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I loved how he threw his helmet at the pitcher just before trying to hit him. Way to help your team Youk (since he'll likely face a suspension).

Just a real quick answer as I'm heading out the door, but I see at least 13 songs with Johnson & Lang on the Mosaic. Two Tone Stomp Have To Change Keys To Play These Blues Jet Black Blues Blue Blood Blue Guitar Blues A Handful Of Riffs Blue Guitars Bull Frog Moan Deep Minor Rhythm Midnight Call (Blues) Hot Fingers Blue Room (Blues) There's a chance I may have missed some.

It has nothing to with dissatisfaction of the content, but I have a hard time playing the Ayler Revenant box. The prayer box is in the stereo rack where a cassette deck used to be but it blends in like a typical black stereo component (when it's turned off, as the box doesn't have any lights.) I have since put a dummy cd case in the racks with his name on the spine next to his other cds just to remind me that I have a big box of his music.

Because jazz & popular music are dead and this is where the zombies are.

Another foot to a foot & a half. I know some people do okay with just a 6 foot fence, but I think it's a bit on the low side. As far as dog urine, peeing around your garden and all that, thankfully I haven't had to experiment with such things.

I think what Chuck is getting at is it's very likely the library will repackage Stitt's Bits so the hole in the cardboard side won't even matter. I've checked out discs from the library that were originally issued as digi-packs or heavy stock cardboard sets that the library repackaged into jewel cases for circulation. The library used a combination of the copy machine and scissors to provide artwork or notes. Because of the use of scissors needless to say the notes are often incomplete (such as our library's copy of the 1st Chuck Berry Hip-O set.) There's also a chance that a library might allow each disc to be checked out individually. That's how mine handles Mosaic Selects.

Is this Tower technically now Caiman, the place that provided the stealth "Mosaic" (Verve) Tal Farlow box dirt cheap a few years ago? Oddly I've had luck buying some rock box sets (such as the Pogues one) cheaper from this Tower than any other online site. I'm pretty sure it's Tower in name only, sort of like Sony or Maxell CD-Rs. Having only been in a physical store near the end I associate with it being overpriced too, so it's been weird having it become a go to place for certain things 2-3 times a year.

Yup, I've been gardening for 20 years. Harvested garlic a few weeks ago and it's now cured. Tomatoes are just starting to ripen, at least with an early variety. In the Willamette Valley this can continue on thru early October, and it may take that long for some of the heirlooms. The pole beans are finally slowing down. Good thing as I was ready to turn into a bean. Peppers are coming along, have had summer squash for awhile and the sugar pumpkin and other fall squashes are growing nicely. Have carrots and some greens going though the latter had it rough with the 2 days of 105 heat, and all sorts of herbs (legal kind moose) going. I have about 2 dozen sunflowers of different types, all volunteers so lots of goldfinches & chickadees keep us company. Already have winter carrots and kale just starting and come October I'll plant garlic again and cover crops (probably fava beans and/or clover) and keep the circle going.

Ack!, that'll be in my head all day now. Another to pee in the punchbowl. I loathed the Breakfast Club cast that helped spawn St. Elmo's Fire (even though he had nothing to do with the film) and hated Molly Ringworm (sorry, "wald," and time has now rendered her harmless). Egads, and the number of times I had to hear some Chicago suburbanite yack about how Judd Nelson sat at the same desk in detention...Judd Nelson? I'd sooner hear Frank Stallone stories if you're going to bore me with inconsequential actors. I hadn't realized he was behind Vacation. That was alright.

You've been playing without Kinsler the past week as he's been out with a bad hamstring. Getting him back adds punch & (depending on how healed the hamstring is) speed back to the lineup. It's kind of weird to have a bit of wild card hope out in the West, longshot that it is. But it's a good kind of weird.

Yup, I finally went "native" with basketball a few years ago (I've been a gypsy ever since the St. Louis Spirits disappeared. ) I'm kind of relieved the only big change was getting Miller at PG. He's a true point guard and a fine team player. While I like Blake a lot it would probably be better for him to with the second unit. The reports about Greg Oden's play during the summer gives reasons to optimistic and to not be at the same time. Oh, and yes, I have high hopes. I hope they can at least scare some teams deeper into the playoffs.

I find it amusing that the headline on Yahoo (courtesy of AP) is "Bryant, O'Neal To Face Off On Christmas." Isn't there some James guy on Cleveland?

I had a couple of kid's records that came with a story book so that you could read along to the record. I thought that they were Disney but the ones that I still have are 7 inch at 33 1/3. So while I don't know the titles of the 16 2/3s that I played way back when, I can show the awesome tube console stereo I played them on. At about 1:50 the camera focuses on the speed control. Just prior to that I giggle every time the narrator notes what can be hooked up thanks to the auxiliary input. The 16 2/3s speed was also useful for making records by the Chipmunks more listenable, and near the end of the console's life for experiments like "What if Bruce Springsteen could sing even more slowly?"

I did a year or so of college radio in 1985. I was surprised to discover that 8 tracks were still being used, though not for music. Our 30 second public service announcements (or those we didn't read) were on 8 track. Those were called "carts" and were played on a "cart deck". I may be wrong but I am fairly certain that while there were superficial similarities, these were not true "8 Track cartridges"... You're absolutely correct there, Dan. Carts and 8-tracks were very different animals. The only real similarity is that now they're both obsolete. Well I was pretty baked much of the time. It was college radio after all...

