ODD Helter Skelter
“Helter Skelter” was scrawled on the walls of a refrigerator, and helped frame the Manson Family trial for the Tate-LaBianca murders, presided over by Judge Charles Older, now dead at age 88 due to complications from a fall at home. You don’t want to check out what is scrawled on our ODDrefrigerator, but it has to do with dairy products, manual labor, the entitlement-to-be-taken, juices of ground-hugging plants, friendly chemicals, and flesh of ichthyoids. Incidentally, Paul McCartney wrote “Helter Skelter” in response to The Who’s “I Can See For Miles,” which was thought to have been the wildest rock song recorded to that time. Oh such delightful competition in days long gone. Save us now from white guys doing hip-hop. (We won’t name names.) Judge Older came to the courtroom with a few personal credentials, including becoming a double ace as a Flying Tiger’s pilot in WW II. He shot down 10 1/4 Japanese aircraft (someone out there in ODDland please explain how you shoot down ¼ airplane).
In the category of “It works, but what do it mean?” we report the death of Manny Cortez, long-time president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, who, when Vegas was in a post-9/11 slump, came up with the slogan, “What happens here, stays here.” Well, 37 million annual visitors seem to have personal resonance with this little bit of ambiguity, and fill in their own blanks. We ODD fellows think having a moment of abduction and orifice violation by aliens on loan to the Ka Cirque du Soleil should definitely stay in Las Vegas. Do the tourist thing and see them (but don’t bend over) at the MGM Grand. Manny died of a heart attack. Guess it beats 13 rounds from a white caddy.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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