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kenhotlanta
March 28th, 2012
11:19 pm
cab: That’s what makes music so great…there is so much of it and the search for the good stuff (especially before mine/your time) is so much fun. I love Big Band music, blues, R&B and Rockabilly from the 40’s and 50’s, which is all music I was not exposed to growing up. I even like some of the music I call “my parent’s music”…stuff they listened to that I hated as a kid, but sounds pretty good today.
You Tube has been a revelation for finding long lost gems, I just don’t have the time I would love to devote to it.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
Anders-
If we are flying across the country, $200 for dinner may be a bit steep…besides, if we do make it back, it will be another short trip with a football game thrown in on Saturday and a trip (at least for me) to Westchester so time will be short…
(And you do NOT have to sell New York to me. I really do love the city and the…trying to find the right word…energy/pulse/vibe/heartbeat of it all.)
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
I’d be careful of that after dark advice cab, watch the movie After Hoursfirst to see what you might be in for
divirticulitis
March 28th, 2012
11:22 pm
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:23 pm
kenhotlanta-
I love so much of “my parent’s music” that they laugh at me sometimes- Dylan, the Doors, James Taylor, the Stones, the Eagles, Van Morrison, Billy Joel, The Beach Boys, Cat Stevens (before he got weird), Elvis… love it all
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:24 pm
noleee-
Not afraid of being out in New York at night…too many people to worry about disappearing
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:24 pm
Anders-
If I want good fish tacos, I am not going to New York…we have GREAT fish tacos (and shrimp burritos) here…probably a lot cheaper too
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:25 pm
thats when its the easiest to just disappear. dontcha watch Law & Order gal?
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:26 pm
cabravesfan- I was just kidding about the fish tacos. being that the blogmaster reports on them when in most baseball cities.
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:26 pm
fish tacos?…meh
Shrimp burritos…yum
tiger297
March 28th, 2012
11:27 pm
anders – the private equity firm that owned my company bought an AT&T subsidiary and all the employees worked on Staten Island. Just a couple of small nothing companies but I had fun with the integration work.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:27 pm
noleee-
Nobody would want me…I fight dirty
Shrimp burritos are awesome- especially from this great little place downtown, huge and cheap and fresh and FANtASTIC
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:28 pm
and no, I don’t watch Law & Order
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:28 pm
nolee- If Cabravesfan can handle herself on this blog after dark than she’ll be just fine in the Big Apple.
tiger297
March 28th, 2012
11:28 pm
ya’ll gotta remember nolie likely hasn’t been to NYC since the bad old days…I went once when I was in high school (mid-80’s and it didn’t seem to be that nice of a place)
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:29 pm
yeah more than likely…
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:31 pm
yeah it’s been a while tiger, and it often was a bad ol’ place in them days.
on the other hand as a young kid I can remember walking through Harlem with my parents and eating there regularly, and they spent a lot of nights at the jazz clubs at that time
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:31 pm
it didn’t seem to be that nice of a place
Well, it’s dirty, noisy, crowded, smelly, hot in the summer, cold in the winter, full of tourists, and everything is ridiculously overpriced…it’s also full of amazing history, culture, beauty, diversity, and life. One of my favorite cities in the world…
kenhotlanta
March 28th, 2012
11:32 pm
cab: your parent’s music is the music of my life.
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:32 pm
They actually film the outdoor shots of Law and Order right on the Manhattan side of yes, the Brooklyn Bridge. All those scenes on the court steps and all. That’s a federal courthouse in downtown NY. They shoot the other outdorr stuff right in that same neighborhood.They make so many of those Law and Order shows you can walk down there on almost any week day and run into a production crew shooting it. People don’t even stop to watch anymore. It’s so common.
MIBravesFan
March 28th, 2012
11:32 pm
Only two quick things and I’m gone for the night I promise – looks like a great day for the Dodgers, and I’m very sorry to read Earl Scruggs passed.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:33 pm
kenhotlanta-
It’s the music of my life too
(oh, I forgot Paul Simon & the Beatles (duh!) also…)
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:33 pm
Only SVU left now isn’t it? also just cancelled CSI New York I hear
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:34 pm
tiger 297- Staten Island is a different world. An acquired taste of sorts. People that live there love it and never leave. The rest of us just pass through on our way down south.
