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Online and mainstream media reports that country crooner Slim Whitman died on his 84th birthday are wrong, the singer told the Times-Union . Whitman said he thinks another musician he's known for years somehow got the wrong message out and it spread from there. Several Web sites attributed it to a posting on The Nashville Tennessean, which pulled the item before it appeared in the paper. The entertainment editor at the newspaper did not want to comment about it. It was Whitman's yodeling rendition of "Indian Love Call" that ultimately repelled Martian invaders during the administration of James Dale [Jack Nicholson] in 1996 . His sound is unearthly - like a human therimin. In keeping with the recent Superbowl motif, we ask you to visit my 2005 HalfTime Dream. Would it were Slim and not Petty in '08.

It seemed confidence in the offense and concern about the defense might have been at play. Early in the game, Bellicheck was seen ignoring the offensive series as he worked with the defense to adjust the initial plan. The Pats did stop the mostly running game, it seemed to me. Yet the Giants kept the Brady Bunch off the field for large portions of time. Giving up two touchdowns and a field goal: You cant fault the defense too much, although one touchdown and two field goals would have been better. There might have been a feeling that our hot offense would click eventually .. when was the last time the Pats were held to less than 20 points? We will probably look back at the 4th down we went for in the first half as a place where we could have gotten 3 points, enough to null the actual outcome. But that was the Pats style all year. So it seemed right at the time. But it also reflected a confidence in the offense that did not pan out this day. Really the question is 'why did the Giant...

[New Frontier, Ariz] - There has been a lot of talk of the Pats planning a parade before winning the Superbowl. But they are not alone. An outtake from NFL films, covering closed-to-the-media practices, shows Giant players practicing the dousing of their Coach tom Coughlin with ‘Winner’s Gatorade.’ No word yet on Pat’s Coach Bill Bellichek’s demand to finger-print Giant QB Eli Manning. Bellichek claims a Manning sibling was substituted for Eli during several Giant’s games this year, although he was unable to provide videos backing his assertions. This due to the Spectre of Arlen. Pressed for comment, former Pittsburgh Steeler Superbowler Frency Fuqua said: "I've had enough Buffalo Wings in my life already. The Superbowl party should begin. But the condiments need refreshment. I hope Tom Petty sings 'I Wont Back Down.' I won't anyway."

Superbowl 1969. I am the guy who did not watch the Colts versus the Jets, because there was no way the Jets could win. Understand I was watching AFL football - it was exciting - way before NFL. Came in when Joe Willy was enthusing after the triumph. So I missed the greatest 'upset'. So I don't count chickens.... Let's go back to Jan 21, 2006. Colts defeat Patriots, 38-34The New England Patriots’ season came to end. It had been exciting, and was looking to us like a Super Bowl was in reach. The day after their AFC Championship Game loss to the Indianapolis Colts, we are looking at regular life again, and significantly down-sized Super Bowl parties. The Colts and Peyton Manning were better – enough so to win. They showed a much improved defense, but the game toward the end became a typical Colts-Patriots affair – where the teams trade hectic drives until the clock runs out. In the first half we got touchdowns on such drives, and the Colts got field goals; that was to be s...

The fiddle breaks into the intro. We walk into the eternal honky tonk. James Hand is singing In the Corner at the Table by the Jukebox. In the Corner at the Table by the Jukebox My favorite mourners and I talk about these old hard knocks our lives are measured there by the bars clocks In the Corner at the Table by the Jukebox So step in side where live has died and you'll sure find me with sadness and a haunted face that's bound to be Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked In the Corner at the Table by the Jukebox. Do you know a place like that? Where people start out young honkytonkin and then retreat backwards into the old shadows? James Hand nails this like Poe in his Rounder record debut. He's past football playing age, James is. Comes out of Texas and says Willie: "James Hand is the real deal." It is that simple. Waterfall tradeoffs on pedal steel and guitar. James Hand sings from deep down within. And he is trying as h...

Everyonce and a while I pull something over from a former blog. Here is such an occassion..bunch of notes on Cyber. Wiener - The efforts of Norbert Wiener’s biographers always will be shadowed by I Am a Mathematician. This, his own biography, is likely to overwhelm other attempts to write his story - He was able as a writer, engaging personally, and he ably perceived threads of significance as he viewed his own life. A fair helping of subdued vanity aside, the threading never seems overstressed. This is important because, on the face of it, Wiener’s work, which ranged from estimations of Brownian motion to artillery shell trajectories and beyond may appear disparate, even topsy-turvy, in the light of history. Wiener’s life was both blessed and vexed by the fact of his prodigiousness, which he handled in greater depth in another autobiographical installment. As much as he finally was to become the iconic image of the absent minded professor, he had a grounding in real life. That, he ...