JSngry

You severely underestimate both the intelligence level and motivations of most club bookers!

Right agent, wrong club, perhaps?

Also did not know that was Nico, but always did think that whoever it was looked like heroin, either then or to come. Some people just have it in their eyes.

Colby Lewis gets a contract extension for 2013, in spite of getting elbow surgery this year that will keep him out until at least the middle on 2013 & in spite of being a free agent at the end of this year. Loyalty/good faith/whatever rewarded by and for both player and organization, nice to see that. http://www.lonestarball.com/2012/9/17/3347750/rangers-colby-lewis-agree-on-contract-extension-for-2013#comments

Why are they dancing to that great jazz instead of listening to it? I thought we had moved beyond that type of primitive response to such a sophisticated and intellectual music. Now, yes that sounds like "E and D Blues", but you're right, I don't hear Ella. I wonder if it was recorded elsewhere under a different title.

Monologist Monogamist Monotheist

Pussy Galore The One I Adore Someone Knocking At The Door

You can turn it all into one drum solo and it would be grand. A lot of New Orleans music is like that, just one big drum solo orchestrated for bands and singers and what have you. Cecil Taylor talked about "88 tuned drums", well, yeah. And it's not like he invented the idea, and it's not like it only applies to piano.

I've had it for a while & can only second Chuck's recommendation as well as add one for another Von side on Southport, Walkin' Tough.

I would say that depends on what neighborhood you're in...

Coltrane - a truly great man, too often made into an idol instead of a hero once he left the building. But that's not the fault of either the man or the pedestal. It's the fault of the survivors deciding what to do with/about how to proceed afterward.

Especially for the servant owners!

Not weird at all, really. If you don't accept responsibility for owning your own life (as much as possible, anyway), then somebody else will. Always. Which is not to say that "surrender" is not part of the equation, it most certainly is, and should be. But it's a question of to who/what, and why, and waht happens once you do. Yin-yang, complementary opposites, seeking balance/harmony is all aspects of life, all that mess.

The whole "pedestal" thing..that can go both ways. I mean, let's take people who have a vision, do the work, leap the hurdles and DO something exceptional with their life, let's take these people and put them on a pedestal and use them as examples of what humans can do with their lives. I got no problem with that. Dreams, role models, inspirational figures, all that stuff is good, and a big part of waht keeps us from settling into an easily/permanently collective state of cloddy muddleheaded servitude. It's one thing to accept that knowing that you have options, quite another to think that that is the only role which you can ever fill in life. Now, let's NOT place people on the pedestal for the purpose of creating an industry around them, or for glorifying them as being our intrinsic superiors, or for using their achievements to dictate to us what literal form/direction our achievements should take. Heroes, not idols. That's what I like to see. The pedestal is benevolent as long as there is always room for more people on it, and as long as rising to it is encouraged. It's not when it is used for a guard station at a maximum security prison. It may well need remodeling, but I don't think it ever needs destroying. But inspiring people to dream, to act, to work, to more fully know who and what not just who they are but who they can be,hey, I'm ok with that.

The Seeds The Eggman Crabalocker Fishwife

You might enjoy it. Many of those SB Nation blogs are pretty good to read, run by people who know the game and the team really well. Some...not so much.

in which direction?

Dare to NOT dream!

I love the murk.

P.P. Badleigh Pops Poopadeaux Scatman Crothers

Probably still the only way to hear that great music as originally heard by whatever parts of the worlds were listening to it. Maybe, as Bill Laswell(?) says, the technology wasn't in place to present it "fully", but this music was not meant to be "fully revealed" on record (or even live), I'm convinced. The "murk" is just as much a part of what it all "means" as is any other part of it.

Cool. Good luck! A little furtehr recommendation - the supplements come in various strengths and prices and additional ingredients. I've just used the strongest formula out there, and in a store-brand (in my case, Kroger) formulation with next to nothing additional added, and in the largest bottle available (to bring down the per-unit cost). Yesterday, they had them as a buy-one-get-one-free item, so I carpe-diemed all over that. It's still a little "pricey" but hey, ain't no such thing as a free lunch, ya' know?

Yeah, Josh Hamilton got that within the last week. It's called Synvisc (obviously a brand name, there's probably others of the same formulation), and it seems to work wonders for athletes. http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/treatment/a/synvisc.htm