Pheaturing Linda Cardellini From "Dead To Me"

Hey, kids, welcome to the Phile for a Monday. Man, 2020 has been the car on a highway with its liners on going 20 miles under the speed limit and still won't get up out of the left lane. The world would be an infinitely better place if we could go days, weeks, months, or even years without another viral story of a "Karen" flexing her white privilege in the most destructive way. Unfortunately, we aren't there yet, so for now... people keep their phone cameras strapped and ready to document the Central Park Karens (aka Amy Cooper) of the world so they can no longer throw their fits without consequences. The most recent white woman who went viral for racist harassment attempted to file a police report after calling a woman named Jen the N-word. The video made the rounds on Twitter on Thursday and shows the Karen storm from her car into the police station to make a report. At the start of the video, Jen pans the camera to reveal the Karen's license plate, and says "here's the idiot who thought it was okay to call me a nigga, come on let's file a hate crime." "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry for the looting, I'm sorry for everything, what do you want from me? You passed me," the Karen responded emphatically. When Jen asked the Karen why she thought it was okay to call her the N-word, the Karen responded, "Because I'm so fed up with this shit." Jen followed her into the police station, asking the Karen what exactly she was going to report. "I can't take this anymore, I'm trying to move out," the Karen screamed, before turning to the desk clerk. "She passed me on the left, and I witnessed the lootings, I can't take it anymore," the Karen yelled. When Jen asked why any of this justified using the N-word and going to the cops, the Karen yelled, "You guys call each other that all the time!" The video ended with the white woman crying because she was called out, and storming out "to get her purse." Luckily, no actual police report was filed. It wasn't long before the video spread across Twitter, with people roasting the Karen, but also pointing out how horrifying her logic was. A few pointed out how bizarre it was that Karen used slurs and got mad at Jen for "passing her on the left" when that's the legal way to pass someone. More than that, people pointed out how ugly it is to have racism jump out during a regular moment in traffic. While others focused on the portion of the exchange where Karen said she was "tired," and Jen responded by saying that black people have been tired for 400 years. In general, people found it satisfying to watch this woman crumple into herself. A lot of people really respected the fact that Jen followed through on confronting the Karen, and in doing so, protected herself from a fabricated police report. It's a good thing Jen documented everything, because this story could have ended very differently if the Karen had lied to the police and sent them after Jen. This is one of the many reasons it's so important to call out racism, it's not just a matter of some people being mean or ignorant, it's often a matter of life and death.
Seattle officers hold down a protester, and one repeatedly punches him in the face. In another run-in, officers handcuff a looting suspect on the ground, one pressing a knee into his neck... the same tactic used on George Floyd. The officers were captured on videos appearing to violate policies on how to use force just days after Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police, setting off nationwide protests. With calls for police reforms across the U.S., instructors and researchers say officers lack sufficient training on how and when to use force, leaving them unprepared to handle tense situations. Better training can’t fix all the issues facing the nation’s police departments, but experts believe it would have a big impact. “The skills are not taught well enough to be retained and now the officer is scrambling to find something that works,” said William Lewinski, executive director at Minnesota-based Force Science Institute, which provides research, training and consulting to law enforcement agencies. Its two-year study of three large U.S. police academies says skills like using a baton or taking down an aggressive offender deteriorate dramatically within two weeks. A recent Associated Press investigation found that a lack of firearms training has resulted in unintentional shootings by law enforcement. It’s the same problem with use-of-force techniques, Lewinski said. “Police officers across the country are woefully undertrained,” said Sean Hendrickson, an instructor at Washington state’s police academy in suburban Seattle. The AP was invited to the facility to see use-of-force training, a component of a 2012 federal agreement to reform the Seattle Police Department after officers were found to routinely use excessive force. The academy is considered one of the more progressive in the country for trying to mirror what officers will face on the streets. There’s classroom work, and cadets learn to combine skills by play-acting scenarios. In an old building decorated to look like an apartment, one officer plays the offender and others try to deescalate tensions, take away his weapon and put him in handcuffs. In a parking lot, officers pair off. One wears padding on their shins