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Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen
This interview was originally broadcast on Nov. 6, 2012.
In Oliver Sacks' book The Mind's Eye, the neurologist included an interesting footnote in a chapter about losing vision in one eye because of cancer that said: "In the '60s, during a period of experimenting with large doses of amphetamines, I experienced a different sort of vivid mental imagery."
He expands on this footnote in his book, Hallucinations, where he writes about various types of hallucinations — visions triggered by grief, brain injury, migraines, medications and neurological disorders.
One chapter of the book — that's out in paperback July 2 — deals with altered states and Sacks' personal experimentation with hallucinogenic and mind-altering drugs in the '60s. He says the first time he tried marijuana, it induced fascinating perceptual distortion. He was looking at his hand, and it appeared to be retreating from him, yet getting larger and larger.
"I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.' "
Sacks tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he has always been fascinated with hallucinations — from reading about Pip's hallucination of Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations to witnessing hallucinations of every sort as a medical student and doctor. He had a personal interest in the phenomenon, he explains, because his brother was a schizophrenic — and "would talk with his hallucinations."
Sacks has also had his share of non-induced hallucinations. One day while mountain climbing, he experienced an auditory hallucination after an injury that tore most of his thigh muscle and dislocated his knee. His first impulse was to go to sleep — but then he heard a voice that he didn't recognize yet trusted.
" 'No, that would be death,' " he recalls it saying. " 'Go on. You've got to keep going. Find a pace you can keep up and keep it up.' And this was a very clear, commanding voice. It was a life voice, and it was not to be disobeyed."
Neurologically, Sacks speculates that this type of auditory hallucination is something that announces itself in extremity, and is "the ultimate safeguard, some power or propensity which has been built into the structure of the mind, the emotions," and is not heard by most people in their lives.
Sacks notes that the medicalization of hallucinations really only occurred in the 19th century — and that subsequent to that, there was much more anxiety, secrecy and shame about hallucinations.
"I think hallucinations need to be discussed," he says. "There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are OK, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes."
With the ability to visualize the brain through cutting-edge medical technologies, Sacks believes, the scientist's sense of the brain's complexity has been increased; it's now possible to see exactly what's going on in the brain while people are hallucinating.
Interview Highlights
On a memorable hallucination while taking LSD
"I had been reading about the color indigo, how it had been introduced into the spectrum by [Isaac] Newton rather late, and it seemed no two people quite agreed as to what indigo was, and I thought I would like to have an experience of indigo. And I built up a sort of pharmacological launchpad with amphetamines and LSD, and a little cannabis on top of that, and when I was really stoned I said, 'I want to see indigo now.' And as if thrown by a paintbrush, a huge pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo appeared on the wall.
"Again it had this luminous, numinous quality; I leaped toward it in a sort of ecstasy. I thought, 'This is the color of heaven.' ... I thought maybe this is not a color which actually exists on the Earth, or maybe it used to exist or no longer exists. All this went through my mind in 4 or 5 seconds, and then the blob disappeared, giving me a strong sense of loss and heartbrokenness, and I was haunted a little bit when I came down, wondering whether indigo did exist in the real world.
"I would turn over little stones. I once went to a museum to look at azurite, a copper mineral which is maybe the nearest [to] indigo, but that was disappointing. I did in fact have that experience again, but when I had it the second time, it was not with a drug, it was with music — and I think music can take one to the heights in a way comparable with drugs."
On hallucinations that accompany bereavement
"With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing — in perception — have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination. But hallucination, in a way, simulates perception, and the perceptual parts of the brain become active. ... There's obviously a very, very strong passionate feeling of love and loss with bereavement hallucinations, and I think intense emotion of any sort can produce a hallucination."
On the hallucinations accompanying his migraines
"I usually get the zigzag, but I may also see lattice patterns, like tessellations; sometimes these lattice patterns seem to cover people's faces or a piece of paper I'm writing on. I mostly get complex geometrical patterns; I've never actually seen ... images with a migraine, although on at least on two occasions, I've had a smell — in particular a smell of hot buttered toast — with a strong sense that I was about 3 years old, being put in a high chair, and about to be given hot buttered toast. A sort of olfactory hallucination often goes along with recollection in that sort of way.
"The first time I got that, I was in hospital and I went searching for the toast. The second time, I was driving on the Bronx River Parkway, where there was obviously no toast to be had."
How visual migraines may have inspired ancient patterned art
"There are all sorts of complex geometrical patterns, very symmetrical, some of them looking like the finest doily. ... Patterns like this tend to appear in migraine, but they may also appear with fever. They also appear with various drugs. They may also be seen as one is falling asleep, and one can't help comparing them with various forms of ornamental art and cave art, and wondering whether individuals or cultures have been inspired by some of these patterns which are built into the nervous system."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Our guest, neurologist Oliver Sacks, has explored perception, memory and consciousness through such bestselling books as "Awakenings," "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "Musicophilia." His latest book, "Hallucinations," will be released in paperback next month.
It draws on history, literature and the patients he's treated, patients who have experienced hallucinations brought on by neurological disorders, brain injuries, medications, fevers, blindness and more, hallucinations that range from the terrifying to the transcendent.
One chapter, called "Altered States," is about his own experiments with mind-altering drugs in the '60s, when he was a neurology resident. These drugs connected with the reason he wanted to be a neurologist, which was to study how the brain embodies consciousness and the self and to understand its amazing powers of perception and distortion. Terry spoke with Oliver Sacks last November, when his book "Hallucinations" was published.
Dr. Oliver Sacks, welcome back to FRESH AIR.
OLIVER SACKS: It's good to be with you again.
GROSS: In our previous interview two years ago, for your book "The Mind's Eye" about visual disturbances, you had a chapter about losing vision in one eye because of cancer, and you wrote in a footnote: In the '60s, during a period of experimenting with large doses of amphetamines, I experienced a different sort of vivid mental imagery.
And we talked about that a little bit because I was so surprised that such a big revelation that you'd taken large doses of amphetamines was confined to a little footnote. But now, your whole book is about hallucinations, and there's a whole chapter about the hallucinatory drugs you took when you were young. Did you know that that footnote was going to become a book when you wrote it?
SACKS: No, by no means. I knew I would have a book on hallucinations, but the personal chapter was not in the manuscript until relatively late, and then it was evoked for me. I was actually in hospital with a broken hip and feeling rather bored and testy, and a friend said you sometimes talked about the '60s, can you tell me more?
So I told him stories, and he transcribed them and brought them back to me. And that's the way, the way they got into the book.
GROSS: And you're comfortable with that?
SACKS: Fairly comfortable, at least I'm talking about something which is long past. But I sort of regard myself as a subject for case history, as I regard anyone else. And fortunately, I survived it, and I'm here to tell the tale 45 years later.
GROSS: And an interesting tale it is, as we'll hear in a moment. But first, why did you want to write about hallucinations, hallucinations caused by medical problems, by drugs, by neurological disturbances, intentional hallucinations, unintentional hallucinations?
SACKS: Well, I think I've been interested in hallucinations almost all my life. And, you know, and I was fascinated by, say, "Great Expectations," reading about the hallucinations of Miss Havisham, which Pip has. A lot of Dickens books are about being haunted by hallucinations. But then as a medical student and a doctor, I saw hallucinations of every sort.
And with a brother who was schizophrenic, he would talk with his hallucinations, and that was a very different sort of experience. I've written bits about hallucinations, I think, in most of my earlier books, but I thought it was time to try and bring the whole lot together, the more so as we now have methods of looking at the brain and seeing exactly what goes on while people are hallucinating.
GROSS: You're talking about functional MRIs.
SACKS: Yeah.
GROSS: So at the beginning of your chapter about your own experimentation with altered states, you write: Every culture has found chemical means of transcendence. At some point, the use of such intoxicants becomes institutionalized at a magical or sacramental level. What are you thinking of there?
SACKS: Well, I was thinking of peyote ceremonies with Native Americans, but similar ceremonies in Mexico with morning glory seeds - ololiuqui, similar ceremonies in Central America with magic mushrooms, similar ones in South American with both - I can't pronounce it, ayahuasca. And so there's - this seems to happen in every culture at some point.
GROSS: And you write that some drugs like hallucinogenic drugs promise transcendence on demand. Is that why you wanted to experiment with them?
