Happy Thanksgiving!

"As God is my witness, I thought turkey's could fly!"
Best Thanksgiving TV show EVER!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!


Special Thanks to CrystalCheats for posting this to YouTube!!!


Extra special thanks to all of you who have been praying for my mom and me. Due to her inability to sleep the night before, we had to reschedule her appointment for December 9th! Please keep praying. God Bless you all!

And speaking of anniversaries

On this day last year, I had to say good-bye to my baby-cat Douglas.
Wow, in someways it seems like it was just yesterday and in others it seems like forever ago. I miss him so much.
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In other news a boy I grew up with, named Bradley died this week.
Our mom's were best friends, they were both divorced, worked in the same office, and just struggling to make ends meet. So we ended up spending a lot of time together.
Our mom's even dragged us on vacation together a time or two.
He was year older than me and tortured me like a sibling would. Mom mentioned an incident last night of him locking me out of the house, and I had totally blocked it out. Ugh!
Being an only child who was quiet in nature, he was hard for me to deal with.
Most other kids were hard for me to deal with, since I would much rather be with adults.
So anyway we found out that he died this week. He was 38, with a college education, married, and evidently he O.D.'d.
I don't understand it, but I am saddened by it anyway.
His funeral was today, mother and I had intended to go, but in the end neither of us could pull it together to go.
I will be glad when this day is over.

August 16, 1977 Probably the saddest day in music history.
31 years.
I can't say anymore. I have an awful lot to say, but just can't find the words.

The craziest blog I have ever seen

OK we interrupt this Elvis fest for the following.
Today I happened to click on this blog Hello Kitty Hell.
You really must go see it.
The poor guy who writes the blog lives in Japan, and his wife is Hello Kitty obsessed.
Now if you don't think that is funny, you aren't as crazy as I am. Remember you are reading a blog with the name Stuck On Lunatic.
If you go to the blog click on the categories evidently you if you can name it Sanrio has put Hello Kitty's face on it.
But you have got to see the Hello Kitty Nun. People that is just totally insane!
Alrighty then, tomorrow we will resume the Elvis obsession.
TTFN!!!

It's Elvis Week Y'all!!!
LAWDY, I can't believe that divine man has been gone from us for 31 years.

Isaac Hayes & Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac 1957-2008
Specter Death had a very busy weekend.
What can I say about Bernie Mac that hasn't been said already? Probably not much.
I loved his show.
It was so refreshing to see a parent(even if he was the uncle), trying to impart traditional values in this modern world. Usually the show would have Uncle Bernie exasperated over something the kids were doing, but ultimately he would let the kids know how much he loved them.
Honestly, I don't know if I will ever hear anything as funny as him telling the kids "he would beat them till the white meat showed." What can I say I have a sick sense of humor.


Isaac Hayes 1942-2008

Specter Death wasn't done yet, he then went after one of my favorite performers Isaac Hayes.
Earlier this summer, I caught a two part episode of The Rockford Files on the Sleuth channel where Isaac was the guest star. He was an awesome actor. More than that he was a dynamite song writer and producer, winning an Oscar for his "Theme From Shaft". He even co-wrote the hit song "Hold On, I'm Coming" for Sam & Dave.

The saddest news of all is that Isaac leaves a two year old son, in addition to 11 other children.

Well this is totally depressing...

If you are a regular round heah, you know that I am somewhat Elvis obsessed.

So the following just depresses the hell out of me!

Elvis demoted in new Billboard historic chart

H/T SarahK

Kids say the darnedest things

Ok, so that is not an original title, totally stolen from Art Linkletter, but I have to tell you what Paddycake said to his Daddy last night.
Daddy and Paddy are driving home from KFC, where they picked up dinner.
Evidently the Partridge Family theme song "Get Happy" was being played on the radio.
Daddy starts singing along, "Come on get happy."
Paddycake in the back seat says "Daddy, it will make me happy if you stop singing."
I thought I would die laughing when Daddy told me. The kid is just rotten to the core!

On this day

On May 13 the following people died-
Dan Blocker-Hoss from Bonanza-1972
Bob Wills-Bandleader/Singer-1975
Gary Cooper-Actor-1961

On May 13 the following people were born-
Stevie Wonder-Musical Genius-1950
Armistead Maupin-Writer-1944
Harvey Keitel-Actor-1939
Beatrice Arthur-Actress-1922
ME-1971

I guess I am in good company!!
I am trying like everything not to be depressed!

Fresh Hell Follow-up

So I want to thank everyone for all of their well wishes concerning the SNAFU with my mother's retirement.
Just so you know, my mother is a retired STATE EMPLOYEE, in the trenches for nearly 30 years. She was often over-worked, underpaid and just in general stressed out. She could write a book about the graft, corruption and nepotism that caused a never-ending parade of mouth breathing losers and ding-bats through the office who got their job because their uncle(or lover) was a good ole boy drinkin' buddy of the administration of the day. Truly qualified people could not get jobs with the state unless they were friends with someone in power. Think Huey P. Long, or even The Godfather.
Lest you think ill of my dear mother, at the time she was hired, the state was desperate for qualified people and JFK had given the "Ask Not" speech, so being young, idealistic and fresh out of secretarial school, she thought it would be a wonderful way to help people by working for the state. Also remember this was before women's lib and people didn't send their daughters to college unless (in the lingo of the day) "it was to get an M-r-s. degree". Secretarial school would provide her with a nice way to support herself while trying to catch a husband, or at least that is what my grandparents thought.
Little did she know what it would become after she had too much time vested and financially couldn't walk away, because she was divorced and had me to support.*
The weasels at the capital assure me that they have corrected the mistake, but I am not holding my breath. She hasn't needed any prescriptions yet so keep your fingers crossed for us.

*The dead-beat dad who didn't support me in any way is a story for another day.

Elvis would be 73

Elvis would be 73 years old today, and brother if that doesn't make you feel old you probably aren't.
For Christmas, hubby bought me DVD's of The '68 Comeback Special, and the Aloha From Hawaii. If you are a regular reader you already know about my "new lover" the 42 inch Phillips Flat Screen HDTV. All I can say is seeing Elvis in his black leather motorcycle jacket and pants on that big screen was just orgasmic! It was almost like being there.
It was a little more disturbing to see the Aloha From Hawaii because we could actually see his pores and his makeup, clearly Elvis was going downhill at this point, but he still looked purty for the most part. As an aside, I must tell you that when this show originally aired way back in 1973, this gal was a toddler. My mother relates that during the show I would toddle up to the screen and pat it and say "DaDa". My mother and her mother promptly dissolved in giggles and both said "I wish".
Elvis, we miss you. But at least we will always have our DVD's to remember your glory.

EGADS!!!

Oh please tell me this isn't coming back-the Members Only jacket.
I am watching Ellen Degeneres and she has American Idol Blake Lewis on and he is wearing a blue Members Only jacket.
Since the teen set is usually the setter of the trends, I can only hope that this is a fashion mis-step and not the beginning of a new trend.
As I have said before about the return of bell-bottoms and hip huggers; I lived through the seventies and they weren't a particularly happy time for me, and the fashion just makes me want to vomit. The only person hip huggers EVER looked good on was Robert Plant-whew baby did they look better than good(I was reminded of this by seeing his rock god self on VH1 last night on Song Remains The Same), but I digress.
PLEASE PEOPLE-THE SEVENTIES ARE OVER FOR A REASON!! PLEASE LEAVE THEM THERE!!