and the other practices swinging a baton, hitting low on the legs. They also learn to arrest someone who’s fighting back. An instructor plays the suspect, with one officer bear-hugging his legs and another wrapping his arms around him to take him to the ground. That officer presses against him chest to chest until he “wears himself out,” instructor Rich Lee said. Then they flip him over, still holding his legs, with an officer’s knee in the center of his back as they handcuff him. Police in the Seattle videos didn’t use those techniques. No one held the suspects’ legs and one officer had his knee on a suspect’s neck until his partner pushed it off. In Washington state, cadets must complete 720 hours of training, “but those skills start to degrade immediately,” Hendrickson said. Some states only require 400 to 500 hours of academy training and require 24 hours or less of training once they’re on the job. Often, follow-up training is online, not hands-on. “There’s no profession that trains so little but expects so much,” Lewinski said. But not all officers can be taught, he acknowledged. When it came to Derek Chauvin, the officer charged in Floyd’s death, “I’m not sure that training would have made a difference,” Lewinski said. “What he did was definitely criminal.” Protesters are demanding reforms ranging from cutting funding to banning chokeholds. There’s been success in some states, such as California, where the governor ordered the police training program to stop teaching a neck hold that blocks blood flowing to the brain. A measure introduced this week in Congress would limit legal protections for police, create a national database of excessive-force incidents and address training. “A profession where you have the power to kill should be a profession where you have highly trained officers that are accountable to the public,” U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, a California Democrat and chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told reporters. Reforming police use-of-force training was a major issue in 2014 and 2015, following the deaths of several black men at the hands of police, including Eric Garner, Michael Brown and others. In New York City, where Garner died, the nation’s largest police department retrained all patrol officers, dismantled how beat cops did their jobs and moved to a community policing model where officers were encouraged get to know their precincts and focus on deescalation. It looked like police reform was gaining traction nationwide, but as the 2016 election took the spotlight, the effort faded, especially after the Justice Department shifted its civil rights priorities. Most academies bombard officers with one subject, like communication, and then move to the next topic, like use of force, without integrating those skills, making them easy to forget, Force Science studies say. An example of successfully using training can be seen in a video of a security guard who took two stolen AR-15’s from some young men during the Seattle protests. The guard with military training hired to protect several journalists secured one gun and then calmly walked up to the second suspect, took the firearm out of his hands and unloaded it. “His movements were very deliberate, even under those stressful circumstances,” Hendrickson said. “When you’ve done it enough times, that’s going to dictate how smooth you’re able to take control. He didn’t have to think about those skills.” Lacking skills leads to bad reactions, Hendrickson said. “I’ve been in situations where I’m frantic and the other officer is cool, calm and collected,” he said. “How did they do that without screaming? It all comes back to training. When we lack confidence, a lot of times we raise our voice, start swearing. It’s all about fear.” Jerrell Wills, manager of the applied-skills division at the Washington academy, said racial tension is a reason he wants to improve how officers are taught. A black man who’s been in law enforcement for 30 years, Wills said he’s been racially profiled and had people threaten to call the police for no good reason. Now, he worries about his sons. “That’s why the work we do is so important,” Wills said. “Because I care about this industry, my community and my African American community.”
Two South Carolina National Guardsmen deployed to Washington D.C. to respond to civil unrest found several shards of glass in the pizza they ordered while staying in an area hotel. The soldiers found broken glass in the dough and cheese mixed in the pizza, according to a defense department report. The soldiers did not eat the pizza and were not injured. Capt. Jessica Donnely, a spokeswoman for S.C. National Guard stated, “What a man says is that the soldiers are okay and that this is the only incident to their knowledge.” She noted the soldiers were advised to file a police report of the incident, but the D.C. Metro Police Department stated no report was filed at the time. The incident occurred in the deployment of National Guard Units from various states to respond to destructive actions following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd was killed while in police custody, as officer Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee on the back of Floyd’s neck for a total of 8 minutes. His death sparked several protests spreading worldwide. Protests spread to