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A very sad month this March. Cecelia’s mother Westein Boston Estrada died March 14 in Pasadena. Of course, my great debt to Wes is that she brought Cecelia into the world. She also let me into her world, which was a hard working positive place. She brought her children up much by herself, working long hours, to keep the house bill met, and keep the kids on the path. Very remarkable. Very spiritual. Wonderful to visit in Chicago. She would paint. She would make tamales. She appreciated things. I remember her bringing in the battery of her big black Galaxy between outings, to keep the Ford from being stolen. That is tough, but she was up. Life was hard, and she’d feel blue, but always happy to see you, to see family, to see the kids. Everyone was happy when they were with her, and full of fun though a teetotaler. I’d tell her a story, she’d say ‘Mercy!” She would thoughtfully send a little money to us, and say 'I am sending a skinny check.' Good humor. These two pictures here ...

This is the third site for this thing... Needed some fixing... it is an excerpt. I came to know Sunnyland Slim through Harry Duncan and Paul DeMark. It was through Harry as well that I came to know John Sinclair. John was doing a radio show in New Orleans, and writing and performing what I called ‘Blues Poetry.’ He heard of my book, ‘Sunnyland Blues’ through Harry, and was very generous in compliments. Years later we were able to hook up, and to converse for magnetic media. The idea I had was to take John’s commentary on the art of blues poetry, and scribe that into a screed or broadside that he might add to the folio he would peddle as he conveyed his messages in the States and the world beyond. We met up multiple times, but usually briefly and never quite pulled that type of thing together. But I talked to him via email just before he moved to Europe, and he was cool with the idea of me posting whatever it was I’d compiled anytime anyplace anyhow. Thinking way back - I described my ...

When Tiny Lund went to Egypt land It was as it was with him - as it was with Tiny Big! That was the joke! Barely fitting as he crawled in the driver’s window of the Number 21 Ford Dwarfed it if he stood Astride it. Red And white Number 21 ENGLISH MOTORS He’d go through flames and In and among the pyramids In his serial day high sweeping sprays of sand followed In the Ford late model stocker Raging through papyri tree groves the Nascar Desert Fox Lund Surprising all cause he wasn’t so fast but one day he’d win big. don’t blink. Tiny Lund Winks - chance speaks To the sphinx. -- Jack Vaughan, 2008

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...