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Basketball was a big thing at out high school, which was at about the time that Milwaukee got the Bucks. NBA bascketball, paricularly, has stayed with many of us through the subsequent years. I thought I'd visit this year's NBA finals with my friends via the miracle of Bluejean Network. Starting off here with Jim Haas. He has stopped playing competively, except he still does shoot baskets regularly, and if you shot one too, he'd get competive again, at least with you. We spoke on May 18, 2018 a day or so after the Hoston Rockets tied the West Coast Div Finals serieswith the Golden State Warriors, 1-1. There is more than just this single video....  Click here to access more than 3 scintillating episodes of sports chatter ,  including an appearance by redoubtable stalwart, Jeff DeMark!

This originally appeared on the Eptiome site December 02, 2008 http://epitomime.blogspot.com/2008/12/bill-drake-dead-bogus-creator-of.html BILL DRAKE DEAD, BOGUS CREATOR OF WINNING RADIO STYLE I wouldn’t say I remember a time when radio was 'great'. Fact is living in Boston provides a lot of great radio now - with more than a half-dozen college radio stations in the non commercial category. But for all intents and purposes radio is narrow, lifeless, boring. Radio is terrible, and there is every reason to think something similar could happen to the Web. This is said while noting the passing of Bill Drake who in the 1960s transformed regional and local radio -- which had til then at times shown a bit of inspriration and salsa -- into national radio paplum. Drake came up with the formula of homogenized Top 30, with robot DJs. In the 60s, George Carlin and others could satirized weird [think Wolfman Jack] or just mindless Fab Good Guys, [think Murray the K and Cousin ...

The News is Killing Me Blues #256 Graduates! Put down that smart phone Don’t be afraid to pick up that copy of the herald the one laying on the bottom shelf at the Shell Station. It is a map to enmeshment in the life of the city in time its your ticket to a laser-light drive. And if its yesterday's paper - all the better. A ziggurat can walk you backwards take you on the winds of time and make your day forwards. But don’t be like me you see The lonesome news is killing me.

Had nice opportunity to read poetry last night on bill w Cecelia at opening for Mission Hill InFocus Camera Club show at JP Licks. Took a prosey piece from back in the day and built out a poem about this place. - Jack Ted Kenndedy funeral motorcade Tremont St, 2009. Mission Hill. A unique place - see those buildings in the distance- one is a mosque, the other a Baptist Church built inthe 1600s. The Great Democrat's Funeral Standing in front of Boston Clutch Terrorism is on my mind Bomb sniffing shepherds. Security high. Rain picking up on edge of Hurricane Dan Waiting for Senator Kennedy's Last motorcade ride Black SUV after Black SUV Silver fox Sen. Dodd rolls down his window, the pol inside him alive alive. The little Kennedy girls in black dresses in big front of bus windows waving. And the police snipers remarkable for their pupils piercing. In neighborhood that came to be my home. The guests were full-form famous and powerful – : Sen Dodd, Dor...