GA Russell

You know the saying "The great ones make it look easy"? Willie Mays made everything look easy!

Jim McCrary was the staff photographer of A&M Records for seven years, and shot 300 album covers, including Tapestry. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jim-mccrary-20120506,0,1555697.story http://www.jimmccrary.com/

Happy Birthday ASNL!

Here's a summary of the first two rounds of the draft. http://www.canada.com/sports/football/cfl/cfl/6561645/story.html

The draft is going on right now. Here is a link to live streaming and a list of those already taken. As you can see, six of the seven men taken in the first round were linemen. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/feature/?id=57277

You may have seen the headline about Marilu Henner on Drudge yesterday. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/05/01/seen-at-11-rare-mental-condition-gives-actress-henner-super-human-memory/

Happy Birthday Alexander!

Weaver no-hits Twins. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/angels-weaver-throws-no-hitter-against-twins/article2421001/

Draft Day is tomorrow. Here's the best article I've found about it. The NFL drafted three guys who were eligible for the CFL draft, and signed another two undrafted players immediately after. So their stock will decline in the draft. When a player is drafted, that CFL team owns his rights forever, I believe. There have been so many CFL first rounders who didn't pan out that I don't care too much about the draft. If I were a GM, I'd probably go with linemen. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/roughriders-have-tough-decision-to-make/article2420680/

My first thought is that maybe Wayne's signing with EMI tells us more about the current policies of Universal than it does about EMI.

Lots of news today. Mike Morreale has succeeded Stu Laird as the head of the players union. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/cflpa-gets-a-new-boss/article2420157/ http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=394843 ***** The league has been revealing over the past couple of days the new uniforms. They are tight and moisture-wicking. Should be harder to grab. The only new design I've noticed is the Bombers', who will have gold sweaters instead of white ones. The Ticats are returning to their look or a few years ago. http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=394726 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/cfl-clubs-unveil-re-engineered-uniforms/article2418888/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/cfl-teams-unveil-new-jerseys/article2418920/ ***** After four years of kicking around the NFL, Sam Giguere has signed with the Ticats. http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=394844 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/ticats-bolster-receiving-corps-with-samuel-giguere/article2420175/ ***** The Ottawa expansion team has hired Rick Worman to be its lead scout and first football employee. http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=394796 ***** The Argos have sacked their head of American scouting, Mike Hagen. http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=394822 ***** Now the Bombers are saying that their new stadium won't be ready until September. http://tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=394842 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/bombers-stadium-project-faces-more-delays/article2420143/

Congrats Jeff! It's something for the resume!

Where do you get a buck and a half? It's $5 for the first item, which isn't bad at all. "and .99 GBP for each item"

The Beach Boys played here in Raleigh Sunday. Here is the review: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/30/2033493/beach-boys-bring-out-young-and.html

Billy Neighbors has died. It doesn't seem like fifty years since he was a star at Alabama. http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Former-Alabama-star-Billy-Neighbors-dies-at-72-043012

That's good to know! A buck and a half for shipping per item is great.

Thanks bogdan. At Amazon.uk, most are going for 6-8 pounds. I wonder how bad the shipping from there will set me back.

I've found these at amazon.uk, but not at amazon.com.

Happy Birthday Lazaro!

Happy Birthday 2012 ...impossible!

RIP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Kelso http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/jackie_kelso.htm

Thanks Paul! I've added it to my Wish List.

Congrats Bill! That's a great page of info! I particularly like the comments on Teddy Charles. When Concord had its blowout sale (has it been four or five years ago?), I picked up the New Directions CD. I've bookmarked JazzWax, and I'm going to make it a daily habit.

Joe, do you remember the name of the book?

I feel like a new man now that I can type and make just a few errors. This is fun again!