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Got an email today that states: "In the next few days, crabapplelane.com will be listed for sale. Since you have a similar domain name, I thought you might be interested in acquiring crabapplelane.com." No thanks. I have no interest in it and doubt it will lapse anyway. They're doing my brake tag trick. My brake tag (Inspection sticker) expires at the end of the month. If it expires on May 31, I go in for a new one on June 1. It will expire the following June instead of May. I get an extra month. Shhhh. I think domain names work the same way. You maintain the rights to it for 30 days after it expires so you can break out your credit card on day 30 and get extra time. Amazon.com would never risk that but average amateur hobbyist does it quite often. Crabapplelane.com has expired a few times. I've been notified those few times by various concerned do-gooders that want to help me out. Lots of good Samaritans on the internet, dontcha know? Crabapplelane.com is usually renewed. Since I don't see a website there this time, maybe they're finally giving it up. I'm NOT staying tuned.

Nasty earthquake in New Zealand yesterday. Kiwifruit is OK. Great news.

5 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Treat Her Right - George Thorogood & The Destroyers - The Baddest Of George Thorogood & The Destroyers
2. Come Together - The Beatles - 1
3. Maybe I'm A Leo - Deep Purple - Machine Head 25th Anniversary Edition [Disc 2]
4. Crank Call - Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
5. Blowin' Free - Wishbone Ash - Live Dates [Disc 2]

Quote of the Day

The thing that will stay with me is the sound of smashing glass.

Tony Stuart, New Zealand resident

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Christchurch Hospital is operating but anyone who is injured is being urged to go to their local medical clinic first, unless their situation is severe."

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Last night's Titans-Saints game featured two blocked punts and the Saints electing to go for the win on 4th down with 11 seconds to go when a field goal would have tied it and sent it into overtime. It was still a pretty dull game. 21 penalties. Glad it's over.

Every team in the NFL played last night. I don't remember that ever happening. 32 teams all playing on the same day? Maybe back in the 60s when all games were played on Sunday but it was considerably fewer teams then.

6 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist:

1. Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon (Remastered)
2. Supernaut - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (Remaster)
3. Tall Cool One - Robert Plant - Now And Zen
4. Highway Star [Live] - Deep Purple - Made In Japan [Disc 1] [Live]
5. Love To Love - UFO - Essential UFO

Quote of the Day

Those weren't the defending Super Bowl champs Thursday night. It was a team of backups. Quarterback Drew Brees didn't even take the field for the Saints.

Jim Wyatt, The Tennessean

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Please realize folks this is nothing more than a shot in the dark. None of us know what’s going on inside the heads of Brad Childress or Rick Spielman right now."

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Shamelessly stolen from Marie: The anagram generator. My favorite for Rob Ferrara:

A Barf Error

Well, yeah.

Long-winded, whiny rant about the nuisance that are cellphones ___ [Deleted].

Speaking of barf errors, the Patriots are wondering if Randy Moss will stay motivated. Guy is in the league 13 years now. Still don't get him? This is it in a nutshell. As long as he and his team are doing well and as long as it's easy, he's motivated.

Final cutdown day in the NFL is Saturday. All teams had to get down to 75 yesterday and all teams will have to get down to 53 by Saturday. It was reported here that the Saints will start getting ready for the Vikings Sunday. I'm sure a similar report will be filed in Minneapolis sometime this week. When Jim Mora was head coach here, he let it be known that they start preparing for the season opener the day training camp starts. Every camp is a little different but, if you believe these two teams haven't already started to prepare for each other several weeks or even months ago, I've got this bridge ...

Today's QOTD is from Chris Johnson, the Titans excellent running back, and it's on Reggie Bush, a player he seems to know only from television.

8 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist:

1. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
2. Turn The Page - Bob Seger - Greatest Hits
3. Wind Up - Jethro Tull - Aqualung
4. Icarus (Borne on Wings of Steel) - Kansas - Masque
5. Already Gone - The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits

Quote of the Day

I don’t know if he met expectations of what everybody thought he would be. I don’t know what the Saints and their coaching staff expected him to do. But he probably met their expectations.

Chris Johnson, Tennessee Titans

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Which was tough because plenty of interesting things happened in the wide world of Vikings football while I was distracted by the cuteness of my teething eight-month-old niece."

