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Respecting the Dead

Petition pushes for postage stamp honoring rock group's Jerry Garcia

As Grateful Dead fans everywhere know, the music never stopped when Jerry Garcia passed away 10 years ago, and now a grassroots campaign wants to memorialize the Dead's driving force with a U.S. Postal Service stamp.

The centerpiece of the effort, so far conducted in the mellow fashion one would expect from Deadheads, is an online petition, first posted on Aug. 9, the 10th anniversary of Garcia's death at age 53.

Everyone involved recognizes that a Garcia stamp would be a leap for the post office by honoring a rock-era figure associated with hippies, casual drug use and a way-laidback lifestyle. But they proudly point out that Garcia was a great musician whose work blended many styles, a father figure to millions of Americans and others around the world and a philanthropist.

Besides, they say, in 1993, the Postal Service honored Elvis Presley -- who died of a heart attack after years of abusing prescription drugs -- and ended up with a best-seller. About 517 million of the 29-cent Elvis stamps were sold, and the Postal Service ended up with a $36 million profit. About 95 percent of those stamps are still in collectors' hands.

You can sign the peition here.

Jerry deserves this honor.

Huh. The things that slip my mind.

I could have sworn I posted about this, but its not here.

Well, what i meant to post was that this past Saturday kshandra and I spent a lovely afternoon with our niece, madelineusher. We ran a few errands, managed to pry her from the Magna section of the bookstore with minimal bloodshed (I, on the other hand, required a crowbar to separate me from another new Turtledove)

After a food court lunch/dental extraction, we went to The Tech Museum of Innovation and played. Had far too much fun on the earthquake simulator, and might have actually learned a few things (like how to swear in Japanese, thanks Lenore!)

We had planned on dinner, but I think we all ran low on energy at the same time.

@#!%#*&!!!

Your word is BUGGER. You are generally quite
restrained, but sometimes your anger or
frustration come to the surface and it all
comes out. Yet you somehow can't stop sounding
polite, despite it all.


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Note to coworkers..

Leaking is spelled with an "ea", not an "ic".

I'll clean the Coke off the whiteboard tomorrow, assuming I've stopped laughing by then. Evidently, my truck is licking oil seals.

Kinky.