Month: August 2006

Kinky Friedman is on the Startlegram’s latest Hot Seat podcast.

Lifenews reports:

Adult stem cell research may soon have another medical issue that can be added to the list of diseases or ailments patients have that it can offer help. Scientists are studying whether injections of bone marrow cells can spark regrowth in cartilage to help repair damaged knees.
Knee problems are very common — they occur in people of all ages and can be the result of disease or injury.
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The first clinical trial involving the bone marrow stem cells has begun to try to regenerate the meniscus. Doctors will be using mesenchymal stem cells, the adult stem cells that live in bone marrow and can transform into cartilage-forming cells called chondrocytes.
Some 55 patients have signed up for both stem cell injections and a placebo and the first results are expected to come in around October.

I’m sure several of our wrestlers are hoping this turns out positively.

My mate Thomas’ wife Olly has a new blog. Check it out. Looks like it will be a good one.

If you’re tired of summer re-runs and looking for some cheap entertainment tonight, head over to the WDL blog.
I’ll be blogging from the Waxahachie City Council’s budget workshop (if all goes as planned).
Usually budget hearings can be a bit dull and slow, but I’ll try to liven it up for all you folks at home.

Before he left the paper, I believe Eric was working on a story or two regarding Jerry Lee Lewis.
I just found this while doing separate research on Wikipedia:

His (Lewis’) mother enrolled him in Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, Texas, secure in the knowledge that her son would now be exclusively singing his songs to the Lord. But legend has it that the he tore into a boogie-woogie rendition of “My God Is Real” at a church assembly that sent him packing the same night. Pearry Green (then president of the student body) related how during a talent show Jerry played some “worldly” music. The next morning the dean of the school called both Jerry and Pearry into his office to expel them both. Jerry then said that Pearry shouldn’t be expelled because “he didn’t know what I was going to do.” Years later Pearry asked Jerry “Are you still playing the devil’s music?” Jerry replied “Yes, I am. But you know it’s strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don’t.”