Fish Wrap
A plenty of passings today with some ODD associations. Andre Norton didn’t need drugs to have a psychedelic experience, through her science fiction, she just created them with her stories of misfits and rites of passage. Speaking of misfits, not so much so for the producers of beat poetry. ‘Peyote anyone?’ may be heard at Lamantia’s memorial reading at Enrico’s Cafe.
Eight out of twenty-four Lalo Guerrero sibs didn’t survive childhood. Yikes, 24 pregnancies, not a record (69), but still impressive. Guerrero was a versatile singer and composer characterized as the Father of Chicano Music. One of his parodies was ‘No Chicanos on TV.’ Today’s quiz, before George Lopez, who pioneered Chicanos on TV before the show jumped the shark ?
Lalo Guerrero was multitalented, but Dick Radatz was a specialist’one, if not the best baseball closers ever. He struck out Mickey Mantle 44 of 63 times, but fell down the stairs and died. Cosmic flyswatter. Here’s you ODDfact of the day, the world record for most steps tumbled down in a stunt fall is 109, held by Martin Shelton.
We probably should place that shy, soft-spoken unpretentious girl with the modest clothing, Lil’ Kim, career ‘On Deck.’ Looks like she will be making some special friends soon.
All right, who just shouted ‘Freebird!’? Cut it out. Put down the Bic lighter and walk slowly, and carefully away. Make sure we can see your hands.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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