Randy Twizzle

Did he also mis-pronounce his name way back then? i remember vitale at u of detroit. his teams lost like 20+ games in a row. he had a big obnoxious mouth then, too. Your memory may be playing tricks. Vitale actually was quite successful at U of Detroit. It's one of the reasons he was later hired to coach the Pistons where he failed and gave up coaching to become the Vitale we all know. From Wikipedia:

What's your source for saying that Chris and Len are brothers? I've never seen that mentioned anywhere else. I would have though that would have come up in any number of places in NY sports media criticism, where Len is pretty highly regarded while Chris is considered an annoying self-promoter.

Dick Vitale grew up in my home town East Paterson, NJ and later coached high school basketball in East Rutherford where he achieved sucess largely because of a player named Les Cason. During that period my brother once met Vitale at a pick up baseketball game in a local park and remembers him as a quiet unassuming guy. But that was long time ago.

Isn't that the first line from "Mucus Head Blues"?

When I was a politically obsessed 8th grader I tried to read a paperback copy of "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" but it was just too difficult for me to finish. I did take from it his description of people at a Rockefeller rally looking like "parochial school meat eaters." I also remember several of his appearances on the The Dick Cavett show and my brother telling me that Mailer was a genius. "Oh so that's how a genius talks" I thought.

Well much mocy plost-1970s music does take some effort to fully appreciate.

It seems to me that the channel hasn't changed much from the last PD. Almost every time I tune in I either hear self-consciously "jazzy" vocalists (please god, no more scatting) or well worn modern jazz standards like "Senor Blues" "Maiden Voyage" " "So What" "My Favorite Things" etc. It doesn't seem that there's much off the path right now. You'd think that a 24/7 "real jazz" channel would try to be less predictable.

He was the greatest country singer Princeton ever produced.

It sort of reminds me of the late great Jean Shepherd

Sorry but nobody is more annoying than loud cell phonies. The vigilante guy is probably a hell of a lot more entertaining than the usual phone jerks. FWIW he's not commuting daily to Manhattan since he lost his job in the HBO legal department after his last arrest. This gives him more time to work on his slapping and throwing technique.

No he's not a nice guy or someone you'd want to hang out with, and I was being ironic when I said he was my "hero" But if you spend half your life riding commuter trains it's possible to vicariously enjoy the antics of someone who's brave (or nutty) enough to stand up to the sniveling little creeps who can make the daily trip such an ordeal.

That's your hero? A man who assaults women and anyone else who pisses him off? And who has the chutzpah to sue his victims for five million dollars for "a violation of his First Amendment rights, and alleged defamation, libel, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and an abuse of process." You've got one fucked up definition of "hero" pal. Not only is this guy a world class asshole but it sounds to me like he's swindled the taxpayers of New York for "disability" pay while being perfectly capable of assault and intimidation. A thousand Duly noted douche bag.

There's a lo-tech way of dealing with cell phone assholes. This guy is my hero.

Who's that host? So familiar, and yet I can't come up with a name... I think it's Peter Lind Hayes who hosted the Tonight Show on May 28, 1962 on which Olay appeared.

I only see her going clockwise. I wish I knew about this left brain/right brain thing when I was in high school. I could explain to my mother why I was always in danger of flunking math and why later in college I flunked a "physics for non-science majors" course. when even football players were passing it.

I read the Hardy Boys books when I was a kid, now those were real gay characters

Sometimes people's time could be better spent drinking Ripple out of a paper bag.

Before starring as Uncle Jed and later Barnaby Jones, Buddy Ebstein was one of the great Jewish song and dance men.

A very inspiring story, but what would have happened if the Greyhound ticket agent had sent you to Scranton or Altoona instead of Philly?

Not true. There was a guy in Fond du Lac Wisconsin who also didn't care for the strip.

True, but I bet he'd gladly waste some of his precious time for a pleasing interview who shows how smart he is in his job. The sketch would have been more effective if the norvegians let him struts for a while, before the Obama and Clinton questions. http://www.silive.com/siadvance/stories/in...&thispage=1

Anything decision that causes chaos in Yankees Land, creates lots of tabloid headlines,causes wild sports talk radio conversation and most importantly makes is OK with me.

Oddo's tirade a hit on youtube

An acquaintance of mine had a small role as a cop in the Ed Norton movie "Down in the Valley" which also featured Dern. According to my friend, Dern entertained everyone on the set with his endless supply of show biz stories, his favorite involved John Wayne during the filming of "The Cowboys" a movie that shockingly featured Wayne being killed by Dern. On the day of the killing scene, Wayne showed up on the set pretty well lubricated. He took Dern aside and told him "You realize everyone in America is going to hate you for doing this to me." Dern replied "Yeah but they're going to love me in Berkeley." Wayne fell over himself laughing and yelled out to the assembled cast and crew "You hear this guy, that's why this son of a bitch is always working while the rest of you sit around on your ass all day."