Tim McG

Bill Grahm [concert promoter] Billy Grahm [preacher] Larry Graham [Funk band leader/bass player]

What's for Dinner? BBQ'd salmon. Yum!

Cold front coming our way. Rain on and off all week. Yay!

Albums Artist Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew, Sketches of Spain, Birth of the Cool -- MILES DAVIS A Love Supreme, Giant Steps, Ascension, Blue Train, Crescent-- JOHN cOLTRANE Ah Um, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady-- CHAS. MINGUS The Sidewinder, The Procrastinator, Cornbread-- LEE MORGAN Moanin', A Night in Tunisia, Free for All-- ART BLAKEY Song for My Father, Blowin' the Blues Away-- HORACE SILVER Undercurrent (with Jim Hall), Know What I Mean? (with Cannonball Adderley), Portrait In Jazz, Waltz for Debby Straight No Chaser, Misterioso, Monk's Dream --HANK MOBLEY Three Suites, Such Sweet Thunder, Live at Newport--? Smokin' At the Half Note, Boss Guitar, A Day In the Life, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of 'Artist'-- WES MONTGOMERY Idle Moments, Green Street, Feelin' the Spirit, Ain't It Funky Now-- GRANT GREEN Blues Walk, Alligator Bogaloo, Gravy Train, Midnight Creeper--? Sonny Side Up, Saxophone Colossus, Plus Four, A Night at the Village Vanguard-- SONNY Inner Urge, Page One, Power to the People, Mode for Joe Jazz Samba, 'Artist'/Gilberto, 'Artist' and Oscar Peterson, Diz and 'Artist'--? Stardust, Time Out, Paper Moon-- DAVE BRUBECK 'Artist' Encounters Ben Webster, The Hawk Relaxes, Body and Soul, At Ease--? The Sermon, Prayer Meetin', The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery)-- JIMMY sMITH Now He Sings Now He Sobs, Light As a Feather (Return to Forever), Return to Forever, Crystal Silence (with Gary Burton) Albums Artist-- CHICK COREA Django, MJQ, Concorde, European Concert, The Complete Last Concert--? Head Hunters, Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles-- HERBIE HANCOCK The Real McCoy, Quartet, Guitars-- McCOY TYNER Virtuoso, Virtuoso #2, Unforgettable, Meditation, Fitzgerald Meets 'Artist'...Again-- ELLA FITZGERALD The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, Visions of the Emerald Beyond-- JOHN McLAUGHLIN Romantic Warrior, Where Have I Known You Before?, No Mystery-- AL DIMEOLA Heavy Weather, Black Market, Mysterious Traveller, Sweetnighter-- WEATHER REPORT Red Clay, Hub-Tones, Ready for Freddie-- FREDDIE HUBBARD School Days, Journey To Love,Children of Forever, Thunder (with Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten), Toys of Men-- STANLEY CLARKE Bird and Diz, Self Titled, Bird In Time-- CHARLIE PARKER Speak No Evil, Juju, Night Dreamer, Adam's Apple-- WAYNE SHORTER Emergency!, Believe It, Third Plane--RON CARTER Still Life (Talking), Bright Size Life, Letter From Home, The Way Up, Off Ramp, Day Trip-- PAT METHENEY Spectrum, A Funky Thide of Sings, Crosswinds, Shabazz (Live)-- BILLY COBHAM The Shape of Jazz to Come, Sound Grammar, This Is Our Music--? Out to Lunch, Cornell 1964, Out There, Far Cry-- ERIC DOLPHY Pilgrimage, Some Skunk Funk (Live), Time Is of the Essence, Self Titled--? The Carnegie Hall Concert, The Out Of Towners, The Köln Concert, Night Train, Pastel Moods, Plays Pretty, Ben Webster Meets 'Artist'-- OSCAR PETERSEN 31/38

I can name the artists, but the site won't post what I type. The few I didn't know the site wouldn't allow me to move on to the next item. Slow, slower, slowest.

Yum. What time should I be there?

That's a fact, too. Fred Lewis was a walking, talking disaster on two legs in LF. Panda will get better once he learns that every pitch coming to him isn't a HR ball. He needs to settle down and wait on the pitch. Lincecum will only improve with age. Pitching isn't the issue in SF. Hitting is.

Meanwhile, the Giants are coming right out and saying they won't be going after Matt Holliday or Jason Bay. Too expensive. Instead, Brian Sabean says, there are plenty of good "second tier" prospects out there. Perfect. Isn't this what killed the Giants the last two seasons? The team needs a hitter and all the front office wants to do is mine the bargain bin. Well....so much for next year. Grrrrr

What's on your Thanksgiving menu this year? Every year we BBQ the bird. I make a basil olive oil and rub the entire turkey with it then put several sprig's of basil in the cavity. Rub in a liberal amount of sea salt and coarse ground pepper. Add a cup of H2O to the bottom of the disposable roasting pan, cover with foil and let it cook with the lid cocked slightly open. Additionally, I smoke the bird on the grill with pre-soaked hickory or mesquite wood chips and baste with the ensuing juices. Takes about five hours [for a 20+ pound turkey] and the gravy is to die for

Idris Muhammad Bernard Purdie Joe Dukes Joe Beiden Joe Morgan Joe Torre

Har. Youthful indiscretion is all.

Me, too. A month ago, I had tests and an x-ray to check my cough, too. I came out OK...but it still scares the shit out of me. You see, my mother had that same cough and went undiagnosed for years untill the cancer she had already took over her entire body. It was too late once they discovered it. She died five years later. So, I am very glad the tests turned out to be in your favor, Tom.

Still the best pitcher in the NL, Jon.

Atta Kid!!! San Francisco Chronicle

Stefanie Powers Lee Remick Sandra Dee

I get this dry, hacking cough every Fall and then again in the Spring. It is mostly allergy driven, but the poor air quality is also a factor.

We Giants fans once thought that way about Barry Bonds, too.....but we got over it.

Hang in there, Brudda.

Any good?

Um. Why....? Nostalgia, no doubt.

And a very happy birthday from me, too

Yeah...how 'bout them Saints? Seriously....I think it would be really cool to see them in the Super Bowl this year

Is it a temporary condition? If so, count your blessings. The ringing in my ears is constant and never ending. Silence is my enemy.

Neither was I.