SACKS: Well, I think it's one of the reasons. It's probably a little too high-sounding for all of my reasons. I mean, I think I sometimes just wanted pleasure. I wanted to see a visually and perhaps musically enhanced world. I wanted to know what it was like, and I think those are ways an observer part, as well as the participant. I would often keep notes when I got stoned.
GROSS: Did it seem absurd to you to keep notes on the experience because the experience was so heightened and can be so absorbing to take notes on, it brings you outside of it while you're in it, which can seem absurd in that moment?
SACKS: Yes, well, I didn't always take notes on it. I especially tended to take notes, I think, if a trip turned frightening, and then the taking notes would help me stand outside this, in a way.
GROSS: So you started taking LSD in 1964, and you write that you took mind-altering drugs every weekend for a while. Give us a sense of one of the better experiences that you had that made you want to keep using it.
SACKS: Well, a particular experience was with a color. I had been reading about the color indigo, how it had been introduced into the spectrum by Newton rather late, and it seemed no two people quite agreed as to what indigo was, and I thought I would like to have an experience of indigo.
And I built up a sort of pharmacological launch pad with amphetamines and LSD and a little cannabis on top of that, and when I was really stoned I said: I want to see indigo now. And as if thrown by a paintbrush, a huge pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo appeared on the wall.
It again had this luminous, numinous quality. I leant toward it in a sort of ecstasy. I thought: This is the color of heaven, or this is the color which Giotto tried to get all his life but never could. I thought maybe this is not a color which actually exists on the Earth, or maybe it used to exist or no longer exists.
And all this went through my mind in four or five seconds, and then the blob disappeared, giving me a strong sense of loss and heartbrokenness, and I was haunted a little bit when I came down, wondering whether indigo did exist in the real world.
And I would turn over little stones. I once went to a museum to look at azurite, a copper mineral which is maybe the nearest to indigo, but that was disappointing. I did in fact have that experience again, but when I had it the second time, it was not with a drug, it was with music, and I think music can take one to the heights in a way comparable with drugs. But I think the indigo was my favorite hallucination.
GROSS: Were you already a neurology student?
SACKS: Yes, I was a neurology resident at that time, and the air was buzzing with discoveries and talk about neurotransmitters and drug actions and what one could do for people with psychosis or people with Parkinson's. And so the chemistry of the nervous system was a very hot topic and inviting one to try for oneself.
GROSS: My guest is neurologist Oliver Sacks. His new book is called "Hallucinations." We'll take more - talk more after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: So if you're just joining us, my guest is Dr. Oliver Sacks, who's best known for his case studies in neurology. He's a neurologist, and he often writes about what people experience perceptually when they have neurological disorders. His books include "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat," "Musicophilia" and "Awakenings." His new book is called "Hallucinations."
So give us an example of a really bad time that you had on a hallucinogenic drug.
SACKS: Well, I think the worst time was also a rather puzzling time. It was in '65. I was new to New York. I was sleeping very badly. I was taking ever-increasing doses of a sleeping medication called chloral hydrate. And then one day I ran out of it. But I didn't think much of this, though when I went to work, I noticed I was rather tremulous, and at that time I was doing neuropathology, and it was my turn to slice a brain and describe all the structures, which I usually enjoyed doing and did easily.
But this time it was difficult, and I hesitated, and I felt my tremor was becoming more obvious. When the session was over, I went to have a coffee across the road, and suddenly my coffee turned green and then purple. And I looked up, there was a man paying at the register, and he seemed to have some huge proboscidean head like a sea elephant.
I was panicked. I didn't know what was happening. I ran across the street to a bus, got on it, but the people on the bus terrified me. They all seemed to have huge egg-shaped heads with eyes like the eyes of insects, compound eyes, which moved suddenly.
I wrote all this in my journal. I felt that I would get dangerously out of control one way or another, either with panic or catatonia or whatever, unless I made a note. And I somehow managed to get off the bus and onto a train and get off at the right stop that when I got off - I lived in the Village then, as I do again now - the houses, the buildings were flapping like flags in a high wind.
When I got back to my apartment, I phoned up a friend of mine, we'd interned together, her name was Carol Burnett, and I said: Carol, I want to say goodbye. I've gone mad. And she said: Oliver, what have you just taken? And I said: I haven't just taken anything. And she thought for a moment and said: What have you just stopped taking?
And I said: That's it, the chlor. And so this was the beginning of an attack of the DTs, the delirium tremens, not induced by alcohol withdrawal but by chloral withdrawal. It's a dangerous state. I should really have checked myself into hospital, but I didn't. I thought I wanted to go through it with some kindly medical supervision, and I did. But there were many, many terrifying things there.
GROSS: Was it helpful while you were having these nightmarish hallucinations, because of withdrawal from the medicine that you were taking, was it helpful to know that they were medically induced hallucinations, that you weren't losing your mind and that this was going to end?
SACKS: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. When I realized it was medication and not madness, that was a relief so huge that I felt I could sit through the rest of it.
GROSS: As a neurologist, what did you learn from that experience?
SACKS: Well, I think I learned that one shouldn't be silly. But in particular, from that experience, there were all sorts of particular, odd visual perceptions. Sometimes I could not see continuous motion, I would only see a series of stills. And that fascinated me very much, and it made me in fact wonder whether the sense of visual motion is an illusion, whether in fact we see a series of stills.
I don't think I'd had that thought until I was seeing stills. I felt that almost every possible sensory combination was offered to me, every fantasy, every dreamlike distortion. And with hallucinations one remembers them, unlike dreams, and on the whole they're not like dreams because dreaming, you're asleep, you're only a dreaming consciousness, whereas here you're awake and observing yourself.
GROSS: So I want to quote something you wrote about how you stopped doing amphetamines. You wrote: After taking amphetamines, I would feel I had made a crazy ascent into the stratosphere but had come back empty-handed and had nothing to show for it, that the experience had been as empty and vacuous as it was intense.
Then you write about how one time when you came down, you'd retained a sense of illumination and insight, and you had a revelation about migraine, and the next day you started writing about this, and you realized writing was where your real joy was, it was about writing for you, and you never took amphetamines again.
SACKS: Yeah. Well, I think one of the reasons I took drugs was somehow to regain the feeling of intellectual energy and enjoyment and maybe creativity, which I'd known years before as a boy in my days when I loved chemistry but which then seemed to have abandoned me.
And with that particular amphetamine trip, which went along with the fact that I was seeing patients with migraine, who I found fascinating and felt deeply for, and as well as a wonderful old book written in the 1860s on migraine, and the overwhelming feeling was that now it was the 1960s, and we should have such a book again, and who would write it?
And a very loud inner voice said, you silly bugger, you're the man. And after that, something seemed to be switched on in my head, and basically I never took drugs again.
GROSS: So, you know how some people say the human brain is wired for God, you know, wired to, to have religion. What's your take on that?
SACKS: I'm very intrigued by the relationship between drugs and religion and hallucination and religion. There's a long chapter on epilepsy, which at one time was called the sacred disease - although Hippocrates said there was nothing sacred about it.
Although, he allowed sometimes the symptoms of epilepsy may be visionary and, in particular, there is a sort of seizure which some people get called an ecstatic seizure, when there will be a feeling of bliss or rapture, a feeling of being transported to heaven, sometimes of hearing angelic voices or seeing angels or communing with God.
Experiences like this can happen with seemingly quite irreligious people who have - who don't seem to have an iota of religious disposition, but the experience may be rather overwhelming and may lead to conversion.
GROSS: But it's interesting how often those visions - if we want to call it that - come from something that nowadays would be diagnosed as a disorder and in fact are disorders like epilepsy or schizophrenia.
SACKS: Yes. Well, certainly. I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.
The medicalization of hallucinations really only occurred in the 19th century, and following that, people became, I think, very much more anxious about hallucinations and secretive and ashamed, and the subject was much less discussed. I think hallucinations need to be discussed.
There are all sorts of hallucinations, and there are many sorts which are OK, like the ones I think which most of us have when we're in bed at night before we fall asleep when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces or scenes.
BIANCULLI: Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks, speaking to Terry Gross last year. We'll continue their conversation in the second half of the show. I'm David Bianculli, and this is FRESH AIR.
