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the man with a golden arm also hath a golden wit. bravo!!!!!!

From the Tuscaloosa News Greenwave's championship run comes to an end By Aaron Suttles Sports Writer Published: Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 1:15 a.m. ( page of 3 ) GORDO | Mother nature did the Gordo High School football team no favors when she douched the Greenwave's field with rain, and lots of it late, Thursday and Friday morning and afternoon. The slow track took away Gordo's ability to get the ball to its playmakers on the edge, which meant the Greenwave had to opt for a offense that featured a power running attack. [link to article no longer works]

.......very nice man ,......cant wait for the releases. chuck directed me to some profound early schnabel recordings of schubert sonatas some years ago.

The Classical Department of WKCR-FM presents the annual Bach Festival 2010. Beginning at 9:30AM on Monday, December 20 and ending on New Year's Day, WKCR will dedicate all broadcasting to the music and influence of Johann Sebastian Bach. The BachFest has been a tradition at WKCR for over thirty years, and this year's festival promises to be one of the best. BachFest 2010 will examine the many lenses through which J.S. Bach has been understood and performed over the last three hundred years.

this year's edition of bell's special double cream stout is heavenly; surely there is no finer beer in heaven. the bell's expedition this year is just horrible, for expedition stout. it has no body, and is really really bitter. the fabulous balance is just a mess. i wonder if this is just a bad bell's batch. they have more than their shares of bad bottlings of fine beers.

i send your words to a nts trumpet student who works a great deal, and to another nts grad with a brand new job in the pit at cirques de.. in vegas.

"I play on a 4/4 violin since I was ten. The quality of my instruments has improved over time: Ventapane, Gagliano and Testore to a Guarneri del Gesu in 1998. Yet I had not been happy with this violin and I changed to a Stradivarius [the "Booth" from 1716, owned by the Nippon Music Foundation] on which I played four years and that filled me. But I always wanted to have my own instrument. So six years ago, I bought in London, on the advice of concertmaster of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, one of my best friends, Guadagnini from 1742. It's actually like a man: you can not find the perfect violin but one learns to love his faults." - Julia Fischer, August 2010

the first texting

what an exciting, and heartwarming experience, for each of us. surely, you will record him. thank you.

a couple of those guys were extraordinary visionaries.

predictions for now from 1931

There was no gum in those packs; those were just cards that skipped through without ink.

the last rose of summer

bob signed his autographs with blue ink, the same color as was on a baseball. feller was crusty; many even called him an opiniated arrogant a'hole. i had a huge baseball card collection at that time(400 or 500, as i recall, including sandy koufax (1954?) rookie card when he was a bonus baby. he was a good looking kid. when i was attending a journalism workshop at ohio u. one summer in the late 50s, my grandma BURNED my precious 'junk.' talk about dreams dying. i never restarted it. the cards then were fleer, topps, and bowman, as i recall. i can still taste those hard sheets of cheap bubblegum, where the flavor lasted for about 2 chews. if i could have anything back from my youth, it might be those several hundred cards.

thank you dave. you are so right. 1954 was the first year that young(10 yr. old) aloc took an interest in baseball, and the best. bob was a spot starter and won 9 or 10 games, as i recall. that was probably his last year. the indians won 111 and lost 43 that year, and lost the world series to the n.y. giants in 4. the lineup went smith, avila, wertz, doby,.......

bell

budweiser, corn flakes, snow, and hot water dont mix

i see one every couple of weeks. they are fairly common here, but the sight of one posing in the drab winter woods is always striking. the cardinal is the state bird of 7 or 8 states. how fortunate you are. "mr. and mrs. cardinal," sweet.

thank you. cardinals live only about a year. only the males are brightly colored. this guy perched seemly motionless for at least 15 minutes, until i moved on. I thought that might be the case and went nosing around but found no definitive answer. Several sites agreed with the one-year lifespan, although others offered varying ranges, including this rather wide one: LINK They apparently mate pretty much constantly, so they've got that going for them. In any case, nice photos and lovely thoughts. Thanks. thank you---the prospect of seeing this guy again next year is indeed a pleasant one. ohio birds

thank you. cardinals live only about a year. only the males are brightly colored. this guy perched seemly motionless for at least 15 minutes, until i moved on.

well, maybe next year

....lost my dear beautiful wife to that ugly stuff, every hopeless sleepless night on the hospital floor, the constant intravenous, the bags, the sleeping on the floor, rubbing her lower legs to keep feeling when her life was near gone, and then, in the morning, before surgery, she says something loving, about my stupid haircut. "i dont want to die." dont tell me about pancreatic cancer, and that 'fluid in the belly.'......... ms. aretha, you are a monument to what human life, and music can be.

i wrote this in my blog today: on a much sadder note, octogenarian jazz reedist james moody, with a legendary career spanning through the 1940s, has passed to another place. moody's effortless, tasteful, unmatched, fluid flights, whether it was on soprano, tenor, or flute, through the melodies and chords have delighted and comforted me since the early 60s. there was a rare grace in moody's music, opposed to the adventurous troubled flights of technique, sound, and emotion displayed by many of his contemporaries. between numbers of his live performances, his extended witty humorous repartee offered brief refuge from the deeper cares of the world. james moody will be missed. jazz has lost another great master. i have lost a lifelong musical friend.