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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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Strange Baseball Superstitions

The Definition of Superstition: is a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge. The word is often used pejoratively to refer to supposedly irrational beliefs of others, and its precise meaning is therefore subjective. It is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the irrational belief that future events can be influenced or foretold by specific, unrelated behaviors or occurrences. (Latin superstitio, literally "standing o

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One Day in Your Life: November 19, 1985

November 19, 1985, is a Tuesday. Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev are in Geneva, where they will hold their first summit meeting starting today. Other headlines in the morning papers: U.S. Navy intelligence agent Jonathan Pollard was arrested yesterday for passing classified material to Israel, and in the Monday night football game, the Washington Redskins beat the New York Giants 23-21, but lost their quarterback, Joe Theismann, to a gruesomely broken leg suffered when he

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Reggie Wayne Shoots Commercial For Reebok

Reggie Wayne is so smooth, he appears to defy the laws of physics in a new TV commercial set to air Thanksgiving Day on the NFL Network. The two-time Pro Bowl receiver for the Indianapolis Colts jogged over an in-ground pool on Tuesday in a promotion for the new Reebok Hex Ride running shoes. OK, so the surface was actually blue-painted wood built into the pool. Water will be added later as a special effect, but Wayne was pumped by the pitch premise. “Not many people can say they walked on wa

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Guitar Gods - The Cover Art

Here’s the cover art for one of my latest mixes - a four disc box-set called Guitar Gods. A compilation like this invites furrowed brows, lists of corrections, and plenty of harrumphing from all corners. Strike up the chorus: “But what about ____________?” There were dozens more guitarists that ideally would have been included, but four discs seemed like enough, and the line had to be drawn somewhere. World B. Furr (sometime commenter on this blog) was kind enough to collaborate on this mix wit

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OWW Daily News & Notes for 11/18

[Submit News] Readers are encouraged to submit news for the “OWW Daily News & Notes” page to oww@onlineworldofwrestling.com. Compile the important aspects of your news item or upcoming event into one small paragraph, and the chances that I will use it are almost 100%. Thank you for your support and I look forward to hearing from you soon. [Birthdays & Anniversaries] Today in Memoriam: Larry Hatfield (40, 1985), Eddie Blanks (1995), and Ed Sharpe (83, 2003). .. [reported by Rich T

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From Outer Space: The Short Career and Strange Legacy of Tom Graeff

In an L.A. City Beat cover story, writer Ron Garmon explores the tortured soul and doomed career of Tom Graeff, one of those low-budget auteur figures whose cult is based on a single film. For good or bad, the film is Teenagers from Outer Space, which Graeff wrote and directed in 1959, when he was thirty. The movie stars "David Love"-- A.K.A. Chuck Roberts, known to his mama as Charles Robert Kaltenthaler--as the most sensitive member of a crew of extraterrestrials who land in Hollywood with

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Fantasy Baseball, the 1960s

The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame has spent an unhealthy amount of time identifying the best fantasy seasons, careers, statistics, Fantasy All Stars, and Hall of Famers of the fantasy era. As mentioned ad nauseam, the fantasy era began in 1980, and thus many great players of the 1980’s fall just short of enshrinement since their careers commenced in 1979 or earlier. This, along with the fact it’s just plain fun, has led us down the path of looking back in time, decade by decade, for the best fa

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Hercules (A Walt Disney Masterpiece)

Hercules (A Walt Disney Masterpiece) Binding: VHS Tape Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video Amazon.com: Not the egregious foul it seemed to be in theaters, Hercules stands up as an entertaining spritzer of an animated feature. The continual peppering of in-jokes and cultural references becomes less irksome on video. That there's no majesty or awe invested in the beloved Greek legends also seems less of an error. Also on the plus side is the bounciest Alan Menken music since Little Shop o

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Twice Gifted

Twice Gifted So I’m working on a book, and staring at the original portrait of a nude black woman with three faces. It’s a fascinating piece…by jazz aritist Miles Davis. And while I glance around the library with its rolling ladder,vaulted ceiling and wet bar, I see an original self portrait of Vicent Price, a cartoon characture by Paul McCartney, a shark head by Peter Benchly ( who wrote Jaws), an original drawing of a rabbit’s head signed by Jimmy Stewart and Harvey. I see an original polit

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A Call For a Return to the Gold Standard

Given the direction the political winds are blowing, with world leaders meeting to determine how best to further intervene into the world’s monetary and economic system, the odds of returning to the stable days of the Gold Standard seems infinitesimal at best.  At the Christian Science Monitor, an op-ed titled Forget Bretton Woods II – we need a gold standard, editorialist Walker Todd says that absent the “integrity and restraint a gold standard provides” our country may be headed straight for