Have a tube-tacular day!

What do you want, for him to put on a Barney costume and tell everybody who posts "I wuv you"?

Okay, thanks. I have seen some rumors in the past that were shot down as wildly false. Then again, denial is the usual answer from a GM. The ace vs. the great everyday is the unanswerable zen question of baseball. But if we're playing fantasy I do go with the hitter every time.

Not at all, it's just that age of player matters a great deal when comparing players, and you were minimizing the accomplishments of Felix relative towards the perceived abilities of the older Buchholz. Felix is in the top 10 all time for K/9 through age 23, yet he also induces a lot of ground balls. Yes, Boston would love that - hell, any team would. Actually he's been treated quite well by the M's. He's pitched 31 game max in a season and didn't touch 200 innings until last year. Hardly run into the ground. He also avoided throwing a slider during those younger years to avoid damage. With pitchers who the hell knows as they can break down, but he's been well taken care of. You could just as easily state how has any player helped the Blue Jays. They should just fuckin' quit or move to another division. As a longtime Red Sox fan you should appreciate that having stud hitters without pitching is just another way to lose games. At the moment power hitting first basemen aren't scarce as they're all over the league HR & RBI lists. I like Gonzalez a lot don't get me wrong, but the way Felix has advanced this year he's the rarer bird. There could be other serviceable 1st baseman available in the wintertime. It's not like a pennant winner has to have a power guy anyway, sometimes the high OBP types with good defense fit in just fine. Besides, the M's are currently getting 24 homers from 1st from a throw away player. The big thing that helped there was getting a good glove at short. I remember having to talk a Red Sox friend off the ledge when Nomar got traded. I repeatedly told him I thought they had improved the pitching with the better glove at short as they already had plenty of offense, plus they got rid of a clubhouse cancer. He finally believed me around September. Well duh. The problem with the M's hasn't been money, it's been where they've spent it post-Hargrove. Again, I don't put a lot into the trade rumor web site. As far as comparing power hitting 1b vs. an ace, you know that good teams need good pitching, hitting and defense, so where the M's are I'm not sure adding a power hitting at 1B and then having Masterson as your ace (cause it sure as hell isn't Buchholz) makes things better. The ace is harder to develop and find compared to the power hitter, the M's have money, so it makes more sense to stick with the kid. As it's a smaller cheaper division, maybe they can scrape something together within 2 years, maybe even next. *edited* - Or 3 years, or 4, or 5. Felix will still be under 30 even after 5 years! (It is an ugly looking roster offensively, but "smell the glove," we built this team on defense!)

Jack Teagarden on H.R.S. might change your mind. I too was once allergic to jazz vocals. Now I have jazz singers in my stacks! Gasp!

Oddly enough I was also considering the Ellington. :unsure: Go for 'em both! Or at least plan on getting both. They're ones that get played rather than just looking sharp on the shelves.

At age 19! And he was significantly better than Buchholz at that point too. Felix's WHIP was below league average for the season he "sucked" and he still couldn't legally buy alcohol, yet they didn't overwork him either. Major league ready Buchholz, again an older pitcher, has a career WHIP of 1.67. Now that sucks. I think you put far too much weight on Buchholz's no hitter (vs. a lousy team in an early start) whose young career is starting to look like one of those Bud Smith or Anibal Sanchez types. He's certainly young enough that he could turn it around (look at Edwin Jackson this year), but Felix is younger still. With only 4 teams in the AL West - one teetering on bankruptcy and another famously frugal, I'd far rather keep the young ace than what allegedly was offered.

Yup, VMart in the role of Gene Tenace (21st century model.) He's better at 1st than behind the plate, but given his pop & good eyes it's hard to resist having him catch some. Worked great for the A's in the '70s.

Why the fuck would the Mariners want Buchholz? He's 2 years older than Felix and has pitched like shit for the last 2. Felix is just 23 and in his 5th season, has a 2.78 ERA and a 1.29 WHIP. Fuck Buchholz, he's garbage. Masterson is the same deal too though not as bad. A "prospect" who is older than a proven ace. I doubt the rumor site has its facts straight anyway.

I'm sorry, I totally misread your name and thought you were someone else who might need some explaining. (No I hadn't been drinking then, though I am now. ) I completely agree about not trusting the Rhino writer, though a small part of me wants to just a little, thinking there might be some rough-edged loose raw Rod kind of vocals on the new set. But yeah, going into the '90s is scary. I'm not brave enough to go there without reviews, samples, probably dirt cheap pricing & so on. Hey, if all of us have helped sell some more 5 Guys Walked Into A Bar... sets, we've done some good in this world!

Yes, which completely explodes my initial grumble. I wouldn't be without that one! Yeah, except they were done by the mid-70's. Reading on the Rhino site, 2/3 of the Rod box comes from the 80's and 90's. You really want to lay down your hard-earned $ for latter-day Rod outtakes? Different box. The one that explodes Bev's initial grumble and Clifford thinks is very very nice (me too) is 5 Guys Walk Into A Bar... The other Rod box that I linked to above and stated misgivings about has yet to receive any positive comment. The Rhino write up claims it's better than we might think, or something like that.