New York Times – Dan Brooks – Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?
If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Kurt Cobain
It’s Only Rock N Roll (But I Like It)
Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.
Frank Zappa
Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
Frank Zappa
New York Times – Jann Wenner Removed From Rock Hall Board After Times Interview
New York Times – – Jann Wenner Defends His Legacy, and His Generation’s
Phil has a question:
Are Jann Wenner’s comments sexist or racist or is he stuck in a time warp.
Did Jan Wenner forget his marketing smarts – yes Masters features white male rockers, but just wait for the next one.
Did Jan Wenner forget one of Bob Dylan’s Chestnuts – The Times They Are A-Changin
Hope I die before I get old.
Peter Townsend
Phil has a question:
Is Townsend speaking of numbers or mental state.
Paulick Report – Catalog Now Available For 2023 CTHS Alberta Thoroughbred Sale
2023 CTHS Alberta Sale Catalogue
While Phil was checking some news on TDN one of the sire charts caught his peripheral vision. Fed Biz, by Giant’s Causeway, who stands at Highfield Stock Farm in Alberta is in the top 100 of the 2023 sire list.
Highfield Stock Farm 2023 Alberta Sale Yearlings.
Knowable – Tien Nguyen – Reviving a famously polluted California lake
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can not eat money.
Chief Seattle
Knowable Magazine – Amber Dance – Salt taste is surprisingly mysterious
Phil has a question:
Does this change the meaning of a salty field.
Bloodhorse – Lauren Gash – Book 3 Closer Bolstered by $900,000 Constitution Colt
TDN – Jessica Martini – Book 3 Concludes At Keeneland With $900k Constitution Colt On Top
Bloodhorse – Jockey Boulanger Hanging Up His Tack at 55
Paulick Report – Foley Barn Savoring Bango’s Record-Tying Win At Churchill Downs
ESPN – Greg Wyshynski – Why Mike Babcock is out as Blue Jackets coach, what’s next
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson
SportsNet – Shi Davidi – Blue Jays need walk-off triple by Chapman to complete sweep of Red Sox
Phil’s doing dedications today. This one goes out to the Blue Jays fans:
ESPN – Playoff Tracker – MLB playoff tracker: Who has clinched, plus scenarios, schedule
Southern Living – Moriah Mason – The 8 Best Casserole Dishes Of 2023
Pyrex Multi-Purpose Glass Deep Baking Dish, Oven & Dishwasher Safe, 9 x 13-in
The Ringer – Daniel Chin – ‘Winning Time’ Goes Out With a Loss
The Ringer – Ben Zolak – The Hot Read, Week 2: The New York Jets Cannot Be Serious with Zach Wilson
Sports Business Journal – Alex Silverman – Coyotes’ Sakiewicz leaves team for return to soccer
Yahoo!News – UPI – Dan Hooper – Pennsylvania man goes to 777 movies in a single year
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
Alfred Hitchcock
Phil has a question:
Have you noticed that when it comes to kiss and tells where there’s smoke there’s fire.
Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
The 2023 Western Canadian Triple Crown concluded with the 75th running of the British Columbia Derby at Hastings Racecourse Saturday September 16, 2023. WYN Racing Stables Corp’s Accidental Hero, third in the Canadian Derby at Century Mile got up mid-stretch to take the lead from the pace-setting Sunbird and prevailed over that resilient foe. Accidental Hero is trained by Larry Grieve and had Kimal Santo in the irons for the Derby. Accidental Hero is a Kentucky bred Bay Colt, by Mo Town out of the Chatain mare, Pardonmecomingthru.
Accidental Hero was a $260,000 purchase from the 2022 Ocala Breeders March Sale of 2 year olds in training and was claimed by Mark DeDomenico for $40,000.00 at Oaklawn Park.
Bloodhorse Jim Mulvihill – Accidental Hero Outduels Sunbird in BC Derby
Sometimes Phil just gotta give into the URGE.
Phil’s reminded of one of his favourite movies – The Accidental Tourist
New York Times – Aaron Boxerman and James Glanz – Dire Warnings About Libya Dams Went Unheeded
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac
Phil has a question:
What would Balzac, Honore not Billy, say about Horse Racing Alberta.
How many people saw that fucking waste of money joke that HRA put out about the 2023 Alberta Fall Classic.
Phil has an answer:
Not very many when the handle is only $593,163, $52,373 on track for 10 races that are supposed to be the celebration of Alberta thoroughbred breeding.
