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I don't get all the..."distress" that Benson causes. The guy's one helluva player, made some really good money, enjoys having it, and now works when and how he feels like it. If he was an author or a painter or a director or a plumber or a carpenter, everybody would be all "yeah, nice job!". But no, he's a jazz musician, so it's all "you BETRAYED us!", like when you decide to be a jazz musician you sign some loyalty bloodoath to never open a window, much less leave the room or some such. Whatevrrr. What's wrong with George Benson? Nothing. What's wrong with "jazz fans" that they have a problem with the George Bensons of the world? Hell if I know.

I've always enjoyed it, like, a side at a time. How that's gonna work on a CD, is not my problem.

Old enough to get it out of his system and then drop it, it looks like.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1464596&mesg_id=1464895 Shuhyeah. Have fun with THAT.

Was it my imagination, my changing tastes, or a reality that she lost weight/got skinnier as the series progressed?

Wow...when I lived in Albuquerque (mid 1982- mid-1984), there was an old guy, a local guy - alto player/dance-band leader named Dave (somebody...Willis?) told me about Mulligan hanging out in town with his "crazy wife" and always being high. To the extent that I gave credence to the story, I assumed that it was Judy Holliday and that they were probably smoking weed on vacation or something. But then I see this, and a little Googling turns up this: http://news.allaboutjazz.com/news.php?id=81832#.URF4VvKnB_Y So, wow, true story. Completely.

We don't need it until we need it, but we should never have to need it except when we will, and we won't. Except for when we do.

Lee was a bad cat.

Funny, and not to start a long discussion, but I am so averse to that track. Relistened just recently to see if I still thought the same.... The first time I heard it was on a crackly AM station, with no idea what/who it was, or when how it would end. That all made an impression. It kept getting longer, and weirder, and more and more like it was never going to end, or come back again.

So you found it, the quadrature of the circle! It's only impossible if you try to find it.

East Broadway Rundown. Flawed, but perfect.

I don't know if this quote is real, but it's relevant. I also don't know if the quote is real, but it sure is true!

And let me tell you this - I watched the game only because it was the Super Bowl. It's like, ok, Baltimore has the murderer and San Francisco has..nobody that I care about, and both coaches are irritating as fuck, so...guess it's still the Super Bowl so, ok, I'll watch. And damned if CBS didn't do their dead-level best to ruin THAT.

I grew up to hate Cowboys fans because the refs were never on the Cowboys' side. Ever. Anytime the Cowboys lost, it was the ref's fault. This went on until the middle 1970s or so until a lot of the fans learned that calls go both ways, good and bad, and that to blame the refs for a loss is a really...amateur hour thing to do (but there is still that contingent, and god knows I want to slam a hot-but-dull butter knife in their larynx every time a flag is thrown against the Cowboys and they give out with the Oh C'MONNNNN thing...). I'm like, you know, play better, ok? Of course, these days, there's getting to be fewer and fewer Cowboys fans who have actually seen what a difference that playing better, consistently, can really make...but that's another story. A bad call can cost you a play. If you lose the game, it's your fault, unless you are getting so blatantly and consistently reamed by the refs to the point where a Congressional investigation is called for. Are the People's Representatives For And From The Great State Of California setting the date for a hearing? I think not.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/audibles/2013/audibles-line-super-bowl-xlvii

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/02/04/super-bowl-47-ravens-34-49ers-31-my-top-10-cbs-contemplations/ http://www.footballzebras.com/2013/02/03/7027/#more-7027

http://espn.go.com/nfl/playbyplay?gameId=330203025 San Francisco 49ers at 15:00 BAL SFO 1st and 10 at SF 20 (Shotgun) C.Kaepernick pass deep left to V.Davis to SF 40 for 20 yards (B.Pollard). PENALTY on SF-V.Davis, Illegal Formation, 5 yards, enforced at SF 20 - No Play. http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2013020300/2012/POST22/ravens@49ers#tab=analyze&analyze=playbyplay&menu=drivechart San Francisco 49ers at 15:00 9-J.Tucker kicks 65 yards from BAL 35 to end zone, Touchback. 1-10-SF 20 (15:00) (Shotgun) 7-C.Kaepernick pass deep left to 85-V.Davis to SF 40 for 20 yards (31-B.Pollard). PENALTY on SF-85-V.Davis, Illegal Formation, 5 yards, enforced at SF 20 - No Play.

