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I'm convinced he can win the Triple Crown. He can do it. Yesterday he only 'ran' 3/8 of a mile, the rest of the time he was holding back. When he hit it, it looked like he had jets on his back, he annihilated the competition by at least 7 lengths, it was amazing! His jockey is convinced as well and has already ridden 2 other previous derby winners and another Preakness winner, the another great story there. This will be great for the industry seeing all the heartbreak of late, i.e. Eight Belles:( 30 years is a long time man....

Flo-

Louisville Kentucky

Big Brown Crushes Preakness Rivals by Evan Hammonds Updated: May 17, 2008 In a performance that was more like a coronation than a Thoroughbred horse race, Big Brown crushed his 11 rivals in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) at Pimlico Race Course Saturday afternoon by 5 ¼ lengths. The son of Boundary, who two weeks ago won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) by 4 ¾ lengths, will now head to Belmont Park for the June 7 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) with a chance to become racing's 12th winner of the Triple Crown. The historic victory makes him one of four unbeaten horses to win both the Derby and Preakness, joining Majestic Prince (1969), Seattle Slew (1977), and Smarty Jones (2004). Only Seattle Slew was able to land the Triple Crown. Big Brown went off the 1-5 favorite and returned $2.40 to win as the lowest-priced winner since Spectacular Bid paid $2.10 in 1979. The final time for the 1 3/16 miles was 1:54.80. Big Brown is owned by IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa Jr. Just prior to the Preakness, it was announced that upon his retirement, Big Brown will stand at stud at Robert Clay's Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky. Ridden more than confidently by Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, Big Brown was tucked inside the first time by the winning post after breaking from the six-hole in the classic as Hey Byrn, Gayego, and Riley Tucker were out on the lead. The early fractions were :23.57 and :46.81. On the backstretch, Desormeaux was able to get Big Brown off the rail and to a clear spot just off the leaders. Traveling wide around the final bend after six furlongs in 1:10.48, Big Brown easily caught the leaders. As they straightened away in the lane, Big Brown unleashed a tremendous burst of acceleration and quickly put several lengths between him and his rivals. Desormeaux eased up on the colt down the lane as he peeked behind for rivals and won "under wraps." "He's a freak of a horse; it was just the easiest win ever," said Desormeaux. Macho Again, winner of the Derby Trial, rallied to finish second at 39-1, finishing a half-length ahead of 22-1 shot Icabad Crane in third. The remaining order of finish was: Racecar Rhapsody, Stevil, Kentucky Bear, Hey Byrn, Giant Moon, Tres Borrachos, Yankee Bravo, Gayego, and Riley Tucker. Behindatthebar was scratched May 16. Big Brown paid $2.60 to place and $2.40 to show. Macho Again returned $17.20 and $10.40. Icabad Crane paid $5.60 to show. The 7-1 exacta returned $36.60 and the 7-1-3 trifecta paid $336.80. The $1 superfecta with Racecar Rhapsody returned $1,192.30. He just keeps on getting better and keeps on getting stronger," said winning trainer Rick Dutrow right after the race. "He is special." "When asked about the run for the Triple Crown in three weeks, Dutrow said, "It doesn't look like he got down on his belly today. "I know we have horse race," he continued. "I'm going to be under the impression that he's going to be tough to beat in the Belmont." "To bring him back for the Triple Crown will be a dream come true," said Michael Iavarone, the major principal with IEAH Stables along with Richard Schiavo. "It's going to be a fun, fun three weeks. One of the horses that will take on Big Brown in the Belmont will be Casino Drive. Casino Drive won the Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) in just his second career start. The son of Mineshaft is a half-brother to the last two winners of the Belmont Stakes: Jazil and Rags to Riches. All three are out of the grade I-winning mare Better Than Honour. A $950,000 sale yearling, Casino Drive was shipped to Japan where he broke his maiden. "The Japanese people are going to come here and think that Godzilla is dead. Well, Godzilla's not dead," Dutrow said at the post-race press conference. Big Brown is a 3-year-old colt by the pensioned stallion Boundary, out of the Nureyev mare Mien. He was bred in Kentucky by Monticule. He was purchased by Paul Pompa for $190,000 out of the Keeneland April 2-year-old sale from the Eddie Woods consignment. "I'm very proud," said Paul Pompa Jr. after the race. Pompa had Big Brown with trainer Patrick Reynonds as a 2-year-old. After majority interest was sold to IEAH Stables, the colt was turned over to Rick Dutrow. "I have a lot of respect for Rick Dutrow. I had a lot of respect for Rick Dutrow before he had this horse. Mike and IEAH made me a very fair deal. These guys arent' afraid. They made me a great deal. It was a win-win situation for everybody. Patrick Reynolds, did a great job breaking this horse." In the past 11 years six horses have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown and gone on the Belmont with a shot at the Triple Crown: Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet ('98), Charismatic ('99), War Emblem ('02), Funny Cide ('03), and Smarty Jones (-04). The last winner of the Triple Crown was Affirmed, who defeated Alydar in all three legs in 1978. He joined Secretariat ('73) and Seattle Slew as Triple Crown winners in the 1970s. Other winners are: Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox ('30), Omaha ('35), War Admiral ('38), Whirlaway ('41), and Citation ('48). Copyright © 2008 The Blood-Horse, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?

