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Dennis Latham's Bizarre World Short Tales

(Zombie Gummy Bears) 73 Killed and 175 injured from falling bullets in Libya. Rebel leaders tell troops just to say Yippee instead of firing weapons straight up. (Now you know why American troops never fire weapons in the air.) The importance of proper spelling and understanding language. (From a WCPO/Cincinnati report) "According to Police Chief James Craig, an officer approached one of the groups after noticing a man holding something near his waste. " (I guess the guy took a dump on the sidewalk.) I can actually use handwriting, which is now like a new code language. Since they don't teach it anymore, most kids can't read it. The three most thrilling things in life: sex, chocolate malts, and being shot at. If you've experienced all three, you know all there is to know about the human condition.

Christmas And Beyond

Taking time off from writing for Christmas (you don't see the word Christmas much anymore and it's a shame) to concentrate on singing in the studio. I go in on the 27th to record about seven Sinatra songs for a CD and a demo for possible big band work. I've had a bad head cold, and I'm working on a Z-pack to knock it out, hopefully by the 27th. The Kentucky Ghost Hunters are coming back in February to spend the night at my house. Holidays always seem to spark some activity among our live-in other dimension friends, if they can be called friends. We are supposed to have a man, woman, and child spirits, and one of them is angry all the time. Their activity doesn't seem to be on any regular schedule. It has never been aggressive, but is more to let us know they exist, with thumps, crashes, flitting images, lights on and off, and whispering. Yesterday, another one of my childhood friends, JC, reached the 65th snow mark. None of us thought we would live t