Welcome to Friday’s Bitter End. As you can guess by the title, there’s not much to see here today. I’m taking a mental health day. Sometimes you just need one.
Original picture by Lynn Kelley
Since you all went to the trouble to come over here, I’ll share a few interesting links that might keep you busy for about the same amount of time you’d have spent reading my post today.
In addition, I have a discussion topic I’ll mention up here in case you’re not interested in link hopping. Soon, you’ll all have the chance to sign up for my newsletter.
I plan to give my newsletter subscribers advance notice of any and all discounts. I also plan to offer extended samples and sneak previews. Other than that, I’m stumped.
Is there anything you’d like to see? Or don’t want to see? Let me know in the comments section.
Wild and Crazy Links
iTunes For Dummies – Editing Start and Stop Time on Tracks
Some movie soundtracks diminish the coolness factor of songs by including sound bites from the movie either before the song begins or after the song ends.
Using the techniques described in this article, I elevated the coolness factor of tracks like this one by editing the start and/or stop time on the track.
This case fascinates me, but I will probably never do a feature on it.
Can’t quite place the name Bob Crane? He starred as Col. Robert E. Hogan on Hogan’s Heroes.
In 1978, Crane was murdered. In his residence, police found sex tapes of Crane with various women. The murder is still unsolved.
Check it out at:
Find a Death (my favorite)
TruTV: A Hero Called Hogan (more detailed)
Stacy Green recently ran a blog post on interesting last meals requested by infamous death row inmates.
I got interested in the concept and did a bit of research. Two points of interest came of my research.
- I learned that Texas has discontinued the practice. Click here to read story.
- Several websites have a catalogue of last meals requested by executed prisoners. Click here, here, here, and here to check it out.
And, that, my friends is the bitter end. Have a good Friday, and don’t forget to post your newsletter ideas in the comments section.
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daleamidei said:
It doesn’t have to be all news. There’s always room for unfounded rumor mongering.
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Catie Rhodes said:
Oooh, I love a good rumor.
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Gregory Carrico said:
I heard that about you, Catie. Wanna know what else I heard? Nah, I better not…
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Catie Rhodes said:
Oh come on, Greg. You can’t do that to me. Oh well, guess I’ll have to hound you until you break.
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mznetta said:
Enjoy your mental health day, Catie. We all need one more often than not. It’s better than scheduling a nervous breakdown
xoxo
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Catie Rhodes said:
Thanks, Netta! When things got too much for her, my Mamaw used to tell me she was going to take off all her clothes and go run naked on the road outside the house. Us kids would holler, “Do it! Do it! Do it!” Now I understand how she felt. lol
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Patricia Yager Delagrange said:
Everyone deserves a day off — and more! I found the “last meals” really interesting. Cheeze doodles and a coke! I can’t believe any of these people could eat ANYTHING, knowing they’d be walking that Green Mile in a matter of hours. Wow.
Patti
HAVE FUN, CATIE!!!
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Catie Rhodes said:
Thanks Patti. You’ve brought up a point that is going to keep me thinking for a long time to come. Do the condemned who order a full meal and pig it down just not care that they are about to die? Or do they have some “live for today” perspective that the rest of us are lacking? Food for thought.
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Jess Witkins said:
Enjoy your day Catie! You so deserve one. Hope it’s warm where you are.
Exciting news about your new site! I’ll be eager to see it!
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alandhopewell said:
Good move, Catie; I prescribe sunshine, Blue Bell, and music.
These will get you started….
http:’//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bSaJ1KqqMA
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alandhopewell said:
That first one didn’t take….here ’tis….
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filbio said:
Hey, we all need a day off to disconnect now and then. Enjoy!
Still, you wrote a pretty large blog post here!
Phil
http://www.blog.theregularguynyc.com
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David N. Walker said:
I don’t need a mental health mental health mental health mental health
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Rich said:
Gone fishin? awesome! Sheila and I are going surf fishing this weekend in the Southern Oregon Ocean. (also called the Pacific..lol) While we’re there we will celebrate my 18th Birthday! (for the 29th time) I hope you catch a big one Catie! (even if your only ‘gone fishin’ metaphorically )
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Donna Coe-Velleman said:
Hope you’re kickin’ back, unlike us Northeasterners who are bracing for the “blizzard”. But an interesting tidbit is it’s almost 35 years to the day that the Northeast was hit with another blizzard. Yep on Feb 5-7 in ’78 over 21 inches of snow fell in the Northeast. 100 people died because of it. Cars were stranded on highways and cross country skiers and people who owned snowmobiles were called upon to help rescue those who were trapped.
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alandhopewell said:
I was there for that, in Lorain, near Cleveland-thank God for Texas!
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patriciasands said:
Catie, keep fishing as long as it feels right. We will all be here when you get back!
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pjb1943 said:
Happy hunting, Catie….., oops, this was fishing (I think), I can’t remember….!!!!
Enjoy!
Paul