The Cause

Soon after Elvis died, Dick Clark Productions' made-for-TV film "Elvis, the Movie" aired on ABC network Television. Kurt Russell starred in the title role and his father, veteran actor, Bing Russell played Vernon, Elvis' father.
This makes for a neat game of six degrees of separation. First of all the producer of the film was John Carpenter. When Elvis would stay in hotels, he would often register under the pseudonym, Dr John Carpenter. Elvis was somewhat of a fan of western movies and when he met Bing Russell asked the actor if he'd mind if when Elvis made a western, he'd wear his hat the unique way Big did. This was when a young Kurt starred with Elvis in "It Happened at the World's Fair."
You may recall the scene of Elvis' character hiring a young boy to kick him in the chin. That was Kurt.
Mille Perkins, who played Elvis' love interest in "Wild in the Country" played Elvis' mother, Glady's Love Presley in the film.
The work as been released on VHS, but there is a campaign now to bring it to DVD. I am asking all my friends to sign the petition to bring this about:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ElvisDVD/petition.html

Sorry, We're CLOSED! Get it?

Go to Highwoods, where Curtis Media Group has multiple radio stations operating and you have to go up an elevator and into a secure area where codes are needed to enter there in. If you're a guest of a show, you're shown a different way.
When I worked there, I don't recall a single soul banging on the glass, demanding that someone answer the door. Not ONCE!
Until recently, there were two Curtis outlets in a house in Louisburg, North Carolina. Very scenic, with a couple of ponds and geese. (The ducks, that came up from Mexico, were murdered by a driver on highway 561) It's forty-nine miles from my driveway out there to the edge of the world.
When I first began working there, I was told I should lock the door after five. "Fine" I thought. Once, early on, a local yokel shouted, "Hey" outside the window during my call in trade or sell shoe, called the Country Exchange. Anything you hear in the headphones is unsettling.
Recently, the AM outlet was sold and that's being finalized. That's another whole story. These folks don't like the geese, so they spread moth balls outside to run them off. Personally, I'd rather wipe goose poo off my shoe and interact with the little creatures than to have to small moth balls! When I open the window to get fresh air, I get that same, unpleasant odor.
Often times, people who leave for the day fail to lock the door on the way out. There's nothing more unnerving than to have the headphones on and realize someone has climbed the stairs and come into what at any OTHER radio station is a sanctuary. The only similar experience, would be someone opening the stall door in a restroom!
There's a "employees only" sign on the door that leads to the AM studios, but there's no signage...not even an "on air" light to ward off hayseeds who strike a notion to come up. What's worse, is there is no sign outside that could simply explain our office hours to the masses. What would be wrong with that? But NO! We can't have that!
There's a thing called the "public file" that management is paranoid about being accused of blocking access to.
At five-thirty, I am, to be quite honest, busier than a one-armed paper hanger. So NOW, I have to remember to go lock the door, before the real nitty gritty begins.
At five-fifty, I'm doing a talk into news thing and twice this week, while doing this I've heard some hick banging on the door downstairs. The "logic" being, "They wuz a car in da drive-way, so how come sumwun didn't ainser the door?"
Look, Gomer, try doing that at a restaurant after hours, while they're in there trying to clean up and get home. THEY have regular hours, why won't you let US (in radio) have them? Why can you not respect that?
It's just more of the same mind set of the crowd who drives ten miles UNDER posted and yet will pull out in front of you on highways 96 and 401.
This is my only outlet for letting my feelings known. So I've done just that. Don't get me started on the lack of compensation for services rendered.

Hitler Had His Book Burning...

More than a generation ago, Germany's Adolf Hitler, burned books as part of his totalitarian attempt to crush dissent. History repeats itself.
Today, Barack Obama has targeted FoxNews Channel as part of his enemies list, much like Richard Nixon did with the New York Times and Washington Post. The DIFFERENCE is, that when Nixon behaved in that fashion, he was called "paranoid." A "bunker mentality" was the way the then main stream press described the President. Like the naked emperor of old, Obama does these things with nary a whimper from a press enthralled with the Golden Boy.
The other arm of Obama's Stalinist tactics is an attempt to silence the truth that comes out only from the Internet.
Obama promised the "most transparent" administration but it's not something that has happened by design, but only because there are those of us who can see right through this Marxist!