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:35 pm
Nolee -yeah, they’re down to a couple. But in their heyday they were like the hot dog carts. One on every corner.
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:35 pm
more like most places other than New York…
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:36 pm
Anders-
Does anyone that lives in one of the other 4 boroughs actually consider Staten Island part of New York City?
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:37 pm
Staten Island has tried to secede from NYC – seriously. They want to be there own city. I’m not sure why anyone objected?
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:38 pm
speaking of carts, we got out very own NY Italian Sausage and Dods cart right in the middle of beautiful downtown Port Charlotte now
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:39 pm
more like most places other than New York…(nolee)
Not counting the 8 million that live there and the other 3 or 4 million who come to visit – right?
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:39 pm
Dogs..geeze I caint hit the right keys even when I look anymore
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:40 pm
What’s a Dod?
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:40 pm
Got it. Where’s Port Charlotte?
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:41 pm
I meant that SI is significantly different, at least it used to be and i assume it still is. more like some other less urban cities
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:41 pm
SW Florida
tiger297
March 28th, 2012
11:42 pm
Anders – I did the reverse commute…would stay in manhattan and commute to the office. A few very nice restaurants but the nightlife was a bit underwhelming especially compared to everything I could do in the city.
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:43 pm
Very nice Noleee. You’re a lucky guy to live there.
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:43 pm
and you can do anything in the city and at any time. It certainly has a vibrancy of its own
tiger297
March 28th, 2012
11:45 pm
cab – NYC today is not dirty compared to when I’m talking about (20-30 years ago)
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:45 pm
There were people that wanted to keep Staten Island in the city? I…don’t get that. I live 2,796.8 miles from there and I don’t think of is as New York City!
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:45 pm
cabravesfan is right about the cost though. The prices of everything are just too high. I work in Chicago 8 to 12 days a month and it costs half as much to stay, eat and drink there.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:46 pm
tiger-
30 years ago I was 3…no idea what New York was like then
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:46 pm
cause its only half as good…
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:47 pm
Anders-
Dude. I live in Los Angeles. And I think New York is too expensive. That should tell you all you need to know
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:47 pm
tiger- you’re right there at 11:45. Much cleaner and Guiliani made it much safer. Now Bloomberg is making it profitable. He sure knows how to run a business.
tiger297
March 28th, 2012
11:48 pm
anders – guys i worked with were all heavy smokers so I brought a carton of cig’s for each of them which cost me slightly more than a pack would in NYC
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:49 pm
nolee – I couldn’t disagree more. Chicago is a great place. They have just about everything NYC has (except Broadway). I love spending time there. Which iIdo a lot these days.
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:50 pm
cabravesfan- the only place i would compare in cost to NYC is san Francisco. That’s an expensive city too. But gorgeous.
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:50 pm
I like Chicago too, I was being facetious.
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:51 pm
tiger 297- I’m glad I don’t smoke. What a waste of $’s. Not to mention the health ramifications.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:52 pm
Anders-
San Francisco is one of 2 cities I would rank ahead of New York as my favorites…to me, there is no city like San Francisco. But yes, it is expensive…
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:53 pm
cabravesfan- I could see your point on San Fran- What’s your other city? LA?
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:55 pm
Anders-
Hong Kong. Just one of the most incredibly fascinating cities I have ever been too…
( I love Los Angeles, am a proud native and would have a hard time living nearly anywhere else, and it’s probably #4 on my list…)
noleee
March 28th, 2012
11:55 pm
at one time San Diego was one of my favorite cities. as was San Francisco. LA, not so much
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:56 pm
Hong Kong – wow. You’ve got me there. Way outside my wheelhouse.
tiger297
March 28th, 2012
11:56 pm
when its sleepy time down south…
kenhotlanta
March 28th, 2012
11:57 pm
noleee: what are your memories of Harlem back then? I love that period, watch any show, documentary, or movie about that period. Ken Burn’s “Jazz” was outstanding and featured Harlem a lot. Matt the Cat did a great show on XM 50’s channel called “Harlem Nights” that featured early R&B songs that most of us never heard on the radio, at least in Georgia. That is some great music.