BIANCULLI: This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, in for Terry Gross, back with more of Terry's 2012 conversation with neurologist Oliver Sacks. He's the author of the bestselling books, "Awakenings," "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "Musicophilia." His books are based on the patients he's treated, as well as medical history, literature and his own experiences. His latest book, "Hallucinations," comes out in paperback next month. It's about hallucinations brought on by neurological disorders, brain injuries, medications, fevers, blindness and more, hallucinations that range from the terrifying to the transcendent.
GROSS: You write in your book "Hallucinations" about an auditory hallucination you had that really might've saved your life. You were mountain climbing and you'd injured your foot or your leg and part of you just wanted to just, like, slow down, sleep. But then you heard a voice which said what?
SACKS: Yeah. Well, the impulse to sleep - I'd torn off most of the thigh muscles and the knee was dislocating backwards. And at one point I got quite shocked and must have a little sleep. And the voice said, no, that would be death. Go on. You've got to keep going. Find a pace you can keep up and keep it up. And this was a very clear commanding voice. It was a sort of life voice and it was not to be disobeyed.
GROSS: And so you kept going in spite of the horrible shape that your leg and knee was in.
SACKS: Yeah. I was sort of lowering myself down with my arms. I had splinted the leg as best I could with an umbrella stick and my anorak, which I tore in two. Incidentally, I thought that was going to be the last day of my life and it had every prospect of being, but I was found at twilight by two hunters. This was in north Norway. But that voice was crucial for me.
GROSS: Whose voice did you hear? Was it your voice, a stranger's voice?
SACKS: Not my voice. I often hear my voice. I am always sort of cursing or muttering to myself. But this was a very clear, assured voice. Not a voice I recognized but a voice I trusted. And which I suppose I realized came from some part of me, because there's no other place it could've come from.
GROSS: What do you speculate goes on neurologically when, in a state of extreme danger like you were in, a voice tells you to do the thing that you need to do to save your life?
SACKS: It seems to me almost like an ultimate safeguard. Some power, propensity, which is sort of built into the structure of the mind and the emotions. Probably I would think most people would go through a life and never hear it. It only announces itself in extremity.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is neurologist Oliver Sacks, best known for his books "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," "Musicophilia" and "Awakenings." His new book is called "Hallucinations" and it's about the medically induced hallucinations, naturally occurring hallucinations - like between waking and sleeping and hallucinations that are side effects of drugs, hallucinations that are caused by various medical conditions. Yeah.
SACKS: Can I add to your list? Hallucinations which are caused by real-life experiences, such as bereavement.
GROSS: Yes. I'm glad you mentioned bereavement. And that is such a common form of hallucination, where, you know, you've lost somebody who you love and you think you've seen them or heard them say something. And when that happens, I think it's fair to say it feels like a visitation. How would you describe that?
SACKS: Yeah. Well, someone dies, there's a hole in your life and that hole can be briefly filled, I think, by a hallucination. Typically, the bereavement hallucinations - which are common; something like 40 or 50 percent of bereaved people get them occasionally - are often felt as very comfortable, comforting, and they may help them through the mourning process, and then when one has mourned fully, they disappear.
GROSS: How, as a neurologist, would you interpret those hallucinations?
SACKS: Well, with any hallucinations, if you can say do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - are, in fact, being active, have become super-active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity. This does not happen with imagination. But hallucination, in a way, simulates perception, and the perceptual parts of the brain become active. But, you know, what else is going on, there's obviously a very, very strong, passionate feeling of love and loss with bereavement hallucinations, and I think intense emotion of any sort can produce a hallucination.
GROSS: Say you had actually seen - say it really was like a visitation from the person who you're mourning, what would be happening in your brain, compared to the activation that you're describing in a hallucination? In other words, like, does the FMRI, the functional brain imagery, prove that it really wasn't a visitation, that it was just something induced by your brain?
SACKS: Well, you would see a precise coincidence between the visitation and quite major changes in the brain, and you cannot reduce the visitation to those changes, but you also cannot just discuss those changes without saying it was experienced as a visitation. I mean, the whole hard question of neurology or of science or philosophy is how to connect brain activity with experience and mind. And all we could say, on the whole, is that things go parallel.
GROSS: I'm just curious. Like how - how do you do functional brain imagery of somebody who has had a hallucination? I mean, they're probably not hooked up to the FMRI...
SACKS: Yeah.
GROSS: ...when they're feeling like they had this visitation from a lost loved one.
SACKS: Well, there, it will be difficult, because hallucinations like this are rare and sporadic and unpredictable. But there are other people - and I am especially interested in this, because I've worked in old age homes for the last 40 years or so, and I've seen many, many elderly people who are intellectually intact, but have impaired vision or hearing, have visual or auditory hallucinations on this basis.
The visual one they call Charles Bonnet Syndrome, and people may see faces. They may see landscapes, patterns, musical notation, for hours a day. And in this situation, you can have someone inside a functional MRI, and they can, say, raise a finger when they are hallucinating. You may then say to them: You are hallucinating faces. They may say, how the hell do you know? And you will say, because the face recognizing part of your brain suddenly became very active.
GROSS: Wow. Uh-huh...
SACKS: And it is this sort of thing, especially with patients with Charles Bonnet Syndrome, that you can plot and you can map the brain by the sort of hallucinations people get.
GROSS: What has been the most dramatic change you've seen in your field since you started as a neurology resident in the '60s?
SACKS: I think probably the ability to visualize the brain in life with functional imaging or PET scanning, and if the brain is exposed to record from individual cells. But there's been a whole change of orientation. We now, for example, think of vision - what one sees - as being constructed. We know that the image on the back of the retina then has to be analyzed by 40 or 50 different systems in the brain.
And then all of these work together to produce the final image. The sense of the brain's complexity and wonder, I think, has been increased. We are now very much looking at consciousness as a central problem, whereas that was regarded as either not a problem or an insoluble problem or a mystery 30 years ago. We have found forms of treatment which could not have been imagined a few years ago.
In particular I think of the use of stem cells and other things for neurodegenerative disease. I think neurology has both expanded and become much more hopeful than it was when I entered it. So neurology is fun now.
GROSS: Well, Dr. Sacks, it's just such a pleasure to talk with you. You're always so interesting. I thank you so much for coming back to our show.
SACKS: Well, thank you so much. And I always love talking with you and I love the way you keep me focused, or you try to keep me focused.
SACKS: Although I'm incorrigible.
GROSS: You're great. I really appreciate you talking with us. Be well and thank you again so much.
SACKS: Thank you.
BIANCULLI: Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, speaking with Terry Gross last year. His latest book "Hallucinations" comes out in paperback next month.
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NHL: Boston Bruins win in overtime 2-1 against the Ottawa Senators
BOSTON >> Patrice Bergeron scored the winning goal with 1:21 left in overtime after a replay review, lifting the surging Boston Bruins to a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
Nathan Horton scored the other goal for Boston, which won its fourth straight and was coming off a 4-1 road trip. The Bruins are 13-2-2 this season.
Tuukka Rask made 30 saves for the Bruins, including a pair of stellar stops in OT.
Jim O'Brien scored for the Senators, who had a five-game winning streak snapped.
Bergeron deflected a shot from the left circle that broke off Ottawa goalie Robin Lehner and trickled across the goal line. The crowd roared, the light went on and horn sounded, but the referee behind the net waved it off.
After a review, replays clearly showed the puck slid across when Lehner reached back and knocked it into the net before pulling it back out.
Lehner, recalled from the AHL on Feb. 22 after top goaltender Craig Anderson was sidelined with a sprained ankle, stopped 44 shots.
Rask's stops in overtime came on point-blank bids, the second coming off the stick of Kyle Turris' one-timer with just under 2 minutes left.
Bruins forward Milan Lucic was whistled for closing his hand on the puck with 32 seconds left in regulation when he fell on the ice behind the Senators' net, but Rask made a nice stop on Mika Zibanejad's bid from the point.
Boston took a 1-0 lead on Horton's goal 5:48 into the second period. Lucic's hustle play kept the puck in at the left point, where he flipped it in along the boards. Horton outmuscled a Senators defenseman for the puck, setting up a 2-on-1 play with Dougie Hamilton in the slot area. Horton then slid a change-of-pace shot by Lehner.
Ottawa tied it on O'Brien's power-play goal midway into the period, snapping Boston's streak of successfully killing off penalties at 27 straight.
With Ottawa's power play in the closing seconds, Kaspars Daugavins broke in on a clean breakaway. Rask made a right pad stop before David Krejci mishandled the rebound in a scramble in front before O'Brien slipped a shot into the net.
