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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2023 9:27:15 GMT -5
You have something against trailer parks ?
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 28, 2023 9:27:25 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 1, 2023 21:14:52 GMT -5
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot who passed away at 84. I always loved The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but I didn’t really appreciate the rest of his work until much later in my life. “If You Could Read My Mind” has become a favorite. Sheer poetry. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 1, 2023 22:05:47 GMT -5
R.I.P. Gordon Lightfoot who passed away at 84. I always loved The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but I didn’t really appreciate the rest of his work until much later in my life. “If You Could Read My Mind” has become a favorite. Sheer poetry. I liked some of his work; but, I grew up with the only radio station playing in the house being mostly limited to Adult Contemporary and if I never hear "Sundown" again, it will be too soon. I dated a woman, for a short time, who loved his stuff, but couldn't find one album or a certain song on cassette and didn't have a cd player (it was the mid-late 90s and CDs weren't totally dominant, yet). I bought the one she wanted on CD and copied it onto cassette for her, which meant sitting through "Sundown and a couple of others that didn't thrill me. Edmund Fitzgerald is great storytelling, though. I did like SCTV poking a little fun at him, though.... |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 1, 2023 22:12:04 GMT -5
My favorite of his songs...
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2023 22:46:53 GMT -5
Mark Russell and Mike Allred recently snuck an homage to Lightfoot in the recent Superman: the Space Age book...  -M |
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Post by Calidore on May 5, 2023 9:25:52 GMT -5
Don't know how this got missed, but legendary schlock filmmaker and MST3K favorite Bert I. Gordon (Amazing Colossal Man et al) passed away on March 8 at age 100.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 3:24:02 GMT -5
RIP to Bruce McCall, cartoonist, author, New Yorker cover artist, and one of the stable of the cover artists for National Lampoon in the 1970s. He was 87.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 5:53:16 GMT -5
RIP to Bruce McCall, cartoonist, author, New Yorker cover artist, and one of the stable of the cover artists for National Lampoon in the 1970s. He was 87. -M I don’t think The New Yorker is sold over here (we used to have an outlet called Tower Records, which sold US publications). But I do subscribe to their social media pages - and read any free articles. McCall did some great covers, in fact I can’t think of a bad one. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 7, 2023 6:28:39 GMT -5
I don’t think The New Yorker is sold over here (we used to have an outlet called Tower Records, which sold US publications). (...) Not surprising, since Tower was a US-based company. Reminds me of how much I used to like going to a Tower super-store in Mountain View, CA, in my early college days. It also had a Tower Books attached it - I usually spent more time in that surprisingly well-stocked bookstore than the record store. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 6:31:28 GMT -5
Whenever I went into Tower Records (Birmingham), I would spend little, if any, time looking at the albums. HMV and independent music stores were adequate for that; in Tower Records, I’d head straight for the books and periodicals. I did often browse at USA Today and The New York Times. Can’t recall ever seeing The New Yorker, though.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 7, 2023 10:27:29 GMT -5
McCall also created a couple of books satirizing futurist ideas.....   |
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Post by Prince Hal on May 7, 2023 11:56:55 GMT -5
 RIP to Vida Blue, the fireballing lefty who exploded onto the scene with the Oakland A's in 1971 after a couple of promising stints in 1969 and 1970. That season, Blue pitched 312 innings with a record of 24-8 and a league-leading ERA of 1.82. Those innings and A's owner Charlie O. Finley's usual miserliness cost Blue dearly in 1972, and though he rebounded to notch several solid seasons, including two other 20-win campaigns, he was never the magical flame-throwing phenom he had been in that first year, when at 22, he rampaged through the American League and won both the Cy Young and the MVP. He later lost time to injury and a drug habit, which he eventually beat, but which no doubt cost him immeasurably. He became a noted speaker about addiction. Blue finished his career with 209 wins and 161 losses, 2,175 strikeouts, three 20-win seasons, a Cy Young Award, and a Most Valuable Player Award in his 17-year major-league career. And if you want to win a bar bet, challenge someone to name the last switch-hitter to win the AL MVP. Frankie Frisch did it in 1931, Mantle in '56, '57 and '62. But Blue, who was a decent hitter, was the last to accomplish it, in that fabulous 1971 season. RIP, Vida. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2023 12:02:12 GMT -5
RIP to Vida Blue, the fireballing lefty who exploded onto the scene with the Oakland A's in 1971 after a couple of promising stints in 1969 and 1970. That season, Blue pitched 312 innings with a record of 24-8 and a league-leading ERA of 1.82. Those innings and A's owner Charlie O. Finley's usual miserliness cost Blue dearly in 1972, and though he rebounded to notch several solid seasons, including two other 20-win campaigns, he was never the magical flame-throwing phenom he had been in that first year, when at 22, he rampaged through the American League and won both the Cy Young and the MVP. He later lost time to injury and a drug habit, which he eventually beat, but which no doubt cost him immeasurably. He became a noted speaker about addiction. Blue finished his career with 209 wins and 161 losses, 2,175 strikeouts, three 20-win seasons, a Cy Young Award, and a Most Valuable Player Award in his 17-year major-league career. And if you want to win a bar bet, challenge someone to name the last switch-hitter to win the AL MVP. Frankie Frisch did it in 1931, Mantle in '56, '57 and '62. But Blue, who was a decent hitter, was the last to accomplish it, in that fabuloys 1971 season. RIP, Vida. I am so sad to hear this, I have so much love for that A's dynasty in the 70's and Vida was a favorite of mine from that team (I have his '74 Topps card in fact). RIP Vida  |
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Post by Farrar on May 7, 2023 17:54:57 GMT -5
Very sad to hear this about Vida Blue. I started following baseball in 1971--the first and only year I was a Yankees fan--and obviously, Vida was the talk of baseball that year.
The Yankees were having a dismal season so it was hard to muster up any enthusiasm for them during that long hot summer. In comparison, the As seemed so fresh and exciting, due in part to their gold-green-white uniforms and white shoes--so different from other teams in those days! Also, many of the As players also had long hair, mustaches, etc.--again, unusual for baseball players back then. And the players' names--Vida Blue, Catfish Hunter, Blue Moon Odom, Rollie Fingers--names just as colorful as their uniforms. And in Vida Blue, they had the most exciting player bar none that year. I felt disloyal, but I guiltily adopted the As as my team.
And in the summer of '71 I recall being very annoyed that my family's summer vacation (upstate) meant I was going to miss "Vida Blue Day" at Yankee Stadium on August 15th. Thank the gods I had my little transistor radio with me and found a station that broadcast the game. I remember the announcers kept marveling about the super-large attendance and how much of a draw Blue was (for other teams too, not just the Yankees).
By the next year, I'd switched my allegiance to the Mets and was far more interested in the National League, so I lost track of Blue, the As, and the American League. And of course in 1973 the defending World Series champion As squared off against the Mets in the WS. Although the Mets lost that series, I took some consolation in that they took it to 7 games and that the Mets won both games started by Blue.
Vida Blue was such a big part of my earliest baseball experiences and I'll never forget all the enjoyment he brought me (and countless others). RIP.
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