Radio, 050514

I had two broken mics (or micks if you are canadian) and still
managed something halfway decent.

Pharoah Sanders: (for gene)
Fats Waller And His Rhythm:I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby (#2)
Elktones:Middle Age Blues Boogie (for Z)
Scientist Dubs Culture:Photon Phaser Phever
Etta James:I Prefer You
Nanci Griffith:Spin On A Red Brick Floor (for dairy)
Violent Femmes:Waiting for the Bus
Miles Davis:Moon Dreams
Tom Waits:Fumblin' With The Blues (for darth)
ZZ Top:Just Got Paid
Patty Smith :Pumping my (Heart) (for janet)
The Donnas:Take It Off (for rob)
Nikolai Conte:
Gang Of Four:To Hell With Poverty

new old desk

picked it up local, but found it on ebay. go figure.

train geeks.

So I sent a friend of mine these two photos:





And I get back this very interesting reply from my friend Ed:

Are these in chronological order, which would imply that the train was being pushed by locomotives at the rear?

Both of the locomotives are antiques as diesels go, but the one closer to the passenger cars is particularly interesting to those who care. It's a BL2, EMD's (GM's) attempt to produce a branch-line locomotive in the late 1940's. It pretty much flopped, but it led to the GP7 and GP9 series of roadswitchers that became so ubiquitous in the next decade. The other locomotive is an F7/F9. The F, BL and GP series generally shared mechanicals and electricals but packaged them in quite different carbodies.

The BL2 appears to be numbered 82, which agrees with one of WM's orignal BL2s according to an old roster. IIRC, this one is not really ex-WM but one from Bangor & Aroostok that survived longer and was repainted/renumbered.

Ed

Train Geeks.

BaseBall roundup

It's May First, time to recap the month in baseball. April does matter, much to our chagrin.

AL East - The series to battle for first is...Orioles vs Blue Jays?!? Say it ain't Sosa! O's are looking solid but Ponson and Lopez, pray for rain pray for rain doesn't hold up as well....But Ray Miller running the bullpen just Feels Right (tm). Expect a bump in their pitching from the maestro himself. Meanwhile Yankees and Red Sox do a backslide and give Lou Pinella some hope of escaping last place. Just slight.

AL Central - Best games this season will be shaking out here. Twins, Indians, and White Sox all have exciting interesting clubs. White Sox have that "family" attitude, which also means they will sit down and slug it out with each other for the sake of it. Detroit? Maybe they will go .500 this year. Royals? Well, the Indians and Twins do it with small market dollars, and the Royals can't, so it must be the GM - Will you finally dump Baird?

AL West - snoozefest so far. Jamie Moyer is my age and throwing balls how fast - 70 MPH? This division will remain a joke until the California Angels come back to life. Trade Vlad to a fun team. Seriously. A's are still a .500 team. This will be a good test of whether Beaneball will play out - new rotation, same results? Oh wait, no bats.

NL East - Let's see, it's April which means Bobby Cox has been thawed out, put a plug of chaw in his mouth, and called up Leo Mazzone and they started working their mojo magic down in Atlanta. Man takes nothing, shapes into something. This dog will hunt again...Florida is looking sharp, and the Nationals now have fans to play for besides uber-god Frank Robinson's words and actions. That alone will give them a 10 game uptick this year. Pedro is Mets-see baseball of course, and Jon Lieber was the deal of the year for the phillies. Too bad they didn't keep up in the arms race.

NL Central - So the Pirates suck, the GM is not good at picking talent, and ownership is scraping the revenue money from the team and pocketing it. Time for a coup d'teat? I think so. Cubs are dead unless Dusty can spin a new pitching staff together...St. Louis...if it wasn't for Pujols, the team is too boring to keep one's attention. But they win and that matters. Houston has no bats.

NL West - Giants are in holding pattern until Barry arrives. That will be the mid season joly. If Alou can hold them together for awhile, they can out run the Dodgers, who are still erratic but have a good record. Isn't it great that they all have one team they can count on beating up on - Colorado, once again. Kill this team now, please.

(I'm probably the only person who understands this. that is okay)

net yet spring in the mountains

Not yet Spring enough on the way to high falls. very few flowers. By july, this train bridge will be heaven on earth. Until the train comes through....

What do you wear?

What do you wear to a 90's party? Do I have it in my closet?

Wasn't the 90s like not just the other day? When will the Millenium parties start?

I am still not used to the 80s parties though.

Signed,

Does a Clash Poster look out of place in a middle aged guys house?