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Redeeming Rod: The Faces Reunion

As you may have heard by now, Rod Stewart confirmed last week that all the surviving members of his old band, the Faces (including current Rolling Stone Ron Wood and former Who drummer Kenny Jones), are planning to reunite for at least a tour next summer. Could this be a case of Rod redeeming himself? Well, perhaps. I did mention in an earlier post that the best thing Rod could do at this point in his career was record a quick album with Wood and a tight rhythm and horn section. This is prob

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R.I.P. Stogie

I went to Stogie’s funeral today. More formally known as Wayne Campbell, Stogie succumbed to prostate cancer on Saturday at the age of 62. He outlived his prognosis by three years, which surprised nobody. Stogie was a fighter. He was tough. Although I believe we originally met decades ago at the Alex Hotel, I knew Stogie primarily through Irene’s Pub, where he was a well-loved regular. Our years of being regulars at Irene’s didn’t overlap, so we never got to know each other as well as I would

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College basketball bad boys?

ESPN's Dana O'Neil takes a good look at a topic that's college basketball's not-so-secret dirty secret. But it is hard to get folks to talk on record about the underbelly of the sport, which makes this piece worth your time. We're talking the shadiness in recruiting. The impression - even if it's all technically legal by NCAA rules - is that coaches will find whatever means necessary to lure the top recruits they need to keep their jobs. Hire former summer-league coaches as assistants. Hire sa

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Prospect Profile: Jeremy Bleich

Jeremy Bleich | LHP Background Born and raised in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Bleich is the son of Stan the Cardiologist, a die-hard Yankees’ fan from Brooklyn. Jeremy attended the prestigious Isidore Newman High School, which also produced The Mannings and Moneyball author Michael Lewis. During his final three years with the Greenies, Bleich went 23-7 with 348 strikeouts and a sub-2.00 ERA in 206.2 IP while also hitting north of .360. He helped the school to the 2003 state champion

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Area Updates ~ Like Weather and Cats...hehehe

   I sure hope we get the 10 inches that my friend got last night!!  My boys want to play outside more now, than in summer.  Since I took this picture about and hour ago, it started coming down harder.  The grass is almost completely covered and the flakes have gotten so big.  NOW, it can be Christmas time!!   I have gotten emails over the summer asking how our kittens are doing.  As you can see, we do not have kittens anymore...LOL.  I bet you can't even tell which one is the momma.  The

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Family Nights - Create A Tradition

Every Wednesday we have family night. During the summer this seems to dissipate due to longer hours in the day and an abundance of activities but as it gets cooler we fall right back into the swing of things. We take turns letting each family member pick out what we will have for dinner and what at-home activities we will do. Sometimes we play board games, other times we watch a video or play the Wii. I always win. Okay, I win most of the time. :) Somewhere along the way the boys all began cho

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SEVEN FALSE STARTS ABOUT THE DEATH OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Goodbye to the author of the splendidly outrageous 3-pound mega-novel Infinite Jest, MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ grant winner, the most influential and innovative fiction stylist of his generation, the smartest, funniest, strangest, most endearing and (let’s just say it) the greatest writer under 50 in America ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY 1. Now There’s Not By now you may have heard. David Foster Wallace—author of the splendidly outrageous 3-pound mega-novel Infinite Jest, MacArthur Foun

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Baseball Knuckles Under as Japan League Drafts Teen Girl Pitcher

Baseball Knuckles Under as Japan League Drafts Teen Girl Pitcher Posted November 19th, 2008 by Steve Levenstein A league of their own? Not in Japan at least, where 16-year-old female knuckleballer Eri Yoshida has just been drafted by a Japanese pro baseball team. The boys of summer - plus one girl - will take the field in April 2009. read more »

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The Beach Boy - Let Him Run Wild

(New Stereo Mix) From The Warmth of The Sun album, 2007. Originally on the Summer Days (And Summer Nights!) album, 1965. I think this has all the elements to be classified "Quintessential Beach Boys" on my playlist, when I have one someday. MP3 File

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Fired Up Movie Trailer with Nicholas D’Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen

Fired Up is an upcoming comedy movie directed by Will Gluck. It is starring the duo Nicholas D’Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen. You may recognize Nicholas D’Agosto: he played the role of West Rosen in the TV series Heroes, the the flying boy who hit on Claire. Fired Up should be released on March 20, 2009. Here below the red-band trailer of Fired Up : 200 girls: screw football let’s go cheer! Fired Up Plot: “Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D’Agosto) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen), the

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Buckcherry and Saving Abel CD/Poster Giveaway!