Washington D.C. where rioting and looting occurred, which prompted the deployment of National Guard units from Indiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Utah, and New Jersey. National Guard units were also brought in to help reinforce security measures around the White House. According to American Military News, more than 60 Secret Service agents were injured between the first weekend of D.C. protests. Demonstrators were reportedly throwing bricks, bottles, fireworks, rocks, and other items reportedly kicking and punching members of the president’s Protective Service. The following weekend there was reportedly less severe protest action, and President Donald Trump ordered the drawdown of all National Guard units from Washington D.C. Members of S.C. The National Guard faced little confrontation from protesters, according to the Post Courier, but two Guardsmen were hospitalized after lightning struck near where they were stationed in support of White House security measures at Lafayette Park.
Jesus Christ, Nebraska. This is the type of thing you’d expect to hear about Alabama. If you were watching a really mean-spirited cartoon about the state written by someone who hates it. Or listening to a deposition about Roy Moore. Even the guy in the trailer park who sells stolen porn website passwords and secret videos he took in the showers at a nearby campsite is creeped out by this father-daughter relationship. Fortunately for 21-year-old Samantha Kershner, at least she avoided jail time for her incestuous marriage to her dad, Travis Fieldgrove. Kershner was initially charged with incest but pleaded no contest and had her charge reduced to misdemeanor false reporting, which got her nine months of probation from Hall County Court. So how did such an Appalachian arrangement come to pass? It’s simple, really. The Nebraska woman reportedly had a heated sibling rivalry with her half-sister, and because they are both insane, they ended up having a “jealous competition” over their dad’s penis. It’s a tale as old as time, really... insomuch that it’s probably the plot to an extremely uncomfortable ancient Greek tragedy or an Egyptian deity origin story. Obviously Kershner won the competition (hard pass on finding out whatever the silver medal for that race was) and started doing her dad in September of 2018. Because Kershner and Fieldgrove were apparently two of the only three people within of a 200-mile radius of themselves, the pair quickly fell in love and got hitched at the Adams County Courthouse in Hastings, Nebraska. And she was still married to her dad, who didn’t actually believe he was Kershner’s father, despite her mother saying he was. A DNA test very much backed up Kershner’s mother’s claim, saying there is a 99.999% chance Fieldgrove is Kershner’s dad. Despite that mountain of cockblocking evidence, Fieldgrove was still 100% having sex with and married to his daughter. For his part, Fieldgrove doesn’t believe he’s Kershner’s dad despite overwhelming scientific and exculpatory evidence because she has a different last name than him. And that sounds about right for this whole situation. Fieldgrove himself faced a whole litany of charges stemming from his gross life. He was ordered not to contact his daughter-wife, and was sentenced to serve one year of supervised release (which was reduced from an initial sentence of two years behind bars). He was also wanted on incest charges and making false statements under oath in Adams County, where the pair got married. Now feel free to drink until everything you’ve just learned is erased from your brain or causes a brain injury to make you forget.
The deepest person you know is about to get a whole lot more insufferable. The hottest new tattoo trend for people who are “spiritual but not religious” is called AstroFrecks and it involves exactly what the title says. People are getting the constellations their astrological signs are based on tattooed on their faces. People are getting Virgo, Pisces, Cancer, etc. sprinkled across their face in permanent ink to let everyone they see know that they are in touch with the cosmos. One with the universe. A little crazy. But maybe in a fun way, it depends on the sign. The Michigan based tattoo artist who dreamt up the idea, Jessica Knapik, has had a ton of customers for it so far. Her clients aren’t just getting their own signs though. Some get the signs of loved ones, both alive and deceased, in order to honor and remember them. If we’re being honest with ourselves this sort of dumb and hilarious but it’s also a massive improvement over, say, getting the Chinese symbol for love tattooed on your lower back or arm or wherever. At least people have a connection to astrology. It’s not like they’re just randomly picking foreign symbols out of a hat until they find one that looks cool and think vaguely describes who they are or want to be as a person. And also if we as a society are cool with teardrop tattoos then there’s no reason to point and laugh at AstroFrecks for very long. They’re also way better than ornate, outrageous neck tattoos that basically bleed up onto the face anyway. If the wing on your butterfly tattoo runs all the way to right under your earlobe then it’s a face tattoo Sherlene, and you’re not going to convince me otherwise.
Have you heard of the new band K.W.A.? No? Here's the album cover...

