ghost of miles

Incredible. I started watching in the bottom of the 4th, missed the 6th and most of the 7th, came back in time to see Halladay's last six outs. Amazing! And not only the first postseason no-hitter since Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 WS--it was Halladay's second of the year, first time a pitcher's done that since Nolan Ryan in 1973. And in his first-ever playoff start... wow, just wow.

Nice! WHERE DID EVERYONE GO?... God, I love that record. We're using Nat for our main fund-drive thank-you gift this year. Just a best-of anthology, but you can probably guess who pushed eagerly to make NKC the premium pick...

Looks like AJ won't get a start, reports are that Girardi will go with CC Sabathia for game four. Kind of risky, riding your main man like that, but hopefully, Twins in three! Here's one note of hope for Yankees fans as the playoffs commence: the team's record this year when CC, Andy, or Phil Hughes are starting is 59-25. That's a staggering won-lost total, a winning percentage of .702. Two qualifiers, of course--I don't believe any of CC's regular-season starts were made on short rest, and Andy Pettitte is not quite back to form. Still, it shows how much A.J. (and Javy) damaged the team's record this year...NY was 13-20 in games that A.J. started. And if anybody can pitch well on short rest, it's CC. At the same time I'd prefer to see that happen as little as necessary...so hopefully Yankees in three!

Yes! I read this a few years ago...your post makes me want to pull it out again. Thanks for the reminder, Matthew. Ghostie: Have you read Friedrich's book on Berlin in the 1920's? I hear that's supposed to be very good also. BEFORE THE DELUGE? I got it years ago on a girlfriend's recommendation but still haven't read it yet...matter of fact, I'm not sure I realized it was the same author. Brad: that's another book I have but haven't read yet. A Lark Ascending: glad you're digging the Duke book!

Sure looks like October out there to me... music for the autumn this week on Night Lights, including Jack Kerouac reading from "October in the Railroad Earth," Stan Getz doing "Early Autumn," Sinatra and Ellington teaming up for "Indian Summer," plus video clips of Nat King Cole and the 1964 Miles Davis Quintet doing their respective takes on "Autumn Leaves": Autumn Serenades

Excellent, thanks for the confirmation.

JTaylor, it's a great CD--I'm featuring it on an upcoming Afterglow and will also include it in an end-of-year Night Lights reissues/historical releases roundup. I may have asked you this already, but were you involved with this Cole project? (I seem to recall that you were. Don't have the CD with me to check right now, though.)

The Threadgill set listed as now available.

So it looks like there's a fair amount of material here that's not on the Bear Family box. Another one for the birthday/Christmas wish-list... EDIT: is this still a 2-CD set with all of the music listed earlier in the thread? The Storyville listing alludes to a second CD with the newsreel clip but gives a music track listing for only one CD.

Yes! I read this a few years ago...your post makes me want to pull it out again. Thanks for the reminder, Matthew.

An appearance by the aforementioned Danny last night ("Anybody have a question?" SCDP meeting...that was hilarious). As we've seen before, a crisis bringing out bad/unhinged behavior in Don (teeing off on Pete, trying to coerce Dr. Faye into violating her professional scruples). Did anybody else start to worry about Roger possibly becoming suicidal, in lieu of his losing the Lucky Strike account, his bumbling, in-denial behavior, and Joan's finally closing the door on their being together again? And by the end of the episode Don had created another screwed-up situation for himself; now that Dr. Faye's thrown her professional ethics over for him, I don't think she'll take too kindly to his leaving her for Megan, if that should come to pass.

Oh boy, here we go: Gah, the kind of recitation that always gives me a sense of dread. "(Yankees) (Team X) own this team," etc., etc. Sooner or later there's always a comeuppance... NY better go into this series ready for a fight. Twins 2-8 in their last 10? NY was 3-7. This team never recovered from Andy Pettitte's injury, and I don't think Pettitte has had enough time to get back to form for the playoffs.

Dave--shame on me for not tracking a potential playoff opponent over the past week and a half. I still think they'll be fired up to knock us off, though, and they'll have homefield advantage to try and do it. I agree w/you about preparing for an early exit, though. Here are some Yankee fun facts from the AP's recap of today's game: We were also 9-17 in our last 26 games and our series record was one win, one tie, and six losses... a 1-1-6 stretch of abysmal mediocrity. Yes, people over at PA keep waving the 2000 flag, but I think that regular-season collapse was simply a terrible slump, whereas the long 2010 fade reflects deep-seated issues with the starting rotation and only-average situational hitting (not to mention that the bullpen is starting to look shaky again of late).

Barring the mother of all comebacks, looks like Boston will put the kibosh on NY winning the AL East championship today. Pretty pitiful performance on the Yankees' part, esp. given how decimated Boston's roster already is and that they fielded the B version of said roster in Game 2 last night and still knocked us off (as Jon Heyman quipped, the Bosox starting lineup for Game 2 probably looked like Murderers' Row to A.J.). Only consolation is that we won't be facing Cliff Lee twice in a five-game series...though given how mediocre NY's been playing lately, I'm not sure Lee would have needed to start a second time against us, and I'm not particularly optimistic about facing a hot and fired-up Twins team either.

Wow!

Hey Bob, welcome, thanks for posting this here; I tweeted/Facebooked a link to your blog not long ago. What's the story with the "lost album" that's supposedly coming out in some form? (In the big Herbie Columbia box, perhaps?)

"Chill of Death" for sure.

Claude Thornhill's "Portrait of a Guinea Farm" and Fletcher Henderson's "Queer Notions" are a couple that come to mind.

I read last night that they scotched Hernandez' last start; I still think he'll be a strong candidate for the Cy Young, even without the opportunity to pick up one more win. In other Sunday-start news, Joe Girardi said the Yankees' starter will be "Mr. TBA."

Marc Myers is delving into the backstory on this over at Jazzwax. He'll be reviewing the King reissues in a followup article tomorrow.

Ed Valentine at Pinstripe Alley agrees with you and I'm inclined to do so as well. Even if they somehow get past the Twins and the winner of the Rays-Rangers series, I can't see them beating the Phillies again (not to write off the rest of the NL--I just think it's highly likely that the Phillies make it back).

Upping this for those interested in the movie, which seems to be getting prominent mention in the Curtis obits that I've seen so far. No further word that I can find on a Criterion blu-ray edition. The BFI book by Naremore (who's on the Night Lights show) is well worth checking out.

Texas beats the Mariners on a walkoff strikeout/wild pitch/throwing error?

You'd still need the Reprise Mosaic box and the 1947-52 Columbia material, for starters. But yeah, this is going to fill in a huge gap in the Ducal-on-disc realm.