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at the Jazz Record Mart.

I dunno, too many real victims in the world to trivialize the meaning of the word through less than accurate overuse. Same thing with "genius", seems that everybody has a claim laid to being one so they can claim the perks, but...really? There's enough addicts who are victims, not of their disease, but of criminally (literally, imo) inadequate treatment options and support systems if/when they try to get right. But I don't think that Amy Winehouse is that type of "victim".

Amy Winehouse has a disease. What she's a victim of is her choices in how to deal with it (if you can believe what you see and hear).

My mom bought it for my dad, who really preferred butter and ketchup on all his sandwiches (must've been some weird Pennsylvania Dutch thing...) but I banned it in my life and from my house forevermore, or so I thought. My daughter is now a fan. If that's the worse she does in her life, I'm lucky, but still...you try and you try, and this is what you get...life is cruel.

That's all I'm saying, really.

I don't mind mayo, but Miracle Whip is something with which I have no intention of ever making my peace.

Whoa, Jim. You're running close to Ebert territory here (he actually had his Facebook page blocked for a while for saying unkind things about the death of the Jackass star, who pretty clearly had been drinking and driving). Maybe you need some more time to reflect on this before people's feelings get bent. ( ) Oh, I know it's a tragedy for everybody involved, feelings get bent enough right there, believe me, I know, but... at what point does "What did you THINK was going to happen" become a more realistic - and therefore ultimately positive - reaction than "Oh how sad!"? If the correct answer is "never", then...we're all just enabling, each in our own way. I'm not at the point in my life where people knowingly and repeatedly making clearly piss-poor lifestyle choices is something for which I have any interest in finding excuses. We got real problems with inadequate rehab options and recovery support systems, and that makes me just as mad, but one wrong does not excuse the other, ya' know? I've seen enough of this stuff to know the power of the pull back in, but I've also seen too many people reject a helluva lot of serious and sincere help being offered, so hey - you can't protect people from themselves. Not forever. If Amy Winehouse OD's and dies, what did she THINK was going to happen?

I think the sack lunch is probably a big baloney sammich.

Is it wrong for me to say that at some point in their lives, people really do have to make the choice to get sober and stay sober, and that if they fail to make that choice, hey, sorry 'bout that, but ya' know, I've pretty much used up my supply of tears for people who make their choices & then get hit by the consequences. It's not nearly "sad" as much as it is predictable and/or inevitable, and life definitely goes on.

Well, get busy then!

In the tradition!

You will not be receiving respect from Brut, as you have posed in this thread after him. Proceed accordingly.

Pretty sure somebody had the OTC box for cheap too...

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Nice outing by Derek Holland this evening, but he still had that one inning where he tended to let things get loose and almost out of control. Tonight it was the Astros, so it only cost two, but that's a corner you really want to see him turn once and for all. Otherwise, great stuff all night. Good speed, great location. Hey, if if if if IF...damn that's a big word...

Imagine a Spike Lee-led consortium bringing the Dodgers back to Brooklyn. Would Bud Selig be ready for that? Hell, would America be ready for that?

Do you ever concatenate?

Rebuild Ebbets Field & move the Dodgers back to Brooklyn! I'm almost serious....

Were there spreadsheets involved?

Would you be willing to sacrifice a human life so that this album may live? That's love. And I do love this album.

Wow, this sucks: Report: Cardinals' Albert Pujols out 4-6 weeks with fractured wrist

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Yeah, I can imagine being in her band. Been there, done that. With more than one "artist", local and otherwise. Loads of fun, let me tell you... And whoever let her go on stage in that condition probably had just collected the rest of the fee and was on the way to wherever they were going to escape being "asked" to return it. Loads of fun, let me tell you. LOADS of fun. Truth be told, her band deserves double pay (at least) for holding that shit together so when she did zone in, she had someplace to land. Those guys kept it as tight as they would have had she been able, and that's not easy.

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