Dan Gould

Deleting that rant is fine but I would hope that someone who attacks the owner of the board, the band, and the entire membership in outrageous, not to mention racist ways has had his ticket permanently punched. There's no reason to tolerate that and making it disappear doesn't change the fact of it.

If you need a reason to get out of bed maybe you can pick up tennis again. I wish I could but since the end of last year I have had a right shoulder that regularly barks at me, particularly for all over-hand activity. I think that I may have injured the rotator cuff when I helped my wife move a pallet of bricks to the backyard, at least that was the most noteworthy physical activity that occurred before this pain developed. But unless it goes away, my tennis career is over, and while this is the time of year I think about looking for a softball league, I'd be worthless there too. Your mention of over-hand activity sounds similar to a condition I had some years ago -- what they call frozen shoulder. It lasted about a month to 6 weeks, but only because I went to rehab to fix it. Range motion exercises and some other treatments involving electrical stimulation. Without the treatments, it could have lasted as long as what you're describing, but I was assured it would eventually clear up on it's own over time. As I understand it, the condition arises when some fiber-like material in the shoulder socket basically seizes up and hardens, making even the lifting of your arm over your shoulder quite painful. I couldn't start a lawn mower, for example, because I could not pull my arm back that far. I would wake up in the night literally screaming in pain because I'd rolled over on my arm. Freaked my (then-) wife out. Not fun for either of us. Interesting, but actually my pain has never been that bad. Nowadays its a dull ache mostly, aggravated if I throw overhand. I also notice it if put my arm across my chest, then lift it toward my left shoulder.

If you need a reason to get out of bed maybe you can pick up tennis again. I wish I could but since the end of last year I have had a right shoulder that regularly barks at me, particularly for all over-hand activity. I think that I may have injured the rotator cuff when I helped my wife move a pallet of bricks to the backyard, at least that was the most noteworthy physical activity that occurred before this pain developed. But unless it goes away, my tennis career is over, and while this is the time of year I think about looking for a softball league, I'd be worthless there too.

That's something I'm thankful for - I still get the same (relatively) blissful sleep. Doesn't hurt that a doctor would probably find my clinically depressed which explains my inability to get my ass out of bed in the morning.

kinky! btw, this item reminds of an admittedly juvenile joke: "why did god make farts smell bad?" "so deaf people could enjoy them too!" (told you it was juvenile) It all reminds me of an SNL sketch called "'Sex' On Tape" in which they are doing a recording session for "books for the blind" for Madonna's Sex book. Phil Hartman plays Charlton Heston doing the narration and Danny DeVito is Al Goldstein describing the pictures. http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92jsexontape.phtml Phil Hartman doing Charlton Heston reading ""I like my vagina. Sometimes I stare at it in the mirror, when I'm undressing, and wonder what it would look like without any hair. ..." was classic.

Take a look at Youkilis' numbers before you decide that Manny being long gone is the problem. He has been raking from the #4 spot all season, except for the time he missed with the oblique strain.

Dan, Can you help me with my lottery numbers? Yanks up 3-1 in the bottom of the 7th in Cleveland. A win put 'em first all by their lonesome. Up over and out. And again. They can't hit their way out of a paper bag, the starters suck, today the relievers sucked, and I believe they are on the cusp of full-blown collapse, considering who they face after Toronto - Detroit, Texas, the Yankees. Unless someone starts beating the Yankees, I am going to say that by the time the Yankees leave Fenway on June 11th, the deficit will be five games and counting. If Lester doesn't save them from a sweep tomorrow, it will be worse.

Well, Sue and I both greatly enjoyed the flick, most especially the performances of the actors playing Bones and Scottie. The guy playing Bones really got the vocal rhythm down perfectly. Whoever that was playing Kirk didn't try to "do" Shatner and instead just portrayed him as you'd expect, particularly the skirt-chasing tendencies. But that's probably just as well as it would would have really upped the "camp" quotient. All in all I'd certainly be interested in seeing what they do with this group in the future. As to some of the complaints, I thought young and old Spock was absolutely required once Nimoy signed on, didn't find it annoying at all. And I'd normally agree with Rachel about the futility of arguing about what happens in a sci-fi film, but while I have no problem with "red matter" or beaming onto a ship at "warp" speed because these are completely fantastical, I do have a problem with "parachuting" out of orbit and landing on a platform that looks like it might be 20 yards across. In the aftermath of Columbia, it was acknowledged that no safety system could be built that would allow shuttle astronauts to escape during atmospheric re-entry. So yeah, falling out of a spacecraft in orbit in nothing more than a parachuting suit and helmet, surviving freefall and atmospheric entry, and getting close enough to land on a platform 25 yards across was incredibly stupid. They could have just as easily sent them off in tiny little pods a la 2001 or the second Planet of the Apes to get them to the platform. I didn't let it bother me enough to effect my enjoyment, but yeah, it was a stupid scene.

