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My friend is friends with Pete. Good guy - the fact that the Hudson is no longer an open sewer is something he can take some of the credit for.

Here is a big fat picture of Ray Caldwell pitching in the first game at Ebbets Field, April 5, 1913. Some of the outfield wall ads are pretty cool.

Hope you have a good one, Melissa! I will get right on that duct tape project, and make it a VC theme!

Yeah. That's one thing I have now fully realized in this, my latest Dead phase. These dudes could flat-out rip.

I would buy these shirts quick, if I was going to buy one. They are pretty blatantly violating teams' trademarks.

Me too, and I have never heard a note of their music. Sounds like an updated minstrel show act to me.

That's very kind, Edie. Thank you.

I still have the zip files, so I can repost them in a little while.

I hear you, man. I get pissed at the History Channel when they run stupid Nostradamus shows with 9/11 footage in them. They are strong images, and need to be used responsibly.

Thanks. I remember driving across the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge on my way to work that day thinking, "If anything good comes of this, it'll be that we as Americans will stop fighting over picayune shit so much and put a little bit more emphasis on what happens in the rest of the world."

No Country by one-third of one doink.

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If ever there was an event that required people to become more intelligent, not less, it was 9/11.

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Fixed it for you. Klosterman is overrated.

I took some pretty bad pictures of the eclipse.

I love it when you talk history.

All comments like Mrs. Obama's do is irk people who don't have the whole "ashamed to be American" thing from the Vietnam-Watergate era ingrained in their psychae. (Reagan got elected in 1980 partially by challenging this then-widely held belief.) I don't think it will be that impactful on the matter's eventual outcome, but it doesn't help.

Yeah - the fetching-yet-vile Jeanine Pirro was bitching about it on Fox News just now. No good ever comes from statements like that.

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Great news, Eric!

Believe me, I've not let a lot of things stand in the way of love that was nowhere near true, if that makes any sense.

I would never let freckles stand in the way of true love.