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Breaks my heart to see what has happened to one of sports most storied franchises, the Pittsburgh Pirates. I can't even remember the last time they finished in the upper half of their division. 18 straight losing seasons? The Saints endured 21 consecutive non-winning seasons but that was due to total ineptitude across the board. I don't believe that to be the case in Pittsburgh. The Pirates have made their share of mistakes in those 18 years but they are also being seriously outspent by their competitors. No matter how well they manage themselves, a well-managed team with more revenue has a distinct advantage. Baseball is a great game but they have serious problems.

For better or worse, undoubtedly worse, the CrabAppleLane Fantasy Football 2010 Cheat Sheet in Microsoft Excel. Finished just this morning. It's the one I'll use tomorrow at my first auction. Only seem to be a handful of rookies this season. Most of the good teams are loaded with veteran skill players. Rookie starters on bad teams usually don't fare well so I'd probably stay away from them anyway although rookie Sam Bradford figures to be throwing the ball a lot this year and that could give him decent fantasy numbers. His team figures to be playing from behind quite a bit. Anxious to see if he can last a whole season in the NFL.

The Saints take on the Houston Texans tonight in the SuperDome. It will be their first game in the Dome since the NFC Championship game back in January. I'd like to see better pass protection from the first unit tonight than they offered last week against the Patriots. I don't need to see #9 knocked around again.

19 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Killer Queen - Queen - Sheer Heart Attack [Bonus Track]
2. Trouble Child - Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
3. Back Off Bitch - Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
4. Wanted It To Be - Sister Hazel - ...Somewhere More Familiar
5. Help Yourself - Sad Brad Smith - Up In The Air

Quote of the Day

A rape charge carries a possible prison sentence, while a molestation charge would not, Rosander said. In Sweden, a crime of molestation is not limited to child victims.

CNN.com

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Yeh, it's real.LA knows how to market baseball. No marketing dorks in charge of sales. The Dodgers do it right, sales runs marketing. Ahh, what a concept."

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St Tammany Parish, where CrabAppleLane is located, is cracking down on property owners who designate their property incorrectly. Some, probably most, do so to get a more favorable property tax rate. Some have their property designated as agricultural even though the only thing they're farming is azaleas and centipede grass. There are several designations that will get you a better rate. I digress. We received a letter stating that we needed to fill out a new "Use Value Application/Agreement" if we wanted to maintain our "Use Value Assessment" eligibility. I didn't remember ever filling out an old "Use Value Application/Agreement" so I figured they just sent these letters to everyone. I never looked into it. Dumb mistake. Apparently, they sent these only to those who had filled out an agreement. We got a second letter this week. This one stated that our assessment will go up by 15% or more and our property taxes will rise accordingly if we didn't fill out the new agreement. THAT got my attention but I still had no idea what they were talking about. I fired off an email that was snippier than it had to be asking them to explain it to me. Worse, I even had a typo that I discovered just now. I must have seemed like an imbecile.

The public servant who responded was very gracious in his/her response that we HAD filled out such a document and had designated 1 acre for our residence and 4 acres for timberland and they simply wanted us to confirm we were still using it that way. It was one of those 500 documents we signed at closing and undoubtedly we signed it sometime between when our brains stopped absorbing anything they were saying and when our wrists started to cramp. No excuse. I apologized and expressed thanks but it seems inadequate. I still feel bad about it.

5 fights broke out yesterday between the Saints and Texans. Good to get that out of their system, I suppose. All scrimmages are over now. Time to start getting down to business.

20 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Wild Honey - Nazareth - Play 'N' The Game
2. The Green Manalishi - Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
3. Starstruck - Rainbow - Rising
4. But You Know I Love You - Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live [Disc 2]
5. Distant Early Warning - Rush - Chronicles [Disc 2]

Quote of the Day

People affected by the spill seeking final settlements face a choice similar to that faced by the 9/11 victims: If they decide to sue instead of accepting a settlement, they could face years of litigation; and if they decide to accept the settlement, it could come before the full damage from the spill is known.

Ian Urbina, New York Times

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Do you have comments closed on your site after a certain date, or do you allow comments indefinitely? What are the pros and cons you have experienced?"

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Before I get into some silly sports drama, I'd like to take a moment to salute one of sports' most dramatic, most magical moments and the player most responsible for it, Bobby Thomson. His "shot heard round the world" is so famous that baseball fans may never stop talking about it. R.I.P., Bobby.

And, now, the silliness ...

I have no idea what to make of the Minnesota Vikings sending three of their best players to Hattiesburg yesterday to talk to star QB Brett Favre. Normally, I would think that's pretty extraordinary but normally is not a good word to use when talking about this guy. Some, including me, have been saying he's a diva and a money grubber. I only called him a diva but that was a couple of years ago. A case could be made for both. His antics over the last few weeks have brought him a lot of attention and a nice bump in pay. I don't think he's all that cold and calculating, though. For one thing, that doesn't always work. The Vikes showed him the money and the love but the Packers and the Jets showed him the door. Looks like it will all work out for him but I can't imagine that he planned any of it. My sense is that he simply lives life the way he plays football ... by the seat of his pants.

About the retirement story fiasco a few weeks ago: It was a feeding frenzy but I don't believe it was media-driven any more. I think Brett put the chum in the water. I think he DID text his teammates and that one of them found his way to a reporter. Before the dust had settled, he either changed his mind or was talked out of retirement.

I thought it pretty cool that he was photographed yesterday wearing a Nike shirt with their "Just Do It" across his chest.

Lots of relief in Minnesota this morning. No change in New Orleans.

22 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Five Star playlist starting with "T":

1. The Trawlerman's Song - Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La
2. Til I Hear It From You - Gin Blossoms - Empire Records
3. Temptation Eyes - The Grass Roots - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of The Grass Roots
4. Tea For The Tillerman - Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
5. Teacher - Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection [Disc 1]

Quote of the Day

Jared Allen, Steve Hutchinson and Ryan Longwell -- in what appeared to be a last-ditch effort -- flew to Hattiesburg, Miss., on Monday with one very strict order: Come back with your quarterback.

Judd Zulgad, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "There's a long drive... it's gonna be, I believe...THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands! The Giants win the pennant and they're goin' crazy, they're goin' crazy!"

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Quite an amazing turnaround for Ford and GM. Good job.

I think I have to read that book before the movie is released. I've heard a lot about it.

Although Avatar had some golly gee 3D moments and the modern, requisite glasses are more comfortable and less likely to give me a headache, I hope filmmakers use that technology sparingly. It really adds very little in most cases.

I turned to the game last night just in time to see Eli Manning take a tough hit. Looks worse than it is but hits like that are why fans hold their breath when their star QB is in any preseason game. There's an upside for Eli according to the QOTD. I love it.

23 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Last - Nine Inch Nails - Broken
2. Hot 'n' Nasty - Humble Pie - Smokin'
3. Make Your Own Kind Of Music - Mama Cass Elliot - The Best Of The Mamas & The Papas: 20th Century Masters
4. South Bound Saurez - Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
5. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who - Who's Next

Quote of the Day

When you see a quarterback bleeding like that it was something out of a Friday The 13th Movie. Now we know it's pretty much a laceration. I think, hopefully, it will make him look a little tougher.

Shaun O'Hara, NY Giants

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Burke, for example, once showed how improved trade in the ancient world led to the understanding of magnetism during the 16th century, which in turn led to the discovery of electricity in the 17th century and ultimately the development of radar and nuclear weapons in the 20th century."

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Saw a little of Tim Tebow last night. After watching him for a few plays, I have no idea what the Broncos were thinking when they drafted him. I know it's unfair to judge his Broncos handlers after only a few months with the team but he looks about the same now as he did the last four years at Florida. He's a fantastic athlete. He's eager to learn, works hard, and plays hard. I get that. He's also got serious mechanical problems when he passes that will take a while to correct and that's assuming that it even can be corrected. He's got a slow, telegraphic throwing motion that he could get away with against Central Florida and Georgia Southern but the NFL is different. If he doesn't correct it, he'll be sacked or intercepted a lot. The NFL is a passing league. Quarterbacks are called upon to pass on about half of all offensive plays. Any way you look at him, he's a long-term project at QB. Long-term projects should be drafted in the lower rounds, not the first round.

Got about half of my fantasy football spreadsheet done this weekend. The only thing I can say with certainty is that I wish we were having our auction a few weeks later. Too many teams are too unsettled at too many positions. The positions that are unsettled now are where ALL of the pleasant surprises come from. It's the difference between a good season and a disappointing one.

The Houston Texans come to town this week to work with the Saints before their preseason game Saturday. Unlike the mutual admiration society the Saints and Patriots convened last week, the Saints and Texans mix it up and go after each other a little more. There were fights last year. I expect the two teams will reign that in a little better this time.

24 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. What A Shame ( LP Version ) - Foghat - Rock & Roll
2. Heaven - Bryan Adams - Reckless
3. Cocaine - Eric Clapton - The Cream Of Clapton
4. Eclipse - Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
5. Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Quote of the Day

Save your neck
Or save your brother
Looks like it's
One or the other
Oh, you don't know the shape I'm in

The Band, The Shape I'm In

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "This week John McClain of the Houston Chronicle told 610 AM that the Texans were the third best NFL team, talent wise. He said the Texans ranked behind the (1) Indianapolis Colts and (2) San Diego Chargers."

WOW. Really? - Rob

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I don't know why Rex is apologizing. If you're going to roll cameras on an activity where the intensity is high, it's hot, and men are fighting for their livelihoods, the language will follow suit and HBO is not bleeping it. Good for them.

Kid: What's wrong?
Preacher: I can't get this lawn mower started. Do you know how?
Kid: Yep. You have to cuss it.
Preacher: Now you listen here. I'm a preacher and if I ever did cuss, I've forgotten how to do it after all these years.
Kid: Preacher, you keep on pulling that rope and it'll all come back to ya.

Amen

26 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live [Disc 2]
2. Half Breed - Cher - Half Breed
3. Industrial Disease - Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
4. Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
5. Hard Lovin' Man - Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock

Quote of the Day

I go down to Speaker's Corner
I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists
Police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus
One of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer
Singing a protest song

Dire Straits, Industrial Disease

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "His reports continue to contradict what we're being told by BP, Obama and Corporate Media. He's obviously getting discouarged, feeling pretty helpless in the face of the situation, but he keeps flying-over and he keeps writing."

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Was pelted with sideways rain last night on the way home. Visibility was not good. Must change wiper blades today.

I was in and out of last night's game after the first quarter. What I saw was a Saints team that was not very sharp and looked a little sluggish. The Pats didn't look all that sharp, either, but they seemed to have a little more energy. If last night is any indication, the Pats will not be the Brady-Moss-Welker show any more. They spread the ball around pretty good last night. No secret where they picked that up. They've been practicing with the Saints all week. Page One of Sean Payton's offensive philosophy: Make the defense defend everyone. Hope the Saints picked up a few things from them, too. It was a typical first preseason game. Not all good but not all bad, either.

Today's QOTD is from Saints offensive tackle, Jon Stinchcomb (Seen here with my nephew's lovely wife and her class). In a sideline interview last night, he expressed skepticism for an 18-game NFL schedule, even if they reduce the preseason schedule by two games. I'm with him. I'd rather the NFL just keep the 16-game schedule and eliminate those two preseason games. The 18-game schedule is going to happen, though. Their expressed concern for player safety is nothing but lip service. It's all about the money-grubbing for the owners.

27 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Wayfaring Stranger - Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
2. Why Worry - Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
3. Eat For Two - 10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged
4. Rock Fever - Rainbow - Straight Between The Eyes
5. March Of The Pigs - Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Quote of the Day

We have high standards for ourselves, so this was pretty disappointing.

Jon Stinchcomb, New Orleans Saints

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "It was hard not to like what the New England Patriots did tonight against the defending Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints, defeating the champs 27-24 on a late Stephen Gostkowski field goal."

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Not that I necessarily think the "customer is always right" but Slater could have and should have handled the whole thing better. Rest assured that people who are too comfortable with their upper hand, like Slater's customer/client was, get what they want much less than they think they do.

I didn't think much of Ted Stevens as a senator but I'm surely sad to see him go out like that. R.I.P., Senator.

Don't count on my vote, Newt. I doubt I've ever read a story about him that made him look like anything but an a$$.

I guess I'll have to see this with sound to know what to make of it. Whenever I go to a game with my wife or a child, I always sit closest to the batter. If a ball is hit in our direction, I may not be able to make the play but I'd like to think I'd at least block it. I would never bail.

29 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits
2. Transformer Man - Neil Young - Trans
3. A Plane Scraped Its Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon - Soul Coughing & Roni Size - Spawn
4. Highway Star [Live] - Deep Purple - Made In Japan [Disc 1] [Live]
5. Bad Apples - Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I

Quote of the Day

The comment he made yesterday that he's got no friends over here -- then why you touch me? You are not my friend, so don't touch me. I mean, if we're no good for you, you are not my friend.

Yadier Molina, St Louis Cardinals

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Patriots don’t belong in the same zipcode as the Saints."

Not buying the poor mouthing the Pats are getting or the praise the Saints are getting. Not eating the cheese. -Rob

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Grilling on Sunday again. This time, it was Tony Chachere's Smoked Sausage with Green Onion just to kick up Patsy's excellent red beans and rice. Took a few snapshots on this afternoon's bike ride, too. The bike rides around here may have panoramic vistas or silly goats. Sometimes, both. They're below the jump.

CrabAppleLane - August 8, 2010

Have a Great Weekend.

With apologies to Neil Diamond, the title here refers to last night. Even though I had been out running errands in the morning and for a bike ride in the afternoon, I still found myself with a case of cabin fever last night. We decided to hit the Tap Room for dinner and head out somewhere and tinker with night photography. I'm still fairly awful at it but these didn't turn out too bad. There was an outdoor movie playing last night in Abita Springs. I've never seen any of them so I can't be sure but I'm guessing it was one of the Toy Story movies. I suppose this is about the closest thing you can have to a true, old time drive-in movie experience these days ... except there weren't any cars. It had to be 85º last night with nearly 100% humidity. I remember nights in the station wagon just like that. The heat, humidity, and the bugs didn't seem to be bothering anyone, though. These free events are a nice novelty, a curiosity for the kids, maybe some nostalgia for some of the older parents and grandparents, or just something to do on a Saturday night. Nice turnout. More below the jump if you're interested.

Abita Springs - August 7, 2010

The first preseason (Don't call it an exhibition) game is tonight. Why on Earth the NFL or NBC wants to broadcast this game in Primetime is beyond me. Bengals v Cowboys would be a good match except that most of the guys you'll see in the game tonight won't be Bengals or Cowboys in a few weeks.

The Saints are heading to New England tomorrow to work out with the Patriots for a few days before their game Thursday night. They'll stop at the White House along the way. Would love to be in on the meetings the two head coaches are having with their teams leading up to this. Both teams fancy themselves as contenders and I think it's fair to say they are. "This is what you can talk about with them and this is what you can't". I expect both teams will be holding back a lot. The game Thursday night will be nothing like that Monday night game they played last November, which the Boston Globe's Adam Kilgore described like this:

The Saints attacked the Patriots defense in every manner. They scored on long drives. They scored on a 75-yard strike. They scored on screen passes, on long post patterns, on a dump to their third tight end. They emptied both barrels.

32 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Angel - Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
2. Boulder To Birmingham - Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - Real Live Roadrunning
3. Changin' Times - Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog
4. Photograph - Def Leppard - Pyromania
5. Romeo and Juliet - Mark Knopfler - Live From The Ryman

About today's QOTD: Ricky Jackson is maybe the worst public speaker of all time but there is nothing phony about him. You'll find profound nuggets in what he says if you can bear the rest of it.

Quote of the Day

We need to keep football going. Can't let football get away. I mean you can get where the product can be so good, you can lose sight and let it get away.

Ricky Jackson, Saints Hall-of-Famer

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Riders making their way through the mist, across the hay field. I am well behind this pack....somewhere...."

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Whippoorwill Grove - Covington, LA - August 7, 2010

This was taken about half a mile from CrabAppleLane. It's like the trees and other vegetation in the center just can't wait for that pond to overflow.

About the selected quote from today's BOTD: That's a widely-held view of why newspapers are dying. I don't think it's true. Accuracy and credibility are far down the list of reasons they're dying. The main reasons are that consumers have cheaper, more convenient, and timelier ways to have news delivered to them. Nice take on the whole Brett Favre thing that happened the other day, though. Dead on.

I agree with London Fletcher. If the commissioner is going to open the floor for questions from the players, he should have been prepared to answer them. Good thing he went into the NFL because that law degree doesn't seem to be doing him any good. That thing is getting more acrimonious by the day. The 2011 NFL season is in serious jeopardy.

34 days until football season ...

5 song iTune shuffle:

1. Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers [Bonus Track]
2. Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin - Presence
3. Lookin' Out For No. 1 - Bachman-Turner Overdrive - The Anthology [Disc 2]
4. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan - Rock: The Train Kept A Rollin' [Disc 1]
5. Carry On - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu

Quote of the Day

Blog of the day is here.

Quote from said blog: "Newspapers are dying partly because the age of responsible journalism is already dead."

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