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Partials P4 vulnerable with only 145 but may win any way because ETeam has 89 Kyrie and LBJ DNP...Ticket 194 Swat 180 Pau DNP...Nitecaps 162 Kanter DNP Sockeye 124 Cousins DNP Monta yet to play...Invaders have defeated the Wingos my guys have 184 pending Bledsoe's numbers Wingos finish w/175
Ticket says
I got a question regarding the American Beauty album cover for the Grateful Dead, so I will pose it for the art dealer and politico. First some history. In "The Big Money" by John Dos Passos, part of a U.S.A. trilogy about the plight of the working stiff, Henry Ford threw American Beauty roses before setting sail for Europe aboard the Oscar II. The ship was packed with social workers and pacifists intent on a peace keeping mission to end WW I. The anti war protesters who rallied in New Jersey to see Ford off included William Jennings Bryan. There was no hope for a positive result so Ford ducked out on the quest. He returned to the states, and according to Dos Passos, played a part in the development of one man tanks and one man subsassembled by lines of workers similar to the ones in his auto plants. We had to be Grateful (the enemy is) Dead instead of us. "Truck'n" was the hit single from American Beauty. Do you believe the album cover that features a skeleton wreathed in American Beauty roses may be an homage to Henry Ford's role as peace keeper and game changer?
While this Dos Passos pacifist reference is interesting and the anti-semitic Ford did indeed invent the one man tank and the assembly line leading to the to Aldous Huxley dystopian sci-fi novel "Brave New World" where rather than a calendar based on Christ the date was a number followed by "the year of our Ford" I doubt any connection to the Dead's album cover art.That album art was done by Stanley Mouse one of the "big 4" of psychedelic art.The significance of the album is that it's was the second in row (after Workingman's Dead)after 5 failures to become commercially successful and the first to have an actual 45 release (Truckin)although Casey Jones from Workingman's dead was the first individual Dead song to receive wide national airplay.The key to the turnaround was first: that the band became more melodic with Robert Hunter's lyrics becoming more significant gaining wider appeal than the LSD infused improvising pushed by Jerry and the Dead as younger musicians(and the lessening influence of the keyboardist Pig Pen who died 2 years later)and second:The Dead became more business like producing Workingmans Dead in the studio in 3 weeks and American Beauty later the same year(1970).This new seriousness was brought on by a drug bust in New Orleans/getting their money stolen by their manager (Mickey Hart the drummer's dad)and the utter failure of all previous albums.They needed money bad(and needed a catchy album cover) and had their greatest production during this period of the early 70's with other great albums like Europe '72 etc..I see the Dead as culturally significant but basically not historically aware as you seem to suggest Tom
Li'l Hawthorne is truly glad to be a part of this eclectic group of thinkers and stinkers. My input on American Beauty is a wedding I was at at Black Butte 20 years ago where a poem was read as part of the ceremony, and the old people there really liked it and wanted to know who wrote. The answer -- it was the lyrics to A Box of Rain...
Great song box of rain ...Final Invaders defeat the Wingos 202-175 I(Vucevic-41...Love-34...Wiggins-21...Westbrook-65...Bledsoe-18...Pekovic-23)HW(Paul-38...Oladipo-28...Middleton-22...Milsap-29...Favors-36...West-22)
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You are too smart to be permitted to ever die Mark, hence the term Grateful Dead. I will note that Eddie Kendricks used his hit Truck'n to attract air play in the Motor City for the Motown label after he broke off from the Temps. The song was created by someone else who pitched the tune Kendticks knew would be a hit. This info is from a History of Billboard.
Ticket says
My friend Candace I went to Black Butte ranch in the 80's when she worked for the Tremaine's, a legal concern widely known in Portland. You heard of Mr. T Wingo?
Ticket is happy to say psychedelic art lives in The Underwater Guy.Featuring Steve Underwood, Underwaterguy is a solo stage show plus multimedia experience with thirty colorful characters which are placed within dozens of flashed-back “watermark moments” and come to life against a backdrop of stunning water-themed imagery and transportive musical soundscapes. Swimming with apex predators, filming in whitewater whirlpools, dealing with “talking water” (after Thai magic mushroom omelets) - and diving to 117 feet on a single breath are but a few of the stops on this fast-paced (and funny) voyage.
Steve Underwood is a passionate, life-long water lover who has filmed in more than one hundred most pristine lakes, ponds, rivers and streams - all while holding his breath. Also he has filmed whales, sharks, dolphins, turtles and fish by the thousands. His environmentally focused documentary work has aired on PBS.
Contains minimal adult content suitable for mature audiences.
Regular Price: $22, CFT Member Price: $0.00 , Reservation Fee: $4.50
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After I see Underwood's act May 15, I may need a line on a comic book from the sixties toorder a one man submarine.
Tix - Tremaine of Davis Wright Tremaine, or Johnny Tremain of Newberry Award fame from our youth...
Final Swat topples the Tickets 205-194 Sw(Lillard-38...Curry-35...Kawhi-32...Zbo-32...Pau-23...DJord-45)T(Whiteside-28...Tim-22...Monroe-47...Gay-27...Harden-33...ITom-37)
Final P4 edges the ETeam 145-144 P4(Lawson-16...Klay-33...Butler-45...Ibaka-22...MGas-23...Lowry-6)E(LBJ-55...AJeff-25...Kyrie-DNP...Wade-23...RJax-26...EVTurn-15)
Final Nitecaps sack the Sockeyes 198-145 Caps(Wall-40...Stuckey-29...Derozan-17...Drummond-41...Kanter-36...Noel-35)S(Conley-9...Monta-21...Hayward-27...Lamarcus-52...Horford-36...Cousins-DNP)Swat wins MHS w/205
Tix to Wingo Davis Wright Tremaine
Tix says
I figure, watch out,
P4 24-10
Swat 22-12
Inv. 19-15
Sockeye 16-17-1
Ticket 16-18
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