New Life Lodge
Alumni Association
P.O. Box 430
Burns, TN 37029

To Whom It May Concern,

Please accept this donation offered in memory of our friend Brad Blines. Brad was a part of our online community, called MemeStreams. One of the features of this community is that it tracks the popularity of the posts members make to it. Out of some 800 members, there are only three people in the community who have a higher popularity score then Brad, and they are the people who created the software the community runs on. This fact should illustrate the significant impact that Brad has had on our lives. We owe many smiles and laughs to his posts and comments over the past year. His presence will be missed by all of us.

Sincerely,
Tom & Marie Cross

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WELL said Tom. I am sure Brads NON-Memestreams family and friends will be touched by your words.

Its true - only the good die young. RIP Brad.

LB

For CrankyMessiah...

It is with an extraordinarily heavy heart that I post that my good friend, Brad Blines, died on Thursday morning of a heroin overdose. Folks on memestreams will know him as crankymessiah. People from the 'scene' in Nashville will remember him from the days of Dragon Park, countless concerts and shows, and Predators games.

Brad was one of the lights of my life. We shared the same giddy excitement over music, film, and creativity that few people can understand. We had that kind of brotherly relationship where you don't really have to say anything to hear the other person. I hope that I will be able to still hear his infectious laugh in my head for the rest of my life.

Goodbye my friend.

Brad Michael BLINES
Nashville, TN
Age 35
January 8, 2003
January 8, 2003. Survived by parents, Michael and Diana Blines; sister, Kristin (Richard) Vik; grandmothers, Bonnie (Lloyd) Holt, Ruth Allen; nephews, Ethan Richard Vik, Brennan Michael Vik. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home with Bro. Doug Varnado officiating. Pallbearers will be Chris Scheele, Richard Vik, Michael Dodson, Rich Husband, Jim Folger, Ernie Simon. The Interment will follow at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the New Life Lodge. Visitation will be Friday 5-9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. until service at HARPETH HILLS FUNERAL HOME, 9090 Hwy. 100, 615-646-9292

I am sad, and unhappy...

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

First drawing is done 20 minutes after the first dose (50ug)

An attending doctor observes - Patient chooses to start drawing with charcoal.

The subject of the experiment reports - 'Condition normal... no effect from the drug yet'.

Acid trip 1

] Own A Piece of BellSouth History…

] Due to downward trends in payphone usage, BellSouth plans to
] discontinue providing services to its payphone location provider
] customers.
]
] In partnership with BellSouth Public Communications, the BellSouth
] Pioneer Volunteers are offering for sale original renovated and
] completely operational BellSouth payphones and coinbox doors.

No longer do you need a crowbar to have your own payphone..

BellSouth Renovated Payphone Sale

] Charles Wyckoff and his wife had returned home after a
] funeral for their son when the phone rang.
]
] "Hey, Dad," Kevin Wyckoff said.
]
] "Huh. Well, damn boy. We just had your funeral today,"
] his father said Monday, according to a transcript of the
] call provided Wednesday by the Oklahoma Corrections
] Department.
]
] "Yeah, I know. I heard," Kevin Wyckoff said.

THAT would make for a slightly awkward phone call.

Laughing Boy

Son tells stunned parents he's not the person they just buried

Think before you give that CD as a gift.
Remember, when you buy a major label CDs, you're paying companies to sue familieas and marginalize independent music.

What a Crappy Present - CD Gift Advice, Parents and Kids

] NASA scientists say soot, mostly from diesel engines, is
] causing as much as a quarter of all observed global
] warming by reducing the ability of snow and ice to
] reflect sunlight.
]
] Their findings on how soot affects reflective ability,
] known as albedo, raise new questions about human-caused
] climate change from the Arctic to the Alps.

Gee... watching all those 18 wheelers on the interstates belch clouds of black, ***BLACK*** smoke when they downshift, who would have EVER guessed they were having an impact on the earths albedo???

LB

Diesel soot major global warming factor

] The recording industry can still bring civil lawsuits
] against people who download music illegally, but Friday's
] court ruling will make that more expensive and
] time-consuming.
]
] A federal appeals court said Internet providers, such as
] Verizon, EarthLink and America Online, do not have to
] turn over the names of their customers when music
] companies serve them with a subpoena.
]
] The industry had been relying on such subpoenas to find
] out the names of those they suspect of online music
] piracy. More than 300 lawsuits have already been filed
] against individuals, many of whom have settled for
] thousands of dollars.
]
] Legal experts say the recording industry can still bring
] civil lawsuits against individuals, even without knowing
] their identity, by filing what is known as a "John Doe"
] lawsuit.
]
] Under those guidelines, the industry's lawyers could ask
] a judge for permission to send out subpoenas, legal
] experts said.
]
] "That's a time-consuming and fairly expensive process,"
] said Daniel Ballard, a Sacramento-based intellectual
] property attorney who represents an unidentified woman
] who had sought to block Verizon from releasing her
] identity to the recording industry.

Chalk up one more for the "little guy"

USATODAY.com - Downloading lawsuits getting more costly, time-consuming

Words just can't express the love of a rabbit for a stuffed bunny.

bunnylove

Go Elonka:)

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