Diceman

Can they kill the background music on the Fancast!?

How can they do it? Bump the Alumni? The schedule's pretty tight...

According Wundermap it should stop in about 10 minutes... But it looks like more coming not long afterwards...

BTW, great job by the Fancast crew!

I'm on there right now - maybe they fixed it...?

From reliable email sources: None of this has *anything* to do with Windsor Regiment. Nothing to see here... move along...

Yep, kudos to them - they did the right thing...

It was much, much worse on the East Coast. We ended up with over 11" of rain, several tornadoes touched down, flooding everywhere... All schools and Govt offices are closed today. But I guess the decision was made by TBT earlier before anyyone knew where Isaac was going - better safe than sorry! (Now I worry about our friends in New Orleans)

She told me one time she wanted to be cremated... I told her there'd have to be more than one Urn: one for me, her daughter, etc. Then I asked which parts I'd get... Heh...

She's dealing with some health issues again... (Sigh)

[OT] Jason Lowe left us on this day in 2001... http://drumcorpshistorypodcast.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/in-memory-of-jason-lowe/ [/OT]

Actually, there was a post this past week about "Early Bird" purchases of this years' DCAs...

To be completely honest, the Sky performance I'd pick is 1963 at the World Open (0r maybe 1969 DCA - *every* tune was a classic)

Oops! Heh... 1965 Rochester Grey Knights - especially at the Dream with the wind and the storm...

1966 Reading Buccaneers 1969 Yankee Rebels and 1996 Madison Scouts

I used to hang mine from my golf bag. Got lots of strange looks on the course when I answered it! Heh...

I had one of these in '92... http://www.ebay.com/itm/MOTOROLA-CELLULAR-BAG-PHONE-/380457725511?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58950c2e47

(It was only a matter of time...) Heh...

WooHOO! REAL glad to hear this...

Here's one from "Brooklyn Mario" on my Pepe page: http://www.dicemanradio.com/SrCorps/pepe.htm ----- Pepe was not always "Pepe." In our Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg he was nickmamed "Corbett," a monicker bestowed on him by him by his father early in life because the senior Notaro believed his son to have the physical stature of the legendary heavyweight boxing champion, "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. And it was because of my misinformation as to the origin of his nickname that I caught my first "official" beating - beatings had to be deemed *official* by Corbett or they didn't count and thus had to be administered again. This may reqire some explanation. At the time I first became aware of Corbett's lofty hierarchical position in our Northside community, he was well on his way to icon-dom. Our local church drum and bugle corps, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, (Joe Gennaro, Carman Cluna, other super talented, but non-continuing-in-drum corps people), had realized national fame (which then meant - from here on the East Coast - all the way to Chicago) when they placed fifth in the American Legion Championships in the early fifties. The acknowledged madcap - yet magisterial - leader of that city-street-urchins-turned-marching-musicians gang was Corbett. His in-corps rank was well-matched by his street status as a "tough-technician" with a youthful, godfather-like benevolence. And, Corbett was a bit eccentric and fun loving - to the point that we were allowed to say, "He's crazy!" and say it in the most respectful way. These were virtues much admired in our nearly total Italian/American neighborhood, because it meant that the kids, (of which I was then one),would be taught our hybrid American values, while maintaining the life-sustaining Italian insularity of our parents and grandparents which separated "us" from "them". In Corbett, we had a master teacher. -Mario -----

"The Queen" has been very sick lately. But I'm sure she'll be back, Scepter and Kewpie in hand - so have patience!

Bill Cook [RIP] wrote a great article on this very subject: http://www.starofindiana.com/drum_corps/starting.html It's nowhere as easy as it seems...

And the jinx is all over the country! (NYS,Vegas and S. Florida) Cool! Where?

Nice quality recording!

Understood... I only asked because I had a *major* crush on her back when I was with the Royaleers... (Sigh)