cabravesfan
March 28th, 2012
11:57 pm
San Diego is awesome…doesn’t have quite the same vibe as some of the others…too laid back
(not that it’s a bad thing…besides, anything San Diego lacks in anything else is made up by it’s shear beauty)
Anders
March 28th, 2012
11:59 pm
nolee – I’m a big San Diego guy to visit. It doesn’t have a tremendously lot culturally but you just can’t beat the weather. The gaslamp area is nice to stay in with good food. plus the the ballpark is right there. Sometimes I stay at the Marriott in the Gaslamp district and they have a rooftop lounge that you can look right down into Petco park from. You miss some of the field but it’s pretty coll to do at least once.
noleee
March 29th, 2012
12:00 am
nite tiger. speaking of tigers I was reading today about an incident in Zanesville Ohio that happened last winter. Some guy had 50 some wild animals including lions and tigers and bears, oh my.and wolves and primates. he turned them all loose and killed himself. The LEOs had to spend all night hunting down and killing almost all of them, including 18 Bengal Tigers I think it was…out of the 1400 or so known ones. Pretty weird and sad
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:01 am
Hong Kong is just amazing…an incredible blend of British and Chinese cultures (at least it was when I was there- right before the change over- but it probably has not changed a whole lot)- I remember one day we ate lunch at a real British pub and had a dinner of fresh (and I mean, we picked out swimming fish to have cooked) seafood done Chinese style at a restaurant overlooking the harbor…I got laughed at for asking for a fork. Became very proficient at using chopsticks…
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:02 am
night tiger!
kenhotlanta
March 29th, 2012
12:02 am
I just heard “Jersey Boys” is coming back to The Fox Theater in the ATL this summer…I missed it the first time, but I won’t this one.
Anders
March 29th, 2012
12:03 am
cabravesfan- Ever get to Scottsdale? They have a fairly new W hotel right on Camelback road. great hotel. Not ridiculously priced for a W either. Best cars in the world (besides Dubai) in that town. Two reasons. 1.) there’s money in that town. 2.) You can drive high end cars year round and you can put the top down a lot. It’s a road show every day there.
Braveone
March 29th, 2012
12:03 am
From the previous blog which had 2,249 comments, Venice Jim led the way with 306 posts. There were 242 different poster names. Here are the Top 25:
Rank Poster Frequency
1 Venice Jim 306
2 noleee 230
3 Murph 56
4 David O’Brien 55
5 ChattTownBrian (CTB) 54
6 Lew 53
7 Tomahawkin 53
8 jeffrey d 50
9 Billy 48
10 Ward 48
11 ncscoots 45
12 tiger297 44
13 Bat Masterson 39
14 VaBravesFan 39
15 George 38
16 MIBravesFan 38
17 Shaun 36
18 Owl Hunter 35
19 B-F_52 34
20 phil 33
21 Soph 32
22 MFin04 30
23 Trey 30
24 kenhotlanta 27
25 bravesgrl4life 24
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:04 am
kenhotlanta-
My parents saw Jersey Boys in Vegas last year…loved it
noleee
March 29th, 2012
12:06 am
not a whole lot other than of being there and it was different than what you later heard about it, since I was about 4-7 at the time. This was late 40s,very early 50s. spent a bit of time in the late 50s early 60s, in fact thats where i first saw Emmylou who was a folk singer there at the time.
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:06 am
Anders-
I have family near Scottsdale- don’t get out there too often, and actually have never really spent any time in Scottsdale, but would like to make it for a Braves game one of these days… (yes, I know they play in downtown Phoenix, but it’s close enough…)
Tom O'Hawke
March 29th, 2012
12:08 am
cab – NYC today is not dirty compared to when I’m talking about (20-30 years ago) — tiger297
tiger-
30 years ago I was 3…no idea what New York was like then — cabravesfan
Take it from Frank, LAdy, it was dirty. He even said it in his lyrics that you hear after every Yankees’ home game.
I want to wake up in that city
That doesn’t sweep
There you go…
Anders
March 29th, 2012
12:08 am
Yeah, you actually fly into Pheonix. It’s about a 20 mile drive. Definetly do it. Old Scottsdale is pretty cool. Lots of southwest wares and all. You can spend a day just picking through the shops.
noleee
March 29th, 2012
12:09 am
that list cain’t be right, no way cab coulda kept her mouth shut that long to not even make the list….