I bet they have really good songs on it. So, there's big Black Lives Matter protests going on and there's small Black Lives Matter protests going on, like this one in Acklam, England. Yes, England.

Trump went across the street to St. John's church again, wonder what he's up to this time...

Yeah, I see that really happening. Ever see those panhandlers with their signs? Some of them get very creative...

Hahaha. Some celebrities are tone-deaf when it comes to posting about the George Floyd protests. I don't know who Jake Paul but he and his friends were spotted at the protests in Arizona, and were allegedly seen looting the mall.

If I had a TARDIS I'd probably find this dog and want to bring it back with me...

A German dog is dressed up to look like an aircraft spotter by by 88 mm anti-aircraft gun during World War II in 1943. Speaking of dogs, this should make you laugh... a pic of "dog food."

Haha. So, this past weekend I got sunburnt a little bit but nothing like this guy...

That's funny. So, most of you know my wardrobe is pretty much t-shirts, shorts and either sneakers or flip-flops. Well, this summer I might go for a new look. How would I look wearing this?

Nah. Never mind. Father's Day is right around the corner and if you're looking for a perfect card to get how about this one?

Now I'm thirsty. Great. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, New York here is...

Top Phive Things Said About Protesters Toppling Statues Of Christopher Columbus And Confederate Generals
5. Throw every Christopher Columbus statue in the ocean and let that dizzy bitch think he discovered Atlantis.
4. So just to clarify... these “all lives matter” people have a problem with statues of slave traders and racist figures being taken down but not the fact that innocent people are being killed daily purely because of their skin color?? Hmmm... anywho.
3. Antifa beheaded the Christopher Columbus statue... what's next are they going to destroy the penis on the Statue of David?
2. I'd say there's some tension between the Republican arguments that Democrats were the pro-slavery traitors and their insistence on honoring them with statues.
And the number one thing said about protestors topping statues of Columbus and Confederate generals was...
1. The only ones who should be mad that racist statues are being removed are pigeons because their toilets are suddenly gone.

If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. Okay, you know I live in Florida, right? Well, here's another story from this crazy state...

A Fort Meyers, Florida woman awoke to find two murderous lizards fighting each other on her front porch because apparently living in Florida is essentially the same thing as living in "The Land of the Lost." Susan Geshel said she heard a loud pounding on her front porch and when she went to investigate she found the pair of gators going at each other. She captured the alligator death match on video and posted it to her Facebook. In the video, one of the gators appears to be trying to walk away, as if to say, “it’s chill bro it’s chill, my bad my bad” when the other gator, not yet finished teaching this first gator a lesson, opens its mouth and then suddenly clamps down on its foe’s midsection. Geshel said she called wildlife officials to come handle the incident but by the time they arrived, the gators had both retreated to a pond across the street. I love that the gators slinking back to the pond across the street from the woman’s house is the end of the story. “Oh good, they walked fifty feet over that way so they can lay in wait for someone’s cat or toddler to come along and become their dinner. Problem solved! Good job everyone.” Gators are definitely not the problem some people (me!) make them out to be in Florida, but it’s still absolutely surreal to see prehistoric lizards wandering around a condo. It does not seem like it should be a thing.

In the future, imagine how many Go-Pros will be found in snow mountains containing the last moments of people’s lives.

This person who is anti-vax but not anti-injecting disinfectant.

Shoot 'er up my veins.

FAMILY PLANNING
The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster.

The 128th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...

Isla will be on the Phile on Wednesday. Okay, let's see what is going on live in Port Jeff, shall we?

Hmmm... what is that guy doing with his truck on the walkway there? Let's get a closer look...

Oh, some kinda landscaping and it's not a truck but a cargo. I think he's digging a hole. Maybe if I remember after the interview I'll check back to see if he's still there.

Today's guest is an American actress. In television, she is known for her leading roles in the teen drama "Freaks and Geeks," the medical drama "ER," the drama thriller "Bloodline," and now recently in Netflix's "Dead to Me" which the second season is now streaming. Please welcome to the Phile... Linda Cardellini.

Me: Linda, welcome to the Phile. I've been a big fan of yours for years. How are you?

Linda: Hello, I'm good.

Me: So, I am a big fan of "Dead to Me," I binged watched the first season last year and this new season this year. So, what drew you to the character of Judy, your character?

Linda: Because how early, something that could have ended the series comes out at the end of the first episode.

Me: What do you mean? That Judy killed her best friends husband?

