Recent content by howard in nyc

Not long after Voyager was launched, and the Golden Record was in the news, Saturday Night Live had a skit with the premise that members of an advanced spacefaring civilization indeed had encountered the ship, were able to understand the contents of the golden record, and transmitted a four-word...

I'd say it has one; it has conquered this thread and now owns it.

He could've been asleep. And, no, I guess you better not wake him up then.

This is true of the Dodgers. (With the exception of the unfortunate Fox-McCourt period, as noted above by MCF.) There has been a lot of cross-pollination of the front offices of the two organizations. Most recently, our GM in his first year came from the Dodgers. I think he had done a great...

I can only assume this occurred the one year you lived in Davis (a very white place, but we love it anyway).

As a devoted Giants fan and Dodgers hater, this show of class and grace was difficult for me to take. Wonderful, pitch perfect ceremony. I applaud the Dodgers (for five minutes, then back to the hate) I grew up listening to Vin, we moved north when I was 10yo. As well as spoil me, he made me...

Like the man said, (and I post this primarily to remind myself) He not busy being born Is busy dyin'

Not only am I old, I watched a heck of a lot of TV as a kid. And teenager. In college. And now. (should've practiced instead.) 20/20 without much trouble. You remember Clem Kadiddlehopper, you deserve bonus points. I remember just that, with that character, Red sounded like Bullwinkle. The...

Better than the Hat Surfers

ooh ooh, I know this one. Dire Straits and Chick Corea …

I was gonna chime in on David Hood. That Boz Scaggs album (Loan Me a Dime is one of the cuts) with the Swampers, including Duane Allman, came out when I was like 12 or 13, and was one of the first albums I bought. Followed Hood ever since. I like his son's band too (Patterson Hood, Drive-By...

A couple years of piano when I was little. Five years of cello in school, (not as many cello players in here as I expected.) Quit music for baseball in ninth grade (big mistake based on my natural talents). Messed around with my dad's sax and piano, off and on. Age 40, friends needed a bass...

I am not a musician, a rank amateur. I had been just messing around with the bass for over 20 years. I knew of Babbitt and Jamerson before the movie, but SITSOM clued me in back when it was released. I stumbled on this interview with Babbitt last Christmastime. Somehow, the combo of where my...

My mistake, don't know where I got that idea. Great game though, Mets do it again, ninth straight win.