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So, basically the prosecution had people who claimed that Blake discussed having his wife killed, but couldn't make any connection to the crime other than the circumstantial evidence and the fact that it wasn't exactly a strong marriage. I tend to agree with Allen - the prosecution didn't have much of a case and apparently they couldn't push the ball past "beyond and to the exclusion of all reasonable doubt". I'm 100% with Dan on this. Not to mention that the two main "people who claimed Blake discussed having his wife killed" were a paranoid delusional coke addict and a paranoid delusional meth addict, both of whom have other proceedings pending against them in the same jurisdiction...

She was really headed places starring on "Saved by the Bell" and all !!!

NO !!!!!! You said too much already!!!!!!!!! Ga-a-a-a-a-a-a.........

Really? I think maybe that was a photo from 2000? This play has had runs at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe (where Rome Neal -- a great stage presence, BTW -- is the director-in-residence) and various theater festivals around the country for several years... Edit: Here's the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe page on "Monk" -- http://www.nuyorican.org/Theater/MonkDEC04.html -- it went online in December to announce this opening, and I'm pretty sure all the pull-quotes (Max Roach, Barry Harris, Ossie Davis, etc.) are from the 2000 production (I know for a fact that several of the newspaper review quotes are definitely from 2000) -- so I'm guessing (unfortunately) that this picture of Max Roach is also about 5 years old...

Feelings is far worse than any of the three in the poll! My sentiments exactly! It's such a nothing song it CAN'T even get stuck in your head!

In MY family, we had joy, we had fun, we had hot dogs on a bun...

Oh man -- that's a rough birthday -- hope you're all feeling better soon.

Paging Mr. Olivarez, Mr. Chris Olivarez...

Love ya, Lazaro -- and I'm all for equitable distribution of wealth -- but I'm not sold on the "gas atoms" model of the economy. "Trickle-down" makes me think of another physical principle -- one that was never described as a law of physics until 1986!!! So -- does this mean only small change trickles down to the masses?

A google search leads me to believe it was this, in Seattle... from www.jazzalley.com

Have a great birthday, C. !!! (I think this slice kept pretty well in the freezer !)

I didn't know Rudy Giuliani had been cast as the lead in "The Kay Kyser Story"...

Up, because it's happening tomorrow night...

This squirrel story didn't make me think that, but then I read "Conquistador" -- whoa! I was certainly HOPING it was a Hunter S. Thompson tribute!!! (And thinking, "if that's fiction, let's have more! If it's memoir, take it easy, LV!")

Mis-ter Kar-tof-fel Head (And his missus, McGrew!) Buckets of fun For ev'ry-one!

Chaney, the way I currently do this at Organissimo is: Scroll to the top of the page and click "print this topic" (it should be in the upper right hand corner). It won't really print right away -- don't worry -- it will just put the whole thread (all 5 or 17 or 1177 pages) into one long HTML "page". Then, type "CTRL-F" (hold down "CTRL" while you also type "f") and you'll get a little pop-up that says "Find what: ______________". You can type the word(s) you're looking for in the blank, choose "search up" or "search down". You can also get this option by going to "Edit" -- and then "Find on this Page" -- on your browser tool bar.

I figured a fan in NYC area would get the shorthand, and I couldn't fit Madison Square Garden in the space allowed... Well, no takers, I guess...

Have a great birthday -- and save room for dessert!

I have an extra ticket to the Big East 2nd round game tonight (Thurs Mar 10) at Madison Square Garden a 7:00 PM. UConn vs. Georgetown. My usual suspects can't make it!!! ( ) Anybody game? PM me!!! Looking to share, not scalp!

Chris, one more time: Wow! and thanks!

That dollhouse is adorable! I still have the coat tree my dad made, and the unbelievably beautiful doll clothes my grandmother (his mother) made -- including one that matched a dress she made for me (shades of the "American Girl" strategy, huh?) My contribution to the tradition was to sew Halloween costumes for my son from age 2 to 11. The biggest triumph was a Ninja Turtles costume before any were mass-produced -- he'd been reading the comic book from the start, so he was already into them when the cartoon hit TV, and 6 weeks later the homemade costume made its debut -- we were trick-or-treating NYC style (in shops and restaurants) and inspired envy in a boy two years older who said to his mother: "Damn! You said there were no Ninja Turtle costumes!"

Now THAT'S impressive. B-) Those wine-crate wardrobes are FANTASTIC, Weizen! I'm impressed, too! My dad made me a little coat-tree for doll coats his mother had made for me for Xmas 1956 -- set the tone for how to deal with doll paraphernalia pleas: MAKE IT YOURSELF! If I'd had a girl, I could have said and done that about doll stuff -- but as it happened, my son wanted video games and basketball cards...