There will be blood. After the first round, I was 21-11 in the 32 games in one of my ESPN entries, including a wipeout in my Midwest bracket...only got 3 out of 8 correct.

The annual Film Noir festival has begun, and as a lover of film noir, I'm in ecstasy. http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/noir-city-hollywood-16th-annual-festival-of-film-noir Heaven...I'm in heaven.

Somebody is always going to grumble in these situations...you can't please everyone. They'll get over it. The Premier is right; it is a good pr opportunity. I totally forgot about the Aussie games. Do these games count in the standings?

As if I didn't have enough on my plate...if you don't see me around here much, this is why: http://americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/noir-city-hollywood-16th-annual-festival-of-film-noir http://filmfestival.tcm.com/

Can I take your word for it? What about VCU? Goddamn Big 10...as usual, leave it to a Big 10 team to screw things up. Thanks Ohio St. Where's Ol' Buckeye Doc?

Among the special Record Store Day releases April 19 is a red, clear, and blue vinyl set of "Live at the Greek", limited to 2000 copies.

^^^ Excellent point about the ashtray and exposure to smoke. I deal in books and can tell you many people submit books to the "smell test" before purchasing. It's a shame you feel the need to sell now as I believe it's full resale value is still ahead.

No Led Zeppelin but there is a three-coloured vinyl release of Page & The Black Crowes "Live at the Greek" limited to 2,000 copies. Full list here: http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com/2014/01/record-store-day-2014rsd-7-april-19.html?m=1

So, will his "church" members protest and disrupt his own funeral? Ding-dong, the witch is dead!

I have filled out four different brackets. In two, I have Florida winning...one beating Louisville and another beating Wichita St. In the third, I have Louisville beating Florida and the fourth, I have Wichita St. beating Michigan St. A month ago I would have had Syracuse a lock to make the Final Four, but now the furthest I have them going is the Elite Eight. Kansas, Arizona, and plenty of other strong contenders also have injury issues that might hurt their chances. As a West Coaster, I feel Arizona is the Pac-12s best chance at going deep...I don't trust UCLA, especially on the road. I just want to finish ahead of President Obama. I don't see anybody winning Warren Buffet's $1 Billion bet for a perfect bracket.

Press conference today at Amoeba announcing the releases for Record Store Day April 19. There was hope there would be a surprise Led Zeppelin or Jimmy Page release. http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2014/03/pst/record-store-day-press-conference-takes-place-march-20-at-amoeba-hollywood.html

Happy birthday PPH. Will it be wine, beer, or spirits, then? First day of March Madness begins in a couple of hours...I'll be watching college hoops and hoping my brackets don't bust. Come on Syracuse, don't choke like you usually do in these situations.

Breakfast. Sourdough pancakes dusted with powdered sugar and topped with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and bananas, and a few dollops of whipped cream. Coffee, juice and water, natch. Dinner. Mango & Goat Cheese Salad. Mango slices, goat cheese, pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, grape tomatoes, romaine-iceberg-spring mix tossed with white balsamic dressing. San Pellogrino sparkling water.

Excellent news. Considering her excellent parents, I'm not surprised. Cor blimey! That is wicked, res...I've got me eyes on ya'! Lovely. Did you come up with the design yourself? Big Robert Plant fan, eh?

I'm still holding out for the Sharknado theory.

^^^ Is that a rhetorical question? Because we're still 36 years away from 2050, so you're kind of jumping the gun with your 1950 to 2050 100 years of excellence claim. Meanwhile, there is a team out there that actually does have a documented and factually confirmed 100 years of excellence and greatness. But I'll let a true fan like Walter have the pleasure of clueing you in.

There were supposedly some rich super-groupies in Dallas that followed the band in their own Lear jet on one of the tours in the Seventies...1975 perhaps? But I think they just went to some of the shows, not the entire tour. Given that Peter Grant, Richard Cole, Mick Hinton, Phil Carson, Raymond, Benji and all the Show Co. regulars all missed various tours, either in the early days or the latter days, it seems that only the band members themselves were at every gig...and even that isn't entirely true. For John Paul Jones missed some gigs early on, if I recall.

What I meant is that Bonham would play just a little behind the beat, instead of on the beat as many rock and pop drummers do. He was like many jazz drummers in that respect. It doesn't matter what Bonham did in concert, and even then, Jimmy led more often than you seem to think. But when you ask who is the TRUE leader of Led Zeppelin, in as much that we all recognize that, musically, Led Zeppelin was a sum far greater than the parts and that Jimmy allowed each member ample space in the sonic spectrum to flourish on their records, to say anyone other than Jimmy Page was the "true leader" ignores all the evidence and facts. Peter Grant himself told Bonzo this when he was acting up...Jimmy Page is the one paying you! Or words to that effect. There's a reason why when Bonham was on one of his drunken rages, the one guy he never threw in the pool was Jimmy.

Great story and I approve of the name Superfuzz...great name for a band.

Whatever pain he suffers in jail still doesn't make up for the fact that you've lost a child.

I'm guessing by that statement that you preferred the silent version to the sound remake then? FYI, that vicious little bastard was played by Harry Earles, member of the legendary Doll Family aka The Dancing Dolls. You should recognize Harry Earles from another Tod Browning classic, "Freaks". Also, he was a member of the Lollipop Guild in "The Wizard of Oz"...that's Harry on the far right in the blue shirt:

Don't think this story got much "play" in the American media when it happened, but unfortunately it happens much too often. I am always surprised and admiring of parents than can stay calm and restrained in cases like this. I am afraid that if that was me I would be engulfed in rage and try to take justice in my own hands.

Oh dear...while I was playing all day at the beach yesterday, I missed Ally's birthday. Too late for the party, I still send best birthday wishes to you, Ally, kind sir. May your back aches be tamed. Many happy returns of the day. Happy birthday to the chase, too!

You are aware that there is a thread in the News section currently in progress (at 109 pages at last count) that discusses this very subject? Nice job mangling your thread title, too. It wouldn't hurt to do a little search...and some proofreading...before posting.

Well Bong-Man, Detroit fans won't have William Clay Ford to kick around anymore. The owner of the Detroit Lions has gone up to the gridiron-in-the-sky. R.I.P. http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79574441/