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Final Ride, Biker Edition

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The story of the Harley Hearse was picked up on the AP wire yesterday, and appeared on every news site I happened by. These conveyances are made by the Tombstone Hearse Company of Alum Creek PA, and feature a 19th century styled handmade coach, pulled by a Harley V-Twin trike. The hearse attaches to the trike via the 5th wheel method.

From Tombstone’s services menu:

At Your Service – With proper notification we can arrive at your service dressed in white tuxedo shirts, string tie, along with black pants, vest and shined boots with a single spur. We feel the uniform exudes nostalgic style and a sense of dignity and professionalism as we take the departed on their final journey.

I like the whole idea, even though I’m not a biker. Maybe enough to trade my final ride in the back of a Cadillac for such a send off. Not that I’m in a great hurry to ride in either anytime soon.

-k-

H/T Photo: Harris Funeral Home.

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Plugin requires JavaScript’s being enabled. I go, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century.

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Diddley out of ICU

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Bo Diddley is being transferred from intensive care and into a regular room at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha.

He had been in ICU since suffering a stroke on May 13.

This is good news indeed. Faith Fusillo, his business manager, reports:

“I was able to speak with him by phone this morning,” Fusillo said. “He wanted to know where his stuff was: his guitar and the money from the gig. I was so happy because this is the Bo that I know and love, and a real indication that Bo is on his way back.”

Excellent!

-k-

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Jericho’s Walls Have Fallen

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CBS has cancelled Jericho for the upcoming season. I neither know nor care about the business side of the decision, but SWMBO and I liked the show. I’ll be up front, and admit that its setting in Kansas reeled us in initially, and the show became a must watch. Portions, at least, were filmed in and around Lawrence KS, if I remember correctly. Anyhow, we liked the show, and we’ll miss it.

In better teevee-land news, 24 has been renewed for two days, or two more seasons, in broadcasting-and-show-format-speak.

The Tivo will still be of use, then.

-k-
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Nuts to All

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I’d written earlier about a certain delicacy that I remember from my days on the Great Plains.

Proving that this enjoyment isn’t limited to that geographic area, the folks of Elderon WI have a deep-fried version of that particular gastronomic delight; the festival is an annual affair, 12 years running.

And one comment from a festival-goer says:

“Once you get over the mental (aspect) of what you’re eating, it’s just like eating any other food, and it tastes good,” Buster Hoffman said.

And he’s exactly right. The best line, however:

Butch Joubert, 58, likes the parts sandwiched between bread with tartar sauce. They’re not so different from regular meatballs also served at the festival, he said.

“After a few beers, you can’t really tell the difference,” Joubert said.

Beer. Is there anything it can’t do?

-k-

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Falwell Fell

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It’s yesterday’s news, but Rev. Jerry Falwell has died. Much has been, and will be written, about him.

I just hope he found that there are books of the Bible after Leviticus in his latter days, and that he read them.

-k-
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NASCAR HotPass Lineup

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For the running of Saturday Night’s Dodge Avenger 500 from the grand old speedway in Darlington SC, we have:
#31-Jeff Burton, 795
#26-Jamie McMurray, 796
#20-Tony Stewart, 797
#40-David Stremme, 798
#8-Dale Earnhardt Jr, 799

H/T: Jayski, a living legend in NASCAR news. Cutting and pasting beats transposing stuff from the DirecTV guide.

-k-

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Paging Sheryl Crow

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I vowed I wouldn’t waste a pixel over here, mentioning Sheryl Crow’s toilet paper strategy; the one sheet “per trip” idea, which will save the world in 10 years or less. Yeah, that one.

But this story from my native Kansas leads me to reconsider the whole idea.

The officials of the Hutchinson(KS) Correctional Facility are limiting inmates to one roll of TP at a time. The limit has been a long-standing limit, but not enforced. From the article:

Under the prison policy, inmates are restricted to four rolls of toilet paper each month or on an “as-needed” basis.

There were no details on the meaning of “as-needed”. I’m glad they spelled “as” properly, and that there were no problems with stuck keys, if you get my drift.

The correctional facility houses some 1600 inmates, and by saving a roll a month per inmate, $600 would be saved monthly. Quotiing more liberally than the AP might like:

“There are a lot of things that individually don’t cost much,” said Kansas Department of Corrections spokeswoman Frances Breyne. “But when you multiply that by hundreds, it makes a drastic impact.”

Schneider insists inmates won’t go without toilet paper. Charmin four-packs can be purchased at the prison canteen for $2.70, and anyone who produces an empty roll will receive a new roll of toilet paper.

One side effect of the policy could be that toilet paper will become a new form of currency among inmates.

Hutchinson, you need Sheryl Crow. With her policy, a case or two of TP could supply the prison for a month, and prevent the dread practice of Charmin becoming currency.

-k-
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There Will Be Time

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After the Virginia Tech tragedy, there will be time for all of these things:

  1. For the anti-gun crown to use this case as cause for more stringent gun control.
  2. For the armchair administrators to cuss and discuss why campus wasn’t locked down after the attack at the dormitory.
  3. For the armchair police officers to ponder why a University police force is leading the investigation.
  4. For the “It takes a village” crowd to encourage everyone who’s flunked a test, lost a girlfriend or whatever to get “counseling”.
  5. For the “more security” crowd to encourage turning college campuses into gated, fenced camps.
  6. For every vendor of whatever kind of security product to be hawking their wares to universities and colleges.
  7. For the Congress people to ponder what type of Federal legislation would help.

Oh, wait. Everything but the last item has happened already, on Paula Zahn’s execrable program on CNN last night.

My view is that there is time to address all of the above, but that we better be aware that there will be some tremendously overreaching proposals in the days and weeks to come. For right now, let’s pray (if you’re so inclined), or at least think about the families of the victims as they go on with their lives as best as they can.

God be with them all.

-k-

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Old. Older. Oldest.

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Elder Daughter reached a birthday of some significance yesterday, 03.03, at 03.03.03 PM, according to SWMBO, who was there after all. The least significant digit of ED’s age is now a zero.

If I were the tacky sort, and if this old blog were like the small hometown newspapers, there would be a photo of ED, at age 2-4, with a header reading:

Lordy, Lordy, look who’s

And below that :

Insert age here (It rhymes with the above).

Since we aren’t tacky in the least, we won’t do that. tbbs-land, SWMBO and I, wish our lovely Rhonda Jean a very happy birthday, and convey our endless love to her.

-k-

News Bloggin’ Again

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Man, we have a real live police-car chase being broadcast live on the morning news. On the Capital Beltway. The guy has rammed at least one car, the hood is bent up, smoke is trailing profusely from the back. News helicopters are on the case.

I feel like I’m in El Lay.

-k-