Sound Your Funky Horn

Some weeks the b-side is the best. Here's a special request from/congrats shout-out to Sweet Stacey for some Friday Funk courtesy of KC & The Sunshine Band.

And since you've been working all week, here's some other things you've might have missed...

A US Airways pilot accidentally discharged his gun in the cockpit during a flight from Denver to Charlotte, N.C., according to the Transportation Safety Administration. Sadly, nothing in that previous sentence is sexual innuendo for getting into the Mile High Club.

A 21-year-old man says he feels "pretty good," four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant. In other news, people waiting for those organs say they feel "pretty bad."

Attendance at a Buddhist temple in Japan has increased since the temple's pet, a two-year-old dog, has joined in the daily prayers. Conan, a Chihuahua, sits on his hind legs, raises his paws and puts them together at the tip of his nose. Not to be outdone, the Pope has installed a toilet-trained cat in the Vatican bathrooms.

A study of 6,583 adults found that people with the highest amount of abdominal fat between the ages of 40 and 45 were about three times more likely to develop dementia than those with the lowest amount. On the plus side, Kirstie Alley can look forward to not remembering her Jenny Craig ads.

Aníbal S. Acevedo Vilá, the governor of Puerto Rico, has been charged with 19 criminal counts related to the financing of three political campaigns from 1999 to 2004, including conspiracy to violate federal campaign laws, wire fraud and illegally using campaign funds for his personal use. Finally, a governor who remembers his job is to screw the public.

An attorney who once made People magazine's list of America's "Most Eligible Bachelors" was acquitted Wednesday of raping a 19-year-old woman, narrowly avoiding this year's list of America's "Most Eligible for Parole in 20 Years."

And finally, this 8-year-old totally shredding it on a Flying V.

Sound your funky horn this weekend. Happy Friday.