GA Russell

Happy Birthday Late! Happy Birthday Face!

I hear quite a bit of 50s Verve on Sirius, and for the most part I find it boring. The artists seem to have lost their youth. On the other hand, I think I have liked all of the Creed Taylor 60s Verves that I've heard over the years. Taylor made records that were quality, but wouldn't scare off the people who didn't consider themselves to be jazz fans.

But its not an official no-hitter because the Dodgers didn't bat in the ninth. so its more of a curiosity than a real feat. Dan, Elias be damned. I'm surprised you buy into that. When the game ends and one team doesn't have any hits, it's a no hitter, "official" or otherwise!

I thought you guys would be all over this: Angels no-hit Dodgers, and lose! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsBaseball/home Fifth time in major league history.

Saskatchewan Roughriders 34....Edmonton Eskimos 13 Half the league has first time CFL head coaches. I don't recall anything like that before. And all four new coaches won their coaching debuts this week! How long before Maciocia is shown the door? http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6016341-cp.html

I hate that candy bar - but I knew what it looked like. Dan, every Charleston Chew I've ever seen was flatter than that photo.

12 My favorite is Charleston Chew, and their example doesn't look like one to me. I missed my favorite!

Happy Birthday Stefan!

Toronto Argonauts 23....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 16 That means that Mark Trestman, John Hufnagel and Rich Stubler have all won their coaching debuts. That leaves it up to Sask's Ken Miller to see if he can complete the sweep. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6011016-cp.html http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../final/W663.htm

I'm very fond of Groove. Soul Message was my first hard core jazz album (my third overall after a Ramsey Lewis and a Ray Bryant), and Living Soul may have been my second. When he died, I was surprised that his name was not listed in the obits column of Cadence Magazine. I was on the phone with them placing an order, and mentioned it, and the fellow said that he hadn't heard. So in the next issue he listed Groove's name, and listed me as the source of the news. So even then Groove was not receiving the attention he deserved.

Happy Birthday Phil!

Week 1: Montreal Alouettes 33....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 10 http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../final/W661.htm ***** Calgary Stampeders 28....BC Lions 18 http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../final/W662.htm ***** Here's a preview of the Roughriders. It says that the Riders have sold 22,000 season tickets. Mosaic Stadium only holds 28,500! http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Sas...5994916-cp.html

Canwest league preview http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/new...dd-b6ade6f8ee3e

Dan Ralph on Week 1 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...5985631-cp.html

Here you go, from Fred Williams of TSN: Winnipeg Blue Bombers http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159785 ***** Toronto Argonauts http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159783 ***** Montreal Alouettes http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159782 ***** Hamilton Tiger-Cats http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159781 ***** Saskatchewan Roughriders http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159780 ***** Edmonton Eskimos http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159778 ***** Calgary Stampeders http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159777 ***** British Columbia Lions http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4159775

Calgary Stampeders http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Cal...5974171-cp.html ***** All eight teams http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=241510&amp...=topRelated_cfl ***** CP's final standings picks (They pick Sask for last in the West!) and analysis http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=241511&amp...=topRelated_cfl

Head Coaches summary http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ***** Wally Buono has named Buck Pierce over Jarious Jackson as BC's starting QB. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

I love the week leading up to Opening Night (which is this Thursday) because of all the pre-season picks and analyses. I'll try to post as many of these as I can. Winnipeg Blue Bombers http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Win...5964261-cp.html ***** Edmonton Eskimos http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Edm...5965496-cp.html ***** Dan Ralph on the league http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...5965906-cp.html

Here's a Washington Post article that says that poor people spend much more time relaxing than rich people. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8062201859.html

Happy Birthday Parkertown!

Happy Birthday Rosco!

Happy Birthday paps!

Here's a lengthy CP article on today's cuts. Most notable were Keith Stokes, William Loftus and Ron McClendon by the Eskimos and O'Neill Wilson by the Bombers. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

