Elvis' Original Tomb For Sale

If you are an Elvis fan, you or a loved one can rest your "Blue Suede Shoes"  in peace in the original tomb of Mr. Presley.

Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien is selling Elvis Presley's original crypt to the highest bidder as part of his Music Icons auction later this month.

The tomb is located inside the granite and marble mausoleum at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.

Presley was interred there alongside his mother, Gladys, after he died on August 16 1977. Two months later, they were re-buried at his Graceland home. The original crypt has remained empty ever since.

Julien says the winning bid from the auction beginning on June 23 will receive the crypt, opening and closing of the vault for burial, a memorial inscription and use of a chapel for a committal service. Transportation and funeral home charges are not included.

Cubs End 12-Game Losing Streak

The Cubs stopped their 12-game losing streak, getting a boost from Alfonso Soriano's go-ahead home run to beat the San Diego Padres 11-7 on Memorial Day.

The Cubs' skid was their worst since they opened the 1997 season with 14 straight losses.

With winds blowing out at 35 mph on a 90-degree afternoon and the ball was flying. There were eight home runs, including four by each team and two from San Diego's Chase Headley and a total of 17 extra-base hits.

Chicago trailed 7-6 in the sixth inning when Soriano launched a drive that landed outside the stadium on Waveland Ave.

When the final out was secured and the Cubs had their first victory since a May 14 game at St. Louis, the Wrigley Field crowd and the Cubs as a team breathed a sigh of relief.

It's temporary, the Cubs still have a long season in front of them.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: The Last Jump

Appropriate pick for Memorial Day.

The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II is the story of middle-aged journalist, J. P. Kilroy, who is invited in 1997 to go to a ceremony at the White House to accept the Medal of Honor for his dead father. When his mother was dying, she had told him he needed to find his father who had left years ago but J. P. never had. He felt his father could not get over J. P.'s going to Canada to avoid Vietnam War. While at the ceremony J. P. meets a number of his father's old war buddies and wanting to know more about his father he goes out to dinner with them. As he is a journalist, he tapes the conversation and when he uses the rest room the men acknowledge they are keeping a secret from him. This piques his interest but also some of the things they had said about his father intrigued him so he is determined to figure it out what the men are keeping from him.

The book then follows J. P. as he has conversations with his father's old buddies and the story flashes back so we get to know J. P.'s father and his best friend, both with the last name of Kilroy. You see how Jake and Johnny meet, become friends and go through their training and then on to Europe as paratroopers. They were excellent soldiers and found themselves behind enemy lines. Nevola gives you historical and military information about the battles they are involved in and you get a real feel for the horror of the war. You are on Omaha Beach with them as the bullets buzz by.

Beryl Now a Tropical Storm

Tropical Storm Beryl is still well offshore, but officials in Georgia and Florida were already bracing for drenching rains and driving winds. Campers at Cumberland Island, which is reachable only by boat, were told to leave by 4:45 p.m. The island has a number of undeveloped beaches and forests popular with campers.

Down the coast a bit in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday's jazz festival and Memorial Day ceremony were canceled. Workers are also out clearing tree limbs and debris that could be tossed about by the storm's winds, which had reached 65 mph.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that Beryl had gotten slightly stronger, with maximum sustained winds now at 65 mph. Beryl was centered about 110 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida, and about 120 miles southeast of Brunswick, Georgia.

Beryl is projected to make landfall late Sunday or early Monday.

Atlanta Exhibit Gives You Info on Poop

Kids are always fascinated at parades by the guys following the horses with the scoopers picking up all the poop droppings.  They will be just as entertained by this new exhibit in Atlanta.

“The Scoop on Poop: The Science of What Animals Leave Behind,” is a new exhibit at Fernbank Natural History Museum, and you might learn some interesting about the important about waste material.

“Kids will think it’s cool and funny, and adults will like the scientific aspect, like how poop can be used to track animals rather than just being something gross on the trail,” said Lynn Anders, an education programs manager specializing in animal programs at Fernbank.

Most of the exhibit is based on the book of the same name by Dr. Wayne Lynch, contains factual nuggets-- to make a joke about excrement.

But curiosity-seekers can touch and see replicas of elephant poop (plastic mounds mixed with straw for authenticity), take a close look at the 22 live giant hissing cockroaches in their glass-enclosed habitat, and study a trio of scurrying house mice in a segment that explains how droppings can cause disease.

The exhibit also identifies some possible uses of excrement.

For animals such as a male crane, feces are part of an oh-so-romantic mating ritual. To demonstrate his prowess and impress the ladies, a male buffalo will throw dung in the air during courtship.

The exhibit is slated to run until early September at Fernbank.