08.27.09 Thurs. "Tattoos, Turkeys, and Jurassic Park, oh my!"

Very excited about our first delivery of milk, les than 24 hours out of the cow. I gotta tell you, I was skeptical, but it does actually taste better. Zack is our delivery guy, he’s the son of Dan the Milk Man. Poor Zack was a little late because his milk truck got a flat during his delivery. He said he has a whole new appreciation for what his dad has done for years, delivering milk. Didn’t sound like he had much choice but to join the family business when he was old enough to drive a delivery truck. “Dad said he supported me for years, it was about time I repaid the favor.”

Met yesterday with Tom Blair, the General Manager of Blink Tattoo Removal. They’re going to be a new KMPS Morning Show sponsor. I though they just removed tattoos from people who got a little too drunk in Cabo one Spring Break and now needed that Tweety Bird removed from their ankle. Sure, they do that, but they also do some more interesting tattoo removal.
I didn’t realize that people who get chemo therapy, like people being treated for breast cancer, get tattoos to mark where they get their medicine administered. It helps the doctors target the cancer each treatment. They’re called “radiation port tattoos.” Many people who have their tattoos wear them as a “mark of courage” when their chemo is over. But lots of people want them removed and put that all behind them and get on with their lives. (Some people, like one guy who was being treated for a brain tumor even had the tattoos on his head and when he was done obviously wanted them removed.) Every September and October (in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness and the 3 Day Walk stuff) Blink offers FREE removal of radiation port tattoos for breast cancer survivors!
They also work with a bunch of probation officers and a guy name Brother Rico down in Tacoma to help former gangbangers get back on track. Brother Rico used to be a gang leader down in LA, got out of the life, and now is trying to help kids from making stupid mistakes he made. Blink has a “scholarship program” that covers the cost of gang tattoo removals, but the kids have to do community service and stay on the straight and narrow to qualify.
One of the coolest things they do though is stuff they do for people who want to be in the military or are in the military. Since some branches of the military require that you not have any visible tattoos, if you have something tattooed that is keeping you from being able to enlist, they do the removal for half price! They also give big discounts to currently enlisted military people and their families who want tattoo removal for whatever reason.

The La Conner, WA City Council has a fowl problem. Not long ago a flock of feral turkeys wandered into the area. There were so many gobblers all of a sudden in La Conner that they even made the wild turkey the official “town bird.” But apparently the turkeys have overstayed their welcome. La Conner residents are now complaining that the birds ruin yards, peck at houses, and leave lots of turkey droppings all over the place. So, the City Council there is trying to decide what to do with them and it looks like it’s down to adopting out the turkeys or possibly donating them to a “firearms safety course.” Just goes to show you, one day you’re cock of the walk and the next day you’re Thanksgiving dinner…

A 61-year-old Mount Vernon, Washington state man says he accidentally shot himself in the leg while chasing an opossum that had been terrorizing his chickens. Larry Tenbrink said his chickens began disappearing months ago and he would always find signs of a struggle in the morning. But he never spotted the thief -- a cat-sized opossum -- until Sunday night. Tenbrink said he heard his chickens "carrying on" about 11pm and grabbed his .22-caliber pistol when he saw the opossum chasing the birds. But Tenbrink, who said he does not drink, accidentally pulled the trigger too early and shot himself through the lower right thigh. Accidentally shooting yourself in the leg? Who does this guy think he is, an NFL player?!

Over the next couple of months in London, ATMs will be reprogrammed so their written prompts, like when you’re supposed to put your card in or enter your PIN, will be in regular English and cockney. Cockney is an odd English rhyming slang that some people in the area speak. Think, Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.” Instead of an ATM card, it would instruct you to insert your “bladder of lard.” Money is “bread and honey.” Instead of cash, you withdraw “sausage and mash.” Before you laugh, wouldn’t that be funny if we started doing that over here? Down South it would say “hey, ya’ll wanna git ya’ll summu dat spendin’ dollars outta dis here doohickey?”

The brothers of late pop star Michael Jackson will star in a reality series. The working title is "It's About Time Somebody Paid Attention to Us.”

Bob Dylan is to release a Christmas album for charity. If you’re like me, you can't wait for Dylan's rendition of "Mumble Bells."

Here’s another shining example of an upside of the downturn. Junk mail delivering is down 16 percent in the past nine months. Businesses that are still mailing your junk mail are sending a while lot less, and most have stopped sending it out all together. Fewer catalogs, fewer credit card solicitations, and fewer circulars are cluttering up our mailboxes. Although I’m personally glad to see less junk mail, this could spiral into some serious problems for our economy! Less junk mail that mailmen have to carry, the fewer back problems they have, the less Tylenol they buy and the fewer visits they need to pay to their chiropractor! It starts with no Victoria Secret catalogs in the mail and it ends in a deep economic depression! Just you wait and see!

After years spent hunting for the buried remains of prehistoric animals, a Canadian paleontologist now plans to manipulate chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur. Hans Larsson (at Montreal's McGill University) said he aims to develop dinosaur traits that disappeared millions of years ago in birds. Larsson believes by flipping certain genetic levers during a chicken embryo's development, he can reproduce the dinosaur anatomy. Would somebody please rent a copy of “Jurassic Park” for this guy. This is NOT going to end well…