I don’t know what you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for seasoning, I can tell you I don’t have spices. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for things like you. If you let my hunger go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will grill you.

Ray Bradbury — author of The Martian Chronicles,Fahrenheit 451,Something Wicked This Way Comes, and many more literary classics — died this morning in Los Angeles, at the age of 91.

In case you were wondering, I was inspired to use Salamander as my online handle over 20 years ago, and it is in reference to the fire truck and symbol used by Guy Montag and the other firemen in Fahrenheit 451.

Never Forget.

Original Here.

The first time I had a clear shot I just swung the pan and hit him right on the head,” Arnold said. “It was like a cartoon – he just kind of stopped and I hit him again. He got stiff and fell over.

“A Colorado man who shot a woman in the head after mistaking her red Mohawk hairdo for a bird has been placed on probation, authorities say.”

“Rockwell, who was banned from owning a gun for a 1995 attempted burglary conviction, told police he had gone outside with his .22-caliber rifle Oct. 5 to shoot a bird that had been harassing his cats. He shot once at what he thought was a red bird on a hilltop about 90 feet away, then heard a woman moaning in pain. He discovered a 23-year-old woman with a head wound.”

Shooter says he mistook woman for bird

The cashier told officers the man approached her register softly mumbling. She asked him several times if she could help. The man finally spoke loud of enough for her to hear that he wanted money and “this was a robbery,” according to the police report.

It was then the man pulled the bullet out of his jacket pocket.

Officers noted the strong odor of alcohol coming from the man.

You don’t say?

What are the most frequently played songs on your iPod or other music thing? I’ve mostly just listened to Pandora since getting an iPhone, so I thought this would be an interesting snapshot of my musical tastes from the not-so-distant past.

Here’s my Top 25 from my iTunes playlist:

1. Super Disco Breakin’ – Beastie Boys
2. Carnival – The Cardigans
3. Ran Kan Kan – Tito Puente & His Orchestra
4. Bittersweet Symphony – The Verve
5. Man of Constant Sorrow – Dan Tyminski/Soggy Bottom Boys
6. 19-2000 – Gorillaz
7. Pain Lies on the Riverside – Live
8. You Are My Sunshine – Norman Blake
9. We Close Our Eyes – Oingo Boingo
10. Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
11. Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
12. Summer Breeze – Type O Negative
13. Keep on the Sunny Side – The Whites
14. Ventura Highway – America
15. Intergalactic – Beastie Boys
16. Song for Junior – Beastie Boys
17. Pictures of Matchstick Men – Camper Van Beethoven
18. Alison – Elvis Costello
19. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
20. The Grease Megamix – John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John
21. Blew – Nirvana
22. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
23. We Are the Champions – Queen
24. The Way I Feel – Remy Shand
25. So Easy – Röyksopp

Seriously?  Grease Megamix?

I got chills, they’re multiplyin’.