Dan Gould

Yeah, I once had that Clark Terry LP with Ted's image of the cover.

I'm like Bill F except that while I know substantially fewer tunes, I am equally clueless about naming them. I think we've talked about this general situation before, one major aggravation at concerts is hearing something that is so darn familiar but not being able to name it. Then of course the artist doesn't say either, and the tune sticks in your head, daring you to name it which you never do ... This especially tortured me the first time I heard "Cantaloop" on MTV. It was used as background music, maybe on the Real World, so it wasn't a matter of listening to the end of a video to find out. I knew that damn song and could not figure it out for a good hour until I finally stumbled across the Herbie CD.

Upstate NY and Vermont have just been devastated. Vermont especially so because of how much is needed to restore/rebuild roads and when winter starts up there. Makes Mom's lack of power and inability to secure ice or batteries a little less significant. The power company seems stumped on getting the percentage knocked off under 50%; each time I check it seems to be bouncing up instead of getting any lower.

He's an overenthusiastic punk and whether he was intentionally showing him up or not, that was the effect - especially as a second string catcher with 3 dingers in 470 career at bats. He should watch Varitek in that regard - run your ass around the bases and go celebrate with your teammates in the dugout.

An infuriating night of futility enlivened only by the fact that the punk-ass clown Cervilli got precisely what he deserved. Too bad he doesn't have the sac to do anything other than run his mouth after he gets plunked for showing up his opponent. Otherwise Salty would have done to that asshat what Tek did to A-Rod in 2004. Now if they'd only treat that POS like the Rays used to treat Brian Daubach: target practice. Then again, Cervilli will be lucky if he ever plays a full season in the majors. His offense sucks, his arm sucks, and no one cares for his rah-rah-we-worked-out-of-a-jam douchebaggery. In short, he's a Molina without hope of ever making a career in the majors.

Mom made it through OK though I haven't actually gotten confirmation that the driveway didn't get blocked by downed trees. When I spoke to her there were just a few limbs down but no trees down close to the house. Hopefully her luck held along the 3/10ths of a mile long driveway. So right now the problem is the lack of power, which might take 5 days to restore. 83% of Wilton is out (Surrounding towns Ridgefield, Weston, Redding are all 90% to 100% so it could be worse).

Its been quite a while since I've gne for some cantaloupe or honey dew - both are usually equally welcome but it seems to have been about a year since I snagged one, for whatever reason. I have a feeling that will change very soon. Beer & cantaloupe - the most compelling evidence that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

I always feel two with the universe.

Nice!

Man I hate when that happens. Nobody has a friggin' clue how to proceed, and that's in an area that's seen its share of non-functional intersections. Imagine what it will be like up north when they never see shit like that.

All the rain and 24 hours of sustained wind is going to take down a lot of trees and a lot of power lines for an extraordinary number of people. That's a given. The question that remains is whether the NYC subway and the airports will get flooded. Now I see that the forecast is keeping the storm at least partially over water; that means it stays stronger than it would have it went more ashore and stayed over land. Won't intensify but I would expect at minimum sustained, very strong tropical-storm force winds with hurricane-force gusts. That is if they are erring on the side of caution and it doesn't maintain its hurricane status. My mother is 78 and alone in a house set deep in the CT woods (Dad has been in a nursing home for the last few weeks) surrounded by a lot of very old trees. We're concerned about the risk of trees making the driveway impassable as well as the potential for any of them to crash into the house. This summer has seen two trees come down over the driveway, at different times during what was seemingly normal weather. So you have to wonder what will happen when Irene blows through.

I find it hee-sterical when people complain about the "doom and gloom" scenarios being "hyped". Here's a newsflash you can trust: HURRICANES ARE SERIOUS AS DEATH. Just because it doesn't hit you directly or the path shifts a bit, doesn't mean that the warnings weren't legitimate and real. This is a serious fucking storm that is headed toward areas that don't a fucking clue what hurricanes can do. If you don't understand why that requires a serious response, then I just hope you don't end up going three weeks without power, or get five feet of water in your front door. Actually, I kinda do wish that because people who don't respect Mother Nature deserve what they get.

Even with the Red Sox due for a half-way decent game or two against the Rangers, color me shocked at winning the series. Andrew Miller beats OGANDO! only in reverse-lock land. Will be interesting to see how Hurricane Irene effects the games this weekend. With the extra space between them, it seems like Boston has a good chance to get all three games with Oakland in the books, since they moved Sunday's game to a Saturday 5 PM start. The Yanks, on the other hand, already have four games scheduled with Baltimore through Monday, and the weather will effect them sooner. Could leave them with one or two more make-up games and the time for those games is dwindling. Since the Yankees need to win the division outright and not force a tie, this may effect their chances of doing that.

Pete Fallico is a friend which indicates to me that this Willette must be his son or relative of some sort - unless of course Pete friended him only to find out he's not. But I went the direct route, using his publicly displayed email to contact him. I'll post if/when he responds.

My brother works in DC, near the Pentagon, said other buildings were evacuating but not his. Other brother in Harrisburg felt it strongly, lives in an massive stone and iron and steel building and said it shook and swayed. And now y'all get to look forward to a hurricane on Sunday, while those of us in Florida enjoy some sunshine. (Hope I didn't just jinx myself.)

"It's gonna take an ocean of calamine lotion?" I never heard of that being a remedy for the clap. I agree. It's a stretch. Do you think they were going to write about needing penicillin, or maybe the fact that it hurts when you piss? I don't need to examine the lyrics to decide if it could be about the clap or not. I believe the guys who wrote it when they say the song was inspired by STDs. Just because they had to write it knowing full well what could be recorded and aired on the radio doesn't mean that their description of the inspiration isn't true.

Sorry I'm late, hope it was happy! :party:

I always liked the fact that goalies go after each other.

You're getting them at exactly the right time, just as you did at the start of the season. Ortiz is out for a week and might play the last game of the trip, Youkilis is headed for the DL, Gonzalez has one home run since the ASB with a lingering neck issue. They've gotten three hits per game for three straight games. Given who the Yankees play and who the Red Sox play, I will be shocked if the Yankees don't have a three game lead by the start of their series at the Fens at the end of August.

What a hideous and embarrassing weekend in Seattle. Even worse considering how well it started, with Sabathia getting knocked around for five solo homers, and a come-from-behind win to get the lead back to two games. But Saturday its Beckett vs King Felix only Beckett forgets to show up in the first inning, digging a five run deficit they can't quite erase. Then Wakefield throws 8 innings in 94 pitches and for one bad one, loses 5-3. Lead is 1/2 game and the Yankees visit the Royals while the Red Sox play three games in 27 hours against the Rays, facing their top three with their own two, three and five starters. May take a miracle for the Yankees not to take over first place this week.

:party: Hope you're doing well Mr Flanigin and you'll grace us with your presence more often!

In the time since I first bought a Howlin' Wolf CD (a Chess two-fer iirc), I've given it three subsequent listens, with several months to a year's separation. Still haven't found my way into his vocals.

Not even September, yeah, I can understand the reaction. On the other hand, at our weekly staff meeting earlier this week, a holiday party for select partners that send us business was discussed. So somehow it doesn't entirely surprise me that for the purpose of booking a holiday banquet, its better to book a day/time sooner rather than later.

Completely opposite reaction. Never found a way to love the raw voice, it just grates and irritates. (Not that its a case of spending a lot of time trying to, but when I went whole-hog into the blues about six or seven years ago, well - my reaction to hearing the Wolf was similar to my reaction to hearing latter-day Coltrane.)

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