Life is good....

[Regularjesus]

It's been a rough week, trying to find some good things to cling to, in the midst of so much human tragedy. So I'm starting a list of the good things, that make life worthwhile. Feel free to add to the list...

#1. Lacrosse - men's, women's, co-ed, it's all good. I've met amazing people, and despite the spirited debates on this board, some interesting laxers who chat about the sport year round online.

#2. New Zion BBQ - everyone should visit, then you can tell your friends you will die a happy man / woman. Click here.

#3. Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto - perfection.

#4. Thanksgiving- the last uncommercialized holiday. Still all about family, food and football. What could be better?

feel free to add to the list....

[6ftstick]

It's been a rough week, trying to find some good things to cling to, in the midst of so much human tragedy. So I'm starting a list of the good things, that make life worthwhile. Feel free to add to the list...

#1. Lacrosse - men's, women's, co-ed, it's all good. I've met amazing people, and despite the spirited debates on this board, some interesting laxers who chat about the sport year round online.

#2. New Zion BBQ - everyone should visit, then you can tell your friends you will die a happy man / woman. Click here.

#3. Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto - perfection.

#4. Thanksgiving- the last uncommercialized holiday. Still all about family, food and football. What could be better?

feel free to add to the list....

Three things.

1. My kids

2. My kids

3. Their kids if the baztidz ever start having them.

[jhu72]

It's been a rough week, trying to find some good things to cling to, in the midst of so much human tragedy. So I'm starting a list of the good things, that make life worthwhile. Feel free to add to the list...

#1. Lacrosse - men's, women's, co-ed, it's all good. I've met amazing people, and despite the spirited debates on this board, some interesting laxers who chat about the sport year round online.

#2. New Zion BBQ - everyone should visit, then you can tell your friends you will die a happy man / woman. Click here.

#3. Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto - perfection.

#4. Thanksgiving- the last uncommercialized holiday. Still all about family, food and football. What could be better?

feel free to add to the list....

Three things.

1. My kids

2. My kids

3. Their kids if the baztidz ever start having them.

I can agree with you on the kids. Not so much the Thanksgiving.

[jhu6569]

Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto not bad, but hardly his best output. Perhaps we should discuss this via PM, Regularjesus!

Examples: JUST to begin the discussion? Symphonies (any above, say, number 35?). Don Giovanni? Der Zauberflaute? Cosi Fan Tutti? The Gran Partita? Any number of OTHER piano concertos? Clarinet concerto/quintet? Numerous examples of Wolfgang's sacred music - Missas solemnis etc? EVEN: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik!

BTW: grew with Rudolf Serkn's LP recording of the 21st Piano Concerto. Have it now on CD (along with more than 3000 other classical CDs - yes, I am a fetishist here for certain). Still, Serkin's presentation is my favorite.

[Baldo]

Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto not bad, but hardly his best output.

I first heard it as the theme from the 1967 Swedish flick Elvira Madigan.

I was always sort of partial to Clarinet Concerto in A Major.

Rondo Alla Turca will get anyone's blood flowing.

[jhu6569]

Ah, Baldo. I have the advantage of actually having PLAYED the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in public concert. AND- like too, too many others having Elvira Madigan needed to introduce the 21st Piano Concerto? Your previous loss. A very good composition - NOT one of the very best in the genre, but tuneful certainly. And as Regularjesus stated, perfectly composed. ALL notes fit together seamlessly - as is typical of most Mozartian compositions.

BTW: A Major Clarinet versus playing a Bb Clarinet? Not a big deal. Professional concert clarinetists own, play, and have on hand both keyed instruments for any concert. Classical musicians need the "A" instrument most often (it matches the viola). Concert Band instrumentalists almost never require the "A" instrument - there, as in marching bands it is the "Bb" (B-flat) instrument that dominates.

I myself play a Selmer Centered Tone B-flat clarinet (produced in March/April 1954) - the very same instrument that Benny Goodman played during his last decades of play. In fact, MY particular instrument is within 50 serial numbers of the "horn" used by Mr. Goodman. Ach! Would that simply owning a great instrument could guarantee great playing skill thereupon! I am not bad, but certainly not to be feared by any professional musician.

[Hot Air]

It's been a rough week, trying to find some good things to cling to, in the midst of so much human tragedy. So I'm starting a list of the good things, that make life worthwhile. Feel free to add to the list...

#1. Lacrosse - men's, women's, co-ed, it's all good. I've met amazing people, and despite the spirited debates on this board, some interesting laxers who chat about the sport year round online.

#2. New Zion BBQ - everyone should visit, then you can tell your friends you will die a happy man / woman. Click here.

#3. Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto - perfection.

#4. Thanksgiving- the last uncommercialized holiday. Still all about family, food and football. What could be better?

feel free to add to the list....

Your thanksgiving and lacrosse choices are eternal picks. Thanksgiving is the best and as you point out the least commercialized American holiday. I always blackout the Macy's NY parade, because I hate parades and this one doesn't even attempt to disguise its real commercial purpose. Who wants to watch a multi-hour commercial? Thanksgiving pro football is on shaky ground for continued Thanksgiving viewing, since it is more entertainment than a real sport. If they had a Thanksgiving MLL or NLL lacrosse game, traditional sports viewing choices would be permanently banned and it would be an even better holiday.

