Johnny E

A-Rod simply wanted out of Texas, that's all. He may have been willing to defer money to play for the Red Sox, but he ain't never ever gonna give up on his money. He knew the players association would never go for that, that's why he said it in the first place, to make himself look selfless -Bullshit. In his last year as a Mariner he went on and on about how it wasn't about the money, that he just wanted to be with a winner, bla bla bla. Well, he went for the money. He joined a team that in everyone’s estimation needed 3,4 even 5 years of rebuilding. And what did he think the Rangers would do as far as acquiring pitching straddled with that $250 million dollar contract of his? If he had went to the Yankees then and there (for $250 million) I would have said, “OK, he wants to win and he went to a team that could afford to pay top dollar”, but no, he went to the Rangers no offense Al . He’s a whiney little grossly overpaid bitch. And mark my words, he will never EVER wear a World Series ring. Shit, he’s been playing for ten years already and he hasn’t even been to one!

Ah, come on now Dan. We agree on other things too. We both love jazz music. You still don't support that inept, war-profiteering, fortunate son of a Bush do you?

It looks like he took the peoples money though huh? If all of a sudden no one could paypal him money, or get a emailed mailing address to send him a check, I'd think something bad had happened to him (as in accident, disappeared, etc.), but since he took the money then split, I can't help but think he has had some finacial troubles. But who really knows? Anything could have happened. Hope he's OK.

The Yankees will never win another World Series until they get rid of A-Rod. He's spoiled, egotistical, and a divisive player in the clubhouse. Every team he goes to does nothing but lose because he drains valuable resources away from the pitching staff - which is what really wins games in the end. He's a money grubbing liar (that just happens to be gifted) and he makes my stomach turn. Go Red Sox!!!

Shut up and stop bogartin' that joint my friend.

That's pathetic.

As I posted elsewhere, I was told to "cool it" or be banned. ← Me too.

Better yet - it ain't AAJ! ← I know. That place gives me the creeps. I tried, but I couldn't stick around.

Rasta lends its name to a third type of cannabis 20 September 2005 From New Scientist Print Edition AS POLICE and dope smokers know, there are two types of cannabis. Cannabis sativa sativa is mainly used to make hemp, while the indica subspecies is prized for its tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, which produces the "high". But now Australian researchers have discovered a third type of cannabis, called rasta. Simon Gilmore of the Canberra Institute of Technology catagorised 196 sample plants according to the DNA in their mitochondria and chloroplasts. The samples included plants grown for drugs and hemp as well as wild varieties from Europe, Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica. The results showed three distinct "races" of cannabis. In central Asia the THC-rich indica predominated, while in western Europe sativa was more common. In India, south-east Asia, Africa, Mexico and Jamaica the rasta variant predominated. It looks similar to the sativa subspecies, but generally contains higher levels of THC. Since the study was of DNA rather than a formal taxonomic study, Cannabis sativa rasta is not yet an official new subspecies: the name was the result of a competition in Gilmore's lab. Their work is expected to appear in the journal Forensic Science International later this year. From issue 2517 of New Scientist magazine, 20 September 2005, page 12 http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725175.200

Man, I knew that the White Sox were playing over their head all season, but DAMN!!! They might not even make the playoffs at this rate. Go Indians! my wife is from Cleveland.

I don't get it. Is Al still writing for Bagatellen? I hope shrugs is OK...

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So what happened? Didn't spend enough time with yer grandpops as a child?

More recent, in the studio:

Al. Don't miss the Rangers/Mariners game tonight. This felix Hernandez kid is the next Doc Gooden, I'm tellin' ya'.

CD or LP

DAMN IT!!! I completely missed this one. I been listening to more Mangelsdorff of late and did a search on AMG and there it was - died July 25, 2005. Came over here and it seems I missed this entire thread. Another giant gone without getting to see them perform! Aw man! Thanks (belatedly) for the music Albert.

Milo and Jack

Happy Birthday Mr. Vibes!

