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AI out for the rest of the year? NO WAY!!! (Sarcasm meter off the dial). I still don't understand what Dumars was thinking on this one....

A week from today the season starts, thank goodness!

The box has everything Frizzell recorded.

If I may add a name that has not been mentioned yet: Lefty Frizzell. I'm not really a true C&W fan (in fact, I'm not much a fan), but how can anyone not recognize the tremendous talent of Frizzell; about as pure of a singer as you'll ever find. Great success in his early career, seemingly lost afterwards, but at the end of his life, what great music he was making. It's a strange comparison, but he reminds me of Lester Young in his approach to singing, and also in the fact that as some dismiss Young's later work, so too with Frizzell, but both were major artists at the close of the lives. If you ever get extra money to burn, think about the Frizzell Bear box, it tells the whole story of the wonderful man's artist life.

Ha! Bird got posterized on two of those... PS: It looks like Alton Lister of the Warriors that Kemp flattens...

Absolutely Aswsome!!! Shawn Kemp's Top Ten Dunks!!

BG, gone, like the wind....

After seeing the Bombers twice this week, reports of their demise (including my own) seem incredibly premature. I can't help but cite the return of The Captain as one of the key reasons for the turn in their performance. By the way, speaking of young guys throwing heat, I haven't heard mention of Sidd Finch! I was listening to the Baseball Today Pod Cast this morning, (great pod casts btw) and Eric Karabell and Peter Pascarelli are calling in 1. Tampa Bay 2. Boston 3. Yankees with 89 wins. Of course Pascarelli "doesn't like anyone."

Wow! Open season this spring on Derek Jeter. WTH???

Villanova - Duke and Gonzaga - N.C will be the ones to watch. Im thinking Duke goes down tonight. It was great to watch Duke go down in flames last night -- God, do I ever hate Duke! Ranking of teams I hate: 1. Notre Dame 2. New York Yankees 3. Duke & North Carolina 4. Dallas Cowboys 5. Boston Celtics

Let us know how the "Pure Jerry" is. I didn't order it because Jerry's voice was done by then, coma year etc.. but the sample of Bird Song sounded great. I was just spinning Love Light from the Filmore box set yesterday and was loving the energy on it after having to skip that dud of a song Cosmic Charlie. I should break down and order DP31 since I love 74 so much. You won't be disappointed in DP31, the Jersey Eyes of the World is the best, even better than the one in the Some Many Roads box.

LBJ and the pregame picture ritual

I went ahead a finally ordered Road Trips 2-14-68, along with Pure Jerry Marin Vet's, 2/28/86 and To Terrapin: Hartford '77, not like I don't have enough Dead as it is. I guess I can skip Turn Out Your Love Light from the '68 concert -- gosh, do I ever hate that song! I've never been a fan of McKernan's raps...

UFO Hunters Did you know the there is a seven level underground military base in Dulce, NM? That they conduct experiments on humans and aliens there? That in 1992, there was a big gun battle between humans and aliens that left at least 72 humans and aliens dead? Of course not, the government does not want you to know that! You are being watched......

Nice article on how Tampa Bay will probably send David Price down to the minors for the start of the season. Tampa Bay is going to be one tough team this year, might even take the division and leave the Red Sox and Yankees to fight it out for a playoff spot with other teams. David Price story

Art Pepper Mosaic Select. Very enjoyable. I starting to dig Pepper, a lot.

I thought it was the other way around? Either way, I didn't care for which ever of the Van Gundy's was coaching the Magic last night, what a whinner!

I thought it was the other way around?

My hands looking like prunes from cleaning the bathroom and kitchen. I HATE CLEANING THE BATHROOM!

I finally used my B&N gift card I got for Christmas: Lionel Hampton & Oscar Petterson:The Complete Quartets & Quintets Shelly Manne & His Men: At The Blackhawk, vols. 1-5

I was watching Orlando vs. Knicks last night. Ya, Van Gundy sideline antics start to get tiresome after what? ten seconds, and then there is what comes out of his mouth. Moron is just the beginning.....

Picked this up at Amoeba's today; very nice, straight ahead jazz.

And she wrote that in her early twenties, no one should write like that so young. It's an amazing book with a lot of unforgettable scenes an images. I'd only read a few of her stories before reading Wise Blood. After reading that one, I'll be reading all of her works. Just have to decompress first. Know what you mean, her books always scare the hell out me also. Where the idea came from that O'Connor writes comedy, I don't know. I've never been to the south, so I have this warped view of the south being like what I read in Faulkner & O'Connor. Wise Blood the film didn't scare me so much as make me feel physically ill. I always wanted to see the film version, was it any good?

Re: Derek Jeter. Here is an article that describes much better what I'm seeing about Jeter.