Jazzmoose

Maynard G. Krebs Bill Gannon Corporal Agorn

I'm wearing a different pair of Vans...

Johnny Rivers Veronica Lake Billy Ocean

Pancho Villa John Houseman Homer Simpson

Julian Bream Kilgore Trout Catfish Hunter

Must have had a two hour epilogue... I haven't been posting on this thread much lately, but I felt obligated to mention the book I just finished. I raved here about Alec Effinger's What Entropy Means to Me as a great example of the New Wave period, so it's only fair to point out one that is an example of the period's failings. I'm talking about Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Baron. Now, I've read, and enjoyed, a fair amount of Spinrad's work. I find his short story collections to be more worthwhile than his novels by far (with the exception of one: Childe of Fortune-highly recommended!), as in the novel format he gets a bit...well, silly. Bug Jack Baron goes beyond silliness into stupidity. Of course, that can happen when you populate your book with two-dimensional characters and spend 80% of your prose "being cool". As usual with Spinrad, there are some great ideas; you just wish another writer was exploring them.

Swifty Morgan Morgan Fairchild Faron Young

Faster Pussycat Paul Hurry Jim Quick

Jerry West (my childhood favorite) Jay North J.D. Souther

The Brothers Johnson Darryl Strawberry Art Linkletter

Me Paul Simon Schoolyard Heroes

Phil Silvers Upton Sinclair Morris the Cat

Best All-Star Game ever. Just to clarify, I don't mean just in hockey.

I can never use my Snake Plissken/Abe Vigoda connection in Name Three People again...

Sherman and Peabody Timmy and Lassie Vic and Blood

I came really close to trying out the Residents back in the mid-eighties, but screwed up and grabbed The Replacements (Let it Be) instead. This turned out to be an even better screw up than the time I accidently bought XTC's Black Sea when looking for INXS. I suppose I really ought to give them a chance,but after all this time I dunno.

Bilbo Baggins Satchel Paige John Purse

I'm having trouble buying this one...

Ezra Pound Stone Phillips Gram Parsons

Foster Brooks Brooks Robinson Robinson Crusoe

What I've found most interesting about this season so far is the rise of the "bad teams". Babcock has the Leafs playing better, Buffalo seems better even if their record doesn't show it, and even the Hurricanes look like they're coming around. I don't know if we're looking forward to a 'changing of the guard' or if parity has gotten out of hand...

Minnie Driver Joe Pass Ike Turner

Since I've tied for first twice now, can I trade them for one clear-cut victory?

Harry Houdini Alice in Chains Linda Lavin

missed a page again; never mind...;