RIP, Andy Griffith

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts on a Harley With a sidecar
Mayberry Riders MC. I’d roll that patch.   Someone needs to the balls and vision to get that done.     Andy Griffith walked the line, and where johnny cash fell black, Andy Griffith fell white….

 

Andy Griffiths died this week.   Man, the first I’d heard of it I was surprised he was still alive.     He was 86 years old.   I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show.     I’m a channel surfer to the point I drive my wife nuts, and I gotta admit, if that show is on I stop and watch.    Other than the color ones.     I don’t know why.   I don’t like seeing Opie and Aunt B in color.    Somehow it cheapened the whole thing.

Don Knotts died in 2006.     We used to watch his movies in grade school assemblies.    The apple Dumpling gang and “gus” if I remember right.   Do you remember Gus?   He was a donkey that made the football team.   The prick could kick a football.    Yeah, thats what a Utah grade school education gives me.   I have no regrets.

Andy Griffith was one of a kid.    Ever seen “a face in the crowd”?      1957 was right when rock and roll was peaking, and he held his guns to play that part.    It was almost foreshadowing of a time we’re all too familiar with now.    Ahead of its time.

Rest in Peace Andy Griffith.    86 is a ripe old age.     For a whole lotta years I’ve wished I lived in mayberrry.     I gotta think you  were honest and good through all the hollywood bullshit.      I hope others can keep your way.     Those are the people we honor, right?

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