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Schneider and Ryan Church.

Omar Minaya says Happy Birthday!

WFAN: Mets trade Lastings Milledge to Nationals for Brian Schneider

Oh man, broken horns.

Stings, doesn't it?

That mock logo really goes for the jugular.

104-59 is not a good showing, but you've got to remember the Knicks are coming off a two game winning streak...

No, they're terrible. What's sad is the Knicks have some offensive talent. I thought they could win 40-45 games and get a 7 or 8 seed in the weak East. I was very wrong. Zeke must go. He didn't get an extension, but he did tell the media about ten days ago that he didn't believe any changes would be made this season. This was interpreted to mean that Dolan gave him a private vote of confidence.

Still, the 4-10 Knicks are better than these guys:

Bulls***

If the abortion funding issue was something he was passionate about, isn't it possible he would have been glad to see it listed as one of his most important achievements?

Good point and you could be right. However, the one-two punch of impeachment and abortion still strikes me as odd and somewhat biased. Just my opinion.

I completely understand mentioning the Clinton impeachment, but the abortion thing did make me do a double-take. To put both in the opening line does seem partisan.

I'm not in the biz, but they should have mentioned the Clinton thing and something completely neutral like how long he served in Congress.

Interesting fact (assuming Wikipedia is true): he helped bring the Georgetown Hoyas to the 1943 Final Four.

Then offer something more than Melky - he sucks. New York would HAVE to give up Hughs. But i hope we get Lester and Ellsbury - screw the Yankees.

No kidding. I'm not expecting a Melky for Santana deal. There is obviously going to be pitchers and probably prospects involved.

Whether he sucks or not, the Twins are the ones pushing for Melky. Notice the commonality of Crisp, Ellsbury, and Melky. They're centerfielders. This fills a need. Sure, Cano is a much better player, but he's an infielder. Also, he's now a proven player who is going to soon demand a lot of money. Minnesota ownership doesn't want him because they would have to pay him, and they're too cheap to do so.

Screw the Twins.

Santana, Beckett, Dice-K, Buchholz, Schilling

I don't even want Santana that badly - I want the Yankees to develop the young players - but the Yankees can't let Boston get that starting rotation.

He peppered someone in the neck, but the lady forgave him. It's the guy whose house he peppered that was less than thrilled.

Yeah, the video is just Bob and the guy verbally going back and forth. At one point the guy tells Knight not to point the gun at him.

Bobby Knight + Gun = Fun, I mean, trouble

Bob Knight Confronted During Hunting Trip

I might have been off on this one, honestly. But if I hypothetically retaliated to your clip of Orson Welles drunk with a clip of him being in a commerical with Kermit the Frog, could we hypothetically call it even?

Alternately, you could retaliate with a clip of Welles as the voice of Unicron in the original Transformers movie. Then, yes, we could call it even.

When I used the word in regard to Dylan I meant:

1. an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.: the genius of Mozart.

2. a person having such capacity.

Again, I would stress the use of the word "exceptional," which would mean well-above average or an uncommon talent. While so many others are/were merely talented songwriters, I believe Dylan possesses/possessed an uncommon talent for songwriting.

I'm glad to see that you seem to agree.

I'd say for Dylan:

 

1. Absoulutely.

2. Yes

I overuse the word, but my other possible geniuses (I'm confining myself to rock/pop music - whatever that means - so there's no Gershwin or Berlin or Ellington or Monk, etc. in this list): Brian Wilson, Lennon and McCartney, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Prince, David Berman. (NOTE: in my mind, all are still below Dylan)

Near/potential geniuses - I love them, but I hesitate to put them in my top tier/the upper echelon: Van Morrison, Jagger/Richards, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, Elvis Costello, Strummer/Jones, Paul Westerberg, Morrissey, Jeff Tweedy. (I'm sure I've called all these people geniuses, but do they deserve it? It seems to depend on my mood.)

EDIT: I just noticed I mentioned no women (other than Morrissey and Prince - I kid). Thus, I'd like to add Lucinda Williams to the near/potential genius list. I'm not sexist, I swear.

