More gratuitous teapot blogging

The email's keep coming. Our buddy An Edjamikated Redneck emailed us a photo of his country teapot.

He makes his tea old school.

Man what's up with the animal stories today?

New York Post June 20, 2009

SICKOS SHOOT JACK RUSSELL TO MAKE BELT
'I SAW MY PUPPY'S SKIN HANGING THERE'

By TODD VENEZIA

A 23-year-old woman has been accused of being a real-life Cruella de Vil -- for allegedly killing a helpless puppy so she could skin it and make a belt for herself.
Krystal Lynn Lewis of Muskogee, Okla., allegedly launched her evil plot earlier this week when she had a male friend pump a clip full of bullets into little Joplin, a Jack Russell terrier with white fur and a black spot that she got as a gift from her lesbian ex-lover, cops said.
She allegedly skinned the animal and started tanning its hide -- but was caught before she could complete her cruel couture.
When confronted about the gruesome crime by the woman who gave her the dog, Lewis allegedly admitted that she was as heartless as the infamous villain from Disney's "101 Dalmatians."
"When have you known me to have a heart?" she told her stunned former gal pal Jessica Nichols, according to the Muskogee Phoenix newspaper.
Nichols said Joplin was born on April 3, and she gave the pup to Lewis because she had to move and could no longer take care of him. She said she later asked for the dog back, but Lewis wouldn't return him.
Sometime this week, Lewis allegedly had friend Austin Michael Mullins, 26, shoot little Joplin 10 times with a .22-caliber pistol, authorities said.
Lewis then told Nichols what she had done. But the ex-lover told the paper that she refused to believe the woman could really be that cruel -- until she actually saw a photo of the carcass in the paper.
"I still wasn't sure she had done it until I opened the paper and saw my puppy's skin hanging there," said Nichols.
Authorities found the dog's white and black hide pinned to a board and left to dry inside Lewis' apartment.
The horrifying sight disgusted the officers who found the dog.
"We're talking about a 6- or 7-week-old defenseless puppy," said sheriff's deputy George Roberson. "That's pretty heinous and sadistic."
Both Lewis and Mullins allegedly admitted to killing the puppy and skinning it.
The were both slapped with felony animal-cruelty charges and held on $25,000 bail. A judge ordered a mental competency hearing for both of them.
The pair of accused puppy skinners now face up to five years in jail and a $500 fine.
"Why did she have to do what she did?" Nichols told the paper.
"I just can't believe she didn't give the puppy back to me," Nichols said.

Man that is one sick woman. The things that people do are just freakin amazing. But what is amazing to me is that she had her friend pump a "whole clip of bullets" into a puppy. What the hell would it have looked like after that. You hunters like An Edjamikated Redneck can tell you that is crazy talk.

I remember one of my first jobs as a accountant was working in a furriers. They had mink and fox and muskrat and every freakin kind of fur imaginable. Fur is really delicate and they watched every inch of it. So besides the fact that it was a defenseless puppy, what the hell where they thinking. It was obviously a lovers revenge thing.

Anybody who has dogs and are dating an unstable crazy person should be careful. Just a word to the wise. So to speak.

Smile when you say that partner.

In a thread about "The Man who shot Liberty Valance" our fellow Western and Wayne officiando An Edjamikated Redneck said...

I love the lessons in this movie; especially the way the shooting of Valance comes about.

Tom could have taken Valanace out at any time, and both of them knew it; consequently Valance kept his head when Tom were Tom was concerned.It was the pending shooting of Stoddard that caused, not to step out and face down Valance man to man as the code required, but to shoot him from ambush, so Stoddard could look good to the girl, teh girl Tom loved.

He broke the Code to keep the girl happy, something that wouldn't have happened had Tom stepped into thr street.And then he admits to the Pilgrim that he shot the man form ambush.

I have always finished that movie wondering; did he really shoot Valance, or did he make up the story to keep Stoddard in the race for represenative?Not that Tom wasn't capable of the shot, but was he capable of the ambush?

I have a slightly different take on this. You see John Ford had met many of the actual cowboys who had lived during those days. Hell Wyatt Earp was hanging around Hollywood until the twenties so Ford got some first hand accounts of what it was really like in the West. The men who built empires and cattle ranches were hard men. They didn't have fancy notions about a "code" and you have to meet out in the street face to face and that Hollywood bullshit. Most violence was spontaneous and messy. A lot like the fights in the TV show Deadwood and the violence there rang true. A straight up gunfight was pretty unusual. Certainly facing a guy out in the street with the whole town hiding behind water barrels and fence posts. The actual historical murder of Wild Bill Hickok was a case in point. Jack McCall just walked up behind him and blasted him in the head. That was the norm not the exception. The murder by Dan of the one eared outlaw on the stairs was also more the way it was. He just pulled out his blade and slit his troath. If you read historical accounts you would be amazed at the number of shots fired and missed in these "gunfights." I think the violence in the West has a lot more similarity to drive-bys by the Crips and the Bloods then it does to the beginning of "Gunsmoke."