Midway into the second, Krejci split the defense and skated in for a backhand bid he fired wide while he was being hooked by Sergei Gonchar.
A little over 2 minutes after the Senators killed off Gonchar's penalty, Boston was whistled for too many men on the ice, setting the stage for O'Brien's tying goal.
The Senators lost some key pieces to their team, including defenseman Erik Karlsson, who is out for the season with a lacerated Achilles, and center Jason Spezza, also out for the season after back surgery. Top goaltender Anderson has missed the last three games with his sprained ankle.
But it hasn't slowed their play the past two weeks.
The Senators played the Bruins through a scoreless first period despite getting outshot 11-5. Neither team had any really good scoring chances.
NOTES: Lehnan had his only career shutout against the Bruins exactly one year ago, a 1-0 win at TD Garden. ... The Bruins opened a stretch of three home games in four days. They host Tampa Bay on Saturday and longtime rival Montreal Sunday night. ... Boston went 5-1 against Ottawa last season. ... Lehner, a backup the past two games, played in just his 14th career game. ... Anderson, injured last Thursday against the Rangers, entered the night with a league leading .952 save percentage.

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This home in Godric's Hollow served as the dwelling of Bathilda Bagshot, famed magical historian and author of A History of Magic. She was murdered by Lord Voldemort during the height of the Second Wizarding War, and after her murder her home went into disarray, with no one to care for it.[1]
Early history
Bagshot presumably lived in the house beginning at least in the late nineteenth century, as she is known to have lived in the town during the 1890s, when her great-nephew Gellert Grindelwald stayed with her briefly.[1]
Some time after Bathilda's death in 1997, her home was filled with the odours of old age, dust, unwashed clothes, and stale food. The sitting room was filled with candle stubs perched precariously on stacks of books and side tables covered in dirty dishes. Though the room also contained a fireplace, it remained very dark within even when lit. To one side of the room was a bow-legged chest of drawers on which there stood a large number of silver picture frames. Of these, half-a-dozen of the most large and ornate were missing, likely stolen by Rita Skeeter, who had interviewed a largely senile Bathilda some time before while working on her book, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore. At least one of the photographs, kept near the back of the collection, was of Grindelwald.[1]
Coming off of the sitting room was a hall, in which was a steep and narrow staircase. These led to an upper landing, to the right of which was a low-ceilinged bedroom. The bedroom contained at least one curtained window, underneath which was a cluttered dressing table and an unmade bed.[1]
A considerable amount of the building's interior was destroyed during a fight between Harry Potter and the Horcrux snake Nagini on 24 December, 1997.[1]
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Enterprise mobility company Good Technology plans to announce later Monday that it has hired Christy Wyatt as its next chief executive. Wyatt, a former Motorola and Apple executive, had most recently served a short stint as head of mobile efforts for banking giant Citi. She left Motorola at the time the Google acquisition closed.
Current Good CEO King Lee will remain on the company's board and serve as executive chairman.
The mobile position at Citi, meanwhile, has seen considerable turnover. Before Wyatt, Citi hired former Samsung executive Omar Khan, who left after about a year to become CEO of security firm NQ Mobile.
Update, 2:30 pm: In an interview, Wyatt said it was hard to leave after just six months in what she said was a very fun job at Citi.
"The timing is not great, but the opportunity is just not one you could say no to," Wyatt said.
There are a lot of interesting parallels between Wyatt's past gigs and her new one. At Motorola, Wyatt headed the company's enterprise unit. Motorola also owned Good Technology for a time, though Wyatt never had oversight of it.
Good Technology has been in the mobile space since the early days of the BlackBerry. Its first server software worked on RIM's devices and also with a handheld made by Good itself, though it quickly exited the hardware business.
Over the years, Good has built up technology for managing devices, offering secure corporate intranet access and browsing as well as handling e-mail and calendar.
"They have been planting seeds for a long time," Wyatt said. And now, Wyatt said, the company is poised for big growth as nearly every major company is bringing in iPads and looking for ways to support a range of iOS, Android and other mobile devices.
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I made soup for dinner tonight.
Good soup.
Everything but the kitchen sink soup.
- 1/2 red onion
- 1 large sweet potato (cubed)
- 1/2 cup mushrooms
- 2 cups fresh spinach
- 1 cup frozen broccoli pieces
- 1 can navy beans
- 1 can vegetable broth (+1 can water)
- thyme
- cumin
- s&p
Cook veggies until soft . Add beans. Add both. Add water. Season to taste. Bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Serve.
While the soup was simmering I realized I needed something else to go with it. Rice? No, we had that last night. Pasta noodles? No, all we had were penne. Bread? Out. Except for pitas that need to be defrosted.
Then I spotted the glass container of cornmeal on the counter and got an idea. Polenta? On soup? Why not.
I made a really quick version of polenta by whisking milk and cornmeal together in a pot on medium heat. There was no measuring, I just eyed it until the consistency looked right. I also added some salt and pepper and a heavy handful of cheddar cheese to season it up a bit.
When the soup was done I spooned a couple of spoonfuls of the polenta right on top of my soup. Derek created a polenta shell on top of his. His looked like a polenta shepard's pie, which totally gave me an idea for what to do next time. Polenta Shepard's Pie?! I think we're on to something here! 😉
The polenta on top of the soup ended up being the perfect addition. It was a nice salty/cheesy touch that added a lot of flavor and a fun texture to the standard bowl of soup. I will be trying this trick again. 😉
I was at my home away from home this afternoon (Starbucks – I knew I was in trouble when they built one right down the street from me). I had a grande non-fat misto and snacked on some almonds and dried mango while getting work done.
For dessert I defrosted a mango cupcake.
Is it weird I prefer the icing when it's still frozen? Next time I may just leave the cupcake and eat the icing straight out of the freeze. Yum. 🙂
It's a nice quiet evening around here – the perfect time to relax with another episode of Mad Men.
Good Night!


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Kids like my daughter are sometimes referred to as out-of-sync (The Out of Sync Child). They can also be 'highly sensitive children' (The Highly Sensitive Child).
And they make for sensitive, out-of-sync parents!
Last week I was reading an old blog post from when Rowan was 3ish.
About how she would have a meltdown because her socks were 'fligged'.
She still does this, although 'fligged' has slipped from her vocabulary ~ which is too bad, it was a perfect word for what she was feeling!
When I talk to people who are not 'sensitive' in the neurological/ temperamental sense (like my mother) it seems odd, lax or ridiculous to be a little panicked that your child has outgrown the one style of sock that didn't evoke tantrums for the last three years (and to be hoping for an early spring and the arrival of barefoot weather!).
But talk to another sensitive person or parent of one, and you laugh and commiserate over that perfect pair of socks, or the long list of foods that look too much like worms, or the stockpile of the favourite cereal that makes your mornings go more smoothly.
Several weeks ago we had an incident at skating lessons.
A boy was wearing a scary mask.
I cringed when I saw it, and then calmly (oh-so-casually!) mentioned it to Rowan.
She looked at it and declared it 'funny'.
Five minutes later, as the boy roared and chased the girls, I had a six year old wrapped around my neck in terror.
All the other children were enjoying the game.
For whatever reason, two mentions to the coach, one a direct request that the child take off the mask for the lesson, went unheeded (by the coach).
My daughter could not set foot on the ice.
I had to ask the boy's mother to remove his mask so Rowan could participate.
She did so, kindly and quickly.
And I was left feeling as out-of-sync as my daughter.
It was the right thing for me to do.
But I did it with the awareness that most of the other parents have no idea what it is like.
My daughter's sensitivity makes her kind and compassionate.
Creative and artistic.
Animals are drawn to her and trust her because she, like them, leads with her feelings.
It also puts her out of step with her peers.
It leaves her easily overwhelmed and easily hurt.
It saps her confidence and raises her anxiety.
It is tough.
We are on the verge of moving to homeschooling for at least the remainder of this school year because she has reached her threshold.
We are excited and terrified.
It is one more step out-of-sync, but it feels just right. ♥
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- Paula said...
Very much like my Ella. We were at Seedy Sunday and she found the other people there 'scary'. I thought we were going to have to leave. Once I explained that they were just like us and lived on farms, etc (an over-generalization I know) she was willing to stay. For some reason she is so afraid of men with any form of facial hair. She even is nervous around her uncles/great uncles who all have beards. She takes about 30 min to warm up to them.
