The Neon Nurse's Charting

I keep planning to get back to doing Tune Tuesday, but I never seem to remember until AFTER another Tuesday has passed. But tonight I remembered!

This one is "Hang 'Em All" by Tom T. Hall, and I thought it kind of went with last week's ghastly vote in Congress to basically throw the legal safeguards from the Bill of Rights that protect you, and me, and all of us, right out the window, on the pretext this somehow will make us safer....

The song features a guy pointing a finger and complaining about various crimes and bad things going on in his town. He thinks, "If you hang 'em all, you get the guilty." But in the final verse, the song warns:

"If they hang 'em all, they get the guilty.
That's what you say we ought to do.
If they hang 'em all they get the guilty,
but remember they're gonna hang you too."

http://www.yousendit.com/download/gMOdExgPYZc%3D

So long as I'm posting, I might as well catch up on the picspam too. This is another one of the photos my mom sent me a scan of. As you may (or may not) recall, in 1961 the hosts of a Denver kids' TV show, Fred and Fae, decided to have some fun spoofing the Miss America craze, and put on a "Little Miss" pageant. I won the Little Miss Thornton contest. My talent was a stand-up comedy routine (written by my mom) where I talked to my pet rat Odie.



This picture was taken by a photographer from Life magazine, who they sent out to cover the pageant because it seems to have been the first time anyone had put one on. Unfortunately, something newsy happened the week the pics were scheduled to run, and the story was never actually run. But the editor was nice enough to send my mom a bunch of the pictures that had me in them, and a lot of slides the guy came to our house to take as well. Something about a little girl and her pet rat just intrigued him!