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...were able to joke about an otherwise tense and uncomfortable situation. When they called us, we lined up and walked out into the hallway, where we proceeded to stand for a good 10 minutes. All around there were people mingling and having a good time, talking about the good ole days that certainly didn’t include people who looked like...
...unleashed, it’s actually a beautiful sound—and the image of the recipient’s head snapping back is ridiculously satisfying. I went to the Ted Williams tribute at Fenway this year and reveled in the crowd’s allegiance to the good ole days of the game. To this day, one of my favorite stories remains the have-you-ever-smelled-the-bat-burn exchange between Teddy Ballgame and Mark McGwire at the 1999 All-Star Game...
...candidates touting their Second Amendment bona fides. Bill Clinton's former Energy Secretary, Bill Richardson, is campaigning for Governor as "the choice for New Mexico gun owners and sportsmen." Joe Turnham, a Democrat running for Congress in Alabama, sums himself up this way: "pro-gun, pro-God, pro--good ole boy." And Missouri's Jean Carnahan, battling to hold on to her Senate seat, boasts of the sharpshooting medal that she won in college. She has even invited reporters to watch her waste a few skeet with her new 20-gauge Browning Citori shotgun...
...never been particularly deep, and 10 doesn't find him contemplating much beyond his love life. But the player who once wrote such horndog classics as Big Ole Butt and Around the Way Girl has evolved into a husband who, on the album's first single, Luv U Better, raps to his wife, "Let's laugh together, cry together/God willing we're gonna die together." "Every artist has the right to make what they make and say what they say," says LL, "but there's got to be more room for positivity. That's why I didn...
...removed will do that.) But it's Lewis who embodied - hell, embodies - so much of what was feral and profound about the new music. He knew its varied roots and how to tap them. As he announced at the conclusion of his belated, heroically defiant debut at the Grand Ole Opry in 1973: "Let me tell ya somethin' about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen. I am a rock-'n'-rollin', country-and-Western, rhythm-'n'-blues-singin' mothafucker...