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Consider this news item from a few days ago:

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Meat Puppets Bassist Gets 21 Months
MESA, Ariz. - Cris Kirkwood, former bass player for the Meat Puppets rock band, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for attacking a security guard with a baton outside a post office.
Kirkwood, 43, pleaded guilty May 10 to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
He was shot during the Dec. 26 incident at the post office in downtown Phoenix and authorities said he was on probation at the time for a 2000 drug offense.
According to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Kirkwood was arguing with a woman about a parking space outside the post office when she approached security guard Thomas Goodrum.
Kirkwood yelled profanities at Goodrum, then shoved the security guard.
In the ensuing scuffle, Kirkwood managed to get Goodrum's collapsible baton away from him and hit him on the head, knocking off the guard's eyeglasses. Goodrum then pulled his handgun and fired a shot into Kirkwood's back, the complaint states.
Kirkwood and his brother, Curt, fronted the Meat Puppets, a Phoenix-area band that had several hit records in the 1980s and '90s. They were cited as an influence for bands such as Nirvana and earned a gold record in 1994 for "Too High to Die."
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Now at first glance you might be thinking, "Hey, damn. I liked the 'Puppets. Looks they'll be outta the scene for a while longer." Or perhaps, "Goddang agro-hippy-humbug ex-rocker." I read it a couple times and the thing that stood out was the rent-a-cop. First the pussy gets his baton taken from him in a fight. Then he gets beaten by his own baton. Then he shoots - prolly to kill but has shit-aim - our fallen rockstar in the fucking back. I thought on this for a while and realised that everyone I know who had scrapes with rent-a-cops won the initial fight and got shot in the back or tazed. That's about a good half-dozen people! Why are these rent-a-cops losing fights? The question plagued me and I did a bit of Internet-research. I found a site that cleared up the mystery for me. Quoting now, from the prospectus of a nationally-known rent-a-cop training company: "Once certified, the officer (their word) will be trained to deal with the highly-anticipated situation of losing a scuffle (their word) with an adversary: Lethal force. Our programs include rudimentary firearms-training - supplying more than enough skill to kill or wound fleeing suspects." Kinda freaked me out. And Kirkwood still gets 21 in the Slam. Dang but life ain't fair.

Tonight - Kickin' it Market Street w/ Jesus: Orbit Room.

Here's tonight's: Find the Reference! Good luck with this one.

Get yr buns to the onetime headquarters of the TNSC. Meet yr original four* Founding Members - that's right! Susan Dynamite is back in town for drinkeys!

I know I will.
See you there!
bye-ee!


*Four if Mr. Metsker joins us ...


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