War mementos, by way of the Associated Press: “U.S. Army critical care nurse Cpt. Marvetta Walker checks on a 9-year-old Fallujah boy who was wounded in the face and stomach, while at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Nov. 15, 2004. The boy was in critical condition. The hospital has been treating both American wounded as well as civilians from the Fallujah fighting. (AP Photo/John Moore)”
SEE ALSO: “U.S. Planes Bomb Falluja as Rebels Battle On”
In December of 1987, three student musicians disappeared in the woods near Aberdeen, Washington while recording a demo.
One year later their footage was found.
…then released sixteen years later by Geffen Records as “With The Lights Out”, a 3CD/DVD box set by Nirvana, after years of disputes between surviving bandmembers and the widow of the deceased frontman.
While it looks as though Kurt Cobain is doing his best Blair Witch impersonation as he stares into the corner (above, in a still taken from previously-unreleased video footage appearing on the accompanying DVD), bear in mind that this was years before the late 90’s film phenomenon.
Sometimes it seems like everyone ripped off Kurt.
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Happy Trailers
White(water) Trash: If your Presidential Library is on cinder blocks, you might be a red neck.
Does anyone else find it just a little bit insensitive that the soon-to-opened Clinton Presidential Center looks like a double-wide trailer?
I mean, yes, Clinton famously came from humble Southern origins, and, sure, his nickname is ‘Bubba‘, and yes, he was sometimes called ‘trailer trash,’ but this is just mean.
I wonder what our current president’s library is gonna look like: How ’bout this?
Then again, this may be more appropriate, since highfalutin’ books ain’t really his thing after all.
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Un-Impacted Colin
Goodbye Yellow Cake Road: The band is totally breaking up
Secretary of State Powell Resigns
He already has a job lined up here.
More Unmarried Women Giving Birth In Indiana*
*Not that we think having a child out of wedlock is wrong: That would be mighty un-Christian of us.
Gotta Break a Few Eggs: James Carville, Democratic strategist and splosh enthusiast.
The New York Times, excitedly reporting on American “progress” in the conquering of Fallujah by U.S. forces:
U.S. Armored Forces Blast Their Way Into Rebel Nest in Falluja
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These Days, the College Bowl Is Filled With Milk and Cereal, by Lisa W. Foderaro, Nov. 14, 2004.
Somehow, yet again, they’ve ruled out terrorists.
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Russell Jones, 1968-2004
Mr. Courageous: O.D.B. (AKA, Big Baby Jesus, Osiris, Dirt McGirt)
Rapper ODB Dies in Studio
“Number one, I got shot. It made me understand that I do only have one life to live and that it can happen to me. And shit happens when you be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The bullet went through my back and it came out my front. It ruptured my spleen, but it didn’t hit no bones or nothing. The doctors don’t even know how that happened, so that’s all praise due to Allah. It just lets you know that I was meant to be here. And anyway, I wasn’t going nowhere because ain’t nobody take me off this motherfucker till I’m ready to leave this motherfucker… Hell no. I don’t play that dying shit.”
(Quoted from The Nutty Confessor, by Rob Marriott, SPIN, circa March 1995.)