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NASCAR Sprint Cup final standings

STANDINGS 2008 Unofficial Driver Standings: Ford 400 Ford 400 | Homestead-Miami Speedway | Race 36 of 36 RANK +/- DRIVER POINTS BEHIND STARTS POLES WINS TOP 5 TOP 10 1 – Jimmie Johnson 6684 Leader 36 6 7 15 22 2 – Carl Edwards 6615 -69 36 1 9 19 27 3 – Greg Biffle 6467 -217 36 2 2 12 17 4 +1 Kevin Harvick 6408 -276 36 0 0 7 19 5 +1 Clint Bowyer 6381 -303 36 0 1 7 17 6 -2 Jeff Burton 6335 -349 36 0 2 7 18 7 – Jeff Gordon 6316 -368 36 4 0 13 19 8 +1 Denny Hamlin 6214

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Thanksgiving Comes First - A Bit Of Why

Before anything else, I want to say "Thank You!"Thank you for caring. Thank you for trying. Thank you for everything.Last year, I began a campaign to stop avaricious merchants from ruining our holidays with their greed. Thanksgiving Comes First was an attempt to keep things in perspective. I asked you to post about it, place a logo on your website, and spread the word as you saw fit and were comfortable in doing so. Many of you helped, and for that I am truly thankful.Unfortunately, some folks s

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Clearing Out Managerial Dead Wood...,

NYTimes | The failure of one or more of Detroit’s Big Three automakers would put a huge initial dent in American manufacturing, but in time foreign car companies would pick up the slack by stepping up production in their plants here, many industry experts and economists say. Whether Washington should let that play out — risking hundreds of thousands of jobs — is a central question Congress will weigh this week as it hears testimony from Detroit leaders who are pushing for immediate federal inte

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Which colleges produce the most NFL talent?

First a plug: if you’re an NBA fan, you should check out what Neil Paine (with assists from Justin Kubatko) has been doing with the basketball-reference.com blog. It’s good hoops-related reading in the same spirit as this blog. Neil recently did a couple of posts on which colleges have produced the most NBA talent. Inspired by that, and my NFL all-franchise team posts (AFC - NFC) from this summer, I’ve decided to create a “team” from the talent produced by each college, and rank them. The ru

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Sugar Water: Print, Profits, and “The Paper”

On November 5, the morning after Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America, Oprah Winfrey appeared on her talk show with an American flag in one hand and a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times in the other. In May of last year Winfrey endorsed Obama’s candidacy, disappointing many of her viewers who expected her to endorse Hillary Clinton instead (i.e. gender before race), but by some estimates her thumbs-up gave the Illinois senator a million votes he oth

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Recap: MBS Sunday Brunch for Nov 16

Our topic this week was strange or silly excuses for a spanking. Here are your responses.Spanky: That's a tough one. We don't really need to justify our fun spanking time, since we do it everyday. In fact, we need justification to not do it!Maybe the funniest reason for giving a discipline spanking is Kallisto talking back to the TV, which drives me nuts.Mrs. Smith: Okay, this is a little embarrassing. But it seriously had me going.Scott and I were lying in bed and the contents of my nose requi

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Musical Chairs at the Pink Cinema

After the big screen entertainment of Heaven's Door last week, I suggested Tom Mes have his first pink cinemagoing experience. And so, a few nights ago we met on Ikebukuro's west side and headed for the CineRoman along the tracks (see my August 5th entry).For the uninitiated, the one sentence definition of pinku eiga: non-hardcore one-hour sex films shot on 35mm and projected in dedicated cinemas across Japan. This is perhaps the last country where this sector of film production and exhibition s

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Weekly Report #12

Another fabulous - productive week. We started a new science unit... invertebrates & oceanography. I am delighted. It has always been one of my favorite teaching units in the classroom and it is so much fun to share my love with the kiddos. Of course, they are enjoying, too!Science & Nature StudyIntroduced invertebrate animals. Reviewed what we had learned when we previously read Benny's Animals and How He Puts Them in Order by Millicent Ellis Selsam.Did a simple cut & paste activity to gr

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UPDATE 5-LA ringed by wildfires-homes, acreage destroyed

UPDATE 5-LA ringed by wildfires-homes, acreage destroyed November 16th, 2008 (Updates acreage, homes destroyed in Orange County) By Steve Gorman and Anupreeta Das LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Fires whippedup by hot, gusty and erratic winds darkened Los Angeles skieson Saturday, scorching thousands of acres and hundreds of homesin the second-largest U.S. city and threatening its powersupply. More than 10,000 people were ordered to evacuate as a firethat exploded overnigh

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