Big Leather Couch

Our good friend STARRLIGHT of "Here Comes A Storm In The Form Of A Girl" had this on her site yesterday and it is totally brilliant and quintessentially Shatner. Appearing on the Conan O'Brien Show.

It also gives me pause...could this truly have been a beautiful poem?
Could she have truly been giving a poetry reading and we all missed it??
Have we totally misunderstood this woman???

NAH!

Got to spend the afternoon with Nancy as we took care of some "need2does" for this Saturday that is coming up in a few (5) weeks. We really got a ton done and also met with the caterer at the hall.

She is going to do an incredible job. We both like her 'vision' of the room. There are some great pieces of furniture as the gentleman who owns the building used to run an antique store in the location. She is going to incorporate them well.

It was nice to leave the office and smile and laugh the afternoon away.

HEY! Brett Farve has said he is retired....

Would love to see my Yankees face TRAVIS' of "Trav's Thoughts" LA Dodgers in the World Series this year. Dodgers have hit a little skid this past week, but they have, so far this season, been the cream of the major leagues. The Yankees have been en fuego since the All-Star break and are sitting in first at the moment.

That is the thing I love about baseball...it is not a sprint, it is 162 games.

So, William Shatner put a smile on my face, being with nancy makes me happy, the caterer made me happy and my Yankees are making me happy..

YUP - POSITIVE!!!!!!!!!!

Remember, tomorrow is POSITIVE DAY...EVERYONE JOIN IN!

Well, this is Positively Fourth Street" from the Live At The Keystone album with Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn & Bill Vitt

ENJOY...

What goes around comes around....

An incredible career...now almost totally forgotten...

Incredibly THIRTEEN YEARS TO THE DAY, from his acquittal in the murder of his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman, OJ Simpson was found guilty on 12 charges of armed robbery, conspiracy to kidnap and assault with a deadly weapon.

The armed robbery charges carry a mandatory jail sentence and the kidnapping charge carries a possible term of life imprisonment.

If THAT is not a cosmic F-U to OJ Simpson, I do not know what is...!!!!!!

Congrats to Travis' team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, on their advancing to the NL Championship. The will face the Phillies from Philadelphia.

What goes around, comes around...

My Yankees were up 3-0 against the Red Sux in 2004 in the AL Championship and two players helped with the most incredible comeback in baseball history. Manny Ramirez went 6-18 in the last four games and the winning pitcher for the Sux in game 7 was Derek Lowe.

The manager of the Yankees, was of course, Joe Torre. Torre is now the manager of the Dodgers. Manny Ramirez was traded to the Dodgers on July 31st and since then he hit .362, with 17 HRs, 52 RBIs and 39 runs scored, certainly assisting them in their quest for a title.

When he came over, the Dodger's were 2 games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks. They won the division with a 2 game lead over the Diamondbacks. Not the only reason, but a big part of their win.

Derek Lowe won 14 games this year with a stellar 3.24 ERA and won game one of the series against the Cubs to help put the Dodgers in the Championship game.

Had a beautiful weekend her in Memphis. Watched some baseball all three days, Peter's team lost in the semi-final game on a few real questionable calls...but that is sports and you suck it up and come back next time.

The weather was absolutely gorgeous, bright sunny days with temps in the low 80's. Just have to love it....well at least I do...

Was working with my iTunes and with a music list I had from the years I was a DJ and combining them to build a full data base. I went to do some transferring of cassettes and found my cassette deck is on the fritz. It has been a long while since I actually used it. Might have to buy a new one to transfer all the cassettes I have.

While a wedding DJ, I put my music on cassettes (this was just before CDs became popular), because many halls have stages which tend to shimmy and shake and it made it tough to use vinyl. Mostly I used 45's but did bring along compilation albums. So I have many cassette tapes to transfer over, including one I really want to get done.

It is a concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded live at the Bottom Line in NYC from 1975!

Well, there is also the tape of the Grateful Dead from the Englishtown Raceway concert that I attended on September 3rd, 1977 that I also would really like to have digitized.

Well, there are also a few tapes back from when I was doing Radio in Rochester and with the Kaleidoscope Network when I was doing shows that ran on stations around the country. The one I have from that time, strangely enough, Dad Vince had and he duped it for me. Not sure how he ended up with it and I didn't have one!?!

So...have to look into a cassette deck....sheesh

Leave you with some Count...From the album The Complete Atomic Basie, released in 1957 on Blue Note Records. This is entitled "After Supper"

ENJOY...

Count Basie (piano);
Joe Williams (vocals);
Wendell Culley, Snooky Young, Thad Jones, Joe Newman (trumpet);
Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell (trombone);
Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Frank Foster, Charles Fowlkes (reeds);
Freddie Green (guitar);
Eddie Jones (bass);
Sonny Payne (drums)