Half-Staff Widget

What with the recent passing of John McCain and the overblown controversy revolving around the half-staff status of flags on govt. facilities, I did some research about the rules/regulations in regards to just when the flags are lowered and stumbled across this half-staff widget:




Click the widget to get one for your own website or blog.

R.I.P. Roger Moore

R.I.P. Roger Moore (1927-2017)

While I liked Sean Connery in the iconic role, he was the "rough-edged" James Bond;  Moore added the debonair, suave quality Connery did not possess.

Me and Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul

R.I.P. Billy Paul

I Saw Her Standing There

A tribute to the late George Martin

The Virtual Bluegrass Band - Josh Turner & Friend Carson

Not-So-Famous Last Words

Your Last Words Would Be Philosophical

"What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous."

What Will Your Famous Last Words Be?

I think this one is probably pretty correct, although mine would probably be more along the lines of:

"Did you know Ben Franklin's last words were 'A dying man can do nothing easy.' ?"

Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

R.I.P. Keith Emerson

The Day the Music Died

The Day the Music Died: Rock’s Great Tragedy

Referenced in Don McLean's American Pie
 

Need the meaning of the lyrics? They have a website of their own.

You Belong to the City - Glenn Frey

R.I.P. Glenn Frey

Snape's Death Scene

R.I.P. Alan Rickman

Lazarus - David Bowie

Off of Bowie's last album "Blackstar".

R.I.P.

Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

On this day in history in 1967, Otis Redding and members of the Bar-Kays band died when their plane crashed into Lake Monona, just a few miles from the Madison, Wisconsin airport. Weather was thought to be a factor in the crash, but the exact cause was never determined.

Four months after his death at the age of twenty six, Redding's ("Sitting on the) Dock of the Bay", the last song he ever recorded, reached the top spot on the pop music charts. It was his first No. 1 hit as well as being the first posthumous single to top the charts in the U.S.

Hey, Joe - Jimi Hendrix

On this day in 1970, Jimi Hendrix died in London. He was 27 yrs. old.

Active in Death

Abraham Lincoln's corpse has been buried, exhumed, inspected, or reburied at least 17 times since his death.

Roundabout - Yes

RIP Chris Squire

The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King

R.I.P.

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

RIP Jack Ely

American Pie - Don McLean

February 3, 1959 The Day the Music Died



What do the lyrics mean?

Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

At the Royal Albert Hall 2005

R.I.P. Jack Bruce

Drop Kick Me, Jesus - Bobby Bare

R.I.P. Paul Craft (songwriter)

R.I.P. Brian

If you're a Family Guy fan and happened to catch last night's episode, you know that Brian (the family dog) died in the episode.

If you didn't....Oops, spoiler alert! Sorry, too late for that, huh?

I only started watching the show a few years ago; I guess I had lumped it in with The Simpsons (which I find anything but funny) and didn't think it would be worth wasting a half-hour watching it.  However, one Sunday I had watched the late football game on Fox and didn't bother to turn the channel and Family Guy came on.  I didn't know where the remote was and I was too lazy to get up and turn the channel, so I started watching and was - for better or worse -  hooked. 

The creator of the show, Seth MacFarlane, is an unabashed liberal and he takes a lot of potshots at conservatives, but a few weeks after I started watching, Rush Limbaugh "starred" on an episode and it was one of the funniest of the entire series.  There HAVE been some really bad episodes, though, not that they were without humor, but sometimes the humor crossed the line. (some about religion, such as making fun of Jesus being crucified and others showing "retarded" characters...the show does a lot of cruel humor directed at people with disabilities) It's those shows that make me re-think watching it, but then there will be a flash of brilliant comedy that gives me hope there will be more like it.  It's constantly on a teeter-totter of enjoyment with me - 51% funny and 49% disgusting and sometimes those percentages reverse.  It's hard for me to explain why I keep watching it and certainly harder trying to defend my watching it.

Without delving into each of the characters and their personalities, I always figured that MacFarlane actually had the Brian character in mind as his animated alter-ego when he created him;  after all, Brian is the most liberal of any of the characters, and while many slams are directed towards conservatism (and religion), I think MacFarlane is actually making fun of liberals in a subtle way with Brian.  Here's an example, one of my favorite scenes of the series:

I loved that rant and particularly the Catcher in the Rye reference. (most worthless "classic literature" I ever wasted time reading)  All the things Quagmire said about Brian were true and not only is Brian a dog, if he were a human he'd also be a dog.

I don't think Brian is gone for good; Stewie will make another time machine and will go back in time and save Brian. I hope so, because the "replacement dog" Vinnie is annoying.