Aggie87

Happy Birthday Mark! Thanks for all of your wonderful images and everything you bring to this board!

Dude, I've got a long ways to go to catch up to your seeming 4 birthdays a year!

Many thanks! I appreciate all the knowledge I've picked up from folks here, as well as the friendships and just plain fun I've had here over the years. Thanks to Jim for giving us this community! My girlfriend (now fiance ) was able to come down for the week, so that's been a nice b-day gift! Also get to spend some time with my kids. Can't ask for much more!

Hope you had a a Happy Birthday, Flurin! Sorry I'm late to the party, but you're welcome to join mine instead

I think the thing about this is that those folks who wear the Yankees logo in those places aren't necessarily fans though. It's a symbol of America, like McDonalds. They wear it for style, not to show they're a fan of the team or even follow baseball at all. Having feelings of animosity towards them for this reason is basically a huge waste of time.

Need to spin some Jim Pepper here - thanks for the reminder, Flurin!

Astros Baseball Fever - catch it! Now on a 1 game winning steak!!

This. Nope. This: SWEEP! Astros are 0-7. Can you take off your black & orange blinders and believe me that they suck now?

Nyah Nyah!

Mine's here too! All grease and no goose!

This.

I could see T.O. drumming up those rumors, since he's teamless, and not likely to get any further big paychecks. And I could see Dan Snyder falling for it. I hope Shanahan overrules Snyder's thinking, for the Redskins' sake.

1 point game at the half. Go Butler!

Astros down 3-0 in the top of the 5th, versus the Giants. Gonna be a long season, when you are rooting for a team to simply go .500. Enjoy your good teams out there!

Eagles just traded Donovan McNabb to the Redskins for a 2nd round pick! That's not much compensation for trading your starting QB to a division rival. They either think he's not capable of being a decent starter anymore, or the Skins really think Jason Campbell sucks.

Giving a spin to Rez Abbasi's "Things to Come", from 2009. Some nice playing by both Rudresh Mahanthappa and Vijay Iyer on this one.

Interesting interview with Sonny Rollins in today's Detroit Free Press, by Mark Stryker. Continues here

Happy Birthday!

Butler going to the Big Game! Looking like Duke too, unless they fold in the remaining 10 minutes.

Just found this version of Joe Ely's "Letter to L.A." today. It's from New Year's Eve, at Antone's. He's reunited with Bobby Keyes and David Grissom here. Would have loved to have been at this show. I think it's a great version of this song, too bad it's chopped into two video clips.

Happy Birthday!

Bev, you might consider checking out Townes Van Zandt, a Texas country/folk singer/songwriter..

Best wishes for your recovery and renewed health!

I've been enjoying the Flatlanders recordings over the past couple of years. The group is comprised of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, all west-Texas singer-songwriters. It's in an alt-country vein, but perhaps not quite as "punkish" as you mentioned previously. Though Joe Ely definitely has some occasional punk leanings, with some of his earlier recordings and his Clash connection. I've enjoyed all of Joe's solo recordings that I've heard - the most recent being the live 1987 recording with Bobby Keyes and David Grisham. That's more rock than country. And I want to check out Jimmie's solo material as well - he'll be forever cool for his role as Smokey in The Big Lebowski.