A Fatal Incuriosity By MAUREEN DOWD NY Times - September 14, 2005 I hate spending time in hospitals and nursing homes. I find them to be some of the most depressing places on earth. Maybe that's why the stories of the sick and elderly who died, 45 in a New Orleans hospital and 34 in St. Rita's nursing home in the devastated St. Bernard Parish outside New Orleans, haunt me so. You're already vulnerable and alone when suddenly you're beset by nature and betrayed by your government. At St. Rita's, 34 seniors fought to live with what little strength they had as the lights went out and the water rose over their legs, over their shoulders, over their mouths. As Gardiner Harris wrote in The Times, the failed defenses included a table nailed against a window and a couch pushed against a door. Several electric wheelchairs were gathered near the front entrance, maybe by patients who dreamed of evacuating. Their drowned bodies were found swollen and unrecognizable a week later, as Mr. Harris reported, "draped over a wheelchair, wrapped in a shower curtain, lying on a floor in several inches of muck." At Memorial Medical Center, victims also suffered in 100-degree heat and died, some while waiting to be rescued in the four days after Katrina hit. As Louisiana's death toll spiked to 423 yesterday, the state charged St. Rita's owners with multiple counts of negligent homicide, accusing them of not responding to warnings about the hurricane. "In effect," State Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. said, "I think that their inactions resulted in the death of these people." President Bush continued to try to spin his own inaction yesterday, but he may finally have reached a patch of reality beyond spin. Now he's the one drowning, unable to rescue himself by patting small black children on the head during photo-ops and making scripted attempts to appear engaged. He can keep going back down there, as he will again on Thursday when he gives a televised speech to the nation, but he can never compensate for his tragic inattention during days when so many lives could have been saved. He made the ultimate sacrifice and admitted his administration had messed up, something he'd refused to do through all of the other screw-ups, from phantom W.M.D. and the torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo to the miscalculations on the Iraq occupation and the insurgency, which will soon claim 2,000 young Americans. How many places will be in shambles by the time the Bush crew leaves office? Given that the Bush team has dealt with both gulf crises, Iraq and Katrina, with the same deadly mixture of arrogance and incompetence, and a refusal to face reality, it's frightening to think how it will handle the most demanding act of government domestic investment since the New Deal. Even though we know W. likes to be in his bubble with his feather pillow, the stories this week are breathtaking about the lengths the White House staff had to go to in order to capture Incurious George's attention. Newsweek reported that the reality of Katrina did not sink in for the president until days after the levees broke, turning New Orleans into a watery grave. It took a virtual intervention of his top aides to make W. watch the news about the worst natural disaster in a century. Dan Bartlett made a DVD of newscasts on the hurricane to show the president on Friday morning as he flew down to the Gulf Coast. The aides were scared to tell the isolated president that he should cut short his vacation by a couple of days, Newsweek said, because he can be "cold and snappish in private." Mike Allen wrote in Time about one "youngish aide" who was so terrified about telling Mr. Bush he was wrong about something during the first term, he "had dry heaves" afterward. The president had to be truly zoned out not to jump at the word "hurricane," given that he has always used his father's term as a reverse playbook and his father almost lost Florida in 1992 because of his slow-footed response to Hurricane Andrew. And W.'s chief of staff, Andy Card, was the White House transportation secretary the senior President Bush sent to the rescue after FEMA bungled that one. W. has said he prefers to get his information straight up from aides, rather than filtered through newspapers or newscasts. But he surrounds himself with weak sisters who don't have the nerve to break bad news to him, or ideologues with agendas that require warping reality or chuckleheaded cronies like Brownie. The president should stop haunting New Orleans, looking for that bullhorn moment. It's too late.

Or better yet, straped to a bed in a room slowly filling with water. Fucking pigs!

What about "Close to the Edge", "21st Century Schizoid Man", "Songs from the Woods", and "Tarkus"?

Buddy Rich visits the muppets

The Portland show is FREE!!! They never have a cover at the Tugboat. The bands solicite tips from the audience. And I must say, the past two times I've played there the crowd is quite generous. Maybe it's cause they know we drove all the way down from Seattle, or maybe that's just the way people in Portland are, but we made enough to pay for gas and put $100 in the band fund last time. Hopefully we can sell a few CD's as well. We'll see. Hope you can make it dave.