The X-Files meets Reno 911

From Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird blog, the usual stolen ambulance with high speed chase, driver dressed in medical outfit, dead deer in the back hooked up to IV. You know.

turnip: This guy is from Jax. You party with him?

Davidson County, NC — We have new and bizarre details about the man accused of stealing a Davidson county ambulance and strapping a week-old deer carcass to the gurney. Investigators say Leon Hollimon stole the ambulance and led police on a three-county chase this past weekend. When they caught him, he was wearing a stethoscope, pager and had two latex gloves in his back pocket. The deer was attached to an IV. Investigators say they’re not sure where Hollimon is from, but he has a large number of arrests in the Jacksonville, Florida area and may be from there. They say they don’t yet know how he ended up in Lexington.

He’s currently having a mental evaluation at a state hospital in Butner.

The Ballad of Jesse Frederick

This is a marvellously obsessive guide to the career of the guy who wrote the themes to “Family Matters”, “Full House”, “Step By Step”, and “Perfect Strangers”.

There are far, far too many mp3s. I also found out that Mr. Frederick did the theme to a show from 1997 in which Bronson Pinchot played a space alien named “Meego”. I never thought Lovecraft was adaptable to sitcoms!

Via the always worthwhile waxy links, syndicated here as waxy_org

Codex Psychoceramianus

Via torgo_x; crossposted to

Jim Marshall insists that he has decoded the Codex Seraphinianus of Luigi Serafini. Whether or not there was a code in this bizarre, beautiful work of art is not known to me. What’s certain is that Mr. Marshall has mixed psychoceramic genius with the “Da Vinci Code” phenomenon and created his own work of art.

http://www.cr.cx/seraphinianus/codex/index.html

“I believe that the Rosetta Stones found on the pages mentioned above were meant for other audiences and not for the human race at this time!”

[…]

“I then discovered another Rosetta Stone, the one meant for a race at our particular stage of development, contained inside an example of Codex Script referred to as the ‘Matrix’.”

[…]

” Character for O – not sure. ( alien input ? )”

You can’t fight in here, this is the war room!

  1. An incredibly bitter and sadly accurate obituary of M. Scott Peck, the spiritual psychology self-help writer. His first book was reasonably useful but the rest of his career was a waste, and apparently he was the Peter Sellers of popular moral philosophy. Via Robot Wisdom
  2. The LA Times has a good piece on food safety at Chinese places. Chinese friends of mine tell me that if the grade is better than C it’s probably not authentic. Then again, my cultural tolerance doesn’t extend to salmonella or living insects in my rice.
  3. Pets in Uniform! Pets in Uniform! PETS IN UNIFORM? Via memepool.
  4. Robot finds 600 barrels of pirate loot. I assume the robot has one leg and an eye patch.

Capt. Fishback’s letter: “This is morally inconsistent with the Constitution”

It appears from this letter, which was printed in today’s Washington post, that at least some of the officer corps would prefer to keep the Geneva Conventions, and the constitution. And this is someone who’s seen the worst our enemies can do.

A Matter of Honor

The following letter was sent to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sept. 16:

Dear Senator McCain:

I am a graduate of West Point currently serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Infantry. I have served two combat tours with the 82nd Airborne Division, one each in Afghanistan and Iraq. While I served in the Global War on Terror, the actions and statements of my leadership led me to believe that United States policy did not require application of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan or Iraq. Continue reading “Capt. Fishback’s letter: “This is morally inconsistent with the Constitution”” →