Memories...like the corners of my mind...OH STOP ME!

From time to time, I like to go back and check on past items I’ve posted to see if there are updates to the stories. Here’s what I’ve found so far:

1. KINKY FRIEDMAN – yes, the country singer/cigar aficionado/mystery author/potential gubernatorial candidate for the great state of Texas has collected 169574 signatures. YEAH KINKY!

In addition, to show he’s not just coasting on his celebrity, here are facts I collected from his Web site, http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/

Facts About Kinky's Petition Drive:
1. More than 169,000 total signatures
2. At least one signature from every single county (254) in Texas
3. More than 3,444 individual circulators
4. More than 4,892 individual petition parts
5. 90% of signatures gathered by volunteers
6. 10% of signatures gathered by paid volunteers who committed to 500+ signatures
7. Paid signature collectors received $1 per signature
8. No outside corporations were hired for the petition drive
9. All signature validation took place in-house, with data entry tabulated on a custom database designed especially for this effort
10. Up to 6 volunteers entering data up to 14 hours per day since March 9th

Now, if that isn’t cool, I don’t know what is. Kinky, my man, if I lived in TX I would volunteer for your campaign, I would wear t-shirts with you on the front, and I would sing at your fundraising/election events.

On to the next item:

2. LANCE ARCHIBALD – you remember Mr. Archibald, don’t you? Of COURSE you do! The gent is originally from Potomac, Maryland (an approximate stone’s throw from my town, but if you threw a stone into Potomac you’d hit lots of BMWs), and his friends were concerned about his prolonged bachelorhood. They created a website (http://www.datelance.com/) as well as posted a colossal billboard with his face on it as well as the caption, “I’m Lance! Let’s go out!”





Well, according to the Deseret News (a newspaper in Utah) a billboard and website went up in response to Lance’s friends’ request.

(Please note: the web address given on the billboard – http://www.datemelance.com/ – is currently inactive. Just wanted to mention it right now before anyone tried it.)

The lovely woman was…Anmaree Osmond. Yes, related to THAT Osmond family – her father Tom is one of the two oldest brothers in the Osmond family AND (along with brother Virl) has the distinction of being one of the first hearing-impaired LDS members to go on missionary work.

Now that we know her family tree, Anmaree herself is an editor at Connect magazine, a local magazine (not sure what it covers – I’d bet cultural events and other things of that nature). She is also a very nice looking girl. However, she and Lance never really hooked up in the dating sense. You can read about it by clicking here. It’s a shame, really – if they’d hooked up, they’d have built in entertainment for the wedding! But I digress…

3. SHIBLEY HORANEY (and BTW, doesn’t that sound more like a skin disorder that’s corrected by hot baths and calamine lotion? No photo has been found yet...)

Mr. Horaney is the brain trust that filed a lawsuit against the MGM Mirage on the claim that they “preyed” on his gambling addiction. Even though I posted this in 2005, I still get hits for it when I check my stats.

Well, let’s see here. According to this post, his brother passed away in 2003. Nope, not it.

In this finding, he’s noted as being a campaign donor for Mary Bono (widow of Sonny Bono, who took over his seat in the US House of Reps when Mr. Bono passed).

Check THIS out – he’s also a donor for the American University of Beirut. (Wonder if he gets a free t-shirt with that? “I spent millions gambling so I could donate to this fine institution and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”)

Jeepers! Here’s something showing his name as a member of the board of directors for Cerritos Valley Bancorp!

But nothing (so far) showing his final verdict. I’ve put my friend Circe on the case, and hopefully something will turn up. I just gotta know if he actually succeeded with stupidity and no sense of personal responsibility being his guides!

Well, I guess that’s all for now, folks.

I’ll do this again sometime; it was actually pretty fun, all things considered!