Here's a great band I found a while back called Niacin. They are a trio consisting of Dennis Chambers on drums (Chick Corea, Parliament/Funkadelic, Steely Dan), John Novello on Hammond B-3 (Chick Corea, Andy Summers, Manhattan Transfer), and Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth, Steve Vai). Enjoy:
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
I had one of those "my head is about to explode, unless I find some duct tape" moments yesterday. I was attempting to watch the news last night, and there was an amazing amount of time spent on Rogergate. Some horrible political scandal, you ask? No a private citizen being harrangued by camera-whores about performance- enhancing drugs.
To quote from William Jefferson Clinton, "No congressional investigation ever fed a hungry child." These are some of the same congressmen who shamelessly spouted a bunch of crap about how perjury wasn't important, blah, blah, and verily blah. We heard about how much it was costing the tax-payers on a daily basis to hound an innocent man. We were told that it was his own business, and we should mind ours. And this was the leader of the free world!
Thank God we elected a Democrat congress to use our money more wisely.
Now, in full disclosure, I am a baseball fan, and I am not a fan of Roger Clemens. I think he is a scum-bag for deserting my beloved Boston Red Sox. I think it's great that he might have been shooting up while a member of the Evil Empire. I hope Joe Torre supplied the needles, and George Steinbrenner bent the whole team over the table one by one and held them down. Okay, that last part might have actually happened, but you get the point. But, Strictly in legal terms, if he did do these things, he was doing them at a time when these substances were not banned by Major League Baseball. No one has accused him of using these drugs without a prescription, at least that I have heard.
I am certainly not defending Clemens, and if there is proof he did what he is accused of his records should be stricken or at least put in a seperate section of known cheaters. However, I am sick of the sideshow, and seeing these politicians of both parties pontificating in front of the media for hours just sucks.
Baseball's participants created this mess, and they need to figure out what to do about it on their own time. If they do a good job, maybe they'll gain new fans. If they don't, maybe their fan-base will erode. Just like any other business. What doesn't need to happen is a political dog and pony show. If someone broke the law, let them go through the criminal justice system like any other drug-abuser, but congress has more important things to do.
Wait a minute, congress was busy on television interfering in a sports league. That means they weren't wrecking the economy, or spending money on pork barrel projects named after Robert Byrd, or ... You know what, I think it's high time congress did something about excessive end-zone celebrations in the NFL. And what about over-tattooed, marijuana-smoking hoodlums in the NBA.
I heard there was a 13 year old in northern Virginia on a 12 and under kids soccer team. There, that ought to keep them busy.
To quote from William Jefferson Clinton, "No congressional investigation ever fed a hungry child." These are some of the same congressmen who shamelessly spouted a bunch of crap about how perjury wasn't important, blah, blah, and verily blah. We heard about how much it was costing the tax-payers on a daily basis to hound an innocent man. We were told that it was his own business, and we should mind ours. And this was the leader of the free world!
Thank God we elected a Democrat congress to use our money more wisely.
Now, in full disclosure, I am a baseball fan, and I am not a fan of Roger Clemens. I think he is a scum-bag for deserting my beloved Boston Red Sox. I think it's great that he might have been shooting up while a member of the Evil Empire. I hope Joe Torre supplied the needles, and George Steinbrenner bent the whole team over the table one by one and held them down. Okay, that last part might have actually happened, but you get the point. But, Strictly in legal terms, if he did do these things, he was doing them at a time when these substances were not banned by Major League Baseball. No one has accused him of using these drugs without a prescription, at least that I have heard.
I am certainly not defending Clemens, and if there is proof he did what he is accused of his records should be stricken or at least put in a seperate section of known cheaters. However, I am sick of the sideshow, and seeing these politicians of both parties pontificating in front of the media for hours just sucks.
Baseball's participants created this mess, and they need to figure out what to do about it on their own time. If they do a good job, maybe they'll gain new fans. If they don't, maybe their fan-base will erode. Just like any other business. What doesn't need to happen is a political dog and pony show. If someone broke the law, let them go through the criminal justice system like any other drug-abuser, but congress has more important things to do.
Wait a minute, congress was busy on television interfering in a sports league. That means they weren't wrecking the economy, or spending money on pork barrel projects named after Robert Byrd, or ... You know what, I think it's high time congress did something about excessive end-zone celebrations in the NFL. And what about over-tattooed, marijuana-smoking hoodlums in the NBA.
I heard there was a 13 year old in northern Virginia on a 12 and under kids soccer team. There, that ought to keep them busy.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
We spent the afternoon today at Cocoa Village Marina with Windreka and her crew. Dad and Sarah looked great, and seem to be enjoying thier journey. For more on their adventures, check out their blog at http://haulingforbetterweather.blogspot.com/. We spent a little time on the boat, then headed over to the pier at Cocoa Beach for some supper, before driving back to reality and Orlando.
The Captain and First Mate aboard the Windreka
Gretchen hiding behind the wheel
Good luck and good sailing!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The NFL sucks. I can't believe Derrick Thomas did not make it into the hall of fame again this year. He makes it into the top ten finalists every year, and then is left off the list of the final five for up and down voting. What a bunch of idiots those writers are.
No one had more sacks in the nineties than Derrick Thomas. No one had more sacks in a single game in NFL history than Derrick Thomas. Andre Tippett?! Are you freaking kidding me? If I held a draft of linebackers tomorrow, the only people taking Andre Tippett ahead of DT are Patriots fans. John Elway said the player on an opposing defense he feared the most was Derrick Thomas. Pretty high praise from a guy who didn't have too many problems doing whatever he wanted on offense.
32 of his 126 sacks were against quarterbacks in the hall of fame.
25%, not bad. 17 were against Ol' Horseface, again not bad considering Elway was so elusive. He also had four against Brett Favre, and one against a rookie named Peyton Manning, and when they make the hall it will elevate that to 29%.
He also forced 45 fumbles in his career, and recovered 19, including 4 he returned for touchdowns. He intercepted one pass for a touchdown. He was in short a difference-maker. Kansas City's defense in the 90's still would have been formidable without him, but you ask any of those guys who they looked to for leadership, and DT would have been at the top of that list.
Troy Aikman named three defensive players he thought could turn a game around by themselves. Reggie White, Lawrence Taylor, and that guy who can't get into the hall of fame.
The hall of fame without #58 is the hall of shame.
Remember DT here: http://play.rbn.com/?url=nfl/nfl/open/chiefs/demand/av_dttribute350_01282005.rm&proto=rtsp
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