Sweet Papa Crimbo

Wonder what River has to say about his 'running into' Mata Hari?

Make that Vic Chessnut, Townes Van Zandt and Alejandro Escovedo

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/08/27/160015988/song-premiere-bob-dylan-duquesne-whistle?sc=tw&cc=share He's 50 years into his recording career, and I found myself smiling with glee listening to this.

There is one more I would show the door for that heinous crew.

Cowardly, Gutless and Classless. If they don't blow this thing up after the season....

I'm wondering when Mike Scioscia is going to start feeling the heat. All I was hearing from the national baseball media before the season started was how the Angels were far and away the best team in the west and more than a few projected them as the preseason favorite to win the World Series... And then they added the second coming of Mickey Mantle (yeah...Trout is really all that). As of today, the Angels are nine games out and are seemingly floundering. I don't want to hear how the Angels pitching staff is hurting or how Albert had a bad first two months. The Rangers had 10 different pi

The absolutely worst thing that happened to the fiscally conscious wing of the Republican Party was the rise of the influence of Grover Norquist. There is no room for nuance or compromise anymore.

I'm exicted about this...but damn...that picture of those old men...

Word is he was suffering from an inoperable brain tumor.

Pod? Pod People?

You just lost a lot of credibilty by comparing "Achy, Breaky Heart" to 'Hey Jude'.

Bumped for good use of irony

I think McCartney has become extremely defensive of his place and accomplishments because his dead former partner tagged him with a negative image (that Lennon probably really didn't mean) that he has no way to combat. Dead men cannot take back hurtful comments and they really can't be challenged on their merits. Lennon has an almost religious following (abetted by Yoko Ono) that will vociferously assert that Lennon was a genius and McCartney was a hack. Truth be told, they were better together than they were apart; Lennon died too young; and McCartney will always be insecure about his legacy.

Pedroia is a punk; Lester and Gonzalez are whiners; Ortiz appears to have quit and the entire clubhouse is a pit of plotting, scheming prima donnas. And Valentine gets the blame. I guess you can't fire 25, although this team could sure use a really good house keeping. Theo and Fran got out just in time. Fran probably wanted to stay, but Theo bailed out faster than a Casino Queen wife.

, That's curious. That song is in my top ten all time beatles list. Out of the context of the White Album.

Hey Jude suffers from the simple fact that it has been really over-consumed by the music listening public. My parents, my children and the grandchildren of friends all recognize the song. And I know my grandmother knew it too. A song doesn't become a part of the consciousness of four generations because it is a 'horrible song'. Shit. It isn't Afternoon Delight or I ain't gonna Bump no more with no big fat woman or Celebrate. McCartney has/had the gift/curse of being able to write songs that seem to be ingrained into the DNA of a large part of the populace. Yesterday; For No one; All My Lovin

Lennon was sour, angry, disillusioned, sad and more than a little jealous from late 1968 to the mid-1970's. I hear a lot of self-loathing and self-pity in Lennon's early solo work.

There are a few songs that I simply cannot listen to out of the context of the album on which it appears: THE CONTINUING STORY OF BUFFALO BILL, HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN, PIGGIES, THE WORD, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE....hmm. Lennon songs...

Very nice looking set list...but I have a few general comments. 1). Magic was a really good record. Why does has he not managed to play more songs from this record? GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER CLOTHES is a wonderful song. But so are GYPSY BIKER, RADIO NOWHERE, LONG WALK HOME, MAGIC...Is he avoiding the anti-war songs because of some misguided thought that the Wars are over? Or that playing these songs will be attacking Obama (whom he so very strongly supported)? 2). Adding a DREAM BABY DREAM interlude to BACKSTREETS sounds like a stroke of genius. 3). I REALLY like the revival of the solo piano arra

Last year couldn't have been very uplifting either. They really need to tear it all down in Beantown. Things are apparently so bad in that clubhouse that only a handgrenade could solve things.

LET IT BE kind of kills that

Nothing like a good, old fashioned ad hominum attack from an old school mate...

Not everyone here is from Chicago. Not everyone here is a Jazz fan. No one should be shocked that an 88 year old man in ill health passes. (Don't mean to be harsh, but sometimes this seems like the 'Chicago' in Viachicago is more important than the inspiration for the board.)

Good God no. I wouldn't trade anything for that gutless bunch from Boston.