Hello everyone.  Last week, my CD received a great review from Indielaunchpad.com.  Check it out.  It’s a great site for reviews of independent artists like myself.  There’s also an accompanying podcast hosted by indielaunchpad founder, Colin Meeks.  My song Friend In Need is mentioned in the podcast (#111), along with 5 songs by other independent artists.  Friend In Need is track #5 in the podcast.  My song comes in at around the 25 minute mark of the podcast but I urge you to listen to the whole thing as there are some other great indie tracks there.  Here’s a link - http://podcast.indielaunchpad.com/2008/10/indie-launchpad-podcast-111.html

Will be in touch again soon with more exciting news!

Oops!  I erroneously blogged about the 3rd episode in Dexter this season, which hasn’t even been broadcasted yet.  Sorry about that, people.  I was, of course, referring to the 2nd episode, “Finding Freebo,” which was great and vanquished any thought that Dexter had jumped the shark.  My apologies.  Kudos to my good friend CB for calling me out on this and making me look stupid!  I don’t know why I thought there were 3 episodes already.  I was a little distracted during the first episode, in part because I couldn’t stop dwelling about how I screwed up my fantasy lineup that week by forgetting to take out Westbrook since he was hurt.  Yeah, that must’ve been it!

While I was watching the 3rd episode of the new season last night, I admit that for a brief while I wondered whether this show had jumped the shark.  The 2nd season was so unbelievably good and suspenseful that the first few episodes of the new season seemed to be sort of a letdown.  I just wondered if they could top what they did in season 2.  The jury’s still out on that, but for now it’s safe to say that this show has a lot of life left in it!  No shark jumping just yet…

Well, Yankee fans, would you look at that?  Last night, Joe Torre and the Dodgers finished off the Cubs and are moving on to the next round of the playoffs.  They outplayed them and totally stunned both the Cubs and their fans in the process.  In the center of it all was Torre.  Seeing him so relaxed in the dugout in October reminded me of how he used to look when the Yanks were dominating everyone in the late 90’s.  Calm and composed.  As he has already pointed out, this Dodgers run is reminiscent of ‘96.  Taking an underdog team full of youth and a few savvy veterans that few thought would make it this far - although we all know Manny Ramirez has a LOT to do with that (and maybe everything to do with it).  Still, he’s still here and the Yankees aren’t, and the way his team is playing right now, they have a legitimate shot to make it to the World Series, possibly in a fateful encounter with the Red Sox.  A lot of people seem to be rooting for that now - that would be exciting for sure.  Even if that doesn’t happen, you could easily see the glee and joy in Torre’s face last night as he said that this was as gratifying as it gets.  You know that was his way of telling the Yankees, “I told you so.”

So, to the Steinbrenner family, do you feel stupid for running this guy out of town?  Because right now, maybe you should.