Glad to be grey: John Patterson on Young @ Heart
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Why teach your grandma to suck eggs when you can teach her to sing Sonic Youth? John Patterson wonders if the future of movies is grey
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Why teach your grandma to suck eggs when you can teach her to sing Sonic Youth? John Patterson wonders if the future of movies is grey
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Harry Cabluck, Associated Press) State Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson pilots his own plane and regularly packs a gun. But it wasn't one of those habits that put him in the hospital today. No, Jerry Patterson broke his wrist doing...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In the week that the global economy collapsed, I had a lovely time looking at art. On Wednesday night, it was art from China. On Thursday night, it was art from Iran. Revolutions come and go. Regimes change. Dictators are installed. But the human impulse to create beauty out of ugliness continues. "When you have two pennies left in the world," as one of the more comprehensible Chinese proverbs tells...
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
We know Barack Obama's line - Bill Ayers lived in my neighborhood, that he met him a couple of times on a board, he thought Ayers had been rehabilitated. Believable? James Rosen of Fox News conducted a half hour phone...
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Mark Sheldon / MLB.com : Jocketty: Reds won't re-sign Patterson — Team will visit some of own free agents before market opens — CINCINNATI — Corey Patterson's return to the Reds in 2009 already seemed unlikely as this season closed. Now, it's official. — Patterson, one of nine Reds headed to free agency, won't be re-signed by the club.
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Patterson Hood, bearded rock troubadour and frontman for the legendary Drive-By Truckers, recently played a solo show in Charleston and opened up to the local press about the follow-up to ...
Red Reporter (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
According to Jocketty (via Sheldon ): Corey Patterson's return to the Reds in 2009 already seemed unlikely as this season closed. Now, it's official. Patterson, one of nine Reds headed to free agency, won't be re-signed by the club. "I don't think he'll be back," Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said. "We'll turn the page." Sheldon believes they will try to sign Hairston and Weathers....
MLB (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Jocketty: Reds won't re-sign Patterson
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Mark Sheldon of MLB.com talked to Reds GM Walt Jocketty, who said he will not re-sign outfielder Corey Patterson. Patterson, 29, hit .205/.238/.344 in 392 plate appearances. This decade, only Alex Gonzalez of the 2000 Marlins had a worse OBP (.229) over 390+ plate appearances. Gonzalez, however, had only one PA in the leadoff spot (Patterson had 155). Patterson did play...
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
I’ve been reading Glenn Patterson’s ‘Number 5’ recently. It is a book which examines social and political changes in Belfast through the eyes of successive inhabitants of a house built during the 1950s housing boom. ‘Number 5’ is written in unfussy fashion, it is frequently funny and it provides a convincing portrait of Belfast and its inhabitants. Patterson has chosen a cunning device...
Red Hot Mama (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
“CINCINNATI — Corey Patterson’s return to the Reds in 2009 already seemed unlikely as this season closed. Now, it’s official,” says Mark Sheldon in this story on Reds.com. I’m glad that the return of Patterson in 2009 seemed unlikely to someone. It seemed as likely as hell to me. Other tidbit of interest from this story: Expect the [...]
Redleg Nation (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Corey Patterson isn’t the only offensive sinkhole who has been shown the door; Paul Bako will not be coming back either. Rejoice! The off-season is progressing remarkably well so far.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Patterson Cos. Inc. has acquired Columbus Serum Co. to strengthen its position in several U.S. markets.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... my own because while I’m touring I can’t run a label. Some people can do it; I’m not that smart. Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers talks to the Charleston City Paper about his forthcoming second solo album. "It's still on hold," Hood says of Murdering Oscar. "It got all tied up when we parted ways with New West. I had a clause in the contract giving me the right to do a solo record,...