Hooray For CMT....

Well, first let me say that I watched a great documentary program hosted by none other than George Noory (Art Bell's replacement on Coast to Coast AM......who I have grown to love just as much as tha man Art himself.). Called "Most Shocking: Ghosts," it was a well produced, entertaining and scary hour of TV.

However, I didn't see this on the Sci-Fi Channel or Discovery Channel. I saw it on CMT.



Yes, everyone's favorite Country Music Video channel is moving the way of our old friend MTV. Videos are so passe and sooo 1989. It's the '90s now.....time to move on to actual programming and showing movies and things. No more crummy videos to crowd your airtime.

And, just after it, I saw "CMT's Most Shocking: Moonshine," an equally good doc on moonshining. I now know what a "Jake Leg" is, and something from my childhood makes sense:

Long ago, I was in a car with some guy who picked up myself and another kid from school. We were stopped at a gas station, and this guy points at an old man, with a jangly walk, and says "Know what a Bootlegger is?" .....I, of course being 8 years old knew darn well..... I said "No." He told me that man was one....and now I make the connection that that man made moonshine and sold it to others. I also now know that he had a "Jake Walk" b/c he drank some of the (legally produced) poison Jamacian Ginger Extract. Read a book, dummy. Still don't believe me, it's called the internet.....look it up.