I always dug the lil drummer boy's parumpapapum for a classic. OTT Vince Guaraldi (the Peanuts jazz man) is the snizzle on top of my treezzle during the holidays.
Flo-
the Air Conditioners
Louisville Kentucky

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Fun attitude and lyrics by cute, hatfield-esque sounding singer and very creative guitarist, Annie, this is one of the best sounding tunes I've heard lately, don't miss their MySpace page either, they offer 4 mp3s of all original and catchy/groovy tunes just 'don't mess with Annie's chilito'...Flo

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listen for the last verse 'meows', CLASSIC!!!! [b]November 17, 2007 it is time for a movement... and not one of the bowel family, well, sort of. about 13 years ago i was 13 and attending jr. high school. once a week we could buy Taco Bell at lunch and my favorite item was a little something called the "chilito" which consisted of chili and cheese wrapped up in a flour tortilla. i graduated jr. high but i did not graduate the chilito. i don't remember where or when but one day i gazed up at a Taco Bell menu and noticed my friend the chilito was absent. it gave no notice, it just up and left without saying goodbye. Taco Bell had wronged me and i wouldn't be that upset again until they changed the delicious green chile sauce in their quesadillas to an orange, disgusting "fiesta sauce" which was even worse than taking away the chilito, it was as if they kept the chilito and filled it not full of chili, but of dog crap and called this crap "fiesta sauce" and called the whole thing a quesadilla, well i call it bullshit. it was still there but it might as well have been gone, it was dead to me. ironically the taco bell i used to eat at was right next door to a funeral home. as the years passed the pain of losing the chilito, the weird sauce that made quesadillas more than a tortilla and cheese, and finally the tostada was nearly forgotten as i had stopped eating fast food after learning to cook and watching the movie Supersize Me. then i started going on tour. i don't remember where (somewhere on the right side of America) or when (a few years ago) but one day i gazed up at a Taco Bell menu and saw an old familiar friend. he may have changed his name to "chili cheese burrito" but he was still the same delicious treat i paid $2 for on tuesdays back at Shorecliffs Middle School. foolishly i thought this menu item had been brought back and i just hadn't noticed it but when i returned to los angeles i realized it does not exist here. had i eaten a ghostito out on the road or do the powers that be at TB get to play with America's hearts and stomachs like a bunch of jerks? me thinks they do. i would not forget about this and would bring it up in every Taco Bell-related conversation i had…until five days ago when everything changed. i was on my way to hang out with Amy (who sent me that html right there in an email so i could copy and paste it, i don't know how to do that shit) and saw something on the Taco Bell window that i already knew about but had never put two and two together. "New Chili Nachos Bell Grande"!!!. i kicked amy's door open and told her what i saw and what it meant and we went to Taco Bell to see what we could find. nothing on the menu but after a short talk with the woman behind the register two chili cheese burritos were on their way to us. i used my change to play that game they have where you try to land a coin in a tricky place and depending on what you land you can win a prize. on my second drop of a dime and spin of the spin-thing i won! i never win anything and i made that obvious as i screamed "i won, I WON!" like i had just won the lottery instead of a taco (which i opted to downgrade to nickel winning cinnamon twists), this was the best day of my week, maybe life. anyway, the point is if you too enjoy chili cheese burritos go to your local Taco Bell and make them give you one. trust me, they will catch on quickly after you say "no, i just want chili and cheese in a tortilla" and soon you'll only have to order it by name and they'll know what you mean. and if you win something in their plastic donation/game thing they will probably remember you, because you are a winner and people remember winners. lets bring the chilito back, for good. and now onto news…i played an acoustic show on wednesday. sorry i didn't tell you about it, it was kind of a secret and i didn't want you there incase it went poorly but luckily it was swell so i will do it again. i am also putting together my brand new band, Giant Drag 3.0, so i think shows will soon follow. in the meantime lets all work on this chilito thing, yeah? i'm working on a recipe for chilito stuffing since the holidays are upon us and i always make the turkey. usually i stuff it with fruits and veggies that act as aromatics but this year i may get el pollo loco up in this bitch and shove a chilito up a turkey ass. and if you want to put some giant drag merch on your xmas/hanukkah/kwanza wish list, send this link to your family and/or santa. http://www.merchdirect.net/giantdrag it'll be like buying two gifts at once because its a present to me as well. though i'm sure someone is just stealing that money from me anyway. blah humpbug! love, annie[/b] www.myspace.com/giantdrag

