― J (Jay), Saturday, 6 September 2003 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
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― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 October 2003 08:52 (twenty years ago) link
Major League Baseball cares, that's who.
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 October 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
:-)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 2 October 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
JapanLocation: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean PeninsulaGeographic coordinates: 36 00 N, 138 00 EMap references: AsiaArea: total: 377,835 sq kmnote: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)water: 3,091 sq kmland: 374,744 sq kmArea - comparative: slightly smaller than CaliforniaLand boundaries: 0 kmCoastline: 29,751 kmMaritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NMterritorial sea: 12 NM; between 3 NM and 12 NM in the international straits - La Perouse or Soya, Tsugaru, Osumi, and Eastern and Western Channels of the Korea or Tsushima Straitexclusive economic zone: 200 NMClimate: varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in northTerrain: mostly rugged and mountainousElevation extremes: lowest point: Hachiro-gata -4 mhighest point: Fujiyama 3,776 mNatural resources: negligible mineral resources, fishLand use: arable land: 12%permanent crops: 1%other: 87% (1998 est.)Irrigated land: 26,790 sq km (1998 est.)Natural hazards: many dormant and some active volcanoes; about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors) every year; tsunamis; typhoonsEnvironment - current issues: air pollution from power plant emissions results in acid rain; acidification of lakes and reservoirs degrading water quality and threatening aquatic life; Japan is one of the largest consumers of fish and tropical timber, contributing to the depletion of these resources in Asia and elsewhereEnvironment - international agreements: party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whalingsigned, but not ratified: Climate Change-Kyoto ProtocolGeography - note: strategic location in northeast Asia
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 October 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
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― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 2 October 2003 17:45 (twenty years ago) link
# of non-US Baseball Players and country of origin
Dominican Republic (340)Puerto Rico (206)Canada (195)Cuba (148)Venezuela (144)Mexico (90)Panama (43)Ireland (38)England (32)Germany (29)Japan (23)Australia (15)South Korea (8)...Norway (3): John "Fragile" Anderson, Art "Psalm 69" Jorgens, Jimmy "Last Splash" Wiggs...
is that enough melody and rhythm for you, hongro?
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 October 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
original question posted here has never been effectively answered.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
I saw this video again for the first time in 30 years and realized exactly how much I dislike him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaXTcR4dtE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 01:42 (ten years ago) link
I saw this video again for the first time in 30 years and realized exactly how much I dislike him― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, March 10, 2014
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, March 10, 2014
why do you hate fun?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 01:45 (ten years ago) link
Go and listen to the Sports album. If that doesn't answer your question, then time to move on.
― jetfan, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 01:54 (ten years ago) link
i still dig the songs... i just hate watching him mugging all over the camera always always always
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
the Lemon Demon remix of The Power of Love is freakin' incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1-n3n1tmtU
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
I go back and reread from time to time when I'm having a bad day. It's easily one of the most endearing pieces I've ever read.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2005-08-03/music/a-very-special-concert/
― Chantilly Bass, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 03:24 (ten years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/huey-lewis-news-bmg-signed-1203112700/
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 19 January 2019 04:39 (five years ago) link
I assume from the picture that he's been cryogenically frozen since then.
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 January 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Huey's big dick energy keeps him young
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 19 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
xpost I thought that too and then noticed the ad for Pineapple Express behind him.
For some reason this was very disappointing to me.
― cwkiii, Saturday, 19 January 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
Just heard “back in time” in a Korean grocery store
― calstars, Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
Okay, this '80s revivalism shit really needs to stop.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
I think I can answer the original question. I was in kid in the bay area, in the 80s, and my dad grew up in San Francisco. He worked for public transit, and bay-area blue collar boomers LOVED Huey Lewis.
A bay area native, he was the antithesis of the famous San Francisco counter-culture: super hetero, non-rebellious, non-bohemian.
Although NYC's counter-culture is also world-famous, so is its hard-hat culture, of "working Joes" who see themselves as the backbone of the city, keeping everything running. However, there is (or was) a similar culture in San Francisco and around the bay, and their heroes were The Bash Brothers, Journey, and Huey Lewis.
My dad was part of the counter-culture in the 60s, dodging the draft, living on the beach and following The Grateful Dead; but in the 80s, he was driving a bus, throwing newspapers and listening to Huey Lewis and the News.
I don't care for Huey Lewis' records much, except for Heart and Soul, which is a great song with an endearing video. Walk the Moon, eat your heart out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TdaXhpjHws
― 3×5, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
7-8 years ago I got the "Sports" tape stuck in my car and the radio didn't work so I spent effectively an entire summer listening to it, his music is engrained in my soul
― frogbs, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
Same thing happened to me in 1993, except it was Rollins Band. You were lucky.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 21 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Sports is a perfectly defensible anthem, and although Fore! is a textbook example of a New Jersey I could count on him for a chugga-chugga single through 1991's "It Hit Me Like a Hammer."
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 January 2019 16:59 (five years ago) link
https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/a-very-special-concert/Content?oid=2157069
― dinnerboat, Monday, 21 January 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
I unironically love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CscPTI8fwA
"'I love you, Huey' was the note I readBut there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed" is fantastic.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link