Look through Your CD's!!!!!

It is summer-ish and time to look through your old Cd's and listen to your "summer music". If you don't have in your Pile anything by Corner Shop shame on you. Now get your shameful ass down to your local indepentent, you heard me right, independent music store and buy something by Corner Shop. Oh they don't have anything. Ask them to order it! Don't be a puss. Ask them. They will think you are so much cooler than your really are just for asking! Get It! Paki Rock!

Bye Mommy

PHOENIX - Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running "Family Circus" comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82.
She died Friday of Alzheimer's disease, the family said.
"Family Circus," which Keane began drawing in 1960, depicts the good-humored life of two parents and their four children. It is now featured in about 1,500 newspapers.
"She was the inspiration for all of my success," Bil Keane, 85, told The Associated Press from his home in Paradise Valley on Sunday. "When the cartoon first appeared, she looked so much like Mommy that if she was in the supermarket pushing her cart around, people would come up to her and say, 'Aren't you the Mommy in 'Family Circus?' and she would admit it."
Bil and Thelma "Thel" Keane met during World War II in the war bond office in Brisbane, Australia. She was a native Australian working as an accounting secretary, and Bil worked next to her as a promotional artist for the U.S. Army.
"I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair," Bil Keane said. "And I got up enough nerve to ask her for a date."
The two married in 1948 and moved to Bil Keane's hometown of Philadelphia. They had five children and moved to the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley in 1958.
Not only was Thelma Keane the inspiration for the always-loving and ever-patient comic character also named Thel, but she worked full-time as her husband's business and financial manager. Her family says she was the reason Bil Keane became one of the first syndicated newspaper cartoonists to win back all rights to his comic.
"There was nothing that I did in the cartoon world or in the business world that she wasn't the instigator of, and she certainly deserves all the credit that I get credit for," Bil Keane said.
Thelma Keane's Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed about five years ago, and she had been at an assisted-living center near the family home for the last three years, said her daughter, Gayle Keane, 58, of Napa, Calif.
Just last month, Gayle Keane said, her mother was singing and dancing as the family visited her and celebrated her birthday.
"We all had a time to say goodbye in the end," Gayle Keane said. "I just think she's in a better place, and she's not dealing with that fog and confusion that Alzheimer's brings into your life."
Bil Keane continues to produce "Family Circus" with the help of his youngest son, Jeff. Keane sketches out the ideas, characters and captions and sends them to Jeff for inking.
In addition to Bil, Gayle and Jeff Keane, survivors include her sons Neal, Glen and Christopher, and nine grandchildren.
Keane said that although his wife is gone, she is still with him.
"The losing of Thel is a heartbreaking thing for me," he said. "However, it makes me realize how important she was to my worldly success, and I know where she is now, I feel that she's still helping me and probably giving me the inspirations you can only get from an angel in heaven."
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A Tasteful Getaway

NEW ORLEANS -- A drag queen robbery suspect is giving police a run for their money. New Orleans police say the man robbed the fast food chain wearing a dress, a necklace and a two-tone wig.
Witnesses told police the man climbed through the drive-thru window of a neighborhood Burger King holding a gun.
Security video from the restaurant caught the man in action. The suspect went to the front of the restaurant and forced a worker to empty the cash registers. The man then left the restaurant back through the drive-thru window.
Crime and Safety Specialist, Howard Robertson, analyzed the security video. He says it's possible the man is a real cross dresser

Evil Grass

Do you eyes itch? Is your nose running? Is your neighbor mowing? Are you sure it is grass? It seems that this season the biggest pollenator is "Common Timothy". This stuff is everywhere and out to get you! Beware the Common Timothy!

Kurt Kauper paints them nude

Do you like nude pictures of hockey players? Of course you do! Kurt Kauper paints fun paintings of hockey stars and actors nude. They are fun and funny paintings that are sure to make Bobby Orr blush! Check out his website: KurtKauper.com It is alot of fun!

Mr Peabody's Creator has Died!!!!

PHILADELPHIA - Cartoonist Ted Key, whose comic strip "Hazel" about a bossy maid went from magazine page to TV screen, died Saturday at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Tredyffrin Township. He was 95.
Mr. Key had battled cancer, his son Peter said.
"Hazel" was a popular feature in The Saturday Evening Post from the time it debuted in 1943. It evolved into a prime-time series in 1961 that starred Shirley Booth and ran for four years on NBC and one year on CBS.
Mr. Key also created the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman for producer Jay Ward. The time-traveling dog/scientist and his boy made their TV debuts in 1959 in segments on the show "Rocky and His Friends."
He created cartoon panels called "Diz and Liz" for Jack and Jill children's magazine, and produced a number of other animated animal characters. He also wrote a play for radio, wrote and illustrated books, and had freelance cartoons appear in Cosmopolitan, Better Homes and Gardens, and Sports Illustrated.
Mr. Key literally dreamed up the concept of his wildly popular maid cartoon.
"Like a lot of creative people, he kept a notepad near his bedside," Peter Key said of his father. "He had a dream about a maid who took a message, but she screwed it up completely. When he looked at the idea the next day, he thought it was good and sold it to the Post."
Mr. Key randomly picked the name for the maid. He was flattered that it later became synonymous with maids, according to his son.
Mr. Key acquired the rights to "Hazel" in 1969, and the comic was picked up for syndication by King Features. King still distributes the cartoon today, using those drawn by Mr. Key before he retired in 1993.
"Hazel" was so popular that when the first collection of cartoons was published in 1946, E.P. Dutton sold 500,000 copies. In all, Dutton published eight collections of "Hazel" cartoons.
Theodore Keyser was born in Fresno, Calif., on Aug. 25, 1912. His father, a Latvian immigrant who had changed his last name from Katseff to Keyser, changed his name to Key during World War I.
Mr. Key was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006 and suffered a stroke in September.
In addition to his son, he leaves his second wife, Bonnie, two other sons, and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1984

A Lesbian is a Lesbian is a Lesbian

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.
One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.
"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said.
The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using "lesbian" in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.
Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet's reputed home town of Eressos.
"This is not an aggressive act against gay women," Lambrou said. "Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title."
He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10.
Sappho lived from the late 7th to the early 6th century B.C. and is considered one of the greatest poets of antiquity. Many of her poems, written in the first person and intended to be accompanied by music, contain passionate references to love for other women.
Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. "But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years," said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church.
Very little is known of Sappho's life. According to some ancient accounts, she was an aristocrat who married a rich merchant and had a daughter with him. One tradition says that she killed herself by jumping off a cliff over an unhappy love affair.
Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?"
The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment.