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Damn, just missed a chance to get tix from the director of Sports here at CBC for tonight's game. Having a coffee with 3 of my coworkers and he walks by and says "draw for my tix". One in four chance and I lost. Frack! Guess I'll just have to go home and hang out with Mini-Ovechkin.

Kingsford: little bacon with 4 legs Kingsford Goes to the Beach - The funniest bloopers are right here

BaconCamp - The Internet Bacon Meme in 60 Seconds from Bac'n.com on Vimeo.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/03/last_saturday_baconcamp.php BaconCamp 2009 BaconCamp was a well-organized and smoothly run event that simultaneously demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of popularity and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme. Photos by Tamara Palmer.

Go Bently Go !

Thanks for the heads-up!

LOL ... yeah, i figure i should be able to get on the floor with some luck on Monday's public onsale. Yup, the '85 show at MLG was one of my first big concert gigs out on my own with friends (i was 14 at the time). Couldn't get into the first leg of the tour show at Massey in the December of '84 This video was shot from almost the same seats that I had! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQDzfka7XM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRHjrT_rCYI U2 Unforgettable Fire Tour The Unforgettable Fire 5th leg: North America 1985-03-28: Maple Leaf Gardens - Toronto, Ontario, Canada Setlist: 1. 11 O'Clock Tick Tock 2. I Will Follow 3. Seconds 4. Two Hearts Beat As One 5. MLK 6. The Unforgettable Fire 7. Wire 8. Sunday Bloody Sunday 9. The Cry 10. The Electric Co. / Amazing Grace (snippet) 11. A Sort Of Homecoming 12. Bad / Ruby Tuesday (snippet) / Sympathy For The Devil (snippet) / Norwegian Wood (snippet) 13. October 14. New Year's Day 15. Pride (In The Name Of Love) encore(s): 16. Knockin' On Heaven's Door 17. Gloria 18. 40 / Do They Know It's Christmas (snippet)

[color:purple]extra for me? kidding ... good work TimmyB. Even with a $50 membership fee split between 4 tix it's still a pretty good deal. My CC's are just wayyyyy too hot right now I was on the floor for the last tour and it was a complete blast (I hadn't seen them since the Unforgettable Fire tour in '85!)

Should be quite the spectacle; http://360.u2.com/

http://www.u2.com/tour/ Sept 16 ... Toronto, Rogers Centre (Skydome) I'm sure at least one more show will be added. The U2 360° Tour The U2 360° Tour (presented by BlackBerry) will visit 14 cities across Europe including dates in Milan, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 22. The European tour will be followed by dates in North America beginning at Chicago's Soldier Field on September 12th, 2009. In September and October, U2 360° Tour will also visit: Atlanta, GA; Charlottesville, VA; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Norman, OK; Phoenix, AZ; Tampa, FL; Washington, DC and Vancouver, BC. Complete Tour and ticketing information to follow. Long-time U2 Show Director Willie Williams has worked again with architect Mark Fisher (ZooTV, PopMart, Elevation and Vertigo), to create an innovative360° design which affords an unobstructed view for the audience. U2 360° also marks the first time a band has toured in stadiums with such a unique and original structure. If you are a U2.Com Subscriber when you log-in to the site, visit this tour page and you will now find your unique presale access code and links to the ticket sites. This enables you to take part in the ticket presale for the U2 360° Tour.

Anyone get tix? I don't have a password so I can't get any

http://www.rootzoo.com/threads/view/NHL-Hockey/General/15-years-ago-today-Wayne-Gretzky-broke-the-goals-scored-record-with-802_233856 15 years ago to this day, Wayne Gretzky broke the record for most NHL career goals scored. On March 23rd, 1994, playing for the LA Kings at the time, Gretzky broke Gordie Howe's record (which stood for over 30 years) by scoring his 802nd career goal in a game against the Vancouver Canucks. Gretzky ended his career with 894 goals, seemingly untouchable for now. The closest active player to Gretzky's mark is Brendan Shanahan (11th all-time) with 654, but Shanahan is 40 years old. Not gonna happen. Will anyone ever take his record down? On another note, probably even more impressive is the fact that Gretzky also owns the career assists mark, which he'd set 6 years earlier on March 1st, 1988. He was just 27 years old when setting that record! Gretzky finished his career with 1963 assists. The closest (Ron Francis) comes in at 1249, and only 11 NHL players have ever finished with even HALF of Gretzky's career assists total. Talk about untouchable. Wayne Gretzky was to hockey what Michael Jordan was to basketball. "The Great One" doesn't do him justice. Here's a video clip of Gretzky's 802nd career goal for anyone who'd like to relive this moment, or see it for the first time.