Who is Mozart's and Zion's BBQ? The best BBQ that I have ever had is Cooper's in Llano, Texas - a backwater Hill Country location with innate charm. Their BBQ pork chops are about 3 inches thick (all are over a 1 lb), smoked, and flavored like none that you have ever had, guaranteed. The BBQ chicken, brisket, and prime rib is out of this World. Their sausage is also good, but I don't travel for sausage. Formality is forbidden and strictly enforced. A slice of carnivore's heaven! I eat a lot of veges normally, but this place is a treat that is worth the trip, if you are in the area and really like BBQ.
http://www.coopersbbq.com/default.asp

[Jim Malone]

Mozart's 21rst playing at a Zion BBQ on Thanksgiving Day after a Fall Face-Off tournament, while watching some football is da life, den, eh!

[artful dodger]

Living in this country !

My wife and I just bought a boat from a gentleman who lives in Washington state. The boat was transported from Washington to Long Island by a married couple from Arizona.
We located the boat through the internet from an ad on Craig’s List. Negotiations and arrangements were conducted via e-mail. Payment was wired to sellers bank.

The ease by which all this occurred got me thinking about what a great country we live in and how this process was only possible because of a little known clause in the U.S. Constitution. More specifically, I’m talking about the Privileges and Immunities Clause which, among other things, allows us to travel freely across state lines and similarly conduct interstate commerce.

We take these rights for granted, but they are surely among the most important rights we have as citizens. Imagine if we had check points at each state’s border? How smart were the founders who drafted our Constitution?

[Puck]

One of my all-time fav's...performed by an equally entertaining gentleman:

[Brooklyn]

God's Team winning the World Series!

[brunos13]

While I almost never agree with Brooklyn, this one ain't bad.

As for my blessings:

1) My son

2) My family

3) My Sweetie

4) All my friends and fellow laxers

5) Great hoppy beers to share with the above!

[randyrad]

Living in this country !

My wife and I just bought a boat from a gentleman who lives in Washington state. The boat was transported from Washington to Long Island by a married couple from Arizona.
We located the boat through the internet from an ad on Craig’s List. Negotiations and arrangements were conducted via e-mail. Payment was wired to sellers bank.

...isn't our InterState Highway System great ?

[mdlc-lax]

Any day you can wake up and fog the mirror with your breath is a good day..............(consider the alternative)


Thank goodness for:

- The wisdom, insight, and stones of our Founding Fathers
- All the daydreamers who thought that they could brew beer better that Bud
- All the daydreamers who thought they could make wines better than the snotty French
- Air conditioning (I existed pre-A/C in Baltimore)
- Under Armor boxer briefs
- Boeing (fine, you make an aluminum cigar tube that goes 600 mpr @ 40K ft. altitude and it gets you to FL for $79)
- Sunsets on the west side of OC ([deleted], Mackey's, etc.)
- Ruger and Beretta
- Good legal counsel when you need it
- Good medical counsel when you need it
- The Univ. of Maryland in the 70's when a student could afford an education without bankrupting their future
- and last, but certainly not least, CSRS retirement (the gift that keeps on giving)

[Regularjesus]

Ah, Baldo. I have the advantage of actually having PLAYED the Mozart Clarinet Concerto in public concert. AND- like too, too many others having Elvira Madigan needed to introduce the 21st Piano Concerto? Your previous loss. A very good composition - NOT one of the very best in the genre, but tuneful certainly. And as Regularjesus stated, perfectly composed. ALL notes fit together seamlessly - as is typical of most Mozartian compositions.

You boys can argue all you want about Mozart, I'll be here, listening to the 21st Piano Concerto.

[Strannywastheman]

Any day you can wake up and fog the mirror with your breath is a good day..............(consider the alternative)


Thank goodness for:

- The wisdom, insight, and stones of our Founding Fathers
- All the daydreamers who thought that they could brew beer better that Bud
- All the daydreamers who thought they could make wines better than the snotty French
- Air conditioning (I existed pre-A/C in Baltimore)
- Under Armor boxer briefs
- Boeing (fine, you make an aluminum cigar tube that goes 600 mpr @ 40K ft. altitude and it gets you to FL for $79)
- Sunsets on the west side of OC ([deleted], Mackey's, etc.)
- Ruger and Beretta
- Good legal counsel when you need it
- Good medical counsel when you need it
- The Univ. of Maryland in the 70's when a student could afford an education without bankrupting their future
- and last, but certainly not least, CSRS retirement (the gift that keeps on giving)

Brother, you got it right on the UA boxer briefs. Nothing better on a 95 degree day when you're playing golf. Keeps the heat on the vitals down. You'll never go back to cotton on a hot day.

[cleaver]

Thank goodness that life is not endless - I'd hate to think that I had to work forever.

[laxman3221]

Family...

And I agree with most of the others here.


And winning another championship last night was good...the trifecta for the year, spring, summer and fall

[richard]

It's not often but that makes it sweeter. Navy football over Notre Dame football.

Anytime I wake up and feel like I've already taken Celebrex but haven't.

Kicking the dogs.

Beer

Anytime spent upstate from July through October.

Anytime that the "War Department" feels happy.

Anytime all the cars are running w/o any problems.

Three and a half years from now when the fourth child graduates from college. ( Certainly worth the effort.)

So much more.

Go Wick

[randyrad]

It's not often but that makes it sweeter. Navy football over Notre Dame football.

then you'll enjoy this (check out the blocking @ 5:16) --