My favorite "Gunsmoke" episode didn't even have Matt in it. It starred Buddy Ebsen as an old mountain man who's daughter or granddaughter was raped by a band of outlaws passing through. Newly was covering for the Marshal so he goes on the trail of these outlaws but the old mountain man ( a Jim Bridger/Kit Carson style figure) is always one stop ahead of him killing those guys one at a time. No fuss. No muss. No big show. Like shooting pests. Or killing bugs.

One of the most interesting discussions of this is in a book by Louis Lamour called "Bendigo Shafter." I highly recommend it to Western Fans. Now Louis Lamour practically patented a lot of Western Cliches so I don't claim by any means that his stuff isn't mostly Hollywood. But in this book the hero, "Bendigo Shafter" is a lawman who is stalked by an old mountain man and outlaw called Stacy Follett. He is a regulator and assassin who regularly shoots people in ambush. His eventually decides not to kill Shafter and they actually become friends. But his discussion of these themes is very interesting and worth the look. It is my favorite book by the dean of Western Writers.

In the end, I think Tom did kill Liberty Valance and the newspaperman just got it wrong.

Remember: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

Or as Tom Doniphon would say: "The only thing worse than a journalist, is a lawyer who becomes a Senator and steals my girl."

Today's gratuitous bath tub scene asks "When is hunting season?"

I guess it is in the fall right Redneck. I mean I haven't gone hunting in 30 years or so. Well not for deer.

Back in the day I bagged a few. So to speak.

Of course it did look funny when you had them tied on the hood of your car.

Life was different then.

At the risk of pissing off some grumpy professor's, Trooper York is once again all about the Cheese Cake!

Taking the advice of some of our ace commenter's we will include cheese cake as one of the four cakes in our "Let's take the Cake" Poll. German Chocolate Cake also has one spot so we have two more openings. Suggestions are encouraged.

I just hope that you know who doesn't bitch me out again for having too many cheesecake pictures on my blog.

Just to see if An Edjamikated Redneck is paying attention.

Bailey Quarters: Have you noticed all the men in Landersville are going bald? I wonder if there's a nuclear power plant in the area.

Johnny Fever: Let's do it.

Baily Quarters: But I like Andy.

Andy Travers: I'd like to hang around Bailey but I have to pinch off a loaf and walk my rare clumbers.

(WKRP, 1979)

The first gangster film.

The Musketeer's of Pig Alley was written and directed by DW Griffith and is generally credited as the first "gangster" movie. Shot on location in the streets of New York, it is reputed to have used actual gang members as extra's in the shoot. The major gangs of the time were the Five Points Gang and Monk Eastman's crew who both supposedly had a hand in the film. If you ever get a chance to see it, you should just to see what New York really looked like back then. It is very interesting.

Hey I love feathers!

Colorado Ryan: How'd you come out with Burdette?

John T. Chance: He wanted to talk to his brother.

Colorado Ryan: What'd he have to say?

John T. Chance: Nothing.

Colorado Ryan: You mean he didn't say anything?

John T. Chance: Why are you so interested?

Colorado Ryan: Because he's talkin' now. Hear that music? He told the man to play it.

John T. Chance: What is it?

Colorado Ryan: Well, they call it the "De Guello"... the cutthroat song. The Mexicans played it for those Texas boys when they had 'em bottled up in the Alamo.

John T. Chance: Yeah.

Colorado Ryan: Played it day and night 'til it was all over. Now do you know what he means by it?

John T. Chance: No quarter. No mercy for the loser.

Colorado Ryan: You'll be hearin' a lot of it.

John T. Chance: I guess we made him talk after all.

(Rio Bravo, 1959)

I heard ya redneck, it's on the list.

An Edjamikated Redneck said...
Troop, when will you poll on the other great TV rivalry?Jennifer or Bailey?

It's on the list of future poll questions. Along with Jeanie vs Bewitched, Get Christie Love vs Angie Dickerson the Police Woman, and Rooster from Barreta, Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch and Barack Hussein Obama from Chicago.