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billy powell: dead

Free Bird to be played non-stop for next 30 days on all Jacksonville stations

Powell, who went to Bishop Kenny High School, joined Skynyrd in 1972 after working for the Jacksonville band for a couple of years as a roadie. He was seriously injured in the Oct. 20, 1977 plane crash that killed singer Ronnie Van Zant and five other people.

Johnny Van Zant said his brother invited Powell to join the band after he heard him playing piano during a rehearsal of "Free Bird." "Ronnie said, 'What's that?' and Billy said, 'That's the introduction to 'Free Bird.' Ronnie said, 'I like that. You're in the band.'"

The piano introduction to the song became a highly anticipated part of the band's live show, though Johnny Van Zant said Powell was sometimes relucant to jump into the spotlight with it.

what did he just call our cindy? why i oughta....!

mccain health plan to offer free oral proctological examinations

fine 300 count muslin

Every day I thank the Lord I'm F-L-A!

Obama Sign In Yard Stirs Up Neighbors

BAREFOOT BAY -- A sign in one man's front yard has stirred up a controversy in his community.

Neighbors of Andy Lacasse said the sign, which reads "Obama Half-Breed Muslin [sic]," breaches the fine line between free speech and inappropriateness.

"I got nothing good to say about Obama," Lacasse told News 13. "If I see anybody touching that sign, I got a club sitting right over there."

bitchslap

The New Yorker nails it.

"Cindy attended Central High, where she was the best-dressed girl in school, according to her senior yearbook. In 1968, she was named Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona. “I could have been a brain surgeon at twelve and my father would not have been as proud of me,” she told Vogue recently. Her mother, Marguerite, nicknamed Smitty (after her last name, Smith), was “a very refined woman,” according to Sharon Harper. “She was polite and always dressed in such a lovely way. She taught Cindy impeccable manners.” At the University of Southern California—or the “University of Spoiled Children,” as her husband is fond of telling reporters—Cindy pledged the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, and graduated in 1978, with a master’s in education. Her father gave her a Porsche as a graduation present. She crashed it. He replaced the Porsche with a gold Mercedes.

Many of McCain’s friends noted that after graduation she took a low-paying job as a special-education teacher at Agua Fria High School, near Phoenix, rather than a more lucrative position at her father’s company. McCain, too, frequently refers to his wife’s teaching background. She worked at Agua Fria for just one year."

***update***

Nutty-ass Matt Stoller has more here.

it does my heart good to post this

Wilson Sisters Of Heart To McCain Camp: Cease And Desist

The McCain campaign's decision to play the classic rock song "Barracuda" at their convention last night, in honor of Sarah Palin's nickname in high school, has earned them a cease and desist letter from the band Heart, who strongly object to McCain's politics. The McCain campaign has previously gotten in trouble for using songs from Jackson Browne and even Congressman John Hall, a liberal Democrat and former rock musician supporting Barack Obama.

“I think it’s completely unfair to be so misrepresented. I feel completely fucked over.”- Nancy Wilson, Metal Babe we love

happy 63rd birfday clovis

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Let's make monkey love next to a dead moose in the back of my f150, ban some books, shotgun marry my daughter to a meth addled redneck, do a little four-way ass-play with John and Cindy...
Happy Birthday to you!

* others celebrating a birthday today:

• Jesse James
• Raquel Welch
• Freddie Mercury

hmmm...

ew. creepy.

might be worth giving him a call alvie. i want 5% of the refi though.

3:18pm update
bwaa-haha!!! the McCain campaign appears to have forgotten the rule of holes.  Niiiiice comeback there McCrazy spokesdude: "The reality is they have some investment properties and stuff. It's not as if he lives in ten houses. That's just not the case. The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use."