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Don’t forget the Cannoli Bro -->EZCODE BOLD START-->Brothers Sentenced in $14 Million Dollar Mob-Connected Real Estate Scam -->EZCODE BOLD END--> A pair of brothers from New York's Staten Island are headed to jail after pleading guilty to a Real Estate Fraud scam that appears to have involved members of the infamous Gambino crime family. Thirty-year-old James LaForte, Jr. and his 36-year-old brother, Joseph LaForte, posed as attorneys for banks in real estate transactions that netted the two and their parents over $14 million in illegal proceeds. According to Staten Island Live, the younger LaForte has been sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for his role in the scam, while his older brother netted three-and-a-half to 10 years behind bars. James LaForte.jpg From silive.com and the Staten Island Advance: James LaForte Jr. and Joseph W. LaForte fronted a Mineola, L.I. law firm and acted as attorneys for banks in real-estate transactions. Along with their parents and other conspirators, they ripped off three dozen personal clients and lending institutions of more than $14 million over 17 months, ending in August 2005, prosecutors said… Nassau County prosecutors said the siblings and their parents, James LaForte Sr. and Tina LaForte used a relative who was a criminal defense attorney on Staten Island to set up a law office in Mineola to close real-estate deals. The ill-gotten proceeds allegedly paid for pricey cars, a boat, real estate and mortgages on homes owned by the defendants and their wives. Most of the 36 victims were from Long Island and Queens. James LaForte Sr., 61, of New Dorp, is the son of Joseph (Joe the Cat) LaForte, a reputed capo in the Gambino crime family. Is anyone really surprised the Mob is involved in Real Estate Fraud? For more, read Swindling siblings sentenced in real estate scam -->EZCODE LINK START-->[source]

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When I saw their MySpace avatar I just HAD to add 'em, they're so cute. I'm happy to say this song is good old fashioned pop, its a minor chord ballad which harkens back to the 1950's girl group sound ala Phil "get me out of prison/this hairstyle" Spector.
Flo-

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The Pipettes "Judy"

About The Pipettes

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LET US write the histories of pop music (the plural has a certain importance). A history at once oral/aural but not linear or progressive. A history that snakes and twists and turns back on itself, a history of ruptures and wrong-turnings. But let us not start with The Beatles.

Let us not speak their name.

There is a traditional historiography of popular music which in some way or another always seems to come back to the Beatles; and Lonnie Donegan who begat The Beatles, and Elvis who begat Lonnie Donegan John Lee Hooker who begat Elvis and Robert Johnson who begat John Lee Hooker etc etc. But that is not what we are interested in here.

We don't love you (yeah, yeah, yeah).

We don't want to hold your hand.

So let us start in the year Phil Spector aged wrote and produced his first hit, "To Know Him Is To Love Him", taking the title from his father's epitaph. Phil Spector, the first Tycoon of Teen, the first Pop Genius, the first person making this crazy new music who was actually of the age of its audience, the first guy with any power in the music industry who actually liked this stuff.

Spector wasn't trying to bolster his label's back catalogue with a few easy money spinners in order to create the capital to record and release the Real music, the great classics that he Really cared about. Much like punk rock, pop music was developed and incubated in quite a cynical and pedestrian fashion.

It was often those who came just a little later, those who almost missed the boat, like the Pop Group, DNA, Sonic Youth, who took the promise of punk rock at face value and got excited about it and tore it apart in ways their progenitors could never have imagined; they made punk great and significant and important. Spector took the promise of rock'n'roll and the new socioeconomic class of the 'teenager' at face value and ran with it. This was the real music that was important and valuable and serious and worth caring
about. And anything was possible.

So let's draw on the magic and the energy of this period that we might almost think of as a golden age: the Spector years, the Brill building, Joe Meek's Triumph recordings in England and beyond that Motown, Stax, Studio One.

Let us make this our starting point and start here to tell our story, from whence we shall move both backwards and forwards (in historical terms, the two are never easy to separate anyway).

Already the astute amongst you may have started to notice a broader spectrum creeping in; shades of Philly soul, of afrobeat, disco, glam rock, riot grrrl, dance pop, R'n'B and, in the other direction, of doo wop, Broadway, the radio hits of the thirties and forties, music hall, the European folk tradition...

Let us continue to expand our temporal and spatial borders in this fashion and let us do so using the tools at hand. Like a bricoleur we shall construct our histories from what we already have around us, what is available to us immediately and what we already know: guitars, drums, percussion, a Philicorda organ, a saxophone, our own voices.
But we will never be limited by our own boundaries, never hypostatized into a bind from which we cannot move. We must grow and at all times be reaching out, through the personal relations we already have and that we constantly create and develop on a daily basis. Art, according to John Cage, is not a thing made by someone but a process through which everyone involved learns and experiences new things.

So let us draw towards us our friends, our enemies and our casual acquaintances, without regard for their talent, their ability or their experience and lets see what we can learn together through the action of simple, practical music making.

Let's see what new histories we can write together.

Show us an artist who you wish would hurry up and put out a new album.

SINCE ALL THE BABY-BOOMERS ARE RACKING IN THE DOUGH THESE DAYS WITH $100+ TICKETS, SHITTY LIVE/REHASHED GREATEST HIT RECORDS, ETC., ITS TIME FOR A BAND TO FINALLY GET THEIR DUE...

THE REPLACEMENTS

There'd be no early 90's modern/alt rock revolution without them folks.....

Caps intentional...

Flo-
Louisville Kentucky

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Sincerely,
Flo-
Louisville Kentucky

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Thanks in advance, kewl...

Flo-
Louisville Kentucky