Rather than sit back and ride the wave of success from 2006’s platinum, Grammy-nominated 15, which includes the monster hit “Crazy Bitch” (just the mention of the song and it’s stuck in your head!), California boys Buckcherry are back with Black Butterfly, a no holds barred album featuring 12 hard-hitting tracks. PopWreckoning, partly due to the impending holiday season, partly (mostly) because we love to give fun stuff to you, our darling readers, we’ve got a Buckcherry album and poster to

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VOTE: Master Sgt. William "Spanky" Gibson―Oklahoma Marine Who Returned to Iraq Despite Devastating War Injuries

Hello, There are 10 nominees for the prestigious MOST INSPIRING PERSON OF THE YEAR honor at Beliefnet.com, the leading online community for faith and spirituality. Voting gets underway this week, and continues throughout December 5th - visitors to Beliefnet.com may vote once daily. We hope you'll share this link, and encourage your readers to cast their vote! www.beliefnet.com/mostinspiringperson2008. Thanks! ~ Sherry The eighth annual Most Inspiring Person of the Year aw

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The Fundamentals

Mike Moreau of HOOPSWORLD:  “Now as we compare both in the current day, with LeBron in Year 6 and Kobe in Year 13, Kobe is still the better individual defender and a consistently better foul shooter. James is the better rebounder, passer and a more dominant physical presence. He has also consistently been a better teammate and better leader. Last shot to win the game? Right now, it’s The Black Mamba. No one strikes more fear at crunch time, which may be the best comparison of all when trying to

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RED 3D

There is only one name in the high-end affordable digital filmmaking game and that is RED. We've been tracking the RED One for a while and please to let you know that they have just gone official with their DSMC (Digital Stills and Motion Camera) System. These bad boys have "about 2,251,799,813,685,248 possible camera configurations" across the professional "Scarlet" or master professional "Epic" systems. The "brains" are built on Mysterium-X and Mysterium Monstro sensors which start at 2/3-

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11/19 Weekly creativity contest winner & new prompt

Lots of layers for this week’s creativity contest prompt, “quilt.” So wrap yourself up and have a cozy read. Our winner is Cathy Coley, who wrote a personal essay with unfettered honesty. Congratulations, Cathy (defending champion!). Your $10 amazon.com gift certificate has been issued. Quilt Quilts are heavy. I love sleeping under them, but for me they are weighted by memories of grief and struggle. One person comes to mind whenever I see a quilt because she was an award-winning master quilter

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Friends

1. Best friends were all the thing in my high school days. You were only allowed to have one best friend, but, ever the rebel, I had several! What about you? Tell us about your high school best friend(s). +Haven’t seen a few of them since we graduated high school! Some, I heard they got married and settled in another country. Some, I saw when I went home last summer. But my bestest friend L, got married with 3 kids. She was kinda a rebel but not that very bad though. She’s amazing. I will alwa

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Lawrence Booth: England must consider Prior re-engagement

Lawrence Booth: England must consider Prior re-engagement Posted in November 19th, 2008 by Lawrence Booth in England, England in India, One-day cricket It’s funny how quickly perceptions change in cricket, especially where the ever-fraught England team is concerned. Only a couple of months ago we were all saying that Matt Prior’s return to the one-day side at the expense of Tim Ambrose was making a difference: runs at the one end of the order, a shorter tail at the other. Now, following his

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Guardian Hay Literature Festival: Frolicking In The Hay

The forthcoming Hay Festival Winter Weekend , which shall be held from the 28th to the 30th of this month, brought to mind my adventures this summer and had me reminiscing on our weekend’s exploits. The annual Guardian Hay festival is held 180 miles west of London, right on the border with Wales. The village of Hay-on-Wye is largely literary, and said to house more than a million used books. I had planned a two-day jaunt to this haven for the intelligentsia with three good friends, Vaness

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Green Dot Update

Green Dot Update Posted November 19th, 2008 at 05:47 AM by B is for Business in Education I had posted on July 6th of this year about Locke High School and Green Dot. At Locke High School in LA, they kicked out the teacher union. It was not easy. I had submitted a post about this topic on July 6th. On July 23rd, the LA Times wrote an article worth reading. While you're doing that, take a look at their website. Not bad. There hasn't been a fight yet, says Michael McElveen, ano

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Gatherin’ Wood

November 19, 2008 Posts by Allen | Tags: firewood, Wood cutting |   For the vast majority of our 29 winters together, Janis and I have heated our home with wood. This was not done because we had no other options but because it just made sense. Our first home was only one year old and had a new natural gas furnace that worked quite well. It also had a fireplace which sent more heat up and out the chimney than it ever pumped into the house, so it wasn’t long before I ripped out the fireplace

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