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The spice of life

When I was a kid, my brother and a couple of friends of ours would pretend we were radio hosts. As kids from the '70s, the best way to do that was to use your parents' cassette recorder (the one with the carrying handle with the big buttons in the front). And to jazz up your recordings, every once in awhile we would record what we heard on the radio and mix it in with what we said. The way we did this was to push the cassette recorder as close to the radio speaker as possible. We thought this was the height of innovation and we were quite proud of our work. We'd listen to those tapes over and over. One time, one of us said something into the recorder and added "let's see what the man on the street has to say." Then we turned on the radio and recorded the first words we heard. Those words were "it's the spice of life." That threw us into hysterics. Absolute hysterics. Imagine two boys and two girls, ranging from age 8 to 12, lying on the ...

My tix pix

A few bloggers are showing their tix. I might as well, too. Certainly, chemgod is welcome to any of these scans. I hope he's not doing a Ticket to Stardom set. We don't need another one of those. Unfortunately, I am a VERY sporadic ticket saver. I don't think I have saved tickets from even a quarter of the events I have attended. In fact, I didn't save the ticket from the minor league game I went to last summer, the most recent pro sporting event I viewed in person. Just didn't think of it, I guess. Of the tickets I am going to show, some are from games I didn't even attend. That's how messed up this collection is. For instance, I don't have a ticket from Eric Gagne's not-so-triumphant return to Montreal when the Dodgers played the Expos in 2002. Gagne blew the game in the 8th inning as Troy O'Leary hit a go-ahead home run. I was there to cover the game, and they gave me a ticket to go with my press pass (I also save press passes), bu...