Harp Magazine's Top 50:

50 Tunng - Good Arrows

49 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights

48 Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You

47 Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

46 Manu Chao - La Radiolina

45 Bettye LaVette - The Scenes Of The Crime

44 Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

43 Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone

42 Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back

41 Dr. Dog - We All Belong

40 Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads

39 Patty Griffin - Children Running Through

38 Eleni Mandell - Miracle Of Five

37 Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars

36 Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

35 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

34 Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger

33 St. Vincent - Marry Me

32 Kevin Drew - Spirit If...

31 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

30 Grinderman - Grinderman

29 Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times

28 Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - This Is Somewhere

27 of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

26 Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade

25 Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust And the Open Halls Of The Soul

24 M.I.A. - Kala

23 Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart

22 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With The Living

21 The National - Boxer

20 Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight

19 Bruce Springsteen - Magic

18 Georgie James - Places

17 The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen

16 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

15 The New Pornographers - Challengers

14 The Shins - Wincing The Night Away

13 Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

12 Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

11 The White Stripes - Icky Thump

10 Jason Isbell - Sirens Of The Ditch

09 Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II

08 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

07 Radiohead - In Rainbows

06 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

05 Feist - The Reminder

04 Future Clouds & Radar - Future Clouds & Radar

03 Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog

02 Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin

01 Okkervil River - The Stage Names

did they cut anything from the original?

He probably won't admit it, but they cut his exhaustive take on smooth jazz. 2,000 words on Spyro Gyra alone.

I enjoyed reading that. Well done.

The same Bob Dylan who made Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde...The same Bob Dylan who wrote "Tarantula", directed Renaldo and Clara and Eat the Document.

I don

Huffington Post - Male Escort Denies Rumor

I don't care if the rumors appear false, I want more Estrada. Karate Estrada.

Santana Trade Update - SI.com

This article was posted about 30 minutes ago. Not much new here. I'm glad the Twins are talking about Melky and not Cano, and that they're only looking for one of the three young pitchers. I guess with Hunter gone they need a CF. From the Sox the Twins want Buckholz or Lester and Ellsbury - I guess they don't have any interest in Crisp.

Whatever you do, don't get a Brooklyn Industries messenger bag. Mine fell apart under the minimal weight of school books in less than a month. Don't waste your money.

He was in his early 20's when he made those albums, and anyone whose ever followed art knows that the only place where 20 year olds can be geniuses is in popular music. Real geniuses have never really proven their worth until later in their life.

Orson Welles made Citizen Kane when he was 25. Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises when he was 25. Fitzgerald wasn't much older when he wrote The Great Gatsby. Picasso's "Blue Period" ended before he was 25. Rembrandt's best known work was created before he was 30. Mozart proved his genius pretty early on. He was something of a child prodigy, but I guess that was the popular music of the time. Also - Dylan related - there's Rimbaud. He gave up writing when he was 20.

I think the term "genius" is used way too liberally today. I'm guilty of overusing the word myself, but I would, without hesitation, call Dylan a genius. I wouldn't discount any of his work merely because it was created in his youth. If anything, I think the fact that he was so young only makes his mid-60's work more impressive. He hadn't really lived or experienced things many others had, and yet he had far greater insight. At least I think he did, and I'm not a baby-boomer. My parent are baby-boomers.

First I thought of:

"If being wrong's a crime, I'm serving forever"

or

"If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side"

There is only one album on that list that I absolutely loved: Jens Lekman (#21)

There are many that I thought were good to very good: Menomena (#85), The Clientele (#57), Justice (#46), Spoon (#29), LCD Soundsystem (#22), Radiohead (#11), Wilco (#7)

It's not worth listing the ones I felt were pretty good to good.

I was disappointed not to see White Williams, David Vandervelde, or Panda Bear. I'd like to think each of those were good enough to make a top 100 list, as they'd be near my personal top 10. Oh, well.

Also, I'd agree with Markosis that the Sea and Cake album - and the band in general - is often unfairly overlooked.