We were at Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. She had a great time but was overwhelmed by all the people/kids.
Yet more proof that homeschooling is the way to go for us.
- 6 March 2012 at 09:42
- SEA Mama said...
I just love how consciously you raise your child. And kuddos to the decision to homeschool. I knew before my child was born that I would homeschool. I had seen what the school system does to children and I don't like it. Thanks for your inspiring posts and please keep them coming.
- 6 March 2012 at 13:31
- Unknown said...
Thanks for your responses (and I am glad I am not alone!!). I think I always knew homeschooling was a possibility, even a liklihood, we just weren't in a position to leap, until now :)
- 7 March 2012 at 00:17
- learningtable said...
I've been homeschooling since my oldest was in K5 (He's now in 8th.) I have NO REGRETS! We tried a K5 program for 3 weeks, and the spark was leaving his eye. His spirit was slowly being crunched into a package that was no longer my son. Now, he is thriving, creative, artistic, musical, beautiful. You know what is best for your child better than anyone else.
- 8 March 2012 at 23:08
- Unknown said...
First time I've stumbled upon your blog... and just had to comment. My son is "out of sync" and has struggled for years. He struggled in daycare, in preschool, in kindergarten, and through 1/2 of first grade. We ALL finally reached our threshold, pulled him out and are in our second full year of homeschooling. Never planned on doing it... now we'd never want anything else for any of our three children. They've ALL flourished since we brought him home. Good luck. You TRULY are not alone.
- 11 March 2012 at 23:47
- Mama Ruck said...
My son's doctor told me that it makes us (parents of out of sync children) super parents because we have to be constantly connected with our children. We stumbled for the first 4 years of life before we started to understand just what was going on. Now it is so easy to see his gifts through the struggles that others may see first. Thank you for sharing and for listing her many beautiful talents.
- 23 March 2012 at 03:06
- christina said...
Your blog and store are so beautiful! I wanted to comment on this post, as it just sounds so much like my oldest son (9). I love how supportive you are and how you recognize not only the difficulties but the *strengths* in being such a sensitive child. Homeschooling has been a lifesaver for us, and I wish you much luck on your journey!
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Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Aubergine Courgettes wuth Sudanese Tahini and Yogurt Dip
Posted by Amrita at Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Labels: A taste of India
5 Fertilize my soul:
- Nadwrażliwiec said...
Hmmm... Very exotic and I believe yummy...
- 14 April 2011 at 00:22
- Hold my hand: a social worker's blog said...
Oh...wow... it looks delicious!!!! I love tahini. How exciting about the Church Retreat... it will be a very special event!
What a lovely picture!!!
- 14 April 2011 at 06:44
- monsoon dreams said...
How I wish I could spend some days with you!!
Back from India after a hectic vacation,straight into a hectic job which starts at 6 am in the morning,till 5 pm!!Settling down now,getting adjusted to the fast pace.
May God give you a wonderful time at the retreat.
Love and hugs,
- 14 April 2011 at 07:17
- Amrita said...
Thank Zim, Doris and Nina, may God give me the opurtunity to cook for you some day.
- 14 April 2011 at 07:41
- Trish said...
Amrita, your food always looks delicious.
Enjoy the Church Retreat.
Oh, and Milka is beautiful.
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Andre Ethier, In My Own Words
For all you Ethierholics, after tonight's game on PRIME Ticket, stay tuned to see the premiere of "In My Own Words: Andre Ethier."
Hosted by Steve Lyons, the half-hour show will take a look at Ethier's breakout season in 2009, the mental approach he takes with each walk-off opportunity and what his first All-Star experience was like. The sit down interview will also feature Ethier's passion for food and how the birth of his son Dreson has changed him.
Additional content beyond the sit-down interview includes Ethier back home in Arizona (attending his jersey retirement at Saint Mary's High School), a mic'd up segment with the outfielder at this year's All Star game, and two "Dining with 'Dre" segments.
On a side note, Elias Sports Bureau sent us the following today…Ted Lilly, who allowed only two baserunners in seven innings in his Dodgers debut on Tuesday, is the only pitcher since 1900 to throw at least seven innings while allowing no more than two batters to reach safely (via hit, walk or hit by pitch) in his first game for the Dodgers.
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I hope Andre doesn't use any of the words on his program like the ones I think he is using following his at bats lately. He really needs to slow it down and get back to basics.
I was at the game last night and I doubt there were 38,000 people there. I know most of you would like to believe the lack of attendence is a reaction to ownership and perhaps there is some of that. But my guess is it is more because the Dodgers are just not that interesting right now. Hopefully that will change.
NOT FAIR!! I have MLB ticket (I moved to TN)…. the broadcast cuts off as soon as the game is over! Boo 😦 I LOVE ANDRE!
Today's pre-game quiz:
"Assistant General Manager Logan White was largely evasive when asked about the Dodgers' negotiations with first-round draft pick Zach Lee, but he acknowledged the club has not yet made the two-sport star an offer.
"We had some dialogue when we first drafted him, but that's it," White said. "We've still got time."
The last day to sign draft picks is Aug. 16."
Asked how hopeful he was of signing Lee, White said, "I feel the same way as when we drafted him."
White continued to insist that the cost-conscious Dodgers didn't draft an unsignable player as a way to avoid having to hand out a seven-figure signing bonus.
"We knew it would be perceived that way when we took him," he said.
"…has not yet made …… an offer". Really?
Mr White is:
A) Gullible
B) A company man
C) Incomprehensibly stupid
D) Both A and B
I'm voting for "B".
This could possibly be the most truthful statement: "Asked how hopeful he was of signing Lee, White said, "I feel the same way as when we drafted him."
I believe that he was ordered to draft him despite everyone in organized baseball was saying he was unsignable and has been toeing the company line ever since. That would make the above a true statement, because he knew he would never sign him when he drafted him.
Eric, the thing that bothers me most about Logan White's comments is his statement that management knew how this pick would be perceived but did it anyway. The only way to dispel this perception is make an honest good faith effort to persuade Lee to sign. If he does not sign, at least there was good intent by the Dodgers. But we are being told there has been little communication. I am disappointed White has to be the fall guy for this.
Did anyone read this???
And what do I say??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
cpompe1, I saw this the other day and had pretty much the same reaction you did.
Hey there birk. My husband just told me this when he got home today. I did a google search and found it. This is just horrible. God knows that Frank needs $$$, but Fox??? To put it mildly, I don?t think that?s in the best interests of the players on the field.
CP and lbirk, I think the scariest thing about that article is that we'd have BOTH McCourt and Fox as owners. Yeeesh!
birk, everyone was saying BEFORE THE DRAFT that the kid was not going to sign because he wants to play football. The Dodgers (or anyone) could come into a meeting with the best offer imaginable and Lee will probably turn them down.
And that's exactly why McCourt drafted him. And the only thing that will ever change my mind is seeing the notice that we signed him. But I'm not holding my breath and I don't suggest anyone else does either. Except McCourt. And Ned. And Joe.
I hear ya Eric. I?ve been saying the same thing about their #1 pick. And I?m with you on your assessment; I think that Logan is just being a company man here. I think there are A LOT of Dodger employees that are company men or women?
CP, there are people in the company I work for who would lie to their mother and if their boss asked them to do it. Not that I blame them, what with the job situation these days.
And I'm going to harp again about Torre's idiotic handling of pitchers. Lilly was in complete command last night and had thrown only 87 pitches through 7 innings. Removing a pitcher who has mowed down the last 20 hitters just to what I'm assuming is "keeping the bullpen sharp" is begging to lose games.
Well, maybe he …… naw.
Paul out, Ellis in.
Dodgereric & CP ~ I agree 100% with everything you said.
I am thinking more and more each day that: JOE IS AN IDIOT!
I also say that about Paul being sent down….too bad for him. Not that he was exactly hitting the crap out of the ball but, I'd much rather have him at the plate than G.A.!
Or Belliard, tru.
I saw D4's letter of thanks to you and Junie and the rest of your wonderful family and I have to say that it was one of the most remarkable and giving things I have yet seen. You are all to be commended.
And D4, well done to you, sir. And congratulations on pulling yourself up!
I can't help but wonder if Martin might not be looking forward to a stay at the Disabled List motel and that's why Ellis was recalled.
