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30 minutes ago, Yachtsman said:
I just hope for his sake he gets a hit tonight so this can stop.
It's naive to think this stops with him getting a hit.
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There are only two good options for Davis.
He flatlines again and forces the O's to cut bait. Or he mashes for half a season at an .800+ OPS and Elias is able to move him to a surprise contender + a big chunk of salary for a couple of B prospects. Let's call those odds 99:1.
Anything in between just drags this stoopid situation out longer.
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"I don't mean to get all political, but..."
Yes, you do.
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Train Songs
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Johnny Burnette
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Townes Van Zandt
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Dolls
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Train Songs
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The Kinks
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And perhaps the train song to end all train songs ? a fine version by Hank III.
[video=youtube;sKh90gV85yQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKh90gV85yQ
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Just noticed this piece of ART just now... 2 1/2 Days later! "Crazy Horse" like Neil Young and,,, ?
The Scientists, an Aussie post-punk band, also from Perth. They influenced this band profoundly, though it's not so evident in this track.
If you're able to parse the lyrics (or, you know, just google them), they're tremendously affecting.
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Digging Perth, Australia's The Drones right now. Sound like a mash-up of Zuma-era Crazy Horse and The Scientists.
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Sometimes the easiest way to make someone shut up is to thank him and tell him he's being helpful.
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Cougar Life banner ads are back. Excellent.
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A few that haven't been mentioned: A Handful of Dust (Evelyn Waugh); The Mezzanine (Nicholson Baker); Mailman (John Lennon — not the Beatle, incidentally). As a teenager, I thought John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor was the funniest thing I'd ever read — and it's certainly of interest if you're from Maryland — but I suspect if I picked it up now, I wouldn't make it past page 30.
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Sparks.
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Just Sparks.
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No matter how ****** this team of his creation is, or how far your opinion of the man has plummeted, referring to him as MacFAIL remains unbelievably L-A-M-E.
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Reading The Obscene Bird of Night, recommended by hangout member sakata_catching
The narration is pretty wild, reminds me of Celine, I'm enjoying it a lot so far
Just a tremendous, tremendous novel. Quite unlike anything else you'll ever read. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it.
If you enjoy Donoso, you might also check out the Portuguese novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes, who's been shortlisted in recent years for the Nobel.
Myself, I'm getting ready to jump into Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, loosely based on his experiences in WWII.
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Blaring Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath on Easter Sunday is just so deliciously naughty.
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Something for the Girl with Everything
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For the first time in many years, Sandanista!, intensively.
Massively underrated.
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Japan's Flower Travelin' Band
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I have to be in the mood for these guys, and I don't break them out very often.
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Be warned its a bit off the beaten path even for the late 60's.
I've always known this song as "Why Am I So Short?" At least, that's what it's called on Soft Machine I.
I believe Gentile was the former poster who saw Soft Machine open for Jimi Hendrix on that first disastrous U.S. tour. I'm sure American audiences didn't know quite what to make of them in 1967.
At any rate, I'll see your Soft Machine and raise you Kevin Ayers from the live album he did with Eno, John Cale and Nico. (A must own, btw.)
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If that song sounds startlingly like something off Marquee Moon to you, you're not alone.
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I would say there are a few short story writers who fit the bill:
Cheever.
Chekhov.
Carver.
Flannery O'Connor.
Alice Munro.
Calvino?
Others?
I'd add Babel, Borges and Malamud to the short list.
Hmmm. The best of Fitzgerald is pretty damn good. But it's a checkered lot. He qualifies as one of those "great writers who happened to write some great stories" guys - perhaps because so much of what he did was hurried out for a paycheck?Faulkner fits in this category as a short story writer as well. "Barn Burning" and "The Bear" are two of the great short stories in the English language, and he has a handful of others nearly as good, but the form in general didn't allow him to stretch out as his novels did (for good or ill).
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Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol
Nostromo — Joseph Conrad
Journey to the End of the Night — Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner
Under the Volcano — Malcolm Lowry
The Sheltering Sky — Paul Bowles
The Tin Drum — Günter Grass
October Light — John Gardner
The Obscene Bird of Night — José Donoso
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Acid Mother's Temple — Starless and Bible Black Sabbath
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Plowed through the first 200 pages or so of Dan Simmons' The Terror yesterday, in advance of spending a long week in airports. Some clunky/lazy writing from time to time (as expected), but so far an above-average potboiler. It's also the third novel I've read this year that's taken the Franklin Expedition as its subject matter — the other two being Mordecai Richler's Solomon Gurski Was Here and Richard Flanagan's Wanting.
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Re-reading Under the Volcano for the first time in 8-9 years. There are passages in that book that will ruin you for whole days at a time.
Next up: Richard Flanagan's Wanting.
Ok... Who SHOULD be in?
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Grich and Lou Whitaker aren't just borderline cases — they're both well above the threshold for 2b.
Dewey Evans should've gone in instead of teammate Jim Rice.
Dick Allen is more of a borderline case — shy on traditional counting stat milestones and brutal on defense but still managing to put up 156 OPS+ and 58.7 career WAR over a 14 year career. If he hadn't been hung with a 'clubhouse cancer' tag, he'd probably get more love.