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Gregg Xenakes Week 7 preview http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.../AJN4247606.htm ***** Cody Pickett will start for the Argos this week in place of Kerry Joseph. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...436671-sun.html ***** David Naylor Week 7 preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1250091/

Happy Birthday 2009 kinuta! Hope you got to see an old black and white Peter Sellers movie for your birthday!

I've listened to Brewster's Rooster I think five times, and I like it more with each listen.

Thanks for bumping this, Aggie. I need to pull this out and listen to it again.

Happy Birthday Mark!

Thanks for that link, Rooster!

Next week her column will be "Why I don't like the Canadian league either."

I don't think adults today are as interested in music as they used to be.

I have received a promo copy of an album you might be interested in. Bay Area pianist Mark Levine has a group called The Latin Tinge. They have recorded an album of Moacir Santos music called Off & On: The Music of Moacir Santos. It will be released Sept. 15. Most of the songs have very irregular rhythms. I like each track very much, but listening to these irregular rhythms for an hour is fatiguing. I plan to burn two copies of a half hour each, so that I can enjoy the music without getting burned out before it's over.

Calgary Stampeders 31....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1246095/ The Bombers offense was worthless in the first half. At the half the score was 23-3, and the Bombers got their FG before they got a first down. But it was a different game in the second half. The Bombers had the ball in the last minute, hoping to get a TD and a 2-point convert, but Michael Bishop threw an interception.

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 28....Edmonton Eskimos 21 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1246052/ Very solid game between two average teams. It rained in Hamilton throughout. The Ticats scored the winning TD with 46 seconds left.

Congratulations impossible! A beautiful girl! Oh, will you be sending each of us a cigar?

Montreal Alouettes 25....Toronto Argonauts 0 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1245573/ The Toronto defense did its best to keep the team in the game, but the Argos offense stunk for the second straight week. Kerry Joseph was lifted after three in favor of Cody Pickett. This was the first time the Als have shut somebody out since 1976 when Marv Levy was the coach. This was the first time the Argos were shut out since 1992, when Doug Flutie and the Stamps did the deed. ***** British Columbia Lions 35....Saskatchewan Roughriders 20 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1245628/ The Riders led throughout the first half, until late in the second quarter when BC took the lead for good with a TD scored on a dribble!

David Naylor Week 6 preview http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/cfl-...article1244079/ Gregg Xenakes Week 6 preview (I guess he has taken over from Fred Williams) http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.../AJN4246473.htm ***** To make room for JuJuan Armour at middle linebcker, Wally has demoted Javi Glatt to backup and special teams. http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Glatt+Ar...7295/story.html

Clave, why do you think that a patent would be necessary to place ads in a "real" book?

Here is a matrix comparing all of the eBook readers out now or soon to be released. http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix

Happy Birthday Shawn!

