When Big Jay McNeely, 81-years-old, says that before hitting "The Deacon's Hop", and he's not creaking out of a wheelchair, but instead wearing white tails and an electric blue shirt, wailing away on a fluorescent red tenor sax while fronting a rocking R&B band, shouting into the microphone, jumping into the audience, playing on his back, and later ( Read more... )

It appears that Jonathan Papelbon is rapidly becoming the Eric Gagne (5 blown saves, 6.14 ERA w/Milwaukee) of the 2008 season ( Read more... )

Check out these really good pieces in the NYTimes on Jazz Fest and all the surrounding music, including some wonderful descriptions of Jazz Fest itself and the musical melting pot it displays so well:

The festival’s aesthetics reflect ingrained New Orleans habits and tastes: for horn sections, for two-fisted piano, for wry voices, for dancing, for ( Read more... )

Off to New Orleans tomorrow for the first weekend of Jazz Fest: Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Al Green, Creole Wild West Indians, etc. etc.

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As well as the first night of the amazing Ponderosa Stomp.Plus days of amazing food, not only at the Fest but ( Read more... )

What does it say about Benedict XVI that this afternoon he's holding a mass at Yankee StadiumAs we all know, Yankee Stadium is the home field of the Greatest Instantiation of Evil on the earth, where the very Spawn of Satan conspire to crush the hopes and dreams of 10's of millions of right thinking Americans every year ( Read more... )

Montana State University has a Sheep Institute...

Which runs a sheep shearing school!

I am so moving to Montana.

Though I rather suspect that the Montanans' interest in sheep may be, like New Zealander's and Scot's, a product of sheep far outnumbering people.

After a while they start to look mighty good.

But how can you resist these incredibly ( Read more... )

Bob Dylan was just awarded a special Pulitzer Prize "for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."

In this AP story it sounds like a number of his fellow Pulitzer winners are more awed by winning at the same time as Bob than in actually getting the Pulitzer itself ( Read more... )

What does this say about the level of my humor that I think this is really fucking funny.

And it's all too SFW.

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Went to see Toots and the Maytals at The Paradise Monday night ( Read more... )

What does a good Jewish boy do on Easter Sunday? Well, with everything otherwise closed he goes to see a movie, in this case a pretty good one, The Bank Job just released ( Read more... )