Randy Twizzle

Dance is on the right, the guy in the middle is Baron Timme Rosenkrantz.

Private notes from one's wife, nasty emails from jazz critics, it's all Entertainment!

"When a person sees the name of the drink, some psychological effect happens and the person is already experiencing the energy buzz before they even open the can," said Kirby.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc., marking another significant step in the entertainment industry's migration to the Internet. Under a revenue-sharing deal announced Monday, New York-based Warner Music has agreed to transfer thousands of its music videos and interviews to YouTube, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup that has become a cultural touchstone since two 20-something friends launched the company in a Silicon Valley garage 19 months ago. Perhaps even more important for YouTube is that Warner Music has agreed to license its songs to the millions of ordinary people who upload their homemade videos to the Web site. ''We are very excited,'' YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley said in a phone interview Sunday. ''This is a real landmark for our company.'' Warner Music ranks as the country's third largest recording company with annual revenue of $3.5 billion. Besides it namesake label, the Warner Music family includes Atlantic, Asylum, Elektra and Rhino -- a group that includes vintage recording artists like Led Zeppelin, the Doors and Ray Charles, as well recent hit makers like Linkin Park, Green Day and Faith Hill. Privately held YouTube is hoping the Warner Music deal will serve as a springboard for similar alliances with other long-established media outlets looking to connect with the Web site's audience, which watches more than 100 million videos per day. ''Technology is changing entertainment, and Warner Music is embracing that innovation,'' said Warner Music Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. ''Consumer-empowering destinations like YouTube have created a two-way dialogue that will transform entertainment and media forever.'' Many of YouTube's most widely watched videos already include copyrighted music, raising the specter of a legal showdown with record labels and artists seeking to protect their right to be paid for the material. Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris signaled the industry's exasperation with YouTube just a few days ago when he indicated the world's largest record label is prepared to sue the site unless it does a better job of preventing copyright violations. Other labels, though, have recently been experimenting with releasing some of their commercial videos on YouTube. Capitol Records recently posted videos by The Vines, Cherish and OK Go on YouTube. On the television front, NBC has been using YouTube to promote its fall programming under a partnership announced in June. Even as rampant copyright violations have popped up on the site, Hurley and his partner Steve Chen have insisted that they want to work with music, movie and television executives to help them take advantage of a new distribution channel as YouTube tries to translates its popularity into profits. YouTube so far has been subsisting on $11.5 million in venture capital, spurring predictions that the company either will have to raise more money or sell out to a deep-pocketed buyer as it tries to fend off increasing competition from Internet powers Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. In Sunday's interview, Hurley reiterated YouTube's intention to remain independent -- a goal that may be even more realistic if the Warner Music deal pays off. The financial terms of YouTube's arrangement with Warner Music weren't disclosed. Both companies are betting they will be able to make money from the ads that will show up alongside Warner Music's own videos as well as amateur videos featuring copyrighted material. To make the deal happen, YouTube developed a royalty-tracking system that will detect when homemade videos are using copyrighted material. YouTube says the technology will enable Warner Music to review the video and decide whether it wants to approve or reject it.

Another community is empowered by the Net

Apparently Wingy compensated for his lost arm by developing strong kicking skills

In two references from 1929 he's just Peg Bates However by 1933 he's already "Peg-Leg"

Here's video of Bert Blyleven talking like a Staten Island little leaguer live on a pre-game show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q3Si6pY1do

I know I should be embarrassed to admit it, but I find this painfully funny.

How about Schlippenbach and Teschemacher

Maybe it's me, but I don't understand this Internet/talk radio breed of angry sports fan. I've been a baseball fan since I was a little kid when my father took me and my brother to the Polo Grounds, for christsakes, to see the Mets. In all that time I've never felt the need to lash out at any players. I may have been disappointed a few thousand times, but it never caused me to spew hatred at anyone. This morning on WFAN in NY I heard some foaming at the mouth caller repeatedly calling Met pitcher Steve Traschel "a bum" All the guy's done this year is win 14 games, admitedly he's got a high ERA and he's won with a ton of run suport, but that's the game. Here's a great Bob Ryan column on the subject of the "new fan"

Unfortunately not everyone is saddened by the news

For what it's worth, in 1958 the original cover offended at least one critic for the Oakland Tribune

I'm a Jersey Guy

WE'VE GOT MORE MONEY THAN YOU! New Jersey again has the highest household income of any state and one of the lowest poverty rates, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, but two of its biggest cities are among the poorest in the nation. Camden ranks as the poorest place in the country with a population over 65,000 and Newark is among the poorest cities with more than 250,000 people, according to the figures released Tuesday based on data for 2005. The numbers illustrate that New Jersey, with its middle-class and wealthy suburbs nestled up against struggling, old industrial cities, continues to be a place of stark economic contrasts. On the whole, the state has high incomes, along with a high cost of living. Half the households make more than $61,672 per year - putting the Garden State just ahead of Connecticut as the nation's richest. And the poverty rate of 8.7 percent is lower than every state except for New Hampshire, Maryland and Connecticut. The census income report a year ago found New Jersey's poverty rate slightly lower - 8.5 percent. But Legal Services of New Jersey Poverty Research Institute on Tuesday said its own analysis, which took into account the high cost of living, shows that more than one in five state residents are impoverished. Despite that, Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset and Burlington counties are all among those with the lowest poverty rates in the country and Hunterdon, Somerset, and Morris all rank among the highest-income places in the nation. Among all the counties across the country with populations over 65,000, only two - Loudon, Va., and Fairfax, Va. - have median household incomes higher than those in Hunterdon. A seat of the pharmaceutical industry with many residents who commute to New York, the county north of Trenton sees half its households bring in more than $93,342 per year. Yet, among large cities nationally, only six have lower incomes than Newark, where the median household income was $30,665. In Camden, 44 percent of the roughly 80,000 residents live in poverty - the highest such rate in the nation, according to the study. The median household income in the city is $18,007, which is the nation's lowest. The gritty city near Philadelphia, where the state has been trying to jump-start redevelopment efforts, is no stranger to studies that portray life there as harsher than in other cities with tough reputations. One research firm found in 2004 and 2005 that the city was the nation's most dangerous.

There's the Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla

From the Washington Post, an appreciation of MF from a writer with some issues:

If cooler heads had not prevailed we'd now be saying good-bye to Minerva

Nuxhall was 15 in 1944 when he pitched 2/3 of an inning allowing five runs on five walks, two wild pitches and two singles. He was sent back to the minors a few days later and returned to the majors in 1952 where he stayed until 1966.

I'm sorry this won't help you much, but I once had a squirrel enter my apartment through an opening from the attic. He hid under the living room couch and wouldn't budge. I was so freaked out that I called an exterminator who told me that the squirrel wanted to leave my apartment just as much as I wanted him out and that I could save a few hundred dollars in fees by simply placing a small amount of peanut butter by an open window and then leaving the room. The smell would attract the squirrel to the open window and he'd leave. It worked.

A July 1969 newspaper article with program details:

Here's the opposite of open-minded, circa 1930. Brooks Atkinson reviewing the Ellington band's appearance in a stage show:

Foul Mouthed Little Leaguer live on ESPN

I found the article while doing a search of 'zoot suit' stories in the Times. On June 10, 1943 the day before the Philadelphia beating story appeard there were several stories about zoot suit beatings around the country, the most prominent of course being the zoot suit riots in LA.