The Political Environment (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
Welcome to LA-North: Those nice blue skies contain small particulates that harm your lungs and heart, says the DNR, Air Quality Watch for Particle Pollution The Wisconsin DNR has issued an Air Quality Watch for Particle Pollution effective 12:01 AM Thursday, February 04, 2010 through 11:00 PM Thursday, February 04, 2010 for Adams, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark, Columbia, Crawford, Dane,...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Jeff Chiu - AP 4 months ago: San Francisco Giants' Madison Bumgarner pitches against the San Diego Padres in the third inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) View full size photo » Here are some nuggets from the prospect chat with Jim Callis over at ESPN this afternoon. By the way, for you prospect hounds, Baseball America will be hosting an all...
Terra Infirma: Bringing Sustainabil (Free subscription) | 01/27/2010
I was quite harsh on John Grant's Green Marketing Manifesto when I reviewed it, but while I'm doing the zillionith edit to The Green Executive, I've been having a think about his main maxim: "Green Marketing is about making green stuff seem normal, not about making normal stuff seem green" The first part is really quite powerful and chimes with the need to aim green products at the mass market...
Soxiam Wiki RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Scott Storch was the one to create the famous riff of the song borrowing chords from the Grant Green song “Maybe Tomorrow” - Still D.R.E. (wikipedia)
Gone Mild (Free subscription) | 01/22/2010
Will Matthews is Kansas City's best jazz guitarist. As far as I know, he's the world's best jazz guitarist, but I can't be as dead certain of that claim. Either way, you can sit a few yards away from him this evening at the Blue Room for $15, and be blown away. A few years ago, I was flipping through a cut-out bin and found an album entitled "Will Matthews Solo" and it was only a couple...
Chewing Pine (Free subscription) | 01/19/2010
There are some combinations of players that always work: Sam Jones and Grant Green is one of those match-ups…
KoreAudio (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
We have had Post Rock now the much more fun genre of Post F**K, post coital classixxxs as selected by the avuncular Maningrey......Read on In the nuclear winter we are having what else is there to do on a freezing Sunday lie in than a pleasurable fumble with your boy, girl, fourlegged furry friend? For those non smokers amongst us we have to reach for the musical nicotine of the post coital play list....
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
Playlist Joe Henderson – Black Miracle Joe Henderson – Black Narcissus Various – The Lennon and McCartney Jazz Collection Weather Report – 12 (CD-R) David Reilly – Crispycat Library Various – The First Year 1980 (2xCD-R) Liquid Tension Experiment – Same Various – 100 Best LPs of 2009 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Mary Chapin-Carpenter – Between Here...
Mondo Diablo (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
About the EST descendant, Landmark Education, a scam/cult that can do, in three days, what Scientology takes years to do. Rick Ross article Brad Bavarde Videos Mother Jones Article Landmark 1 David Lindup * In the Limelight Alleee 1 John Gary * Yellow Bird Grant Green * Cantaloupe Woman Landmark 2 The Trailblazers * Keep Your Motor Hot Perez Prado * Mambo En Sax Landmark 3 I’m Dressing [...]...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 01/07/2010
Blue Note’s release, via Billboard : “As Chairman Emeritus, Lundvall will continue to work in an A&R capacity by finding and developing artists. He will also consult on product and catalog development related to Blue Note’s vast jazz repertoire, which includes such Jazz icons as Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey,...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009
John Sickels posted his Top 20 Oakland A's prospects for 2010 yesterday afternoon over at Minor League Ball . The A's have a pretty solid farm system and Sickels like them alot. Here is what he said in his Top 20 summary: I like this system a lot, and it's not because Billy Beane gave me an interview. Chris Carter and Michael Taylor are two of my very favorite prospects. The more I study Carter, the...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009
More photos » by Jeff Chiu - AP Oakland Athletics pitcher Trevor Cahill, drafted in the second round in 2006. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Browse more photos » Oakland Athletics Top 20 Prospects for 2010 All grades are EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY and subject to change. Don't get too worried about exact rankings at this point, especially once you get beyond the Top 10. Grade C+/C guys are pretty interchangeable...
Minor League Ball (Free subscription) | 12/27/2009
Preliminary Oakland Athletics prospect list after the jump. Feel free to suggest additions, but any one added to the list requires subtraction of someone else. Oakland Athletics Jeremy Barfield OF Corey Brown OF Anthony Capra LHP Adrian Cardenas 2B Chris Carter 1B-OF Bobby Cassevah RHP rule 5 Jason Christian 3B Conner Crumbliss OF Fautino De Los Santos RHP Sam Demel RHP Grant Desme OF Josh Donaldson...
DR U Fantasy Football GURU (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
1. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota at Chicago 2. Jerome Harrison, Cleveland vs Oakland 3. Chris Johnson, Tennessee vs San Diego 4. Steven Jackson, St. Louis at Arizona 5. Frank Gore, San Francisco vs Detroit 6. Thomas Jones, New York Jets at Indianapolis 7. Ricky Williams, Miami vs Houston 8. Maurice Jones-Drew, Jacksonville at New England 9. LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego at Tennessee 10. Marion Barber,...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
Artist & Title: Brock Butler – The Joys There Could Be Date & Venue: 2009-12-17 Loco’s, Savannah GA Taper & Show Download: joel at jamlivedotorg A friend of mine came home from Caribbean Holidaze raving about Brock Butler’s new solo record Lately Here Though, which is available for download on his website. This selected live track also appears on the album. Also be sure...
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