Bucket List

My doctor told me I had better start on my bucket list. I am not sure what this has to do with my lungs, but… whatever.
 
My Bucket List:

1.      Purchase a bucket.

2.      Get appropriate items to put in a bucket.

3.      Research the difference between a pail and a bucket.

4.      Find out if buckets must be kicked, because I do not wish to further injure my knee.

I feel like I am missing something about this whole bucket list thing. I guess I’ll ask Morgan Freeman about it next time I see him. He and that guy that played the Joker made a movie about bucket lists, I think. I forget what it was called. "Sharktank Redemption?"

This is a bucket

Are There Cowboy Hats in Heaven?

When cowboys die, where do all the cowboy hats go? This is a serious question. Lets say your grandfather dies, does his hat hold special meaning for you? Or his pocket knife? Is this just a Texas thing? When my Papa passed, I wanted his hat and his pocket knife. I still have his pocket knife. I wish I had his hat. It's crazy, but I can almost feel the hat's silky lining, and he passed over 35 years ago. I would put it on as a boy, and sometimes his boots, too, and pretend I was grown up like him. God I miss him. I'd put that hat on today if I had it.

Commodore Decker

"Planet Killer"

William Windom, an actor that could chew more scenery than William Shatner himself, passed away this month. He was on Star Trek as Commodore Decker in "The Doomsday Machine." The episode is one of my favorites, despite the fact that the Enterprise battles what looks like a cornucopia with tape all over it. It was Moby Dick in space, people! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9djuORzi9rU

I forgot I had this until someone asked me when I was going to post some writing.

In the last year, I have gone from being a graphic artist to a Texas Parole Officer.

Surely there's a story there somewhere.

Do people still read blogs, though?

I bet he had a strong back from giving all those misguided men a Christian burial.

Every night possible, as a toddler, I sat on my Papa's lap, staying up WAY past my bedtime (we never told mom), and watched Gunsmoke after the late news ended. From the opening gunshot until the credits rolled over the coffeepot on the wood-stove in his office at the jail, U.S. Marshall Matt Dillion thrilled us both. There was little gray in the formulaic plots; everything was black and white. Right was right, wrong was wrong, and the law made sense back then. The law was a good thing. And Matt Dillon WAS that law. He never seemed to take pleasure in enforcing the law, and by that, I mean shooting 1-5 outlaws a week. I bet he had a strong back from giving all those misguided men a Christian burial. Graves don't dig themselves. And how many times did the character get shot in the shoulder?! The answer kids, is, as you already know, twelve less times than Festus got cold cocked with a gun-butt across the back of his head.

James Arness was, without question, the TV John Wayne. Recently the library got the first season of Gunsmoke on DVD. The first episode was introduced by John Wayne and started out in Amarillo, Texas. Many loved Bonanza, or the Virginian, or Have Gun Will Travel, but James Arness as Matt Dillon was the cowboy I wanted to be when I was blasting cap guns at whoever lost the toss and had to be the bad-guy while playing Cowboys and Indians.

I am saddened by his passing.

Jackie Cooper Passes into the Phantom Zone

Jackie Cooper, of Little Rascals and Superman fame, is dead. I loved him as a kid as Perry White. That man could tear up some scenery Shatner style and chomp a cigar!

I hated the Little Rascals. Yet, I watched them constantly. Why? There were 3 channels and you watched what was on or you went outside and injured yourself!

I always liked Jackie Cooper, but I could have sworn he died in 1994.

I used to get a kick out of the fact that he and Robert "Baretta" Blake were grown up Little Rascals. My favorite was the old, fat bald guy that always face palmed, Edgar Kennedy. He was also in some Marx Brothers movies.

Jackie Kennedy was aces, though.

Cleaning House

Many old posts were deleted to make room for a newer, prettier Happyland.