Gaylord Perry, the Major League pitcher who won 300 games, threw 3000 strikeouts, won a Cy Young award at 40, and claimed to rely constantly on a spitball (probably more myth than reality) has died at age 84.
RIP
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Gaylord Perry, the Major League pitcher who won 300 games, threw 3000 strikeouts, won a Cy Young award at 40, and claimed to rely constantly on a spitball (probably more myth than reality) has died at age 84.
RIP
Saturday night I had a dream that there was dirt under my fingernails. I started to clean them out with a nail pick, but to my surprise it wasn't dirt. As I watched in disgust I pulled out a long, pitch-black, spiked worm that had burrowed under the skin beneath my nail.
Time and again I pulled one out, two or three from every finger, each leaving an open wound under my fingernail.
In the dream I remember being perplexed, not by their presence, but by all the many, many times I'd cleaned my nails before without realizing they weren't dirty at all.
Watermelon-smashing prop comedian Gallagher has died at age 76 after "a short health battle."
I remember watching his Showtime specials as a kid and thinking he was hilarious, but I haven't seen so much as a clip of him in years.
RIP sir. Thanks for the laughs.
For the second time this week (the first being a hoax) Jerry Lee Lewis has died. The rock 'n roll pioneer and rebel was 87.
It's that "rebel" label that sticks in my head when I think of Lewis. He was far too out there for '50's audiences, no question. And let's be real, some of his choices would get the same response from society today - deservedly so.
It's a shame he couldn't have traveled a smoother path, because I think all that bs cost him a career of unimaginable heights.
RIP