Neal Pomea

Bookmarked! Well met, and quite a worthy subject! Great good luck to you.

One of my favorite interviews on 60 Minutes was with the lyricist, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg. Just genius! But too scary for kids. I know what Chuck means about blue skinned women. And what about flying monkeys?

It was a ritual to go to a friend's house or have a friend over and listen to records together and visit. What would we do now? Zip something to one another on a phone or a Web site or e-mail or a SpaceFaceGooGooBookTweet? Is that supposed to be a connection between people? If it works for them, great! Not for me. Why do those things have to have cutesy names in the first place? Ok, run around on my lawn now.

Nice fellows! I appreciate it. I was 39 for the 16th time this year. The best one yet!

Note: New Morning (1970) features Dylan on piano. I believe he plays more piano on that album than any other. And there is a jazzy tune (with someone else on piano) that's a sort of recitation called If Dogs Run Free. A lady sings scat in the background.

Since you seem to enjoy his early stuff, you might like Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding, and Another Side of Bob Dylan. The one closest to Nashville Skyline's sound is probably Self Portrait. New Morning has his raspy voice and includes The Man in Me from the Big Lebowski movie.

Glad the MVP was Matsui and not Chase Fuckin' Utley, the blue collar hero who is really a bajillionaire, like all the Red Sox.

Chollie better get Pedro out of there! 5 runs against him. Where is Happ?

Like a HR off Pedro? Then a two runs batted in single?

Like a HR off Pedro?

Premature, but so far I would say Damon. I expect dramatics from Matsui. Check out these WS stats: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rb_ws3.shtml Who knew Bobby Richardson and Billy Martin were in there?

Safe at home but never touched the plate.

Doctors examine A-Rod's head, find nothing.

Will listen again! I cherish Tommy Flanagan and Monk. Thanks for your remarks. Hope all is well.

I really think the world of Tommy Flanagan, but I don't think his album Thelonica does it. Hope nobody tears me a new one over this. I much prefer other albums like Let's (his tribute to Thad Jones) and Beyond the Bluebird (with Kenny Burrell).

Where I work a 30 year old woman without any pre-existing conditions caught it this summer and she died. She was of Cambodian background. A beautiful, fun, vibrant person. Swine flu is no joke around here. We have been read the riot act about not coming to work with a cough, washing our hands frequently, etc.

For your wooden cds, apply Pledge. Otherwise, Bausch and Lomb Sight Savers. Like a Stridex medicated pad for your eyeglasses and cds.

I was just hearing a story on NPR Marketplace that sometimes these innocent looking pass time games on the i-Internet are actually programs under the hood to get as much private data about you as possible! I think I will be skeptical about them in the future. P.S. I took it twice before I even understood and followed the directions correctly on the color game. Now somebody knows everything about me, as though that were worthwhile!

Well, Chase Utley appeared hurt in the league championship series and could not make lateral moves well before throwing. I give the defensive edge to NY. Tex has been great at first.

You're right, my mistake! First championship since 1917. Still a pretty good story.

I know what you mean about being swept, but 4-0 on a page in a record book meant nothing to me and didn't even touch the tip of the iceberg for that story since every single game was so dramatic and could have gone either way. The sportswriters were extremely unimaginative reporting on that series. Ran out of angles after having written about the Red Sox, I guess. What'll be the angle this year? Maybe A-Rod (he did it in the playoffs - but can he do it in the WS?). Maybe a diss on the NL? (Phils play like they are in the REAL league). Who knows.

The men's softball league and American Gladiators had a baby and they called it NHL!

I don't care what the Times says about clunker series or ratings. The White Sox-Astros series was great! And I was for Houston! You had the drama of the White Sox' first series since throwing one, and Houston's first appearance ever. Each of the games could have gone either way.

The previous two games that were won coming from behind with one out left in the ninth were the Kirk Gibson game when he homered (I can't believe what I just saw) and the 1947 Bill Bevens no-hitter broken up by Cookie Lavagetto (Wankees v Bums.) Heard that on a local sports talk show. The 1986 game was not one of them.

Don't think this came out in hardback. WorldCat shows 18 copies in libraries worldwide, and they are paperback. Perhaps the whole Penguin series this belongs to is paperback.