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That's Kenny Barron?

Otrie Barrett Barrett Deems Deems Taylor

Judge Judy Jude Hays Jerry Hey

Chorels instead of Challs, although allowances can be made if truly justified..

Al Boenker, more likely!

Steamed vegetables.

Fried catfish.

The icon of the State Fair Of Texas caught fire today. http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Fire-leaves-Big-Tex-a-skeletal-frame-174951021.html Big Tex in happier times:

AMVETS T.M. Stevens Mike Love

OTOH: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/harper-yankee-admits-bombers-jolted-bronx-jeers-article-1.1187331#ixzz29kkqD2dK Really? You play in New York and getting booed "bothers" you? Wow.

yankee fans on new york talk radio are near suicidal, blaming everyone in sight and wanting to get rid of them. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Really? Should Bain Capital now buy the Yankees? I mean, c'mon. My dislike for all "this" is not a secret, but I watched the Yankees play this post-season, and came away with a new appreciation of just how veteran that group is. Sure, they almost blew the division lead over the last few weeks of the season, the Orioles were almost their Oaklands, and they struggled to win when they did, but other than yesterday, they fought every step of the way against Detroit, and in all games, one hitter coming through might well have reversed the outcome (well, it actually did in Game 1...). But that one hitter never came. It happens, especially when you're up against damn good pitching and a team that is on a roll. You saw a lot of patient at-bats too, something else I've come to really appreciate more than before (watching Josh Hamilton all season will do that to you...). Patient, just not successful. Good process, just a bad outcome.Sure, they fell short, but it looked to me that the suffered from the same thing the Rangers did a few weeks earlier - a combination of mental and physical weariness combining to/culminating in finally freeze up their game and playing opponents who were totally unfrozen. At some point, if you don't get unfrozen, you get beat. For the Rangers, it came in the Wild Card game. For the Yankees, it took all the way to the League Championship series. I was impressed that they got that far, and how they got that far. What it finally came down to was simple - Detroit finally became the team that many objective observers had been waiting all season for them to become, and the Yankees finally became the team that any objective observer knew that they could become this year - old, out of gas, and unable to go to the well one more time. For where the two teams were when the series began, the better team definitely won, but the team that lost was anything but a "loser". As glad as I was to see the Tigers win (and to a lesser extent, to see the Yankees lose), this whole "loser" thing is just a little sickening, and not at all removed from where we are as a culture - "winners" or "losers", nothing in between, and too damn many people think it's as simple as who you "identify with" instead of what you yourself actually do. So this year, no Fuck The Yankees, not now. Quite the opposite, in fact (if only for now ). But - Fuck The New York Post, and Fuck All That It Implies, and Fuck All Who Take That Bait And Swallow That Bullshit.

It looks like a power tool.

No charge y'all, no charge. :g Seriously - all the good feelings I had for the Tigers last year but hey, sorry 'bout that, I can go ahead and have them this year. NEver mind that their record was the worst of all the AL post-season teams. They qualified by any measure and carpe-diemed once there. So, if St. Louis wins, the two play-off teams with the worst records will meet in the "World Series." I'm starting to think the last real World Series was 1968, everything afterwards is the World Series Tournament. I'll not argue that. But - you DO remember who played in the '68 Series, right?

Sorry to hear this..another one gone. RIP and thanks for doing it.

No charge y'all, no charge. :g Seriously - all the good feelings I had for the Tigers last year but hey, sorry 'bout that, I can go ahead and have them this year. NEver mind that their record was the worst of all the AL post-season teams. They qualified by any measure and carpe-diemed once there.

I kinda know a local band director whose high school has been the beneficiary of some of Wynton's outreach. He's a slavish, almost-militant, definitely irrational Wynton Defender, his band is doing nothing to even remotely to get excited about musically, but - it's a poor school in an economically and socially challenged neighborhood, and you know, it's a thread of hope for kids who don't have much hope anywhere else. And enough kids latch on to it to make it worthwhile, and that's why he does what he does - to give his kids hope instead of just letting them give up and get beat down before they have a chance to even get up. In a perfect world, none of it would be as it is, kids would have solid families with solid jobs and good schools to go to that gave them all kinds of good options, and jazz would make Wynton Marsalis irrelevant and unnecessary as a performer and, especially, an "important figure". But it's not a perfect world, it's a fucked up world, it's a fucked up America, and I don't see it getting any better any time soon. So I still say fuck Wynton Marsalis, but I can never say fuck giving kids hope. Never. Quite the conundrum. I take comfort in knowing that some day, one way or the other, it will come to an end, all of this mess, whether I'm alive to see it or not.

Standers

"nice clothes" and "clothes that work" are fields that only sometimes intersect. I will like to dance in my jazz. Not necessarily "to" it, but definitely in it.

Getting convinced.

Clothes that work.

Where you go and where you stay are two different places.

Macy's

Drugs improperly applied.

Dude, the way you kick in on those Canterbury bands, I think you might be underestimating your tribalness! I mean, it's a good thing. Own it with pride! I can tell you that the Southern American Rural Cultures in/with which I grew did use music to teach/instill social/moral lessons/values. Shows it works. Yeah, well... MG Exactly.