I'm going to keep running before I get submission errored.
I can't remember where I read it recently, but I saw Torre quoted as saying that the Dodgers couldn't have gotten Lilly unless DeWitt was included. And then it quoted Ned as saying that they COULD have gotten him without including DeWitt.
Who's lying here? Or who's talking out of their asss?
Dodgereric ~ It was my pleasure to get to know Dodger4life. Junie feels the same, I'm sure. I have to blame it on my upbringing….my parents were very caring, understanding people and I guess it rubbed off on me and my children.
I wish we had this guy back lol
I don't think I have to tell you guy who's that player is? It just gave the Twins the lead with his double.
No Loney tonight…Beliard at 1st….Ausmus catching.
oops he not it.
Just win win win and I see the Giants lost.
HI everybody
I'd really like to see "In my own words" with Andre Ethier, but unfortunately I can't.
I know this sounds stupid, so maybe I shouldn't write it, (HaHa)
Oh well here goes every time I see "In my own words" I think of "Out of the mouths of Babes".
I told you it was stupid.
"Giglio" "Lilly" a gift of some kind, maybe.
Tonight it's Padilla and LeBlanc, that means the Pads will be blanked in French.
ANOTHER WIN tonight, I hope that the Giants lose (Harray, they did) and I'm glad to see the Reds won, Com'on Astros.
Hello gang!!! Kudo's Nelly and Trumom!!! Outstanding!!! Getting to know you both here, I was not surprised, just deeply impressed!!! Let's get a win an crawl back into this race!!! Great to see and read you Dad/Eric!!!!
jhall my son! How the h – e – double hockey sticks are ya?
Boy, a lot of people came to the game tonight dressed as empty seats!
At least is isn't brown paper bags, Dodgereric!
lol they would be funny if everyone came in as them.
Oh for Juan.
Brutal line-up, but I see we've got Belliard's .217 in there so what could possibly go wrong?
From the previous thread……………
Fabulous song enchanted!!!
Dodger4life – You are most welcome, and I would do it all over again. I am not sure what pushed me into doing what I did, but I do believe God has a purpose for all the things He does, and I am certainly not doubting His timing in this one. I know you are thanking me, but I in turn have to thank you as well for being apart of my family's life for the time that you were here. It won't be forgotten any time soon I can guarantee it.
and from this thread……..
……….and Dodgereric, I remember a certain member of this ITD Family (and his wonderful wife) making a trip down to Merced ( a year and 6 1/2 months ago) for a classroom full of 1st graders and their teacher he knew by name only. So, you are certainly no stranger to doing things for others.
Yeah Andre!!!!!
Josh – thanks for letting us know about the special on Andre.
Hey Wally and Beav!!!
What's brutal is this team can't put up more than 2+ runs a games when they had there best players.
Hey Nells, how'd the tourney go?
Yeah Blake going to be fun to watch next year I still want to see what's Mitchell can do.
STOP THE PRESSES!!! 3 RUNS and a HIT BY POSEDNIK
Nice little offensive inning, here.
Nice little offensive inning, here.
I just hope that's not all from the Dodgers.
Hi'Ya Dad!!! Doing well, thanks!! How about you my friend?!! Hey Beav, Nelly, and Trumom!!! Well, off to a good start so far!! Let's pile on!!!!
submission error hell :((((
Our team went 4-1 and tied for 2nd? The team that got first was 3-0-2, meaning they tied two of their games. So, because they didn't technically lose a game, they were first. The whole team did very well. Out of the 25 man roster all the boys got playing time, which with the weather we had, really made it a challenge because in these tournaments it is all about pitching and the timing in when you pitch your better pitchers. So, with all the weather issues we had, it was a worthwhile experience for the boys. I don't think the people who put on the tournament (Under Armour/Baseball Factory) expected a bunch of valley boys to come in do so well. Thanks for asking!!
Yeah Dodgers!!!!
Well so much for that GW rbi from Repko for now since they now in extra inning.
Hi, Jhall ~ It's fun to be the one scoring for a change!
submission error hell :((((
Our team went 4-1 and tied for 2nd? The team that got first was 3-0-2, meaning they tied two of their games. So, because they didn't technically lose a game, they were first. The whole team did very well. Out of the 25 man roster all the boys got playing time, which with the weather we had, really made it a challenge because in these tournaments it is all about pitching and the timing in when you pitch your better pitchers. So, with all the weather issues we had, it was a worthwhile experience for the boys. I don't think the people who put on the tournament (Under Armour/Baseball Factory) expected a bunch of valley boys to come in do so well. Thanks for asking!!
Yeah Dodgers!!!!
Terrific Nells! NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE VALLEY!! 🙂
Too cool Nelly!!! I'm happy for you and the team!!!
I went from submission error to double post………….craziness!!!!
LOL Trumon, no doubt!!
Belliard went yard omg you kidding me?
Hey Wallyboy! 4 runs – a week's output!
Poor Nelly and I hate that too.
There is no such thing as a brutal lineup believe that lol.
No kidding BPB1!!!! They were truly from all over the valley too…………Chowchilla, Dos Palos, Los Banos, Merced, Atwater, Livingston, etc., etc. All that cow tipping paid off – LOL!!!!
Thanks Jhall!!!
LOL Beav!!! Maybe we'll score 11 or 12 and make it a months output.
Let's just see how many more runs we can get tonight?
Good Evening All…..
Wow, me liking this game, so far!
Something tells me Manny has been moved over to the side and out come Padilla…out with Mannywood in with El Palenque de Chente!
Shad – I believe Belliard went yard. Why? because JP went yard so anything is possible – LMAO!!!!
ETHIER!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome back!
Funny, I keep posting and posting and none are posted!
This game is starting to feel like last years….I GOT A FEELING….TONIGHT IS GONNA BE A GOOD NIGHT!
hahaha so I guess it is any hope for GA yet lol.
I'm surprised that Vin hasn't mentioned it but the Dodgers haven't received a walk in 10 straight inning. Yes
No Dodger has walked in 10 innings.
Shad ~ GA has to put the bat on the ball to hit one out 🙂
Maybe we did keep the right pitcher 5th innings 7 k's over Garland.
There's the wicked smile again.
After very little observation and a couple shots of tequila, it is my considered opinion that Theriot stinks.
oldbrooklynfan ~ I've been half watching, half paying attention to this game and just realized Padilla is pitching a whale of a game. No hits for the Pods after 5.
Ok Andre!!!
Well that ends it after 10.1
Yeah Andre!!!! Two doubles so far, one for each of his sons.
Hey Sparks – good to see you around these parts!
I think he need to play everyday but not for us. He does have 2 HR's.
Another double for Ethier
Yep, it might even be possible for GA to hit one out at this point. But, like tru said, he has to make contact with the ball first.
Thanx BPB. It's good to be here )
Nellyjune ~ two double for his kids and next, Andre hits a homerun for you 🙂
Dang espn.com just put this game in shade light blue.
Hi'Ya Sparky!!! Good to see you!!!
Eat the worm Beav!!! You won't be concerned about Theriot anymore!!! LOL!!!!
Nice to read about your boys Nelly, Nice going.
Hey, Jhall – good to see you, too! Been a while . . . . my fault. Been taking night classes trying to reinvent myself so don't get on here much. But sure enjoy the reading the day after 🙂
Another great inning for Padilla and after 6 innings dare I say it. No Hitter!!!
Hey, Jhall – good to see you, too! Been a while . . . . my fault. Been taking night classes trying to reinvent myself so don't get on here much. But sure enjoy the reading the day after 🙂
Hi Sparkleplenty and OBF….kind of fun to be scoring runs and pitching well too!
How weird is this? I got kicked off, but posted twice anyway!!!
Tru – good to see you – and Nelly, too!!! Not to mention OBF, TBW and Shad – HEY everybody!
Thanks oldbrooklynfan!!! We kept a few programs because some of these boys (on all the teams) might be playing for the Dodgers some day. There were some great players on all the teams.
Imagine 1 walk in twelve innings to the Dodgers and it was intentional.
Leave it to Scully to jinx Padilla.
Good to see you too Sparkleplenty. Glad to read you are taking classes. That's fabulous!!!!
Congrats to Padilla for 6 1/3 no hit innings.
Thanks Sparky, and good for you!!!
