The world is in turmoil...as it always has been and always will be. This chaos is delivered to our living rooms all day every day on a multitude of television channels. And what has the lead story been for days now? A pedophile's death. The demise of a child molester. Michael Jackson's long overdue final bow. Weeping faces all over the world plastered on my TV screen. Weeping for what? A screwed up freak who molested young boys. Yes, the "man" could dance, but...um...excuse me...he molested children. Should the House of Representatives have had a moment of reflection in honor of this perv's death? I think not. Geraldo Rivera's slobberfest over Jackson was disgusting...at least what little I saw of it was.
Folks, there are far more important matters to be concerned with these days. Will nuclear weapons fall into the hands of Taliban fighters soon? Will North Korea poke us until we have to respond with military action? Will Daisy pick Sinister to form a slutatoo?
Screw all that. This morning, I boogied up to the Front Porch Grill to chow down on one of their monster omelettes. Some home fries to get the cholesterol level back up and I was on my way into the countryside. I had to get "Bille-f*ckin' Jean" outta my head. Crusing toward the prisons of Elmore County, I came upon a fair size snake in the road. I thought it had been hit and skirted by it slow to get a good look at it. WHOA! This mamba was alive and feisty! As I turned around to get a second look, a pickup ran over it. That had to hurt. The pickup came back and a kid jumped out. He was ticked about hitting what turned out to be a rat snake. Said he cleared varmints like this from housing areas when he wasn't in school. He proceeded to grab the snake by the tail and gradually, as the snake calmed, he worked his way up to snag it right behind the head with his other hand. I failed to take any photos of the actual capture, as we were both sitting in the 
middle of the road and I wanted to be ready to get the heck outta the way if any traffic came along. The snake appeared to be unharmed. The kid wrapped the snake around his arm and said he was going to take it home. I finally decided I had to get a photo and as I checked the snake out, I saw some damage from the snake's meeting the kid's tires. Anyway, here's the young man and his new critter.After riding around a while, I headed home 'cause it was time for the bike to get some real attention. The heat has kept me from doing a really good polishing job, but today the temp is down a bit and a breeze is blowing, so I pulled the bike into the backyard and by the shed, set the Zune to
shuffle, and grabbed all my cleaning crap. My wife says I have more bike/car cleaning and polishing products than AutoZone. Well, the cars and bike still look mighty good, so no gripin'! Never-Dull on the chrome, various polishes for the rest of the bike, and voila! Perfection! I'm 68 miles from having 45,000 on that bike and she looks so good right now...it's ridiculous! Running strong as hell, too. Gonna get back on it in about two seconds...Oh! Saw this sign near Maxwell AFB in Montgomery on Sunday morning. Wow!
Now we need some volunteers to read the sign to its intended audience.By the way, the two albums rotating on the Amazon player thingamajig are CDs that I chose to display. Music I like will be promoted on that feature. Unless they (whoever they are) pull something weird, anything you see over there will be stuff I own and love. Play something, see if you like it.
did you take that poor boy's shirt off?
ReplyDeleteNah. He arrived semi-nude.
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