Randy Twizzle

He's obviously trying hard to become one of those supposedly lovable NY characters that people write about in the Times' Metropolitan Diary ("You can imagine my surprise when I was awakened at 4:45 by a man playing a tuba...") Buy a rottweiler..

Never mind the R&R HOF, let's celebrate Joan Jett, Perry Como, Twisted Sister, KISS and John Coltrane, among the first inductees in the Long Island Music Hall of Fame

Vic was arrested with Louis Armstrong in the early 30s while both were smoking a joint in the parking lot of a club. http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/30/louis.html

Mickey Rooney always comes up short

I remember sitting at the bar of Syracuse's Casa de Lisa Lounge on Erie Blvd East in 1977, listening to the bartender telling another customer that she was looking forward to seeing Natalie Cole next week. After that it's all a blur. [End of Anecdote]

From the Lord Discography

File this under traumatic job interview When I was a high school junior a friend arranged for me to get a job at the drive-in movie snack bar where he worked. All I had to do was go to the drive-in, fill out an application, meet the manager and the job was mine. I dutifully filled out the form and met the manager who started to explain what the job entailed. About half way through his spiel, he stopped and angrily asked me why I was laughing at him (I wasn't), ripped my application in half and told me to get the hell out before he punched me in the mouth. The next week he told my friend that maybe he had misjudged me and if I wanted to reapply he'd meet with me again. I declined.

Why not just do away with the whole post-season and give the team with the best win/loss record the trophy. If there's a tie they can play a one game playoff. That way the anal retentive statheads can go into the off season with a feeling of closure.

It's certainly much more impressive than this....

McNair acted a lot cooler than I did at 18 when I was stopped while walking along a county highway by two detectives investigating a gas station holdup. Then again they were nastier than the cop in the video and though I was innocent (and they probably knew it) they made me feel guilty of something and seemed to enjoy the experience.

Alas it seems marijuana was just the starter drug for Miss Michigan 1947

I used to get her confused with Jane Wyman, who I believe is still alive.

It's the 40th straight year she's been voted a Talent Deserving Wider Recognition...

He displays exquisite harmonic sense melded to prodigious technique"..... Scott Yanow "My show on incendiary flutists is now archived"....Ghost of Miles " a douchebag"....Clementine

I feel blessed that the only thing my father slapped on his skin was Old Spice

I'm not a musician, so feel free to ignore this, but I was working in the word processing department of a Manhattan law firm in the mid- 80s when Christopher Reeve walked into the room looking for one of the attorneys. He didn't stay very long and didn't seem impressed with my work, but neither did my supervisor.

As a kid growing up in North Jersey I used to regularly listen to powerful radio station WWVA in Wheeling West Virginia. The crazy evangelists, coal mine reports and especially the Saturday Night Country Music Jamboree and the Mac Wiseman Record Shop Show were so exotic and different from NJ that I've always wanted to visit Wheeling. It hasn[t happened yet, but I'll make it before I die.

Sept 7 NY Times Story about Lidlle's flying

WNBC TV in NY is reporting that Yankee Pitcher Corey Lidel was the pilot of the plane. Law enforcement officials are confirming that someone affiliated with the Yankees was on the plane.

Here he is....

Yankee soul searching has reached truly lunatic proportions in some parts of the NY media. Today Sports Radio 1050, the ESPN affiliate, is running a nine (9) hour show with Yankee play by play man (and 1050 afternoon host) Michael Kay talking about the Yankee's collapse. Nine freaking hours.... It's INSANE!