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:09 am
Anders-
Fly? Why would I fly when I can drive?
(Hi Tom! I will ignore that post…
)
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:11 am
noleee-
ignoring the mean undertone there, it’s very hard to post when VJ is doing play by play because we share an ip address, so we both get the “posting too quickly” page- I try to avoid commenting while he is busy
Anders
March 29th, 2012
12:11 am
Well, I’m gonna call it a night. Good talking with my Braves fans friends again. Talk with you again real soon.
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:12 am
Night Anders!
noleee
March 29th, 2012
12:13 am
I’ve seen you both have huge totals, are you seriously saying that you did not make 24 posts?
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:14 am
noleee-
guess not…I’ve been busy with work and family things…not a lot of time last week or over the weekend where I was home
kenhotlanta
March 29th, 2012
12:18 am
Amy Winehouse left an estate of $4.66 Million. How is that possible? She was extremely talented, but was also extremely stoned most of her career.
Tom O'Hawke
March 29th, 2012
12:19 am
that list cain’t be right, no way cab coulda kept her mouth shut that long to not even make the list….
I’ve seen you both have huge totals, are you seriously saying that you did not make 24 posts? — noleee
I’ve got this, cabravesfan…
1 Venice Jim 306
2 noleee 230
3 Murph 56
I missed it, nolie. What game did you do the PBP?
kenhotlanta
March 29th, 2012
12:19 am
Good night, good folks. I missed “Justified” last night, can’t wait any longer. See y’all tomorrow.
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:21 am
Tom-
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:21 am
night ken!
Tom O'Hawke
March 29th, 2012
12:28 am
I should get going myself on my quick drive-by, before nolie decides to build a doghouse and have me as his first guest.
‘Nite all that’s still here.
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:28 am
Night Tom!
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:35 am
I’m headed off to bed as well…good night blog!
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:42 am
noleee
I just got in, have been enjoying the talk of music, (a few weeks ago– while looking through an old closet on the farm– I found a 78rpm of San Antonio Rose by Bob Wills and the Texas O Playboys, reminding me of one of my grandmother’s heartfelt expressions: “Music can touch me quicker than anything”, she’d say).
But I saw you mention the name Emmylou and thought of s story I’ve never shared on the blog. I became a big fan of her’s after being hired on at a country station my freshman year in college, just as Luxury Liner was released and “Making Believe” was in hot rotation on our playlist.
Her “Hot Band” has been amazing over the years and –at that time–included Glen D. Hardin on piano, James Burton on guitar, and Ricky Skaggs on mandolin an fiddle, among others. At any rate, I’ve been a fan ever since.
Now, fast forward to October 28, 1995 as my buddy Dan and I are breathlessly making our way through the old stadium following the last out. We’re about to exit and begin our hike to the 5 Points MARTA station when I see high cheekbones surrounded by a mane of salt and pepper hair walking toward us. I do the customary double take before shouting out, “EMMYLOU!”. I turned just as she and her companion walked by, just as she gave me a smile over her left shoulder.
Though I was 99.9 percent sure it was her,it wasn’t until I saw her in the audience at a concert in Nashville a few years later that I could confirm. “Yes”, she said, “that was me. And you were the only one who recognized me that night”. Turns out Emmylou Harris is a major Braves fan.
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:43 am
Good night Tom O’Hawke
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:44 am
Good night cab
Venice Jim
March 29th, 2012
12:44 am
Good night, cab!
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:44 am
Good night ken
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:45 am
“He’s done a day’s work. Go make a fire”
Goodnight blog.
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:45 am
night haggard!
cabravesfan
March 29th, 2012
12:46 am
good night VJ!
Venice Jim
March 29th, 2012
12:50 am
good night, Chet…
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:52 am
good night, David…
Venice Jim
March 29th, 2012
12:53 am
haggard
March 29th, 2012
12:54 am
VJ
And what’s the next line heard nightly?
Venice Jim
March 29th, 2012
1:00 am
And good night for NBC news…
haggard
March 29th, 2012
1:02 am
Bingo !!! I knew you’d come through !
Now I can say………
Goodnight VJ
Venice Jim
March 29th, 2012
1:07 am
Night, hag…