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He changed film criticism. I also used to read his reviews in the Village Voice and enjoyed them greatly. RIP

Listening to Falu now, very good. I've seen her a few times in concert, always spot on.

Turning down that offer for surgery took some balls!

Not jazz, but Jeff Beck somehow keeps getting better.

The best part of the lunch was the icepop!

There was a play late in the game where LBJ had the ball and was in the lane and it looked to me that LBJ elbowed the defensive player, who wound up on his back. The angle wasn't very clear so I wasn't 100% sure, and Van Gundy said it was not a foul. I'm sure there are multiple cameras covering everything- would it kill ABC/Disney/ESPN to show another angle and let us see for sure? I sure can't take JVG's word as he's blowing up the hype-meter.

What I find unusual about the perfect games is how many of them were pitched by pitchers who were decidedly NOT Hall of Fame pitchers. Barker, Larsen, Witt, Buerhle,Humber,etc.

IIRC, Nixon used that against a female opponent, calling her a thespian, with what was considered a shady connotation in those times.

Here's one I got a good laugh from: http://www.gocomics.com/soup-to-nutz/2012/06/11

And by winning last night the Mets helped the Yanks! Collins is doing a great job managing the team, and if they had a decent bullpen they'd have 5-6 more wins easily. I'm a Yank fan but I watch the Mets also, and this year's edition is fun to watch. They never give up and fight to the last out.Ya gotta respect that.

Listened to some samples on Amazon and they sound way cool. I had a Paypal balance so I ordered off of Ebay. Thanks for the tip. I was listening recently to some fusion from Indonesia(Tohpati) that was pretty good.

he's also known as 'Veal'

Great boxer and by all accounts a true gentleman. RIP

I went through a similar thing with the Yankess this season. For awhile the pitching stunk and they didn't hit with men on at all. They lost to crappy teams and looked like they had no chance to make the playoffs. Well, the last 7 games the pitching has been very good, they still don't hit with men on, but they're winning and hope springs eternal...

Do any of them have a ring?

Twenty years ago was 'google' a verb? Now if I say I 'googled' something everyone knows exactly what I mean.

If OKC can keep the core of this group together they could win a few titles.

They are favored, and rather strongly. I Googled and found the following odds: - Oklahoma City Thunder 1/2 - Miami Heat 13/4 - Boston Celtics 9/2 Besides the young legs, OKC can be explosive, scoring a ton of points real fast. I saw in last night's game that Durant missed a couple free throws in the 4th quarter and I realized that he may actually be human. I was starting to think he was a robot/cyborg, because it seemed like he didn't miss late in the game. Amazing player.

Shipped to the US it's about $84

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Spurs had plenty of chances to win but couldn't make shots and OKC did. I watched most of the 3rd and all of the 4th, good game, both teams had chances and it was hard-fought but not chippy.

The first article I started to read was quite ironic in view of what happened two years later. Bill Lange goes on about how baseball is the most honest sport!

SI.com's Ian Thomsen felt that was a James foul, not a Garnett foul - here's his description of the play today: "...and then when Boston was seeking to reclaim the lead, James would hook his left arm under Garnett's right armpit and pull Garnett down on top of him. If a footballer for Liverpool (the team James owns in a minority role) had done such a thing the press in England would have decried it as a "cynical" foul, but in our country it goes down as ingenuity." OK, he gets an old pair of my glasses. What I saw was Garnett hooking arms frequently, and on that particular play Garnett initiated the contact & also grabbed LBJ's hand and gave LBJ a shoulder.

I think I want to send my glasses to Jeff Van Gundy. he needs better glasses desperately and mine are pretty powerful. There was a play late in the Celtics/Heat game where Garnett was called for a foul and JVG was saying he didn't see it. On the play, Garnett locks his arm on LBJ, then grabs LBJ's hand with his free arm, and when LBJ tries to pull his arm out Garnett gives LBJ a shoulder to the chest. By my count Garnett committed three fouls on the play, but JVG doesn't see a foul. I have no rooting interest in the series, but I'm seeing more and more why Garnett was voted by NBA players in the top three of dirty players. That was one small sequence, but Garnett did many other questionable plays that were not called.

The Padres are now the only team without a no-no.