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A History of Evolutionary Theory

Great job, A!

» Posted By BassFace On July 24, 2011 @ 2:34 pm

A fairy tale city

Amazing…and most inspiring! Post that over at Jack’s also.

» Posted By BassFace On February 22, 2011 @ 7:04 pm

A sound, resolute people will pull through tragedies such as this, and the recent floods & cyclones that ravaged Queensland. My thoughts & positive waves to you brave Kiwis… and deepest sadness for those who have fallen. Their Kiwi spirit will live forever.

» Posted By BassFace On February 22, 2011 @ 6:09 pm

Sarah Palin Watch: The Death of Death Panels

All Hail, Adonai!

Agreed, on re.: SP’s now-&-future chances for the WH… Her excuses, stubbornness & other assorted non-responses to the Tucson shootings (not to mention her connection to its root-causes) virtually guarantees this.

But here’s the catch-22: if Tucson fades into memory, she could use that to her advantage…

» Posted By BassFace On February 20, 2011 @ 4:18 pm

For Pepe and Great Lardini — Canada’s OTHER game and its long love affair with baseball

Wonderful piece, HH! Sometimes (slightly OT), I wish things turned out differently for the Expos and remained in Montreal (instead of moving to Washington and, often like the two Senators clubs that decades ago preceded the Nationals, be the perennial bottom-feeders of their respective league/division. One only need look at the post-Senators histories of those clubs (Twins & Rangers, who between them since leaving Washington have won 3 World Series titles, including the Rangers last year) to catch the drift that D.C. is not that much of a “winning” place for baseball. Baltimore was once-upon-a-time, but recently…

Let’s Go RED SOX!!!!

» Posted By BassFace On February 20, 2011 @ 4:37 pm

ALL HAIL!!!!

» Posted By BassFace On February 20, 2011 @ 4:32 pm

Friday Music Thread–The Woodwinds–Flutes and Reeds

One of a kind… Rahsaan Roland Kirk

» Posted By BassFace On February 18, 2011 @ 5:13 pm

Tenderfoot No More

Yep, Lisa! This is true…

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 7:07 pm

Yes indeed, Wolf. We messed around a lot, but it did pique my interest in jazz. Will never forget those times…

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 6:56 pm

“could not break formation”…

No way!! Right there in the middle of the field with hundreds watching. The dude next to me cracked up laughing! He almost lost his, also… 🙂

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 6:46 pm

….the tuba-player got a wedgie. Amazing!!!

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 6:43 pm

hey Orcas, but some of those dudes could dance!

True story (OT, but I think y’all enjoy this): halftime-show at a HS football game. My band marches into formation, gets ready to play “Smoke On The Water” (or whatever tune was popular at the time). I raise my trumpet from a “vertical” (rest?) position to the “ready” position as the drum-major raises his arms to cue the band to get ready… in doing so, I raise the horn up briskly to my mouth in preparation to start playing… and the fucking mouthpiece goes flying out behind me onto the field!! 😳

I “pretend” to play my horn throughout the rest of the show (maintaining marching in position as if nothing happened).. with NO mouthpiece! Eventually it was returned to me when the band sat back down in the bleachers.

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 6:39 pm

Ooooooohhh! Lisa’s gettin’ personal now… 😆

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 6:32 pm

Wolf!! When I was growing up, Scouts was like prep-school for Nixon’s “silent majority”… I doubt much has changed. Must be prep-school for Tea partiers nowadays.

One thing your piece reminds me of, is the stuff I used to do in band camp when I was in high-school. The better (read: more popular as well as talented) musicians would be first- or second-chair in their chosen instrument. I played trumpet in high-school, was lousy at it! Never made it beyond fourth-chair in my trumpet-section. While a completely different scenario from Boy Scouts, I do relate, & feel your pain… 😉

Never had the “lip” to be a good trumpeter… Glad I gave that up & took up the bass. Anyway, great write-up, bro!

» Posted By BassFace On February 17, 2011 @ 5:57 pm

Shooting Democracy in the Head

The HP Palinbots are beside themselves in their efforts to defend their beloved.

» Posted By BassFace On January 8, 2011 @ 5:55 pm

All of them potential Loughners… very disconcerting. I hope someone from DHS is monitoring those comments as well.

» Posted By BassFace On January 8, 2011 @ 4:46 pm

Friday Music Thread–Pull String to Open

» Posted By BassFace On January 7, 2011 @ 6:36 pm