A New MITM Book on the Horizon?

Happy 5th of July. I have become depressed for some reason over the past twelve hours; I wonder if it's due to my country turning 236 years old? I realize that 236 is very young as countries go but after about the age of fourteen or so, with the exceptions of maybe 16 (divers' license), 18 (lottery, voting and porn) and 21 (drinking legally) all of the other birthdays are just us getting closer to death.

"Lee Harvey...I wanna (write about)  you cowboy."

We recorded the new Dirty Laundry Podcast last night and it is up. I always have a hard time blogging around this time for fear of repeating what we discuss on the podcast.

Has anyone read the book 11/22/63? I guess it is a Stephen King novel about the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination. I feel a need to read it mainly because of how I heard about the book. On my recent trip to Dallas I visited the grave of Lee Harvey Oswald (supposed assassin of JFK). While we were looking for the grave-site an older couple waved us over to where they were probably knowing what we were looking for. We went over and there was the headstone of LHO. It did not seem odd at the time but looking back I wonder if they were ghosts because many things now, as I write this, seem pretty odd. Firstly, they were from Massachusetts as I ascertained by their accents and remarked as such to them. The husband was a history teacher so knew quite a bit about the event and many things I did not even know. They also told us that they were staying at the hotel where John and Jacqueline Kennedy stayed his last night alive (The Hotel Texas in downtown Ft. Forth). All of this seemed really cool at the time but it didn't seem eerie until I write it now. I am usually a person to put something supernatural and creepy into everything just to entertain myself but why wouldn't I have tied this together until now? Anyway, the wife was the one who suggested I read 11/22/63. She said it is about time-travel or something where someone comes back to the time of the JFK assassination to try to stop the killing. I have always been fascinated by those events and while in The School Book Depository I came to the thought that LHO had nothing to do with the JFK assassination - he was a TRUE 100% patsy. There was no exhibit or evidence at the Depository that gave me that thought other than the thought just popping into my head. I still do not know why I believe he had nothing to do with it. I had always thought he, at the very least, had something to do with the assassination. Maybe I started to think about it when I heard, which I already knew, that he just left his rifle lying on the floor where the shot was supposedly fired. That doesn't seem like something somebody who planned such an act with such detail would do. He obviously didn't want to be a martyr/hero for doing it or when he was captured at the Texas Theatre he would not have denied it. Maybe you never really know a man until you lie on his grave and speak to ghosts from Massachusetts (coincidence that JFK was from there too?) Maybe I need to write a story about this huh?  

The view of an assassin?

There is a town in Texas that we passed-through named Pearland. The whole time I was down there I wondered, "is it pronounced 'pair land' or 'pearl land'?" I still do not know and I now wish I would have stopped at a gas station and asked someone. Maybe if I have to go down and do some research for my story about Nick Beef and Lee Harvey Oswald I will mosey into that town and find out. If you don't know about Nick Beef you haven't listened to last week's podcast yet have you?

Why does everybody hate gluten so much? I love gluten. I don't even know what it is but it sounds like fun. Isn't gluten just protein? What did gluten ever do to anybody? Don't be a gluten hater. I heart gluten!!! I am starting the gluten fan club! Our spokesperson will be Augustus Gluten (and we will get the dude who played Augustus Gloop to play him).

I am done for today. I am still depressed but at least I was distracted for a little while. Maybe if I write this LHO/Nick Beef story it will distract me and I will snap out of whatever funk I am in; I imagine it's just my Mattsruation since it is usually end of month/beginning of the month but who knows? Thanks for letting me ramble-on; you always make me feel better no matter what mood I am in. TTTT (probably)....MITM (ghost) TA!