Bizarre Short Tales Again...

My grandson with Freddie from Return Of The Living Dead.
"Brains, live brains."

Bizarre Short Tales Again

"He was a short, kind of tall, fat skinny guy. A kinda baldish, hairy dude with blondish black hair."

Bubble-eyed Joe Mcphearson describing the guy who robbed him.

The Confederate Army

More than a half-century after the last Civil War veterans died, a chapter in Kentucky law still offers a $50-a-month pension to any veteran who can prove service in the Confederate Army. Confederate pensions are a legal relic akin to the passage in Kentucky’s oath of office that requires elected officials to swear that they have not fought a duel with deadly weapons nor offered to act as a second.

(Is Kentucky planning for the future or do they really fight duels no one knows about? Kentucky already has the highest rate of smokers in the country. Could it be the stress from duels and no one old enough to collect Confederate pensions?)

The real reason the New Jersey governor decided not to run for president: he looks too much like Bobby on the Sopranos.

Joke of the Day:

Federal and city officials insist that all of the 9/11 dead have been properly reported and recorded. We just have to take their word for it. (After it was found that only 405 people were listed as dead on 911 instead of 3000.)

Quote of the Day

Rocky Merz of the Cincinnati Health Department when answering Dayton, Ohio claim that the STD is traveling from Cincinnati to Dayton. "Syphilis, like any other disease, does not jump on the back of a semi and travel up the road. It's spread from person to person." (So I guess it can also take a cab, a car, or the Greyhound bus.)

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Vietnam: The Liberty Bridge

(This entry has had a lot of comments, and I'm glad it can help bring Nam vets together or to help find each other. If you have a comment, please attach your name to the comment or from this point forward it won't be published. I've received many comments that are phony and obviously made up, submitted by anonymous submission. I do screen all comments. Click the photo to enlarge. Semper Fi.) This is the Liberty Bridge (click to make larger) in Quang Nam Province in Vietnam during July of 1968. Of the 14,000 Marines killed in Vietnam, 10,000 were killed in Quang Nam Province. (Figures in comment section show a little under 7000 KIA in Quang Nam.) This was late in my tour on July 2. The bridge had been blown once again by the enemy to isolate the Marine base at An Hoa. I was a 50 caliber machine gunner on a convoy to resupply the An Hoa Firebase. I called this the River Styx because it had a ferry boat. Once you crossed the river you entered a nightmare hell on earth cal

The Jesus Moth

Photo taken through a window screen. I had just gone over the first print copy of The Bad Season on July 22, 2006. I walked over to the window and saw this moth on my outside air conditioner unit. It was the most bizarre thing I had seen in a long time. I retrieved my digital camera and snapped a picture through the glass and the window screen before going outside in a failed to attempt to capture the moth. I contacted a moth expert. He told me what kind of moth it was, but added that he had never seen one with a cross on its back like this one. I call it the Jesus Moth, the Crusader Moth, or maybe the Infidel Moth. The syndicates wanted me to give it to them for free. They said they don't take pics from non-employees because "we would actually have to pay you for it." Hmm, what a novel concept, getting paid for something. I offered to swap for a syndicated story about my book. They refused. So I copyrighted the entire pic (the one below is a fragment from that p

The Old Corps: Marine Corps Boot Camp 1966

BLT 1/3 USMC 1967 Vietnam Boot Camp Hell I recently saw a video of what I assume was the current Marine Corps Boot Camp. It mentioned recruits reporting any abuse right away and the DI was trying to be tough (and he did sound tough to an extent), but underneath it all you could tell the old Corps was gone in the civilian desire (political desire by people who never served) to make things easier and less traumatic for the boots. They never mentioned abuse to us in 1966 because we were abused 24/7. I'm an old Corps Hollywood Marine (that's an inside Marine joke about the difference between boot camp in Parris Island or San Diego.) The boots in Parris Island claimed they had it rougher because they had swamps. The Hollywood Marines had mountains. I would rather walk in water than climb mountains so I disagree. I entered the Marine Corps on August 10, 1966. Marines had been in Vietnam for over a year. All of us would probably go to Nam. For some of us it woul

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