Two straight singles, I'm shocked that JoJo didn't lift him and put Sherrill in!!! LOL!!! Nice job Padilla!!! Let's finish'em off!!!!
Very nice game from Padilla. Now let's see what this Jansen kids got.
Hi Sparkleplenty
Good game so far – I am always amazed at how these patch work quilt lineups seem to work so well. They make Joe look so smart – or maybe like a magician 🙂 Of course, Padilla was downright brilliant tonight.
LeBlanc ate up some inning for the Pards, not a bad outing.
lol Wally shhhhhhh don't give him any idea.
LOL, BPB1….TOOTBLAN, sounds like a high fiber cereal 🙂
LOL Sparky!! It was Padilla. JoJo still has a chance to blow it!!! Not sure what Theriot was thinking trying to score on a ground ball right at a drawn in shortstop!!!
Padilla pitched a great game!!!! Let's keep it for him Dodgers!!!!!
BPB1's new favorite word – LOL!!!
Hold that lead, gentleman.
LOL Shad!!!
Hey Shad my friend, what is tonights attendance? What in the hell is TOOTBLAN Beav?!!!
Thrown Out On The Basepaths Like A Nincompoop. Baseball statistic invented for Ryan Theriot of the [then] Chicago Cubs.
You have to wait until the game finish. Is Torre really managing tonight but we're see what happen in the 9th?
Go ahead!!! Explain away enchanted!!!!
THAT is why enchanted loves that word, and the great part is his former team made it up.
I can't believe it – Padilla's coming up to hit in the 8th!!!
LOL Beav!!! We've had way too many TOOBLANS this season.
Look like Padilla might finish it off shock.
Way to go Vicente!!
An RBI for Padilla! He can replace GA as a pinch hitter!!!!
It help when 2 guys in front of him made out.
Oh n/m thought Carroll made an out.
That one's for you, Nelly!!!!
That's the first walk by a Dodger since the 2nd inning yesterday that was unintentional.
That's it. We won't score now for the next three games.
Told you, Nellyjune! A homerun for you!!!!!!
There is my homerun!!!!!!!!!! Now THAT is our Andre!!!!
ETHIER 17 one behind Kemp.
THE DROUGHt IS OVER.
That pitch was outside by a mile.
Now let's win it.
9 runs!!!! The flood gates have finally opened!! I think the slump could finally be over. Glad to see Padilla going for the CG.
Now THAT'S Dodger baseball!
Mighty fine game Vicente.
And that'll do it for me. Night everyone.
ANOTHER COMPLETE GAME SHUTOUT this time with Torre sitting in the dugout.
We could've had two in a row.
You said it sparkle! Congrats to Vincente on a magnificent outing and he did it with the bat too. Maybe the Dodgers will finally wake up now and get back into the race.
I am very glad Cat got a win for her birthday.
Vicente Padilla had a fabulous game……..a two-hit complete game!!!
The defense was great!
The offense finally brought their bats to the game.
Let's do this tomorrow again boys. It certainly is a lot more fun watching it when they play like this.
You are so right OBF.
Like I said before there is no such thing as brutal lineup and I know it one game.
Good Night Enchanted!!!! Have a great tomorrow!!!!
THAT is Dodger Baseball Sparkleplenty.
Amen Nelly!
Maybe they did make the right choice to keep Padilla over Garland.
The Dodgers game start the same time as the Rangers game and is still going on lol.
Game InformationStadium Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Attendance 48,988 (87.5% full) – % is based on regular season capacity
Game Time 2:30
Weather 71 degrees, clear
Gonna close down for now and watch Andre – see you all later
OH OH now it post!
Good evening All! I kept posting and posting and somehow it wouldn't show up!
There was like 10,102 more than last night.
It was a beautiful night for a Dodger Game!
They were giving away towels tonight so that could be the reasoning for the higher attendance.
Goodnight Sparkleplenty!!!
Speaking of Andre 2 kids would that be something they both get drafted in the 2nd round by the A's in draft year and we drafted Bradley Jr. in the 3rd round and Bradley Jr the 3rd in the 4th rounds lol. I guess the GM would be Billy Beane Jr hahaha.
NELLY – Hey I finally checked out a Dodger game at AT&T park…..beautiful park….LOVED IT! Now the ending was depressing but I got over it!
OUTSTANDING VINCENTE!!! Andre loves you Nelly!!! Goodnight All, catch you tomorrow!!! Excelsior True Blue Believers!!!
what a game. Complete 2 hitter. Dre comes alive. *******!
What really was cool for me was the 2-out RBIs. Finally
I tell you now ITD, a Dodgers Win tomorrow and its shots around!
I'm loving this!
Hi Rose!!! It is cool seeing you on here on ITD Late Night!!!
I'm glad EtHIER is back and our PITCHER PADILLA was excellent! GREAT JOB BOYS IN BLUE! It must of been the energy of DODGER4LIFE early…..EXTREMELY POSITIVE….keep it up!
NELLY – My computer at home gives me problems, it is very very old and sometimes I post late night and it blocks me out. Fustrating! But I manage to get it tonight….GREAT NIGHT! But believe my I posted abou 20 during todays game and none showed.
I mean in different years of course
Hey, I predicted the shutout!!!!!
When I came on at 8:12PM
Look it up.
Good Night Jhall!!! Have a wonderful day tomorrow!!!!
Rose – it has been a problem posting for all of us. It might be partly your old computer, but it is most likely just the blog itself.
I just got blocked out of Andre's show!!! That totally sucks !!!!
Wow that suck.
GREAT PREDICTION OLD-B so how does it look for tomorrow?
NELLY – I'm still watching Ethier's show. J O S H should provide Ethieraholics with a link so that they can enjoy the show via internet!
Rose – Like I have said, AT&T Park is a great ballpark. It is just too bad the Giants play there. I am glad you got to go, but the outcome of those games certainly weren't good.
I even have Prime Ticket, in addition to Extra Innings so I should be getting it. I agree Rose!! There are plenty of Ethieraholics that don't live in So-Cal.
Oh that would make me happy.
Ethier is about to talk about his kids. Hey does he still writes on his food blog???
Just realized that Nedajerk is Chad! LOL
No, he doesn't. The writer of the LA Times Magazine article asked him about it, and he said it was taking too much time away from other things once they started putting deadlines on him. I Still see him doing something in the food industry once baseball isn't a major part of his life.
Well GOOD NIGHT All!
Nelly it was wonderful chatting with you!
You too Rose. Good night!!!
hahahahahahaha I knew you would figure it out with some of my stats lol
You mean *shad but that's ok.
Shad – Rose calling you Chad reminded me of last season when Dodgereric said "Shad you suck!!!" meaning Chad (Billz) instead!! That was funny!!
I'm on vacation and finally found a way to stomach this team. By the time dinner rolls around, the game is over back in L.A. If the Dodgers can actually pull out tomorrow night's game, they are only six back and somehow still in his thing. Baseball is a bizarre creature……………………………………………..
It is being reported that Russell Martin is done for the season. What now ladies and gentlemen?
Oh yeah I remember that one plain and simple.
Time to called up Santana but oh wait we don't have him no more.
Santana would never been hurt if he was still with us.
As a Martinista (maybe the only one still out there…LOL) So sad to hear that Martin will be on the DL, wish him well. NOT MY RUSSELL .
Can you see Ethier or Kemp doing this:
Couple of wins are nice. Scoring a few runs is even better, but I hold no delusions this team is going to crawl back into anything except maybe 4th place when they go back into the tank. Just too many holes and not enough talent. No, I'll just accept the wins and losses for what they are and hope like hell Frank's forced to sell the team to someone who's capable of running a major league franchise.
I see Martin's on the 15-Day DL, maybe out longer. So we're going to be out an under .250 hitter with very little power who can't drive in runs, who hits into DPs, situational hits like JP, and is the owner of 10 freakin errors as a catcher. To this I say YIPPEE. Unfortunately all we have to replace him with isn't any better. Nothing like going with a 41 year old catcher down the stretch – thanks Ned, another job well done (yet another reason I hold no delusions for this team.)
I know, I know. I go over about as big as a turrd in the punchbowl after a couple wins, but when have you ever known me not to tell it like I see it?
Ummmmmmm…………..that would be never 🙂
BPB1 ~ you certainly always say what you think and I appreciate it…..you can be the T.I.P. (turrd in punchbowl) and dodger4life can be the scoop! lol
LMAO!!! I like it Tru!!
