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What do you say, if anything, when someone sneezes? What do you like people to say to you when you sneeze?

I say the same thing I would have if they had coughed. Nothing. Although sometimes I want to shriek out “COVER YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH.” But I don’t. And I don’t really care what people say to me when I sneeze unless they say “COVER YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH.”

Sarah Palin’s supporters may not be all that bright.

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Jimi Hendrix Shotgun Live 1965 Night Train Backing Buddy & Stacey. Oldest Known Film Footage of Jimi Hendrix Playing Guitar On Nashville’s Channel 5
“WLAC-TV studios, L & C Tower, 159 4th Avenue North, Nashville
Jimi appears as a guitar player in “The Royal Company” playing in the back-up band for Buddy & Stacy on the WLAC-TV Channel 5 show “Night Train” performing “Shotgun”. On the same show Jimmy Church performs “In The Midnight Hour”, the Wilson Pickett version of the song was released in late June – early July. Billy Cox has said that Jimi left and returned to Nashville several times, this could have been one of those visits…

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During my diseased state last week, I did manage to get out my old guitar, shine it up a bit and restring it. Then I managed to play for about a half hour before my fingers started to weep blistery tears. But it was nice to play for a bit. I don’t think I’ve touched it much in the past decade or so. Lack of spare time is the worst part about being grown up. Well, that and every tick of the clock brings you that much closer to death. Oh, and jury duty sucks.

Spoilers of course so if you haven’t seen The Wire yet, get thee to a Netflix account.