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The Globe's Stephen Brunt says that there are plans in Hamilton to build a new ballpark. "There are also a lot of indications right now that Hamilton is going to get a new, downtown stadium as part of a larger urban renewal effort." http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...pageRequested=2

All of the Western nominees won the CFL Awards tonight. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday DTMX!

It may interest you to learn that the Roughriders' home field is called Mosaic Stadium! This changed a couple of years ago when a corporation called Mosaic bought the rights. I don't know what business they are in. Before that it was called Taylor Field, named after "Piffles" Taylor. I read once who Piffles was, but I can't remember. I think he had something to do with the formation of the team years ago. Love those Canadian nicknames! I think Piffles lived in an era when every third Canadian was named Percival. ***** Here's an article reminiscing about John Candy, who was a part-owner of the Toronto Argonauts. It was then that the Argos signed Rocket Ismail ahead of the NFL draft. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Remember when all of us lost some of our post count a couple of years ago? I think I lost 250, and Jim lost more than that. So all of us have reached milestones before we realized. Still,

Finals previews: http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv650.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv651.htm http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...4662624-cp.html

Today I heard for the first time Disc 3 of the Herbie Hancock 60s Blue Note box, which included Cantelope Island.

BClug, are you picking the Bombers because of Noel Prefontaine's concussion? I felt like the Argos might even be better than the Lions until I read about that. I can see the Argos losing Sunday because of Prefontaine not making anything.

Semi-Finals previews: http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv649.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv648.htm

Thanks for your thoughts, guys! It's clear that almost everyone recommends that I try Get Up With It before Panthalassa, so that's what I'll do.

Jim, all my best to Zora! Maybe we should take up a collection to buy her a stuffed animal!

Amen aloc! That's why I prefer listening to the radio over watching a football or baseball game on TV. On the radio they talk about the game. On TV they talk about the replay.

Thelonious Monk - Light Blue

I feel different about this Red Sox team than I have ever before. When I was a boy the Red Sox stunk, but they turned it around on a dime in '67. For the past forty years they have been consistently (remarkably so) good, so it really hasn't been the struggle to be a Red Sox fan that some would have you believe. But each time they took the World Series to seven games, or for that matter when they lost to the Yankees in the playoff game that Bucky Dent hit a home run in, they failed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They weren't really upset by an underdog. But for the first time in my lifetime, the Red Sox were obviously the best team in the majors this year. (Of course in baseball anything can happen in a post-season short series. That is why before 1969 great respect was given to both league champions regardless of who won the World Series.) For almost the entire year they had the best record in the major leagues. So their winning the World Series this time was for the first time in my life something that should have happened. In the past when the Red Sox would disappoint, they were never obviously the best. I never felt that they blew what was deservedly theirs. It looked like they would when they were down 3 games to 1 against Cleveland, but they pulled that out. Because the Red Sox were obviously the best team this year, I find their winning the World Series to be very enjoyable of course, but not as thrilling as it would have been in '75 for example.

Happy Birthday Catesta and Patrick! Today is also Kate Jackson's birthday, I read in this morning's paper. I always thought she was the cutest Charlie's Angel.

Broadway veteran Amy London has a new album out called When I Look in Your Eyes. She was an original cast member of City of Angels. The album may be of great interest to those of you who are trained musicians, but to me it is fifty minutes of dissonance. One dissonant song would have been appealing, but the whole album like that is too much for me. Here's the deal. Every song has many key changes. On every song at least one instrument either anticipates the key change or ignores it and sticks with the old key. So for much of the album the instruments are playing different keys at the same time. London has an excellent alto voice, but she sings like the Broadway performer she is rather than someone who paid her dues in small intimate nightclubs. Most of the songs are standards, but she has taken two Elmo Hope songs and written lyrics to them. The pianist is John Hicks. This was recorded in August of 2005, so it was one of his last recordings. You can hear the album and see what I mean here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/amylondon I'd be interested to see if any of you musicians take the time to listen to this and give us your thoughts on what the musicians are doing here. edit for typo

Week 18 previews: http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv640.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv641.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv642.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv643.htm ***** The Argos have announced their all-time team. Dick Shatto once had reason to give me a call for business purposes. I once spoke on the phone with Dan Ferrone. Reggie Pleasant came to my 1995 Grey Cup party. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home ***** Doug Flutie says, "Playing in Canada put the fun back into football for me." http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Me too. Five years or so ago, I bought a book which listed hundreds or thousands of movie soundtrack albums and rated them, much as Leonard Maltin's books rate movies. I noticed that an extremely high rating was given to John Barry's music for The Knack (and How to Get It), so I bought the CD. I enjoy it. The problem with albums of this type is that the composers usually wrote three melodies for the movie (I guess you would call them motifs) and then played them over and over during the course of the film. So the albums consist of forty-five minutes of variations on only three themes.

The results of the first round of balloting for the CFL Awards are in. Each team's nominees are listed here: http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home Ben Cahoon was finally nominated as the Als' best player. The guy is a surefire bet for the Hall of Fame, yet I don't think till now he has gotten the nod over Anthony Calvillo as the team's best player. I think I would vote for Nick Setta for Rookie. I suspect Joe Smith will be named Outstanding Player.

RIP. Sorry to hear this. I saw him with Kirk at The Cellar Door in 1969 or '70. I remember their doing Volunteer Slavery.

Congrats JP!

Nice article today from Ian Busby, listing each team's chances in the playoffs, and the league records that might fall this year. He mentions that Troy Davis is not available for the Argos. Was he hurt? http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...598723-sun.html ***** Anthony Calvillo has left the Als for an indefinite period to be with his wife who is seriously ill after giving birth last week. Jason Maas will start if Calvillo misses the game this week. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Mon...4599014-cp.html ***** The Buffalo Bills plan to play one pre-season game and one regular season game every year in Toronto starting next year. They still need NFL league approval. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

I voted for "Something else". My second favorite is adult popular, such as Brasil '66 and Matt Monro. I listened to Shirley Bassey's Greatest Hits earlier today, and this thread has got me to put on Jack Jones' Greatest Hits. I also have a few 60s movie soundtracks that I enjoy very much which I think would also fit into the adult popular category.

When the first book came out, it was marketed as children's literature. As far as I know, all of the succeeding books were as well. Mark me down as someone who believes that it is inappropriate to have homosexual heroes in children's literature. In this case, apparently the guy was celibate during the course of the extended narrative. I don't see any reason for the author to explain why, if it was not important enough to include in one of the books. And, as I say, if it was important enough, it should not be children's literature. I believe that in children's literature, celibacy should be considered the normal behavior of unmarried people.