Linda: Yeah, because imagine on another show that would be the whole arc of the first season at least or perhaps the entire series. The idea that we find out in the first episode was really fun to play because I'm balancing in between what the audience knows and what the other character, Christina's character Jen knows. That for me was really fun and enabled for a lot of comedy too. Two things happening at once all of the time.

Me: How did you feel when you first took on the role?

Linda: I had trepidations at first.

Me: For real? Why is that?

Linda: Absolutely. Up until that point I was the sort of "straight man" in comedy and the more logical person. I gratefully bounce back and forth between drama and comedy and I have done a lot of drama as of late, and period piece drama. So, it was such a departure which was the exciting thing about it but it was also the scary thing jumping into something that was so completely different. I felt that I was very different than Judy, but it turns out as time goes on I have a lot of similarities too.

Me: So, I love Judy, as a character. Can you describe her in one sentence?

Linda: Judy is a glass half full type of person.

Me: Was it a challenging role to play?

Linda: Yes, it is. It's very challenging, one of the most challenging roles I ever had.

Me: Why do you say that?

Linda: She has this buoyancy about her and in reality everything is very, very heavy. She has her heart in the right place but tends to do the wrong things. She can't keep her mouth shut about certain things and yet she's the person who is keeping all of these secrets. It's really fun but really different from everything I've played because she's very present. She overthink things, she's not very logical, she doesn't make the best decisions so it keeps me going.

Me: So, how do you and Christina Applegate have such great chemistry on the show?

Linda: Christina and I have this fun relationship on screen and off and the characters are so well drawn and they are different from each other. We always call Judy "Judy Sunshine" because when the reality hits a little bit too much I get told. "We need a little bit more of Judy Sunshine." Just doesn't act like normal people. But my great challenge and my great joy is making people believe that the incredulous things she does are absolutely natural to her.

Me: So, for my readers who haven't seen "Dead to Me," how would you describe it?

Linda: It's a show that deals with grief and loss. My character miscarries, my character lost her partner.

Me: Do you think or real life losses when you play that part?

Linda: Yes, absolutely and real life goes on while we're shooting and things happen in my real life. I can lose people in real life then show up on set the next day and talk about it. It's interesting.

Me: Has that happened to you?

Linda: Yes, I had something similar happen to me. It's interesting because I go to work to sort of forget then I also source a lot of things that happened to me. The show, although is a comedy, hits a lot of resonate notes of life and death and trying to survive. Mining the comedy out of that is sometimes easy and sometimes really dark.

Me: That's how I process loss, I try to laugh more. Are you like that?

Linda: Yeah, I actually laughed at a funeral because I was remembering good things about a person. In order to survive I have to be resilient and it helps the system, and benefits us. There's been studies about what laugher does to the human body and it's necessary I think or we just get swallowed up by the grief.

Me: Yeah, a few years ago I was gonna quit doing this blog but when Trump became President I thought we need humor, and if I can be just a speck of someones day to make them laugh or smile for a second then I'll keep it going. It sounds really stupid, but it's true. I was posting for two days until the pandemic hit and for a few months I was mostly posting five days a week, while I was out of work, just to give people something to read and enjoy. Next year is the Phile's 15th anniversary, and that could be the last year I do this, but then again if people like it... I have no idea where I am going with this, Linda. What I want to ask is do you think humor is important?

Linda: Jason, humor is vital, and to me it's also one of those things that bonds us to somebody so the idea that Jen and Judy have this relationship that is at times very dark and at other times is very silly I think grief is the kind of thing that bonds us to people we wouldn't necessarily be friends with and so could laughter.

Me: Did you and Christina know each other before the show?

Linda: No, not at all.

Me: Oh, because back then you were on "Freaks and Geeks" and she was on "Married, With Children" so wondered if you ever crossed paths.

Linda: No, we never crossed paths.

Me: So, when you first met each other how was it?

Linda: We're so lucky, because the second we met each other we really loved each other, and trusted each other. I think we're both similar people about doing our work and by being a real person. I was very fun and open to be around her. I think our working relationship is so much fun, I never had a chance to go head to head with another woman like that so often on screen and really it's a partnership. We give and take for each other and have each others back, she makes me better and it's so much fun.