15 years? Seems like only a little while ago. Man o man.

We'll be there!!! It's gonna be one huge party at that hotel.

Nice one! Well played. Add to that Leafs/Conference Finals and go back 7 YEARS

Nice to get weekends off and get laid a lot too

See You Next Tuesday

http://www.dead.net/features/release-info/jerrys-back-and-weve-got-him Jerry's Back, and We've Got Him! New Garcia-Kahn Live Disc It’s been a long, long time since there’s been a Jerry Garcia music release, but the good news is that a new day is dawning, the pipeline to the Garcia vault is open again, and we're looking forward to offering you quality JG tunes as often as we can! Dead.net, in conjunction with the recently formed Garcia Family LLC (mainly Jerry’s daughters), are pleased to announce their first independent release with a new installment of the popular "PURE JERRY" series, Marin Vet's, 2/28/86. For those of you keeping score, this one is the eighth, and it marks the first official full release of acoustic music from Garcia and John Kahn. The setting is the wonderful 2,000-seat Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium in San Rafael, the last of 12 acoustic shows John and Jerry played that winter. It’d been a solid tour, with sold-out concerts in a number of cool East Coast venues. But this was a hometown show—literally—so the air was both relaxed and festive. The twelve songs collected here on a single disc are the complete two-set show from that night, nearly 70 minutes of music; a nice blend of old folk tunes, a Dylan number and Hunter-Garcia classics. Particularly noteworthy in that last category are the epic “Bird Song†and rockin’ “Run for the Roses.†Soundboard copies of this show have not been in circulation before. For the complete set lists and to order, click here! And from here on, dead.net will be your best source for news and information about our exclusive Garcia releases and merchandise so stay tuned! Pure Jerry: Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 2/28/86 Price: $14.98 Orders for this item will ship by Wednesday March 25th The latest in the Pure Jerry series offers the first official full release of acoustic music from Jerry Garcia and John Kahn. Soundboard copies of this show have not been in circulation, so it’s a special treat to hear the complete two-set show. Garcia and Kahn deliver a solid performance with a nice blend of old folk songs, a Dylan tune and Hunter-Garcia classics. This line from the back cover sums it all up nicely, "Aside from its main purpose - celebrating Jerry Garcia's and John Kahn's wonderfully sweet performance of February 28, 1986 - this recording clearly proves the value of vision, hard work and modern science. Enjoy it with our best wishes and in good health." TRACK LIST: 1. Deep Elem Blues 2. Little Sadie 3. Friend Of The Devil 4. When I Paint My Masterpiece 5. Spike Driver Blues 6. Run For The Roses 7. Dire Wolf 8. Jack-A-Roe 9. Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie 10. Bird Song > 11. Ripple > 12. Goodnight Irene

