttonchops or no.
To me he just doesn't look scraggly enough to be our boy.
Plus, Duane was no ponytail man and this guy looks like he's got one.
Let's compare it a sleeping Duane pic we do know is legit:
What do you think?
Wail on, Skydog!