And I TIP my hat to you!! 🙂
Floater works equally well. :))
Where's Bear?
Bear – you having "blog problems" again?
I was just thinking the same thing……….. Where is Messagebear?
some hope. tonight is biggest game of year and a momentum game we have to win. chad can go to 10-5 with a 3.7ish era and that is SOLID!!
Season?s over. Wait til next year. No wait, wait til next decade, because that?s how long it will take to rebuild, since Frank and Ned have ravaged the farm system.
Now that the starting pitching is in decent shape, or at least reasonable enough that we?re not complaining about it on an hourly basis, the offense/defense has fallen apart. Let?s review:
Catcher ? We?re left with a 41 year old just back from the DL and a no-hit wonder back-up. Way to go, Ned ? maybe now you are re-thinking your Santana and May trades.
First base ? Good clutch hitter, but no power. This is a power position.
Second base ? Just went from bad to worse. Too bad Frankie couldn?t afford to re-sign ODawg.
Shortstop ? Furcal is super when he?s healthy, but right now he?s not healthy and will he ever really be healthy for a full season again?
Third base ? Blake has performed solidly as a journeyman over the past two years, but he?s not getting any younger and it is showing.
Left field ? Manny has checked out. So we replace him with a JP equivalent. Wow, that?s really gonna get me to the ballpark. Again, this is a power position ? where?s the power?
Center field ? Now, I like Kemp, but TOOTBLAN could have been invented by us for Kemp two years ago. Personally, I?m ashamed that the Cubs fans beat me to it.
Right field ? Andre?s pinkie injury put a hole in the offense for the past two and a half months. OPS of .613 in June and .729 in July doesn?t cut it for a corner outfielder.
No matter what….DODGERS are SCREWED and the only way to WIN is by a MIRACLE!
Miracles do happen!
Can't say as I fault that assessment Crash. And you didn't even get into the bullpen. No, I have a feeling over the next decade (assuming the team's not sold to someone with money and baseball savvy) we'll be just like Cubs fans.
BTW, pretty sad that inside of 1 year we've gone from Hudson to Belliard to DeWitt/Carroll to Theriot. If that alone doesn't speak volumes about the front office, nothing does.
Pick one…tough
UNDECIDED – whatever camp I feel like visiting, day by day, one day at a time, girl with mood swings, a bit of everything.
I'm going to hold on to this afterglow of the complete game 2-hitter, with Dre stroking up a fire. Yea I read all this realistic negativity, and those that spout it, will continue too, all justified. and there are the rah-rahs that after two wins on the padres, think the dodgers are WS bound.
Steady the course, one game at a time, this team needs to execute like they have never done before, it seems this whole season has been a spring training, errors, base running gaffs, bad batting, BP BS, you all have seen it, but now can the Dodgers just excel, and deliver, get 110% from those not doing 80%, keep the consistency we have seen from the starting pitching, and can JT not pull the SP to expose of our cow pasture(BP). Lets wait on tonight, I have hope, and I am understanding it could be "Nope"
That's cool Koufax. We'll mark you as a "cautiously optimistic."
So we have the TIP/floaters, the rah-rahs, and the COs. OK everybody, pick a camp. 🙂
BPB1, I could become CO, as Causticly Offensive, when the wrong trends sets in, one instance would be if McCourt doesn't sell this team.
Count me as OSCSUN (Only Shpunt Can Save Us Now)
Good afternoon all! While I am happy to see some very good pitching the last two days, and some signs of life offensively, I am very cautiously optimistic. I'm not off the bandwagon by any means, but I'm not making playoff plans just yet either. Let's see another win tonight, followed by at least 2 of 3 from the Nats, and then we'll talk. Let's go Dodgers! Restore our faith in you!
LOL crash!
Good afternoon ITD!
I just take it one game at a time. I love baseball, I was thinking of going to see the 66rs last weekend since I could not make it to SF but really last weekend was my first weekend where I could take care of some stuff at home, my car, personal stuff and just relax.
Hey watching Padilla throwing the "soap bubble" like Vin calls it is something else. Watching it on TV does no justice. I was excited keeping score thinking I was finally going to see a no-no in person. He pitched a heck of a game.
Blow me Ned and I know this is the 1st start for McDonald in a Pirates uniform but I'm not happy about it.
J McDonald 6.0 4 0 0 1 8 0 89-54 4.61
To bad Loney can't played 2nd bases his number would be fine.
Leave Ellis alone and he might come out like a Repko this year and if he get the majority of the start.
Handsight is always 50/50 did anyone seen this coming from Martin. He look good when he took over for Navarro than all of sudden he sucking time. May defense is not that good.
I forgot big time.
Giants and Rockies both lost…..LET'S GO DODGERS!!!!!
I guess no hitter for Chad tonight
Tb4 ~ That's good news about the Giants and Rockies. It can be a very productive night for the Dodgers if they can win. Nice DP to get Bills out of that jam.
Nice DP Loney
I meant no no hitter for him when Hairston got that lead off
Pedro Martinez reject offered to come back in the major.
Fan collapses on field at Dodger Stadium
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LOS ANGELES — The leader of a church group that had 4,000 members in attendance at Dodger Stadium collapsed on the field during batting practice on Thursday.
The man, identified as Don Hawkins by a Dodgers official, was taken by a Los Angeles Fire Department ambulance to a hospital at 6:35 p.m. PT. He collapsed while the Padres were taking batting practice.
Medical staff performed CPR on Hawkins on the field before he was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Two members of the church group rode in the ambulance. Both members were to throw out the first pitch Thursday night.
The Dodgers asked over the speaker system before the game that fans keep Hawkins in their thoughts.
Hawkins' hometown, age and condition were unknown.
Not much good you can say for the game tonight. Billz isn't awful, but 3 runs will do this team in just about every time. Despite last night's aberration, this team couldn't hit its way out of a wet paper bag. Still trying to figure out how we ended up with Posednik when what this team lacked was punch. He's as bad if not worse than JP. Ned really is an idiot isn't he? (No need to answer that, its a rhetorical question.)
I see Martin's done for the season. Here's a word of advice Ned – don't tender him. Even if he loses arbitration he'll still be making $5 mil, and there's got to be a FA catcher that'll sign for less and put up better numbers. Though evidently not the ones Ned signs, given that we've seen the likes of Bennett, Alomar, Ausmus, and Lieberthal.
Hi Everybody
Was out a little later tonight and got back a little while ago.
I see the Dodgers are having trouble scoring tonight.
Maybe Correia will tire and things might start. We hope.
Especially frustrating that were not knocking ex-Giant, Correia, out of the game, BPB1.
Hey, maybe they heard me! lol
Then, again, I guess not!
Oh heavy sigh!!! We haven't given ourselves the luxury of splitting a 4 game series at home with the Puds!!! We need this game or we are right back where we started Monday. Just 4 fewer games to try and catch up. Puds getting a split in our ballpark is a big victory for them!!!
Yep Trumom, we can't score on a guy with an ERA well over 5. Pathetic!!!
Andre Ethier in Wally's words. Please judge, make the McCourts sell the team!!!!
🙂 🙂
Let's go Dodgers, Lets go Dodgers, Lets go Dodgers. NOW.
Truely Pathetic!!! I think you can start making your October plans. Perhaps listening to the playoffs on a cruise!!! LOL!!!
Ay George.
Hopefully Sherrill has a couple of decent outings, and we can put him on waivers. Someone might bite!!!
Maybe someone would take Garrett Anderdone!!! Way to go Ned. Now we have Pathsednik!!! What a waste!!!
The man Shad mentioned earlier, passed away. They were unable to save him.
lol Ethier playing 1st bases is crazy. Bring back JMac
GA in right field and Andre playing first base. I think Joe has either lost his mind, or he is really letting Frank have it in his own special way. Unbelieveable!!!! And there is no way that was an Inside the Park Home run. It was a major error on Podsednik for allowing the ball to roll right past him, with a touch of fan interference.
:))) Pathsednik!!! Doesn't matter Nelly, we're toast!!! No butter, no jelly!!!
new thread 🙂
We can say the same thing when Pods had a triple when it surely look like the ball should be caught. I hate to say this but I was right on Corriea pitching well against us while we should've had score all those but I keep it to myself didn't want to jinx it.


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