http://www.dead.net/road-trips/road-trips-volume-2-number-2?cmpid=rt2vol2 Listening Party here: http://www.dead.net/RT2-pure-jerry-LP# Carousel 2-14-68 2 Disc Set + Bonus Disc In the winter of 1968, the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service embarked on their first major tour of the Pacific Northwest. Now, this wasn’t an era when bands traveled in plush custom tour buses and stayed in luxury hotels. Rather it was a caravan of funky cars and semi-dilapidated equipment trucks bombing up US 101 from the Bay Area to points north and hotels that probably weren’t going to make the AAA guide book. But the bands played like beasts in Washington and Oregon, spreading San Francisco magic in an assortment of small auditoriums and ballrooms. The Dead, in particular, were really spreading their creative wings, exploring and honing what were unquestionably the most ambitious original songs they’d written to date. Their old friend Robert Hunter had penned lyrics for unusual songs called “Alligator,†“China Cat Sunflower,†“Dark Star†and “The Eleven,†and there were also mind-boggling new tunes such as “That’s It for the Other One,†“New Potato Caboose†and “Born Cross-Eyed.†Say whaaaat? Now, while the Dead were on the road blowing minds in places like Eureka, Seattle, Portland and Ashland, Oregon, a couple of their “people†back home were busy signing a lease that would give the Dead, Jefferson Airplane and other interested freaks, control over a fantastic new venue: San Francisco’s venerable Carousel Ballroom, a one-time Big Band dance hall that was little-used by the mid-’60s. In January, before the Northwest tour, the Dead and Quicksilver had put on a successful dance there (a “Ben Franklin’s Birthday†celebration, the poster said), but the Grand Opening of the ballroom was slated for Valentine’s Day, with the Dead and Country Joe & the Fish on the bill. One of the scene’s budding artists, Stanley Mouse, produced a poster for the event with a jug-eared, retro geek imploring his prospective romantic conquests to “Be Mine,†and a pair of local FM rock stations carried the show live on radio. This magnificent show—long admired by Dead Heads (and the band—it’s a Phil Lesh favorite)—captures the Dead at a real turning point in their career: When they tossed out the rock rule book and truly found their own sound. They tried out nearly all their new songs that night, and everyone was amazed at how effortlessly—yet powerfully—one flowed into the next and how their sets ebbed and flowed and exploded and got quiet and covered such an incredible range of textures and emotions. This wasn’t just a good-time dance band. This was serious… and still a good time! Because the Valentine’s Day dance was a hometown show, on the radio and also being recorded for possible use on the Dead’s then-in-progress second album, Anthem of the Sun, soundman Dan Healy captured the music on an 8-track tape machine, and this Road Trips set marks the first time that those 8-tracks have been completely, properly mixed down—by ol’ reliable, Jeffrey Norman, of course—and released (aside from a few short missing passages on the multitrack masters, which are included from another source). So forget any version you might have heard before—this is state-of-the-art ’68 Dead, and you’re gonna love it! This is also the complete show, another first for the Road Trips series. As always, the discs are mastered to the HDCD standard and the package includes an entertaining and informative historical essay. The first set of 2/14/68 was relatively short, so we’ve also packed the last third of Disc One with a selection of tunes from the Northwest Tour that were just recently discovered in a collection of tapes that had been languishing in a long-defunct San Francisco recording studio. Alas, there were just isolated songs on reels (not full shows), and the sound is variable, but the performances are, as they say in Boston, wicked-awesome, from an almost punky “Beat It on Down the Line†to a truly hair-raising “Viola Lee Blues.†The special Bonus Disc (available to those who order from the site in a—ahem—timely manner) features more of this great material, much of which has not circulated in any form. So, if it’s rarities you want, we’ve got ’em! Could there be a better diversion from these—or any—stressful times than this scorching set of Primal Dead? We don't think so. Impress your lovers and friends! Blow your own mind! You can find out more about the songs lineup below, and you can place your order by clicking here. Track List Disc One: MORNING DEW GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL DARK STAR> CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER> THE ELEVEN> TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT Bonus tracks from Early 1968 VIOLA LEE BLUES (1/20/68 Eureka) BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE (1/23/68 Seattle) HURTS ME TOO (1/23/68 Seattle) DARK STAR (2/2/68 Portland) Disc Two: THAT'S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE> NEW POTATO CABOOSE> BORN CROSS-EYED> SPANISH JAM ALLIGATOR> CAUTION (DO NOT STOP ON TRACKS)> FEEDBACK IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Bonus Disc: VIOLA LEE BLUES (1/23/68 Seattle) GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL (1/20/68 Eureka) NEW POTATO CABOOSE (1/30/68 Eugene) DARK STAR> (1/23/68 Seattle) CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER> (1/23/68 Seattle) THE ELEVEN (1/23/68 Seattle) TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT (1/23/68 Seattle)

Praying to the gods we all get good tix If it rains again, you'll want to be under the roof! Front Row for ALL!! So say we all ...

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. He's antics have lightened to mood for a number of people now

I was shocked when a coworker told me she was getting cartons of smokes for $10! Yeah, and it's really hard to shed a tear for the Tobacco companies. Get them to convert over to hemp fields and retool the factories to produce hemp-based products (there's a gazillion of 'em to choose from).

CK5 = the man!!! too bad those wankers popped the balloons ... they look super cool bouncing around Thanks