Apparently someone decided to mess with the fish filets.

Gorton’s Inc. recalled about 1,000 cases of frozen fish in Georgia and nine other states Friday after confirming that items a Pennsylvania customer reported finding in her food were pills.

Gorton’s said it ordered the recall as a precaution while a laboratory works to determine the nature of the pills. Results are expected early next week.

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Tracy Rowan of New Freedom called police to report that she bit into one of the pills Sunday after her 9-year-old daughter realized one was in her fish, too. On Friday, Reis said the material was some sort of pill, not compressed batter or bread crumbs.

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The recall is for Gorton’s 6 Crispy Battered Fish Fillets, 11.4 ounces. The UPC Code is No. 44400157770, with a date code of 7289G1 and a best-if-used-by date of April 2009.

The fish was sent to nine other states: Alabama, Delaware, California, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are investigating, Reis said.

Consumers who purchased the fish can call Gorton’s at 800-896-9479.

I guess they won’t be needed as many promotional pens this quarter, huh? Read more at the AJC.

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Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith died of pneumonia Thursday, less than two weeks before the band was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 64.

Smith died at a hospital outside of London, his agent Margo Lewis said.

He was admitted to the intensive care unit Wednesday morning with a chest infection, a complication from a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed below the ribcage with limited use of his upper body. Lewis said he was injured when he fell from a fence at his home in Spain in September 2003.

Smith had been in the hospital since the accident, and was just released last December when he moved into a specially prepared home near the hospital with his wife.

Smith is survived by his wife, Arlene (nicknamed Charlie).

Rest In Peace, Mike.

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Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60.

Miles died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas, according to an announcement on his website.

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By the late 1970s, however, Miles’ career came to a halt over convictions for grand theft and auto theft. He served time in the California Institution for Men at Chino and at San Quentin State Prison. He was incarcerated until 1985 and formed bands at both prisons.

After he was released, he sang with Santana’s group and got the raisin gig while working on an album with the guitarist. The popular television commercials for the California Raisin Advisory Board featured a quartet of singing and dancing Claymation figures with Miles, as Buddy Raisin, doing the lead singing covering Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

The commercial’s popularity spawned a million-selling offshoot album of remakes of rock and soul oldies, “The California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs.”

Rest In Peace, Buddy.

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Over the course of the past two years, we have been looking for a nice piece of property in an area that is conducive to raising a family as well as growing enough crops to make that property self-sustaining for our family. We’re even willing to sell our current home and take on a mobile home mortgage just to have that perfect piece of property.

The problem we have run into is most property we find is way over priced for the area it is located in, or it already has a home situated on the land. Many of the properties within our income have dilapidated buildings, and it would cost too much to tear them down. If we could find that perfect parcel I am sure we could get mobile home financing as well.

I was thinking about our long term plans and realized that, even though I could qualify for the land and the mobile home, with the housing market the way it is, I doubt we could sell our home in a reasonable amount of time to make it happen. I spoke to a neighbor the other night who is selling their home, and a deal they thought they had in place fell through because the people decided to focus on their mobile home refinancing rather than take the risk of buying a new home in the current market.

I know our land is out there, and we have time, so when the market rebounds I am sure we’ll see more and more opportunities out there.

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Author and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. has died at age 82.

His assistant Linda Bridges says Buckley died Wednesday morning at his home in Stamford, Conn. She says he had been ill with emphysema and was found dead by his cook.

Buckley became famous for his intellectual political writings in his magazine, the National Review, and his frequent television appearances, including on his own long-running “Firing Line.”

Rest In Peace, William.

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I’ve been talking more and more about high school and college lately, and I can’t figure out why that is. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I just realized that most of the people I chat with online were under the age of 10 when I graduated from high school. Who knows.

When I was in high school I was never into any sports. I tried bowling for a while, but I didn’t like some of the people on the team. I spent my extracurricular time helping the band, working in the library, and working lights for the drama department.

I spent many hours in the backroom at the library organizing the schools audio/visual equipment and making sure things were good for the next day. Of course, when I went to school we didn’t have DVD players or any of that. In fact, video tapes were just coming out and people were anxious to convert all of their 8mm Film to Video, but we just didn’t have the tools we needed at the time.

I can’t imagine what it would have been like back then, if we had access to convert Movie Film to DVD. Holy mackerel. The A/V storage room would have been a lot cleaner if I could have sorted DVD’s rather than flim containers that’s for sure.

Back then we couldn’t even convert a film to videotape, let alone imagine the coming invention of the DVD, or the fact that you could convert film to DVD one day.

It’s amazing how much things change in 26 years.

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Emmy-nommed writer Richard Baer, who wrote for TV shows including “Leave It To Beaver,” “Bewitched,” “The Munsters,” “Barney Miller” and “MASH,” died Feb. 22 in Santa Monica, Calif. after suffering a heart attack in January. He was 79.

Born in New York, Baer graduated Yale and USC. He began his TV career on “The Life of Riley,” starting as an assistant and then writing several episodes. In 1958, he wrote the film “Life Begins at 17″ for Columbia Pictures.

In 1960, he started working on the skein “Hennessey” starring Jackie Cooper, winning an Emmy nomination and writing 38 episodes.

Over the next 25 years, he wrote for more than 56 shows, including “F Troop,” “Petticoat Junction” and “The Andy Griffith Show.” Baer wrote 23 episodes of “Bewitched” and 10 for “That Girl.”

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Baer is survived by his wife Diane Asselin Baer, a producer; sons Josh and Matthew, a film producer; daughter Judy and three grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, Richard.

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When I was a younger man, around the age of 17, I used to hang out with a bunch of guys from school, didn’t we all? I never had a car when I was a teenager, but I got to spend a lot of time hanging out with my friends who did. They all had older cars, beaters as we called them back then, and we all dreamed of having something cool.

Corvette Summer came out in 1978 and we would talk about how we would own a car just like that some day. Looking back on it, I guess we were a bit “hormonal” or something, cuz I can’t really see myself in that car now. I don’t think I ever did come to think of it.

Several years later I had a friend whose dad had a newer Corvette. He would spend hours and hours washing, waxing and otherwise babying that car. It drove me crazy. I couldn’t understand why someone would act that way with a car. I still don’t.

I remember one day when he was working on the car someone pulled up in the driveway behind his car, and they were “too close” and he freaked out and made them move their car. I don’t think their car was within 6 feet of his car at the time. Talk about crazy! haha.
I imagine if he still has that Corvette, it’s probably sitting in the garage right now, totally polished and ready to roll on some brand new C5 Corvette wheels.

If you don’t like spoilers, don’t watch the following video.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

You gotta love The Onion.

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Eugene Freedman, the creator of Precious Moments figurines, has died. He was 82.

Freedman, a longtime Milwaukee resident, was the founding chairman and former president and chief executive officer of Enesco Group Inc., the global gift and collectibles company based in Itasca, Ill.

Freedman died unexpectedly Feb. 19 in Hawaii, where he had a second home.

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Freedman is survived by his wife, Ruth; daughters, Penny and Nancy; son, Richard; sister, Frances; one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun in River Hills. Interment at Greenwood Cemetery in Milwaukee will follow.

Rest In Peace, Eugene.

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