Dude, that was an illegal formation. People were standing still and there it was. It's like, line up, set, and UH-oh! If you need more explanation, see here: http://www.teamspeed...oying-penalties Pretty unambiguous, really. Jim, I don't like the explanation you linked to. I also don't think it is relevant to this play. The play referred to in the link is a common error in the CFL, called "No End." It happens when the curve of the offensive line on passing plays is bent too much at the snap of the ball, so that the tight end is technically in the backfield. In the play last night, I believe that SF had eight men on the line. In the CFL, the left tight end would have been an ineligible receiver because only the two players at the extreme ends of the line may be eligible receivers. I think, but I'm not sure, that the tight end caught the pass. Therefore, it was an "ineligible receiver" penalty. But I'm not NFL expert, so I may be wrong. No, you might be right. But I believe the refs called "illegal formation" and the replay showed and explained why, Phil Simms even saying, yeah, before the play even ran, I'm thinking, that's an illegal formation. (not an exact quote but pretty close). It might have been the last time I wanted to hear Simms explain anything all night. Either way, it wasn't an interpretive call of a play in motion. A formation is either legal or it isn't.

So, they throw that one flag on that one play and everything would be beautiful, eh? How many games do you watch anyway? I see bad, at times awful, officiating in almost every game, especially the ones with at-best-average teams involved. And it pretty much evens out. Call bullshit on the NFL all you want, but call it on all the games, not just this one, and not just because you feel like you got "robbed" of a win or something. Call bullshit based on objective, balanced evidence, not one emo torture moment. And call bullshit on CBS while you're at it. GOD do I hate their crew. I can see JB gritting his teeth in his mind every passing second. But he took the money, so, hey, too bad about that, eh?

Dude, that was an illegal formation. People were standing still and there it was. It's like, line up, set, and UH-oh! If you need more explanation, see here: http://www.teamspeedkills.com/2010/8/11/1617766/know-your-annoying-penalties Pretty unambiguous, really.

Ok, I'll ask it - I want stats that show how often "bad officiating" = "the fix is in" and how often "bad officiating" really is just bad officiating. I saw enough bad officiating - especially when it came to helmet-to-helmet stuff - in that game yesterday that I'd welcome a play-by-play review to weigh who got the better end of the deal. I strongly suspect that it would end up being a wash. Both teams play dirty, er, excuse me, "physical" football, so hey. And no, having one instance of "bad officiating" that comes when your team was trying to win a game that, except for a few short minutes, they never had a hold of anyway, doesn't count as anything other than just one more instance of bad officiating, especially when it came in a game that started off pretty chippy and almost immediately turned into an overt "let 'em play" affair. They played.

No dude, it's WWE now- World Wrestling Entertainment. It changed in 2002.

Besides - two teams in which zero players are of interest to me, two hyper-emo coaches who have the "brother vs brother media goo all over them, PLUS the slope-head CBS announcing team (Jim "OMG THAT POWER OUTAGE SHIFTED ALL THE MOMENTUM TO THE FORY-NINERCE!!!! (guess I missed the power outage when the Niners played the Falcons...) Nantz and Phil "OMG WHATEVER IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS WHAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT plus the incomparable cliche-obsessed trio of Dan, Shannon, Boomer and their flint-jawed tunnel-visioned leader, "Coach") almost ruined what was otherwise a very good football game.

If you call the low strike all game long and then wait until a 3-2 count in a tie game with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to finally get all legal about it and call it Ball 4, you're more crooked than you are if you just go ahead and call it a strike one more time. Oh, btw, it's WWE. I don't watch it, but my son and his buddoes have for as long as I can remember. And the NFL can never offer you this: