legant Posted December 28, 2009 Share Posted December 28, 2009 Percy Sutton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielK Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 To Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, now SIR Patrick Stewart. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 To Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, now SIR Patrick Stewart. Cheers! He was apparently stirred by the honor (Sean Connery was shaken). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 To the man who became my boyfriend 24 years ago today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 To the man who became my boyfriend 24 years ago today. Whatever happened to the guy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Whatever happened to the guy? Steve beat the crap outta him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPorcupine Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Whatever happened to the guy? Meadowlands, somewhere around the 50-yard line... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 To Art Clokey, without whom the phrase “I’m Gumby, dammit!” would not have found its way into the modern lexicon, as channelled through Eddie Murphy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMango Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 To Art Clokey, without whom the phrase "I'm Gumby, dammit!" would not have found its way into the modern lexicon, as channelled through Eddie Murphy. I've gotten so many miles out of Gumby references these past (cough cough) years, I at least owe Clokey an epic-level toast.Perhaps I will try to bring a Cordouroy-clad Gumby to Friday's happy hour so we can all join in.(an "a" grade on a "d" quality poster)(the determining factor in a class president election)(just two of countless ways gumby has made my life better) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 To Conan O'Brien, for being smart, hilarious, strangely cute, and refusing to go quietly into the next morning. I don't really watch the late-night shows anymore (cf. his point about TiVo), but if I ever have to make a statement to the press, I am so totally beginning it with, "People of Earth:" too. Also: his awesome speech to my graduating class. (For the record, he was much funnier than "seminal wage-price theoretician Amartya Sen" -- but it was a hard act to follow. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillvalley Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Miep Gies, who never considered herself a hero. Time to pull the diary off the shelf and give it another read in her honor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 To my friend Ric, 40 is far too young to leave us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyy Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 To all of my buddies on their way down to Haiti to launch the aid response. Godspeed, friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMango Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 To all of my buddies on their way down to Haiti to launch the aid response. Godspeed, friends. *echo* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poivrot Farci Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 No one. I donated this week's meager drinking allowance to Unicef so that some less fortunate hemispheric neighborhood kids might have access to potable water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legant Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 R.I.P. Robert B. Parker, 1932-2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 R.I.P. Robert B. Parker, 1932-2010 You scared me for a split-second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyy Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 To all of my buddies on their way down to Haiti to launch the aid response. Godspeed, friends. Again--still--to the buddies who are there, now facing a stark, grim, relentless reality, and that somehow, they'll be able to keep going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 To Earl Wild. Here he is at age 88, playing his own transcription of The Mexican Hat Dance. And here is French pianist Olivier Cazal playing my favorite piece written by Wild: a transcription of George Gershwin's I Got Rhythm (*) (Cazal plays the original first, then begins the Wild version at 0:56). This masterful etude remains inexplicably obscure, and deserves a place in the standard concert repertoire (certainly as an encore piece). Cheers, Rocks. (*) Homage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ol_ironstomach Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 To the "conscience of the Senate", former US Senator from Maryland "Mac" Mathias. And to Jim Podoley, former Redskin (1957-1960), insurance agent, and all-around good guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Johnston Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Robert Burns! 251 years old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 To Bobby and Ric for a night of great Burgundies and topped off with a mind blowing impossible to get RM Champagne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Mary Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 To Earl Wild. Here he is at age 88, playing his own transcription of The Mexican Hat Dance. Wow, thank you for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legant Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Howard Zinn, historian and activist I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble. -- From his autobiography: "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (1994) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenticket Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 J.D. Salinger (and Holden Caulfield). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookluvingbabe Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I hate January. Too many deaths. Too many funerals. Raising my glass to Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger. And to my friends struggling with their loses as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMango Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Chris Collins (unicum, bourbon, and anything from terry theise) (a thousand glasses raised in unison) (say hi to the angels, buffys, and malcolms in heaven) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Howard Zinn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Gao Zhisheng who was disappeared one year ago today and I shutter at the idea of what horrors have been visited upon him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sthitch Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 To Mr. Akbar Zib, some how I can imagine the conversation at the Saudi Foreign ministry going something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 The New Orleans Saints! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilaine Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 The New Orleans Saints! Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lydia R Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 There was a special toast to our cul-du-sac neighbor and his snow blower. This possibly Harley-Davidson-modified model made a meal of our toothsome precipitation. Dry pavement in our driveway! While we weren't able to supply his first choice, Miller Lite, hopefully he and his wife enjoyed his second: a stray Chardonnay [sterling 2007] from our magic closet in the basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPW Posted February 9, 2010 Share Posted February 9, 2010 John Murtha. RIP. Largely responsible for the continuing existence of the city of Johnstown through his massive earmarking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Watching the opening ceremonies I had to pour another glass of wine in honor of Jeff Buckley. Hallelujah. Chilling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lola007 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Drew Brees and Who Dat Nation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legant Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Lucille Clifton -- a bold black female writer -- who helped me define myself time and time again My Mama has made bread and Grampaw has come and everybody is drunk and dancing in the kitchen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captcourt Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 k.d. lang, for having a perfect voice, for wearing a three-piece suit at the opening ceremony, and for giving me a brief reminder of my late 20s. If you didn't see it, here: "Hallelujah" at the Vancouver opening ceremony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodeats Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 To the Year of the Tiger -- Happy Chinese New Year all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Alexandre Bilodeau, who just delivered Canda's first Winter Olympics gold on home soil. (This one's for you, Elizabeth.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrsmit Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 To Nawlins....Drew Brees & Reggie Bush - what a kick ass athletes should be like -- my Saints, my fading memories of living on South Carrollton Street, next to Camelia Grill, Cooter Browns, Maple Leaf Bar and Muddy Waters.....and buying my Kink Cake and crawdads at Christiana's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Pressley Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 .....and buying my Kink Cake Is that a King Cake with a ballgag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrsmit Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 ... a King Cake with a bearded baby....[sorry, sliced off the tip of one of my typing fat fingers yesterday...] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry Mary Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind..... Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57. And, it's snowing again. Waaahhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwertyy Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 To luck. Because I'm on the waitlist for Komi, Rasika, and Eve Tasting Room, and I need ONE of them to come through. (Or for my brother to give me more than two weeks' notice when coming to town. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 To our very own GennaroE, who went above and beyond the bonds of friendship and braved germs not only to keep this sickie company but to bring comedy DVDs and play video games. He even brought me dessert -- and beer. Thanks, kiddo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hersch Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Kiko. My sweet little dog, she's being so good. Here's looking at you, kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithstg Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Team USA. Way to run the table in prelims! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 To my friend Nate, the economist about whom I posted before. He's gotten some job offers here in town, which is the greatest news in a long time. And even if he manages to turn them all down (...tear!), he sent me a gift certificate to Palena. Freakin' best friends since 8th grade... all my love, Mr. N.E.W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leleboo Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 To Ryan Miller, for 36 saves tonight and 42 a week ago. Only a goalie can feel in the body, show in the eyes, that pain when the last save ... doesn't. MVP well-deserved. That was goaltending the US -- and Mr. Miller -- should be proud of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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