Hastings did $1,113,502 for 9 races on BC Derby day. The WPS pool in the Summer GI was $621,929.
IN 2020 the Alberta Fall Classic set a record handle for Century Mile of over $1.3 Million –
– yet in 2023 the handle is less than one half. There may have been more races in 2020, but both years had 7 stakes.
Phil has a question:
Is that how the Alberta Advantage works.
Phil has a question:
Can you make up your own story while the bureaucrats in Alberta are busy gazing out their windows.
In any bureaucracy, there’s a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Chris Fussell
Speaking of the Summer GI Bucyk needs a bit of work at the gate and learning how to rate. He had 2 gate trouble comments in his past races and now a third. Let’s hope his trainer gets these problems resolved before they become a pattern.
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell – Into Mischief Sets Seven-Figure Yearling Sales Record
SportsNet – AP – Wild-Card Roundup: Blue Jays overtake Mariners in race for final spot
Sportsnet – David Singh – Blue Jays win in 13 vs. Red Sox after countless blunders by both teams
Phil’s doing dedications today. This one goes out to the Blue Jays fans:
TDN – Jessica Martini – $875K Authentic Part of Late Sparks At Keeneland Book 3 Opener
Bloodhorse – Lauren Gash – $875K Authentic Colt Tops Day 5 of Keeneland September
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – David Jennings – Comer Banned Three Years in Irish Doping Scandal
Sports Business Journal – Austin Karp – Vikes-Eagles on ‘TNF’ marks NFL streaming record
Front Office Sports – David Rumsey – The New Billionaire’s Club: Incoming Owners Helping Reshape NFL
Sports Illustrated – NFL Week 2 Picks From the MMQB Staff: Chiefs and Bills Look to Bounce Back
You don’t need a weather man To know which way the wind blows.
Bob Dylan
Bloodhorse – Bob Kieckhefer – Godolphin’s Master of The Seas Dominates Woodbine Mile
TDN – Alan Carasso – Master of The Seas Another Godolphin Romper In the Woodbine Mile
Phil has a question:
Is it possible to cryo-freeze the testes and then reverse the process after a successful racing career.
The Horse – Christa Lesté-Lasserre – Reversible Gelding? It’s Possible
Great American Adventure – Henry Stone – Can You Reverse A Gelded Horse?
Phil has another question:
If you had a testes transplant what DNA would the testes be producing.
The Verge – Rachel Becker – Transplanted testicles will always make the donor’s sperm
Phil has another question:
Can modern medicine find a way to trick the transplanted testes to produce the recipients DNA.
If you cloned a champion gelding and then transplanted the testes to the gelded champion would the champion’s progeny be recognized by the Jockey Club.
The words ‘Space Age’ have a quaint, nostalgic tone – sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching ‘The Jetsons.’
P. J. O’Rourke
Sometimes Phil just gotta give into the URGE.
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Paralyzed 14 Years, Straight Appreciates Good Moments
Bloodhorse – Byron King – V V’s Dream, West Saratoga Take Pocahontas, Iroquois
TDN – Exaggerator’s West Saratoga Upsets The Iroquois
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa
Phil has a question:
Was that the Battersea omnibus.
TDN – Jill Williams – Godolphin’s Eternal Hope Completes Turf Triple European Invasion in JC Oaks
TSN – Ohtani to miss rest of season with oblique injury
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O’Rourke
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
Norman Borlaug
Bloodhorse – Frank Angst – Carson’s Run, She Feels Pretty Land Woodbine Grade 1s
Phil has a question:
Could you describe that Bonnie Raitt Look in one word.
TDN – Alan Carasso – Lael, DeVaux Sittin’ ‘Pretty’ For Breeders’ Cup Following Natalma
TDN – Heartwarming Journey for Carson’s Run’s Connections Continues in Woodbine’s WAYI Summer
Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.
Norman Borlau
Rolling Stone – Alex Morris – They Played Football as Children. Now Their Families Mourn
It’s better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.
P.J. O’Rourke
ESPN – Ryan Clark – Babcock resigns as coach of Blue Jackets amid investigation
DRF – Steve Anderson – Golden Gate planning to race until June 2024
Bloodhorse – Byron – King – Bango Scores Record-Tying 11th Churchill Victory
Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
P.J. O’Rourke
TDN – Taiba, Zandon And Arabian Lion To Stand At Spendthrift In 2024
Phil M Stockmen
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