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And all these years I thought our color guy was Sir James Palmer, the Australian parliamentarian. Turns out he died in 1871. How embarrassing!
I'm sure whoever-this-pitcher-Palmer is, he gets this all the time.
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Dr. John "The Night Tripper" — Gris-Gris. This is a seriously messed-up record, Dr. John's first and (IMO) finest. Often enough it sounds like a Lomax field recording of a voudoun ceremony as produced by Joe Meek! When you're feeling like a big bowl full of wrong, this is the record to put on.
His definitive version of "I Walk on Guilded (sic) Splinters," notably massacred by Cher, Humble Pie and Paul Weller among others, may be the spookiest, most badazz thing I've ever heard.
(Edit: Actually, Weller's version
on Jools Holland circa 1995 (as well as the Stanley Road version that featured prominently in season 4 of The Wire) is altogether respectable and fairly badazz in its own right ... though "Gilded Splinters" is a song I don' t like to see removed too far from its context. Paul Weller and The Wire? This one's for you, frankpembleton!) -
Pre-Jailbreak Thin Lizzy.
They were a special band.
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The Celebrant (utterly phenomenal) - Eric Rolfe Greenberg
I wanted to like this book more than I did, especially after all the raves I'd heard about it. Don't get me wrong — it's a good baseball novel. Not so sure it's a good novel, on the other hand. And if you accept the distinction.
I believe I've posted about these before, but Andres Dubus' (Sr. not Jr.) short stories "The Pitcher" and "After the Game" are just fantastic — among the best baseball fiction I've ever read.
Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al is a pretty interesting fiction as well.
Gawd, I wish I had done an IS like this as an undergrad!
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I've been watching the DVD set of the '79 series, and whenever they cut to Stanhouse — whose white-boy 'fro barely contained beneath his O's cap pales only in comparison to Oscar Gamble's — you can tell that he's a figure of immense amusement to Howard Cosell (who, incidentally, calls a great game).
In game 2, top of the 8th, with Tippy relieving Palmer in a downpour, they cut to Stanhouse (who will go on to lose the game with 2 outs in the 9th) tossing in the bullpen. Cosell: "Colorful, flaky kinda guy ... Weaver has great faith in him." Yeah, right, Howard.
I don't know if I've ever seen a pitcher take longer in between pitches than Stanhouse. At one point in the 9th, Keith Jackson points out that Stanhouse has been on the mound 4 minutes without throwing a pitch. They called Mike Hargrove "the human rain delay." I shudder to think how long an at-bat between Grover and Stanhouse would've taken.
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Just got a delinquent 2007-2008 property (car) tax bill from the Commonwealth of Virginia for $55.
Year I moved away from Virginia: 2005.
Year I sold car in question: 2006.
I'll have fun explaining that to the ****wits in Richmond on Monday morning.:angryfire:
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I think scOtt should consider changing his name to syBil. :laughlol:
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Here you go scOtt — saw
and thought of this thread. Check out some of those bona fide Röck® moves! That's professional blues butcher Gary Moore to the left of Phil Lynott, btw.I'll say without a shred of irony that this song is smokin' hot. Fans of the Hold Steady would do well to take notice.
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My Ceiling Fan - Every 1.2 Seconds
This is the jam. So hypnotic.
The Germans are so much better at this sort of thing than we are.
Speaking of which: Amon Düül II's Yeti, on repeat.
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Yeah, Neyer's omission of The Natural just seems ... wacky. Though I was glad to see him give a shout out to Philip Roth's The Great American Novel, which is simply a lot of fun.
On the non-fiction side, I think Dan Okrent's Nine Innings — a blow-by-blow deconstruction of a single mid-season game between the Brewers and Orioles in 1982 — is pretty essential stuff, especially if you're an O's fan.
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If I could only recommend one non-fiction book, it'd probably be Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory...It's not a particularly original book (intellectually) though it's intelligent and creative within pre-existing tropes. It is, however, (at least to me) profoundly engaging and deeply moving.
This sounds a lot like Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore, which isn't only a landmark survey of contemporaneous literature of the Civil War, but a hugely enlightening and surprising "found" C.W. history in its own right.
As far as more straight-up, conventional histories go, it's tough to beat Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. Also loved J. Anthony Lukas's sprawling, panoramic history of the 1905 assassination of Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg and the ensuing trial and media circus, Big Trouble. Both highly recommended.
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I had just assumed Drek's avatar was 'her' picture - no?
Say it ain't so, Sal!
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Todd Rundgren I WISH I could find more vid/audio of this album! "A wizard / A True Star". It is a contender for my #1 favorite of all.
Not a Wizard track, scOtt, but thought of you anyway when I saw
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Stones - Monkey Man
I hate to admit... I've just now come to realize how good Keith is.
I didn't think he was much of player for years. It's just been the last couple years, I've seen some video of him playing. He's like a blues legend! I saw this interview, where he had a guitar and he was talking about Robert Johnson. "He played it like this." and wah wah wah, it was Robert Johnson thru Keith. Can't remember where I saw that, wish I had a copy of THAT one. 
The scene from Hail, Hail, Rock 'n Roll in which
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I'll take the 'crying game' one, but 'ladyboys' might just get the win.
That was me.
Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge: Tell me about the ladyboys!
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Now I feel strangely inadequate for not rating an invite to Carolina ... as if I've been gorging myself on soy products.
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Oh my god, the random bikini model wasn't who she said she was.
I question your choice of pronoun here, Wedge.
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Today I ate a chocolate bar with bacon in it.It was magnificent.
Sweet jeebus, are those things good.
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We tend to take our grammar for granite around here.
I agree. In today's society, we defiantly take grammar and usage for granite.
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Office parties are incredibly depressing.
Halloween office parties are the most depressing of all.
How about this for an idea: you let me skip the party, work from home and I won't ridicule your Raggedy Ann costume.
Oh, and BTW, contrary to conventional Pittsburgh wisdom, sour cream is not a food group.
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Geico sent us a letter two or three weeks ago informing us that they performed an audit and realized that we've been eligible for their Good Driver Discount for "some time" and that they'd be mailing us a check for an undisclosed sum of money and notification that our rates were going to be reduced by almost 10% moving forward.This past weekend, we opened a check for nearly $200.00. They could have just said, "Congratulations! You're eligible for a %10 discount!" Instead, THEY did the research and discovered THEIR mistake, THEY owned the mistake, and THEY made good on it.
The unexpected refund is one of the sweetest things in life. A few weeks ago, the City of Pittsburgh [edit: actually, Allegheny County] sent us a refund check for $220 for "mis-assessment of property tax." Trust me, we stood a better chance of winning Lotto than having this happen.
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The word is 'espresso,' not 'expresso.'
Dammit people, how many times do I have repeat this? Isn't this common knowledge to anyone old enough to order an orange-mocha-latte-frappucino at the gas station?
Laugh, but my company just had to mulch $30G worth of full-color glossy brochures because of this. Which should be nicely offset by our soon-to-be ex-proofreader's salary.
I didn't think he was much of player for years. It's just been the last couple years, I've seen some video of him playing. He's like a blues legend! I saw this interview, where he had a guitar and he was talking about Robert Johnson. "He played it like this." and wah wah wah, it was Robert Johnson thru Keith. Can't remember where I saw that, wish I had a copy of THAT one. 
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Ladies and gentlemen: 2 gallons of mucky water on our kitchen floor and 1 change of clothes later, I have successfully fixed the motherlovin' dishwasher.
That is all.