Fenway West (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Here are a few tasty nuggets fresh from the Hot Stove: Adrian Gonzalez might be off of the table according to Buster Olney: Spoke with an executive who was told flat-out: Adrian Gonzalez is not available. Timing isn't right; that might change before July 31, 2010. The Red Sox are looking at Justin Duchscherer according to Fox Sports: The Red Sox are interested in Duchscherer as a starting pitcher,...
Jazz Lives (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Last Sunday at The Ear Inn, November 22, 2009, the compact, eloquent quartet — The Ear Regulars or the Earregulars, depending on what region you come from — performed two lovely Ralph Rainger ballads, PLEASE and WITH EVERY BREATH I TAKE. (In case you are new to this scene, The Ear Inn is at 326 [...]
ireallylovemusic (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
track listing : 1. falling in love with love 2. the curse of an aching heart 3. don’t cry joe (let her go, let her go, let her go) 4. please don’t talk about me when i’m gone [...]
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
It has been rumored that Tigers mainstays Curtis Granderson, Edwin Jackson and Gerald Laird are on the trading block. That may be. But Dayn Perry of Fox Sports has a different idea of what the Tigers need. In a piece labeled "10 offseason moves that need to happen" he writes: "You can make a compelling case that the Tigers haven't had a consistent shutdown closer since '84...
Square One (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
So apparently it is the law that you can't go to IKEA without buying tealights and napkins (see yesterday's comments). Well, I may be incriminating myself here, but we didn't buy either of those. In the interests of full disclosure, this is what we came home with: * A steel vegetable dish with a ceramic lid * Four white pasta bowls * A washing-up brush * A sieve * The famous salad spinner * A shower...
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
MTV sometimes doesn’t know when they have a good thing going. Case in point, BOILING POINTS . BOILING POINTS was a CANDID CAMERA like TV series that aired on and off in the mid 2000’s. Yet, MTV aired it at such erratic times, with little promotion that it is no wonder it never really caught on and has disappeared. It stands as one of the funniest shows ever to air on the network, or even...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 4 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great biographies of important artists. Daws Butler and Stan Freberg accept the Grammy Award for "St. George and the Dragon-net". Archive supporter, Rich Borowy has been contributing some wonderful material to the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Here's another...
Concept Phones (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
erome Brown shows us another handset design, after the great iPhone Slim and Sony Ericsson Walkman concept, but this time we’re dealing with a future BlackBerry. Dubbbed BlackBerry Blackout, the handset keeps the shape and design of a RIM product, but it also comes with advanced features, like an 8 megapixel camera with 2x optical [...] Related posts: Mozilla Concept Phone Uses BlackBerry 7130...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Watching Mick Jagger face off with Bono and Bruce Springsteen backing up Billy Joel may have given fans at the two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concerts a thrill, but the musicians onstage got a jolt from their all-star team-ups, too. Case in point: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, who gushed to Rolling Stone [...]
Dori's Moblog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Beijing is fascinating with its contradictions. A Chinese speaker at the conference, Zu Dake, stated that China is torn between two value systems: the authoritarianism of the pre-reform Communist China and the commercialism of contemporary China. This was made most...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I see dead people ... Best of the Web mentions this South Park park episode today ... (Billy May's clip above) “ Life Imitates 'South Park' * "The spirit of Michael Jackson plays with Ike, while the rest of the dead wait in purgatory."--episode description, "Dead Celebrities," aired Oct. 7 * "Michael Jackson Talks to His Macaw From Beyond the Grave Says Sister La Toya--Exclusive"--headline,...
Bricks and Stones (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
So Billy May's kid (Billy Mays III) has decided to hold a Halloween costume contest in "honor" of his dad. Billy Mays III, who recently launched a Web site called Where's Billy Mays? to honor his father's legacy, has even decided to hold a Hallow-clean Contest in which he's asking people to send in photos of themselves dressed as his dad for Halloween. He'll select three winners to receive...
New Philippine Revolution (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Last Sunday, I again saw a procession of hearses in Cavite. I concluded that one of my closest friends probably, and yet again, passed this world into the next. My fears were validated. Yesterday, I heard the news of the passing of Colonel Billy Bibit. If you google his name, there are some online entries about him. I was looking for his photo and not one showed up. Yet, two decades ago, his photos...
Give Me My Remote (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Sad news for those of you who are already fans of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Top 20 finalist Billy Bell. Billy had to withdraw from the competition due to illness. He will be replaced by hip-hop dancer Brendan Dumalo from Concord, CA. “We are disappointed that Billy cannot continue dancing in the competition on [...]
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Dear "Letters", With the rise of Anti-Politics, Independent Candidates, the Jury Team and people who vote for 'Anyone-But-Those-Three', the band Billy Ruffian (who you may remember from last year's "The Most Unlikely Civil Liberties Defender Of All" aka The David Davis Song) have written and recorded a song that looks at the most ludicrous extremes of the current political situation...
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