I've put on my Charly Records cd of Billy Lee Riley's best songs called Rock With Me Baby. Great stuff! I sure would like to know what songs of Herb Alpert and The Beach Boys he was on! Here's his LA Times obituary. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,6424973.story Billy Lee Riley dies at 75; rockabilly pioneer did 'Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll' Charlie Gillett/Redferns Billy Lee Riley, performing in 1956, is best-known for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red Hot.” He also worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles. The raucous performer and songwriter recorded for Sun Records for four years and later worked as a studio musician in L.A. His other big single was 'Red Hot.' By Dennis McLellan August 4, 2009 Billy Lee Riley, a rockabilly pioneer and songwriter who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label and is best remembered for his 1957 singles "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" and "Red Hot," has died. He was 75. Riley died Sunday of colon cancer that had spread to the bone at a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., said his wife, Joyce. The Arkansas-born son of a sharecropper who began playing harmonica and guitar as a child, Riley landed at Sam Phillips' Sun Records in 1956. His band, which for a time included a then-unknown Jerry Lee Lewis on piano, is said to have played a key role in shaping the Sun Records' sound, providing backup on recordings by Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Lewis and others. "My band was the Sun sound," Riley told the Associated Press in 1984. "We've never gotten credit for that, but it's a fact. I was doing what Elvis was doing before Elvis did it: mixing blues and hillbilly, putting a laid-back, funky beat to hillbilly music." Riley's single "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" was released in early 1957 and made Riley and his band, the newly dubbed Little Green Men, a regional name. His follow-up single, the hard-driving "Red Hot," came some months later, and Riley, who was known for his raucous stage performances, figured he had a national hit. Although Riley recorded what have been called seminal rockabilly tunes, stardom eluded him. Riley blamed Phillips for promoting Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" at the expense of "Red Hot." "After Jerry Lee got on the label, Sam got hung up on him," Riley told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2000. "A singing piano player was something very different, and he thought it could be another Elvis Presley. My record 'Red Hot' was happening, and [legendary DJ] Alan Freed was playing the heck out of it and told me personally I had a hit record." Riley recalled that he had been booked on Freed's upcoming rock and roll tour when "Sam got me kicked off the tour and sabotaged my record and called the distributors and canceled all the orders because he only wanted to go with Jerry Lee. He just felt that Jerry Lee was gonna be the next superstar, and he quit promoting me and Johnny Cash and Orbison. " After a "drunk and vengeful" Riley returned to the studio one night and kicked a hole in the string bass and poured wine over the tape machines, according to a 1997 story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Phillips arrived and calmed him down, saying, " 'Red Hot' ain't got it. We're saving you for something good!' " Despite his run-in with Phillips, who died in 2003, Riley spent four years at Sun Records. "I think we were the first rockabilly band to use sax and piano," he said. "We were the wildest bunch there at Sun. As individuals, we were pretty wild and we put on a heck of a show!" After leaving Sun, Riley formed two record labels and, in 1962, moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio musician on sessions for Herb Alpert, Dean Martin, Rick Nelson, the Beach Boys, Sammy Davis Jr. and others. Although he quit in the early 1970s and returned to Arkansas -- "heavy rock was out of my league," he later told the Associated Press -- he returned to music after being invited to perform at a Memphis music festival in 1979. Riley was born Oct. 5, 1933, in Pocahontas, Ark. Introduced to the blues by black sharecroppers as a child, he learned to play harmonica at 6 and received his first guitar at 10. After winding up a stint in the Army in 1953, he formed a hillbilly band.

I just finished playing Brewster's Rooster for the first time. I like it a lot when it sounds like a John Surman album, and not so much on a couple of tracks when it sounds like a John Abercrombie album. I'm sure I'll be playing it a lot over the next few days. There are parts when DeJohnette sounds like he is doing an Elvin Jones impression, which had there been no Elvin Jones would have been perfectly fine, but as it is sounds a little weak compared to what Elvin would have done. I won't make up my mind after just one listen, but I think this is a keeper for sure.

The Lions have signed three players including JuJuan Armour. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/BC/...0349656-cp.html ***** Scott Schultz is going to retire. No word yet on why. He has spent his entire career with the Riders, and I suspect that they gave him the option of retiring or being released, and he decided to retire. But that's just my guess. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...0351036-cp.html

Happy Birthday 2009 Lon! What will you be spinning today?

Nice find, funkogre! I wonder why they would need or want a patent to place ads within the text of a book. My guess is that they plan to change the ads periodically (like maybe every day!), so that maybe your purchase is not static.

Thanks for mentioning that one, Moose! I saw Mott the Hoople in 1970 when they were touring to promote their first album. I saw them a year later and met Ian Hunter. I loved that band before they hooked up with David Bowie! By the way, I saw in the paper last Sunday that Ian Hunter has a new album just out.

That's coming out in the US on Tuesday. What did you think of it?

Saskatchewan Roughriders 24....Calgary Stampeders 23 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...0338391-cp.html http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../final/W766.htm Good game. See saw battle, won with a bomb that beat a safety blitz with about 1:20 to go. More Saskatchewanians live in Calgary than in any Saskatchewan city, and as usual the sold out crowd had a lot of green in it. So there was plenty of loud cheering when either team scored. ***** Week 5 summaries http://stats.sports.theglobeandmail.com/cfl/scoreboard.asp