The Return Of Portishead I read a NYTimes feature recently about the return of Portishead, a band whose sound was (to me, at any rate) inseparable from the mid-1990s. (After A Decade Away, Portishead Floats Back.) I had no idea until reading this about the back story - that the band hated performing live, and that vocalist Beth Gibbons was so painfully shy. That certainly makes the ten years between second and third album, (which has just come out, called Third) more understandable. So interesting, musicians.The Third Story.

A Tale of Eight Aces ? Part 1 concert, A Tale of Eight Aces ? Part 1 This past weekend, I found myself in a pleasantly soft 2/5 NLHE game in Atlantic City. Even better, I caught good cards for most of the seven hour session, including being dealt pocket aces four times. They held up twice. I decided the story of those.our hands would make an interesting post, so here it is. The fourth time I was dealt pocket aces was the least interesting. I raised, got one caller, bet the ragged flop, and took down the pot. The third time.

"Looking back, Calhoun and Noble may not have been the best two people to create that memorial." The Third Story tickets, (Again catching up from the weekend.) A Mom-umental Failure: The spectacular flameout of the mother of all D.C. memorials. (Washington Post) This is kind of a hoot to read about, especially the character of Daisy Calhoun. And it just gets funny in general at times.".There's arguably a creepy, smothering, borderline-necrophilic tinge to Mother's Day as envisioned by Anna Jarvis. She suggested that the carnation be the symbol of the holiday.".the carnation does not drop its petals.

More Great Sportswomanship! (To follow on the heels of this story and this one?) You go, grrl: Bonnie Richardson ran. She threw. She jumped. And when it was time to hand out the team trophies, Richardson accepted the 1A team championship for Rochelle High School - by herself.Richardson, after being the only athlete from Rochelle, Texas to qualify for the state meet, scored 42 team points to win the Texas 1A track title by herself'a feat never performed by a girl and not seen by a boy since the 1970s, when it was accom. live.

Bigger Than The Game St. John Fisher doesn't have any baseball left to play this season and that's just fine with head coach Dan Pepicelli. On Thursday, the Cardinals were playing for a postseason berth against Oswego State and the Lakers led 9-5 in the ninth inning. With Oswego State hitting in the top half of the inning, head coach Frank Paino was hit in the head by a line drive while coaching third base and instantly lost consciousness. Pepicelli was the first person to reach Paino, who was transported to Stro. The Third Story concert tickets.

Giving credit where credit is due p2pnet news | P2P:- Way back in the middle ages, when I was a very junior reporter on a small newspaper in England, apart from writing obituaries and weddings, I had to go through other local newspapers looking for stories we'd missed, or stories we could follow-up. The editor and seniors would scan through the list and if they saw something they liked, it'd get assigned and end up as fresh copy, and when I moved on to larger publications, it was the same. Sometimes a story would be so uniqu. music.

What to do.what to do. Tickets, I was too busy complaining about my mother on Friday to wish all of you mothers, grandmothers, etc. a happy Mother's Day so. Happy (late) Mother's Day! I hope everyone had a very nice day. It never seems to fail.when I bitch and moan about something that I think is bad, I always get slapped in the face with something that is much worse and it makes my bitching pale in comparison to what some people deal with. You'd think I'd learn to STOP complaining but hey.it's the way I vent. [[EMO.

ADD Nation We're so easily distractable! excerpt: If Barack Obama gets his way, the Oxford English Dictionary will have updated its definition of ?distraction? by the end of the campaign?Diversion of the mind, attention, etc. from any object or course that tends to advance the political interests of Barack Obama. After his blowout win in North Carolina last week, Obama turned to framing the rules of the general election ahead, warning in his victory speech of ?efforts to distract us. The chief dist. The Third Story tour tickets.

The Preakness: An Odder History Than You Might Imagine The Preakness is named after Preakness, a colt by Lexington, who was owned by Milton Holbrook Sanford and who was the winner of the inaugural Dinner Party Stakes. Sanford owned Preakness Stables in Preakness, NJ, as well as a stud farm in Kentucky of the same name; apparently he was more than a little fond of the word. The Dinner Party Stakes was itself named after (appropriately enough) a dinner party hosted by Sanford in 1868. The race, first run in 1870, was to be for 3-year-old colts. The Third Story ticket broker.

He Said/He Said Once again the state of Nevada in general, and the Republican Party in particular, find themselves caught up in yet another Gov. Jim Gibbons-related controversy. This time it has to do with the governor's appointment of former U.S. Government Printer Bruce James to head the newly-created Nevada Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission. James was officially appointed last Wednesday at a press conference in the governor's Carson City office. I wrote about the appointment here in Neva. Tickets for The Third Story.