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I thought it was interesting how Matsuzaka tipped his hat and bowed slightly (which is apaprently the custom in Japan) after he hit ARod but when he hit Jeter later in the same game he didn't do that. I wonder if someone gave him a talking to ...

Or helping them lay down ...

Camden (Maine) 7/3/00 They had me at Airline to Heaven (still one of the best opening songs I have ever seen).

I'm usually not much of a short story guy, but these are excellent.

This past weekend I was driving through eastern Pennsylvania and upon seeing the signs for Allentown had that sung stuck in my head. I had just about gotten the song out of my head when, on the return trip, I saw the signs all over again.

"Bangor? I hardly know her!"

That was my second concert ...

First album: Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (split the cost with my sisters) First album of my very own: probably ELO's Out of the Blue First Conert: Jerry Garcia Band, July 1980 (Certainly one of the best things about the show was hearing Tangled Up in Blue. I bought Blood on the Tracks the very next day.)

There was one report today that said Donnelly was supportive of - and instrumental in - Guillen being kicked off the Angels right before the 2004 playoffs.

Might not be a bad idea ... I am out of town on Monday so I won't be getting tickets then either. I may be going to Northampton with the GA tickets.

Crap - me too.

Donnelly struck Guillen out and then they were jawing at each other. And then he plunked Kenji Johjima on the next pitch.

14-3 (Red) Sox; I'll take it. I guess the Donnelly-Guillen bad blood goes backa while.

I was going to say something similar. Yes, there are plenty of cases where journeyman pitchers become closers and get 25 saves but to have a guy who can do what Papelbon did last night really changes the dynamic of a pitching staff. And it's pretty damn entertaining to watch.

Hippies and Wilco fans, cuz that was the year Wilco played.

Exactly my thoughts.

From wikipedia: The Newport Folk Festival fell on hard times in the later 1960s, even closing its doors for a number of years, beginning in 1971, but was revived in 1985, and has since become one of the major folk music festivals in the United States, alongside the Philadelphia Folk Festival, which began in 1960. The festival has run without interruption ever since 1985, although in a different form from its 1960s heyday; the event has gone from not-for-profit to for-profit, the crowd has shrunk from 20,000 to 10,000 and evening concerts have been canceled. Furthermore, major sponsors hav

They are working it. Last year they had shows with Aimee Mann, My Morning Jacket, and Guster, and the other shows they just announced are the Cowboy Junkies and DJ Paul Oakenfold.

I agree ...

Don't recall this one being mentioned:

Exactly. I love reading box scores ...

Meat Puppets II Picking up from the debut album thread.

Good point. I came to the Meat Puppets through Meat Puppets II, which I would rank among my 20 favorite albums of all time. Working back to the first album was not so satisfying ...

See I would put that on the complicatedly-titled list of Bands-Whose-First-Album-I-Don't-Really-Like-But-Whose-Later-Work-I-Love. Others would include: Husker Du Replacements Dinosaur Jr.