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My favorite is #2. Obviously, an unpopular choice. Anybody can have a neat graphic, but only a specific band can have a photo of its members.

It looks like Derick Armstrong (arguably the Bombers' best player) is through with the club. He suited up for last week's game, but refused to enter the game when called upon due to a dispute with new coach Mike Kelly. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...036621-sun.html ***** Ian Smart was injured in last week's game, so the Lions have signed Tyler Ebell. We'll see if he is able to perform after last year's injury. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/lion...article1208006/

The girl bought the gun Thursday, two days before the shooting. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/poli...article1208381/

Happy Birthday 2009 White Lightning!

Happy Birthday 2009 Jack!

Sun Record Company, Where Rock 'N Roll Was Born (Direct Source, a Canadian company), discs 1 and 2

The NY Daily News is reporting that the police think it was murder-suicide. There is a photo of the girl, who I think is attractive. I imagine that there is not a lot of interracial dating in Tennessee, and that this girl was a rare bird in more ways than one. As ss1 says, IMO. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football...lle_report.html

From that picture he was obviously younger than I had imagined him to be. Nobody would have heard of him if the record companies had paid the royalties they owed their artists in the first place. Maybe Chuck can answer this: I have long wondered why the record companies, who wrote the contracts in the first place, would promise to pay royalties if they had no intention of paying them. It wasn't just the indie labels. It was Klein who determined that RCA had not been paying Sam Cooke what they owed him.

Happy Independence Day everyone in the USA! In the past I have celebrated the day by opening up a Beach Boys album, the quintessential American rock 'n' roll band. But I've run out of them, so today I opened up disc 2 of a Sun Records compilation I found a couple of months ago. I figure that you can't get much more American than Sun Records!

Three books I ordered arrived in the mail today: St. Alphonsus Liguori - Preparation for Death St. Alphonsus Liguori - The 12 Steps to Holiness and Salvation Thomas a Kempis - The Imitation of Christ

Saskatchewan Roughriders 28....British Columbia Lions 24 Exciting game. The Riders dominated, but BC was able to keep it close on the scoreboard. Lots of fumbles. BC was driving down the field to win the game as time ran out. ***** Here's an article that says that Jesse Lumsden's contract calls for his income to depend upon the number of games he is able to play. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1206431/ ***** Here's one last preview - a good analysis of the BC Lions. http://bclionsden.ca/blog/?p=856

Saskatchewan Roughriders 28....British Columbia Lions 24 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1206548/ Exciting game. The Riders dominated, but BC was able to keep it close on the scoreboard. Lots of fumbles. BC was driving down the field to win the game as time ran out. ***** Here's an article that says that Jesse Lumsden's contract calls for his income to depend upon the number of games he is able to play. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1206431/ ***** Here's one last preview - a good analysis of the BC Lions. http://bclionsden.ca/blog/?p=856

tm, the booklet is 20 pages including the front and back. There is a small photo on almost every page. Laurie wrote the liner notes in May. I haven't taken the time to read them yet.

My copy arrived in today's mail! So right away I put on disc 1, which was the disc I was really looking forward to hearing. My standards for an Art Pepper disc are very high. I have recently been listening on lala to The Return of Art Pepper, and I love it. I may buy a hard copy of that one. Perfect West Coast cool. I like all of my Art Pepper albums, with my least favorite being Modern Art. It's solid jazz, but I don't think it's five-star special. Because my expectations of disc 1 here were so high, I'm somewhat disappointed in it. I would rank it with Modern Art in terms of quality. It sounds very much like it. One of the things disc 1 does is make me appreciate even more the three previously released Widow's Taste albums, all of which were late-period Art. I always thought I preferred 50s Art to late Art, but maybe I should limit that to only the earliest of his recordings when his sound was really smooth. I'll keep listening to disc 1 and let it sink in, and I'll let you guys be the first to review discs 2 and 3. By the way, the fidelity on my pedestrian system is great throughout the entire disc. Edit: Oops! No wonder it sounds like Modern Art! Now that I have taken the time to look quickly at the liner notes, I see that 7 of the disc's 17 tracks have been taken from that CD! 5 have been taken from Surf Ride, and 2 from Meets the Rhythm Section.

Here's an article that says that the pretty girls are given the Centre Court to play on, while better players are given less prestigious courts. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529865,00.html

Happy Birthday 2009 WD45! Hope you get lots of CDs again this year!

Edmonton Eskimos 19....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 17 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1205000/ Here's a surprise. Jesse Lumsden injured his shoulder in the first quarter. It rained for much of the game on Edmonton's natural turf, and it was a defensive struggle throughout. Near the end of the second quarter, the score was 2-2, with both punters conceding the safety touch. Winnipeg had a chance to tie it on the last play of the game, but Serna's 47 yard FG attempt went wide.

Montreal Alouettes 40....Calgary Stampeders 27 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/als-...article1203774/ The Als took a 20-0 lead, but the Stamps fought back to tie it at 27 in the third. The Als scored 6 on 2 FGs in the fourth. With less than three minutes to go, the Stamps moved the ball downfield, but Henry Burris fumbled in the backfield, and Chip Cox returned it 81 yards for a TD to seal the victory. During the game, play by play announcer Mark Stephen asked for emails, so I sent him greetings from North Carolina, which he read on the air!

And the season is underway! Toronto Argonauts 30....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 17 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...9996621-cp.html If the Ticats can't beat the Argos, who can they beat? The Bombers? Hamilton had a decent second quarter, but basically they were never in it. Argos rookie Matt Lambros scored a TD on his first CFL reception.

Montreal Alouettes http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/alou...article1202990/ I tell you what! I think reading all of these previews I've linked gives you a better knowledge of the CFL than the NFL fan has of the NFL when he plunks down his ten bucks for his Street & Smith and Athlon Annuals!

Happy Birthday 2009 Robert! Gee, a Canadian guy whose birthday is Dominion Day (aka Canada Day)!

Dan Ralph league preview (very good) http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...9987161-cp.html ***** Brendan Taman has landed in Regina as their Director of Football Administrations. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/tama...article1202194/ ***** Here's a description of the league's new challenge review system. http://www.thespec.com/Wire/Sports_Wire/NF.../article/592198

Happy Birthday 2009 Late and Face of the Bass!

Hamilton media predict the Ticats' season and the Grey Cup http://www.thespec.com/Sports/article/591783 Ticat-Argo preview http://www.thespec.com/Sports/article/591785

Now here is a report that he did have a will, and that he left his father out of it! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529502,00.html