Sir Creep

Yes it is and should be placed there. No smileys from me. SC

Jordin Sparks' step-sister Bryanna Jackson-Frias, 16, died Tuesday, Jan. 30 of complications from her lifelong battle with sickle cell anemia, which causes red blood cells to stick to vessel walls, blocking blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching tissues. SC

Yesterday's tsunami that wasn't. AccuWeather taking some heat for sending out tsunami alert to phones....only it was a system test, a fact left unsaid in the warning. SC

Especially when a female teacher has sex with a male student. Can you imagine if 'probation' or minor punishment (a year in jail etc) was doled out to male teachers in the same boat? SC

People were verklempt when Gustav Klimt (55) received The Kiss of death exactly 100 years ago today!

You may have that reversed; may have been why Paul stayed on the road for 76 years, so he wouldn't have to be stuck at home with that nagging beatnik. SC

"I've been great," Newton-John told ET's Keltie Knight. "Yeah, I feel really good." Terrible pick, but as we know the Committee chooses names it thinks will draw traffic to the site. So I would understand her inclusion if they didn't pass over putting skater Scott Hamilton on the DL last year when he battled cancer a THIRD time, so I'll stand by my 'terrible pick' comment. SC

He was my 1st alternate in Death Pool Cup. Grrr. SC

Here’s one from my old home town. Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Richard Skutt died Monday. Skutt, who handled criminal cases for the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan, collapsed in the courthouse Monday at lunch time and later died. SC

On live camera, Aaron Traywick injected himself with a highly experimental, never-before-tested, gene-altering herpes treatment made by his own company: Ascendance Biomedical, a 20-person, largely self-funded biotech startup. Traywick, Ascendance’s CEO, says his goal is to get potentially life-saving treatments out of the lab and into patients’ hands faster than pharmaceutical companies can. By making himself a public guinea pig for the company’s herpes cure — he caught the disease five years ago from a partner — he said he’s promoting transparency in science. SC

The Maldives government has declared a state of emergency for 15 days amid a political crisis in the island nation. The state of emergency gives security officials in the Indian Ocean state extra powers of arrest, reports say. The government has already suspended parliament and ordered the army to resist any moves by the Supreme Court to impeach President Abdulla Yameen. Security forces have entered the Supreme Court and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the ex-president, has been arrested. SC

I have to admit -- being in the 2018 Death Pool Cup, it makes it far less likely I would post a name I discovered in hopes of being able to use it (until I get the boot). That's not my M.O., I typically want to be first to post. Alas....the dichotomy. I found some American male today who is 99-44/100% meaningless in DDP (like Mayor Bill Hargis), but totally useful in the 2018 Cup. So now I can't post him. We all lose lol. If someone outs him I'll point it out. SC

I have a great-great uncle who was an actor in a few Mack Sennett shorts in the 1920's, one of which survives according to some old time movies page I stumbled on once, and some old man in Texas has lots of films from that era, including supposedly one my relative was in. I'm dying to see it (well not dying, as I've never bothered in 4 years or so to hunt down this guy even though I drive across Texas to go to work). Point is, he was an actor in a few films, got a big write-up in the Harrisburg, PA paper one time for being Ben Franklin at some Washington DC event on countries sesquicentennial, but is buried in an unmarked grave in Pennsylvania (took me a couple years to discover where he ended up). Gotta be lots of 2-bit actors like that. SirC

This is my 6,666th post! SC

I'm aware it's been posted, but needs to be here. A leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been fatally stabbed at his home, according to police in Kenya. Esmond Bradley Martin was found with a stab wound to the neck at his Nairobi home on Sunday after a concerned relative went to check up on him after they were unable to get in touch with him. Conservationist Paula Kahumbu said the 75-year-old was at the forefront of exposing ivory traffickers in the US, Congo, Vietnam, Nigeria, Angola, China and more recently Burma. SC

Cowboys fan, Robert Clyde Drew, died so he wouldn’t have to watch Patriots & Eagles play, according to his obit. SC

Paul Simon is SEVENTY-SIX?!! Well, he's retiring from touring. SC

Devastating news for Seattle Seahawks defensive end Frank Clark. Clark lost four members of his family, including his father, in a house fire in Cleveland last week. Cleveland.com reported on the fire on Tuesday, but did not call it arson. Two of the four people who died were children, ages 3 and 8. It was reportedly the deadliest fire in the city since 2009. SC

Bishnu, the one-horned rhino, died a few days short of its 34th birthday. Assam State Zoo officials said Bishnu, the oldest of half a dozen one-horned rhinos in captivity, died at 8 a.m. on Monday. Few had expected Bishnu to survive a bout of diarrhoea around this time in 2016. Such was the severity of the affliction that his rectum had come out. “He just did not give up despite the obvious pain. Our veterinarians reinserted his rectum after a marathon operation to script a rare success story,” Tejas Mariswamy, the zoo’s divisional forest officer told The Hindu. Bishnu’s digestive system improved but it began losing teeth. Last year, the rhino developed defecation problems again. “His teeth had worn out a few months ago. We noticed he was chewing the grass with his gums and spitting it out after ingesting the juice. Then he stopped eating and we feared the worst,” Mr. Mariswamy said. But Bishnu was in better health since December, with a team of zoo employees moving along with the animal holding a saline drip hanging from a piece of slender bamboo. This made Bishnu more of an attraction than it was before. It lived almost as long as a rhino in the wild does. Rhinos in captivity usually live up to 40 years, officials said. SC

Well it’s in English... lol http://www.okayplayer.com/music/ndugu-chancler-drummer-michael-jackson-billie-jean-dead-at-65.html note it says Chancler not Chandler. SC

Old rockers over 70 are automatically suspect. Just noticed that Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney & Bonnie is 73. No health issues I can find, but as stated, automatically suspect. SC

I suck at picking Shameless types. But try I must. One of my two, my slam dunk, somehow has raised $ to get treatment in Germany. The 'immunotherapy' is experimental and may not amount to much, but I DO find it interesting that Karen Land has a date set in March, seeing as she was given 3 months to live around Christmas and it's presently early February. Shouldn't she be leaving next week? I"ve been duped....haven't I? SC

A much-celebrated gannet, the only one of its kind living on an island off the coast of New Zealand, has been found dead surrounded by concrete replicas of birds it is believed he thought were his friends and family. Nigel “no mates”, as he was affectionately known, lived his life on the edge of a desolate cliff on the almost-uninhabited Mana Island, with only 80 fake gannets for company. SC

A Pediatrician Shares Life’s Meaning From His Talks With Dying Kids These children have already figured out what’s important. Alastair McAlpine, a palliative pediatrician from Cape Town, South Africa, decided to present a few of these bigger philosophical questions to his patients. He asked what they had enjoyed about life and the people, places and things that suffused their lives with meaning. It turns out the kids, ages 4 to 9, had an abundance of good advice to share. Grab some Kleenex you heartless bastards. SC