Seems to me Barry Harris hasn't written much.

Sue and I are going tonight, the last weekend that my Christmas gift card is valid at our preferred theater (new management told her that they wouldn't honor it after June 1). A little disappointed to realize that we can't afford the "Premier VIP" option, which includes free popcorn and drinks, and reserved seats in the balcony over the hoi polloi, where there are extra wide seats that convert into small sofas when you lift the arm rest. Really the only way I like to see movies anymore, but the new owners have really upped the price - seems ridiculous to pay twice as much for that option. $15 a ticket rather than $10 is OK, but $22 a piece is stupid. Ah well, this theater does so much business I am going to go there in an hour or so to get tickets ahead of time so we won't have to worry about a sell out. I'll let y'all know what I thought tomorrow.

Just try and start a streak against the Yankees, allright?

And its a final in Minnesota - 3-1 Sox, the Yankees are in second place by 1/2 a game. Now the Sox travel to Toronto while the Yanks visit Cleveland. Cleveland's been playing better lately so there's some hope they'll slow the Yankees down. Toronto has stunk, which concerns me because the law of averages suggests they'll start winning soon, and 9 straight is a streak that's more likely to end than to go to 12 straight. Fun fact for the Sox: back-to-back weeks with a series against the Jays and they actually manage to miss Doc Holliday. That's a fortunate thing.

Tied for first, and possibly not for long - Sox up 3-1 in the eighth, trying to get out of Minnesota with a split. Two major plusses of this game are Beckett, who allowed three hits and one run in seven innings, for his second straight dominant start, and Varitek who had another two homer game. Would anyone guess that on the last weekend of May, Varitek would have ten times as many homers as Ortiz? I gotta check out the highlights on ESPN or MLB, as something pretty unique happened in this one: Both starting catchers and both managers got tossed.

Please let us know if you give approval to Smalls for posting the audio in their great archive. If the gig goes well and you are pleased, I am sure many will want to hear it who don't live near NYC.

Similarly, one of the best signs of infomercial scams is their willingness to process cancellations. Unfortunately most of them, like video professor or whatever that software training company is, upsell you without you knowing it or approving it, then make it impossible to cancel. I saw that article in the Times, it was interesting in its own way. At least the collections agents don't hammer the person, they do it adept psychological techniques, including a lot of empathy for the survivors that they call. Of course its still scummy because they take advantage of people who are still grieving and get them to commit to something they have no legal responsibility for. I wonder how good the business is - I imagine these companies pay very little for the debt, so whatever they get out of the survivors is gravy.

That's even more insane than taking Nick Johnson's injury-plagued ass for four months in exchange for Manny Delcarmen. I mean, Theo decides that high OBP guys are who you want, and he'd seriously consider a hacker like that? The last time he did that was with Wily Mo Pena and he swore he'd never do it again (give up pitching for "projects with upside").

Michael said "releasable unissued material", so that isn't referring to any Sounds LPs that might be reissued. And he's said that the sales figures weren't very good on the previous Sounds reissues, making it unlikely we'd see more.

Is that Hawkins a Jazz 625 concert or something that hasn't been seen in years?

This is no surprise - it happens every single year, fans vote for their favorites, not the most "deserving" player. Ibanez will be named as a reserve, he just won't get the starting nod.

Please Dan, get me on the list !! Keep Swinging durium I'm not in charge of the list but I'll see what I can do.

I saw the replay and it looked pretty dirty to me, yet Dave Winfield acted like it was a clean play. The Rays themselves, including Maddon, called it "hard baseball," not dirty, so I don't think there's too much to complain about. He was certainly close enough to tag second base, Aki's foot was sort of locked and he didn't roll with the contact as quickly as he should have.

Deal!

You mean "Mega-Greasy BFT?" I can't tell organists from elbows but I'm in!

And 10-2 in the eighth. Glad it didn't happen to the Sox or I might have broken the board. (actually I don't think it could have happened to the Sox, too many excellent arms in the pen to have that kind of collapse. They've still only lost once when leading after six complete.) At least our Indians fans have to be enjoying what is likely to be the biggest highlight of the entire season.

This thread started in 2006 and was brought up by Son-of-Weizen for an update.