This is the woman who did the famous Mother Goose artwork! It looks like she was an original back-to-the-lander. Here's her LA Times obituary: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,1766105.story Tasha Tudor, 92; children's book illustrator and author known for delicate artwork Richard Brown / Associated PressTudor's lifestyle came from "nostalgia for a day and time that was more peaceful and slow," she said in 1991. When she went to town, her children "were very careful to walk a good 10 or 12 feet behind me so that they wouldn't be associated with . . . a rather different-looking woman." Her 1944 edition of 'Mother Goose' was so successful it enabled her to buy a New Hampshire farm and create a lifestyle rooted in the early 19th century. By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 20, 2008 Tasha Tudor, a children's book illustrator and author whose delicate and dreamy artwork was featured in about 80 books, including a 1944 edition of "Mother Goose" that was so successful it enabled her to buy a farm and create a lifestyle rooted in the early 19th century, has died. She was 92. Tudor died Wednesday of complications related to old age at her home in Marlboro, Vt., her family announced. Long admired for their charm, her books were filled with sentimental yet realistic illustrations of quaint New England settings, intricate floral borders and often-barefoot children whose clothes reflected the 1830s, her favorite time period. After publishing her first book, "Pumpkin Moonshine" in 1938, Tudor illustrated a number of classics, including 1962 editions of "The Secret Garden" and "The Night Before Christmas." Her final book, "Corgiville Christmas," published in 2003, reflected her passion for the Welsh corgi dogs she surrounded herself with and also featured in the book that was her favorite -- "Corgiville Fair" (1971). Twice, she was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal, in 1945 for her artwork in "Mother Goose" and in 1957 for "1 is One," her book of verse. With the royalties from "Mother Goose," Tudor purchased a rundown house from the 1790s in New Hampshire that had no electricity or running water. On 450 acres, she raised four children, who sometimes posed for illustrations in period garb. Her chosen lifestyle came from "nostalgia for a day and time that was more peaceful and slow," Tudor told the Chicago Tribune in 1991. When she went to town, her children "were very careful to walk a good 10 or 12 feet behind me so that they wouldn't be associated with . . . a rather different-looking woman." Later, she figured she must have done something right when three of her children adopted her lifestyle as adults. She credited the commercialism of her art to the need to earn a living after divorcing her husband, Thomas L. McCready, whom she married in 1938. An author and suburbanite, he was not cut out for such a rural existence. "If I had married a man who could have supported me I would have ended up making paper dolls and gardening. But the wolf at the door is very good for people," Tudor said in the Tribune. The nearly 40 books she illustrated for others often featured popular fairy tales, nursery rhymes, prayers and Scripture. Her artwork also appeared in books written by her former husband and in others by a daughter, Efner. Reviewers often praised the 44 books Tudor wrote and illustrated for evoking the beauty and ideals of an era long past. Often working in watercolor and pen and ink, she had a style that critics called peaceful, that showed an appreciation for family life, animals and nature. Painting at her kitchen table, she wore handmade, ankle-length dresses that were fashionable in the early 1800s. In 1971, she moved to Vermont and lived in a replica of a house from the mid-1700s that was built with hand tools by her son Seth, who lived next door. "I ask people how old they think it is, and they always guess 150 years, if not more," Tudor said in the Boston Globe in 1994. "It's lots of fun to fool them." She grew most of what she ate, kept a menagerie of animals, and spun and wove flax into fabrics. Her main concessions to modern convenience were a telephone and a car. In the early 1990s, Tudor announced that she was quitting public appearances, partly because it was hard to find someone who could watch the house and knew how to milk a goat. Unconventionality was a hallmark of her life. She was born Starling Burgess on Aug. 28, 1915, in Boston, the daughter of yacht designer William Starling Burgess and portrait painter Rosamond Tudor. Her father called her Natasha, after a favorite literary heroine. She later legally changed her name to Tasha Tudor. After her parents divorced when she was 9, her mother opened an art studio in New York but didn't want to raise her daughter there. Tudor was sent to Redding, Conn., to live with close friends, a rambunctious family that emphasized imaginative play, Tudor later recalled. Her formal education ended in eighth grade, but she had already begun selling small drawings to classmates for 25 cents apiece. Over the years, Tudor created hundreds of Christmas cards for the Irene Dash Greeting Card Co. that became collectibles. Several of her books showcased her gardening, crafts-making and cooking. Her work has been shown in museums, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Va. After the first of three coffee table books about her -- "The Private Life of Tasha Tudor" -- was published in 1992, interest in her books increased. People realized her art was not fiction but came from her life. "I believe in moderation in all things," Tudor once said, "except gardening and antique collecting." Tudor's survivors include her four children, Bethany Wheelock, Seth Tudor, Thomas Strong and Efner Strong Tudor Holmes; and her grandchildren.

Here's his LA Times obituary: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,5483341.story June 20, 2008 <h2 style="">Esbjorn Svensson</h2>Swedish pianist an innovator in jazz Esbjorn Svensson, 44, a Swedish jazz pianist whose fusion of lyrical melodies and rock-inspired electronics broke fresh ground in modern jazz, died Saturday in a diving accident off a small island near Stockholm. Esbjorn Svensson Anne C. Martindell Police will conduct a routine investigation of the accident, said Burkhard Hopper, manager of the musician's band, the Esbjorn Svensson Trio. Svensson and his band won worldwide critical acclaim and several awards, including the Guinness Jazz in Europe Award, for their 2002 album "Strange Place for Snow." The group was also named best international artist in the 2003 BBC Jazz Awards. The band, also known as E.S.T., released "When Everyone Has Gone" in 1993 and had its international breakthrough with the 1999 album "From Gagarin's Point of View." Hopper said the band had just finished its 12th album, "Leukocyte," to be released in September.