Me: Do you think acting is competitive? 

Linda: I try not to let that happen because I've been in it really long time and always thought of it as a team sport. We may see one person on screen for a majority of the time or two people ensemble but in reality there's hundreds of people working to put that project out. I often had choices and chosen to do ensemble work over solo work at times because I love the feeling of that kind of community.

Me: Yeah, "Freaks and Geeks" was an ensemble, "ER" was, even Scooby-Doo was. So, you do love it. Haha.

Linda: Yeah, I just love it. With acting we get to have this pop up community. It started when I was young and found the theater and the idea that all these people work so hard together for so many hours and putting something on, putting on the show was a bonding event. It wasn't just about one person, it was about many, many people and many personalities working in tandem and that to me is so much fun. So, I enjoy being on set, I don't know when we'll be able to do that again, but I really love the community of it.

Me: So, do you miss the days of being on "Freaks and Geeks?" 

Linda: Yeah, I loved all those people.

Me: Were you surprised when that show was canceled?

Linda: Yeah, I couldn't understand why it still wasn't on the air. Being on this critically acclaimed show became more critically. We were on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and people were yelling they didn't know who we were and were flipping us off. LOL.

Me: What? They were flipping you off?

Linda: Yeah, yeah, being in a parade is not an easy job. It's a long time to wave and smile. I had no idea.

Me: I would think being on this great show to only last one season would have made you cynical to the industry, right?

Linda: I think we have our moments. The industry is not easy. I always think if it were everyone would want to do it but it's hard and it weeds us out if we are not resilient and persistent and passionate about what we do. But that ebbs and flows, its'e never 100% easy. I could have some ups but inevitably I could have something that hits me or knocks me down. Whereas it's criticism or its cancellation or any of that stuff but all in all it's my dream job. I look at athletes and I look at actors and musicians and think this is all the stuff we wanted to do as a kid, and if we're lucky we get to do it as an adult. And we get to get paid for it.

Me: That's a good perspective, Linda, not everyone has that, am I right?

Linda: Well, I've been in he business a real long time. I had my chance to gather perspective. I try to stay positive and to be honest it doesn't serve me to go out and talk about all my bumps and bruises all the time. I try to stay positive. Especially in these times, I try to look for the good things because it's easy to concentrate on the bad. Believe me, I cry, I get depressed, all of those things. I want to give up for sure.

Me: You wanted to give up acting?

Linda: Yeah, there's many times I wanted to give up but I don't know what on earth I'd be able to do other than this. I truly do love it but I think if we love something or somebody our hearts can easily break and there's a lot of heartbreak. That goes with anything we care about. It's tricky as an actor and I'm sure for other people in their field, but as an actor it demands for me to be vulnerable but at the same time I am fielding a lot of rejection, so to keep myself vulnerable is a trick. Not a trick, it's a skill, I have to earn how to allow myself to really care and then at the same time to not care if people don't like it.

Me: So, when you did "Freaks and Geeks" did you know that a lot of people were into the show?

Linda: When I first read "Freaks and Geeks" I knew, I could feel it was special. There are times when I read something I think wow, this is unlike anything, this is really beautiful. Then in the translation of it, because it goes through so many people and so many different things, performance, production, directing and editing, all the different things whereas it turns out like you imagined or not that always remains to be seen. For "Freaks and Geeks" we all felt like it was special while we were there so we were all shocked that it was unseen by so many people and sort of unloved. And then we always joked that we were the freaks and geeks of television at the time and on the network at the time. But it did feel different and special. I was up for other things that year and nine of them had the resonance that script had with me because I truly felt like it felt like what it was to be in between a child and an adult.

Me: That's cool. Its on Netflix so I need to watch it again. Linda, thanks so much for being on the Phile. I hope it was fun. Stay well, and come back again soon.

Linda: It was fun. Thanks so much for the interview, stay safe everybody and lots of love and health for everybody.

That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Let's see if the landscaper is still working in Port Jeff...

Nope, he's gone. Haha. I'm ridiculous. Thanks to Linda Cardellini for a good interview. I hope to have her back again soon. The Phile will be back tomorrow with Phile Alum Steven Page. Spread the word, not the turd... or the virus or the hate. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye. Mask it or casket.

I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon