What can win or lose this game for OSU - Baver Answers Colin's Questions Part 2

Colin: I used to make fun of Trace McSorley for just chucking up jump balls and getting lucky. But he sure seems to get lucky a lot. Will this work against the OSU secondary?

Baver: I think most Buckeye fans have now seen enough of McSorley’s lobs into coverage to realize that it isn’t just luck when he completes so many of them. It helps having a 6’4” target in Juwan Johnson and a physical freak like 6’6” TE Mike Gesicki to throws lobs to. And their top WR DaeSean Hamilton isn’t small either (6’1”), and he plays the ball extremely well. It also appears that the Penn St offensive coaches do a pretty good job of finding their opponents’ matchup problems in coverage. This is a huge concern for Ohio St, as the Buckeye corners have had their problems in coverage, often not getting turned around to play the ball. 

Colin: Will Urban be wise and avoid kicking to Barkley on kickoffs or be stubborn and risk giving up a big play?

Baver: Barkley is a pretty good return man, 5th nationally (at this point) in KOR avg, but I am not sure he is at the level where you kick away from him. (Knock on wood.) Maybe you take more chances with the coffin corner, and concede to giving Penn St the ball at the 35 if the kick goes out of bounds. By the way, Parris Campbell would be 2nd in the nation in KO return avg, but he is one return shy of the minimum # of returns needed to qualify. If I were James Franklin, I wouldn’t be kicking the ball to Parris.

Colin: Penn State's defense has impressive numbers. Any true NFL caliber studs on that side of the ball?

Baver: Actually, not really. All 11 starters are draft eligible, but safety Marcus Allen and DE Shareef Miller are the only guys projecting as high as 2nd day picks. But Yahoo sports recently talked with 8 coaches that have played Penn St, and every one of them commented about how well the Nittany Lion defense plays together. And they have a lot of bodies that contribute on defense, with 17 different Penn St defenders having registered sacks so far this season. That’s crazy.

Colin: Final thoughts on what can win or lose the game for Ohio State?

Baver: We talked about the problems Buckeye defenders have getting turned around in coverage – this could be a huge factor. The Buckeye LBs are also going to have to play assignment football in playing the read option with McSorley/Barkley, and will have to hold their own in pass coverage. Protecting JT is also a must. On the other hand, if JT gets decent protection and throws the ball with confidence, I think Penn St is in trouble. And if JT makes Penn St respect his arm, JK Dobbins will get his yards against the Nits #1 rated rush D. We also talked yesterday about OSU biggest advantage Saturday, and that is their D-line vs PSU’s O-line.

Colin: Breakdown Ohio State-Penn St from a Vegas perspective. We’ll pass on the other games this week, as there is really only one game that matters.

Baver:  Most people I talk to think the 6 ½ pt spread is too high. That line likely has a lot to do with the situational angle, with Ohio St at home, off a bye and the Nits off the huge white-out home win against Michigan. Urban is 40-10 against the spread in gms where he has had more than 7 days to prepare for his opponent. If you know anything about picking games against the spread, that is insane. On the flip side, PSU has covered the Vegas spread in 15 of their last 17 games, another crazy stat. I wouldn’t lay 6 ½ in this one – Penn St’s offense is going to put points on the board. The McSorley/Barkley combo is as good as it gets. I think the game could go either way, but I think more things favor Ohio State in this one – there is a reason why they are just short of a touchdown favorite here. The Call: Ohio State 31 Penn State 28.

 

Why does OSU-Penn State seem bigger than other recent big games? Baver Answers Colin's Questions - Part 1

Colin: Why does this big game feel bigger than other recent big games? Future implications? Revenge? Is it because Ohio State fans truly dislike Penn State? 

Baver: The last two big game embarrassments at the hands of Clemson and Oklahoma have created a fragile OSU fan base. I’ve never seen Ohio St be a 6+ point favorite in a game and hear so many doubts from Buckeye fans. With Ohio State being: the team that has more talent, the team that has more depth, the team that has the better coaching staff, the team playing for revenge, the team that is at home, and the team that is off a bye…if that Buckeye team can’t beat a Penn St team that is far better at home than on the road, then this is a major dose of reality for Urban and Ohio St. So yes, future implications are huge here. Usually with those advantages, you simply check the win box if you are Ohio St. But you obviously can’t do that here. If there was any hope of doing so, those hopes were squashed when Penn State torched Don Brown’s vaunted Michigan defense last Saturday night. And that raised the stakes for Ohio State-Penn State even higher.

Colin: Who are you most concerned will hurt the Buckeyes: Saquon Barkley or Trace McSorley? Somebody else?

Baver: Probably McSorley, as his style is going to cause Ohio State problems. He is somewhat of Baker Mayfield clone, with the scrambling and improvising. The OSU defense couldn’t handle Mayfield in early September, but have they progressed enough to rein in McSorley? We shall see. With Barkley, I don’t see him grinding away at the Buckeye defense; it’s the plays where he breaks free for huge gains that I worry about more, but that of course is no small concern either. And the combo of the two, when McSorley runs the read option, is pretty hard to defend. McSorley will make you pay if you key too much on Saquon.

Colin: Can the Penn State O-line hold up against Nick Bosa and company?

Baver: I don’t think so. It’s an improved PSU O-line, but Ohio St’s D-line vs Penn St’s O-line is the biggest tangible advantage Ohio State has in this game. 

Colin: Will Penn State use the same defensive formation employed by MSU, MICH, Clemson and Oklahoma and dare JT Barrett to throw downfield? (10 up / 1 safety)

Baver: I think they will indeed stack the box to make JT beat them with his arm, and adjust if JT starts making them start paying for it. I mean, that is certainly what I’d do. JT is now throwing the ball better? JT now has much more confidence? If I’m Penn State, I say, “Prove it”.

Colin: What can Ohio State do to finally score against a top caliber team?

Baver: From a strategy standpoint, Urban has to keep running his tailbacks, a strategy he has gotten away from as the games wore on in some high profile losses. Curtis Samuel had only two carries in last year’s loss in Happy Valley. That was criminal…especially when one of those two carries went 74 yards to the house. Unless Penn St goes to ridiculous measures to take the run away, Urban and Kevin Wilson have to keep giving the ball to JK Dobbins. From a performance standpoint, JT has to throw the ball with confidence, and trust his WR’s….a group that has come a long way since being shut down by the Sooners.

Colin: The forecast on Saturday is for rain. Who does this benefit?

Baver: OSU’s performances against Sparty the past two seasons tell me that bad weather is not a good thing for Ohio State. But from an X’s and O’s standpoint, I think the bad weather probably favors Ohio St. If both teams are reduced to mostly running the football because of the weather, I like Ohio St’s chances of stopping Penn St’s running game more than I like Penn St’s chances of stopping OSU’s running game. It doesn’t matter to me that PSU has the top-ranked run defense nationally; it’s going to be harder for the Penn St O-line to make that Buckeye D-line budge. Also of note, JK Dobbins actually has more rushing yards than Saquon Barkley this season on quite a few less carries. Urban just can’t abandon the tailback run in a big game again, or I’m going to have a mental breakdown.

 

 

 

  

 

What if MLB Didn't Have Playoffs? - by Jack Obora

While I celebrated the fall of the Yankees in Game 7 of the ALCS this past Saturday night, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed at how the season ended. As an Indians fan, I’d once again be watching the World Series without a real rooting interest. I suppose having both my favorite teams in the Series last year means I don’t get to enjoy such spoils for at least a couple more decades, and as a Cleveland fan in general I’ve had plenty of practice watching other teams win championships, but it doesn’t make it any more fun. In terms of wins and losses, this was the second-best Indians team ever, and they played like it. But instead they get to watch from the couch because of a team that didn’t even win their division.

But why even have divisions? Prior to Major League Baseball splitting things up into East and West in 1969 and long before our modern-day addiction to playoffs (and their TV revenue) the World Series was played between the two teams who compiled the best record all season. Finished 3 games behind the Yankees? Tough luck. Had a hot September but a cold July? There’s always next year. A 162-game season was considered a better indicator of who was the best team in the land than two abbreviated series of 3-7 games spaced out over a month. Weird, huh?

Still, I wondered: How different would the World Series have been if there weren't playoffs? What if, instead of the two hottest teams in October, we saw a battle between the two best teams in baseball? I decided to spend my entire evening take a little time to figure it out, and here’s what I found:

 

  • The first team to have the best record in their League and fail to win the Pennant was the 1972 Pirates, who lost to the Reds in the deciding 5th game on a wild pitch, in what turned out to be the last game of Roberto Clemente’s career. Oakland (who did have the best record in the AL) would top the Reds in 7 to take the World Series.

  • The first World Series to feature two teams without the best record in their League was 1973. A “traditional” World Series would have featured the Orioles and Reds, instead of the A’s and the Mets.

  • During the East-West divisional years, the “traditional” World Series remained fairly common, with 13 instances of the top-seeded playoff teams facing each other in the Fall Classic and only 5 instances where neither top seed made it. In the Wild Card Era, though, it’s another story; there have only been 3 “traditional” Series since 1995, compared to 9 without either top seed. Considering we’ve now had the Wild Card nearly as long as we had the East-West format (there’s a scary thought) it’s a pretty stark contrast.

  • If you got sick of Bobby Cox getting outcoached in the World Series in the 90s, then you’re probably thankful for the Wild Card. Without it, the Braves would have won 9 NL pennants between 1992-2003, including 7 in a row bookended by the Barry Bonds-led Pirates and Giants. The Yankees would have been in the Series less in the 90s, but more in the 00s, so there unfortunately wouldn’t be much difference there.

  • Much to the chagrin of ESPN, the Yankees-Mets Subway Series would not have happened in 2000, which would have instead featured the White Sox and Giants. They would still have gotten their wish in 2006.

  • The Chicago Cubs’ 2016 NL Pennant would not have been the one to snap their World Series drought. Instead, it would’ve been their fourth Pennant since 1984, and their second in the last ten years. Still, considering the teams they would have been facing in the 80s (the powerhouse ’84 Tigers and ’89 A’s), it still may very well have been the team that broke the Championship drought.

  • The Marlins, Padres and Rockies would still be without a World Series appearance. But the Mariners’ 116-game winners would have made it in 2001, and the Nationals would have two Pennants since 2012.

  • Indians fans can breathe a sigh of relief that neither of their extra-inning-game-7 tragedies would have occurred, as they wouldn’t have made the Series to suffer through it. They would, however, have gotten a rematch with the Braves in 1996, and we’d be watching Corey Kluber and Andrew Miller quiet down Dodger Stadium instead of watching the Astros’ pitching melt in the LA heat.

You can draw your own conclusions about how Nolan Ryan would have fared against Reggie Jackson in ’80, or whether Don Denkinger’s blown call at 1st would have given the Blue Jays their first ever World Series title in ’85. But I’d settle for adding some meaning to the regular season and rewarding success all year long, not just at the last minute.

 

Jack Obora is a political liberal and a sports conservative. He lives in Dublin with his girlfriend, his cat, and his music library, and spends way too much time learning things that will help him win bar trivia nights. You can follow him on Twitter @JackObora.

Pencilstorm Interviews: Superintendent Paul Imhoff

Pencilstorm reached out to Upper Arlington Superintendent Paul Imhoff with five questions about Issue 43, the school levy on the November 7 ballot. It is a 3.75-mill operating levy combined with a $230 million bond issue (which would be collected at a rate of approximately 5.17 mills above current collections). Together, the issue would be collected at a rate of 8.92 mills above current collections. This would fund rebuilding the high school and rebuilding or renovating all five elementary schools to address the aging building systems (HVAC, plumbing, mechanical, electrical) and add the needed space to accommodate projected enrollment growth. It also includes addressing drainage issues and installing a turf field and baseball/softball diamonds on the district-owned land behind Tremont Elementary School to serve as needed athletic space.

His unedited answers are published below.

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The school board is asking for a lot of money, roughly $26 per month for each $100,000 of home valuation. Does Upper Arlington really need a new high school and rebuilding or renovating five elementary schools?
Assessments have shown that our existing buildings will need $188 million of repairs over the next 15 years, with the most immediate needs at the high school, followed by the elementary schools.  

During the facilities master planning process, the community volunteers on our building teams suggested other options for the buildings in addition to simply repairing them.  After receiving cost estimates for those other options, we asked our entire community to weigh in on the preferred options through public meetings, online surveys and telephone surveys.  In all, we had more than 8,000 touch points throughout the process.  It’s this feedback that led to the current plan to rebuild the high school and rebuild or renovate all five elementaries.  The Board of Education believes these decisions rest with the community. And the BOE believes the community has spoken over the past several years and the master plan is a reflection of the community voice.

This levy covers a lot… operations (money to run the school) and another $230 million for a new high school, and rebuilding or renovating five elementary schools.  Why is this getting bundled?  Can we parse this out and pay for some today and some 10 years from now to reduce costs?
The Board of Education felt it was important to keep the issues combined because they are so closely related and separating them would, in essence, present the community with a false choice.  If the bond issue and operating levy were separated and only one passed there would not be funds available to continue operating the district at its current levels.  For instance, if an operating levy passed and a bond issue failed the district would need to divert significant dollars from all areas of the district’s operating budget to make the needed repairs to the current buildings.

The recommendation to address both the high school and the elementary schools at the same time came from the local business experts on the Financial Advisory Board.  They came at the issue from a business perspective and believed that it was most practical to do the high school and elementary schools at the same time for three reasons.  In their final report, the FAB cited inflation in construction costs, a possible increase in interest rates and the anticipated need to fund trailers as a temporary remedy for enrollment growth at the elementary schools.

Based on those three points, the FAB recommended completing the high school and elementary schools in the first phase to lower the costs over time and realize the lowest tax rates over time.  They advised that doing the projects together was a wise business choice.

How did you estimate pricing for rebuilding the high school, renovating Barrington and Tremont elementary schools, rebuilding Wickliffe and Windermere elementary school and some of Greensview Elementary? Are the plans finalized?
We worked with experts in the construction field to gather total-cost estimates for all of our projects.  These estimates were vetted by two panels of community volunteers with expertise in the areas of construction, real estate and business.  

It’s important to note that these are all-in costs and assume going to the market for pricing in early 2019.  The Board of Education was adamant about transparency in our estimates and wanted to ensure all hard costs and soft costs associated with the projects were included.

While we have been able to estimate the costs of the projects, none of the buildings has actually been designed because we believe that should be done in partnership with our community.  If Issue 43 is supported by voters, we will begin a separate design phase that is open to any student, community member or staff member who would like to take part.

The Natatorium for the new High School is estimated at $17 million, which is about 12% of the overall high school project estimate of $144 million.  Why are we paying so much for a swimming pool? The newly built Tremont Pool cost only $4.5 million.
All pools are expensive, but there are major differences between an outdoor pool and an indoor pool. The comparison is apples to oranges in nature.  For instance, an indoor pool includes spectator seating, storage space, mechanical space and locker rooms in addition to the building that will enclose the space.  The $17 million is an all-in number and has been escalated to reflect 2019 dollars.  It is in line with similar natatorium projects.

Why can’t we look at other resources for funding to reduce costs?  Donations, corporate sponsorships, alumni gifts, student fees, sales or income taxes?  Can we save costs by reducing current operating expenses?
The community volunteers on the Financial Advisory Board considered several ways to help reduce costs for taxpayers.  Based on their feedback, the master plan calls for the largest private fundraising effort in the history of the district, raising at least $5 million in private donations.

The district also continues to seek operational savings through the Efficiency Project, which we launched in 2013. It was a commitment to the community to enact $4.5 million in efficiency measures by the summer of 2017.  The district was able to exceed this goal by the fall of 2016, and residents can view a list of each efficiency measure and the related savings at www.uaschools.org/efficiency.

Pencilstorm would like to thank Paul for taking the time to answer our questions. For more information about the levy visit: www.uaschools.org/facilities and www.uaschools.org/issue43.

Local UA Politics coverage provided by Wal Ozello. You can email him at Pencilstormstory@gmail.com or try to catch him at Colin's Coffee.

Cindy Sherman at the Wex: Her Camera Always Lies - by Anne Marie

Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life, an exhibit featuring more than 100 works by the artist spanning more than four decades, opened September 16 and runs through December 31 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The Cindy Sherman exhibit is the grand finale to a spectacular year in which every artist featured in the Wex galleries was a woman, and each exhibit outshone the next.  If you think you’ve never heard of Cindy Sherman, you may be aware of her without realizing it.  In the past few decades, she and her work have achieved iconic status.  I last saw a Cindy Sherman exhibit years ago at the MoMA in NYC and it was the talk of the town.  So, my Cbus friends, I hope that you appreciate how incredibly lucky we are that Sherri Geldin and her fellow magicians at the Wex have managed to procure this show for Columbus.  NYC does not get this show.  Columbus is the only stop outside of the inaugural show at The Broad in LA and you will not regret working a viewing into your entertainment schedule before 2017 draws to a close.  

When you go, I would highly recommend that you take advantage of one of the free docent-led tours that the Wex offers on occasion (call to confirm dates and times) and can be scheduled at other times for groups of 8 or more. That’s what my friends and I did recently and our docent - lovely retired Barrington Elementary librarian Carol, and docent-in-training, Medieval Art History student Izzy - could not have been any more knowledgeable or engaging.  Before we knew it, more than an hour and a half had flown by and I had to call the restaurant to push back our dinner reservations at Trillium down the street. But I digress......  

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We began our tour in front of a giant full wall-sized selfie of Cindy.  We decided this particular self-portrait of the artist is unusual in that it is unadulterated. No image-altering makeup, costumes, prosthetics. She sits in what appears to be in an urban bar setting looking steadily off to…? But even though this looks like the real Cindy Sherman, is that who we are supposed to be seeing, or is she supposed to represent someone else, a larger identity? And so the questions begin: Who is Cindy Sherman? What does she want us to see in her art? She stars in all of her photos but claims that they aren’t autobiographical.  She has been willing to accept that much of her art is an examination of gender and identity but resists defining herself as a feminist.

Here’s what I know about Sherman (courtesy of Wikipedia and some other quick internet research): Cynthia Morris "Cindy" Sherman was born January 19, 1954 in NJ. She attended college at SUNY Buffalo from 1972-1976.  In 1983, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, the first of numerous honors to follow including a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1982, with Sherman still in her twenties, Eli and Edye Broad began with uncanny prescience to amass the world’s largest collection of her art.  It’s much of that collection, on loan to the Wex, that makes the current exhibit possible.

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Our next stop was a bit of a strange one and I have to thank our docents for encouraging us to make it.  We pondered the entry wall painted with the exhibition title at the base of the stairs. We looked at the title - Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life - painted in pale blue and framed in pale pink, the colors typically reserved for baby showers, for representing gender.   We decided this is a signal for us to watch for Sherman playing with stereotypical ideas of gender, and with that we dove into the main exhibit starting with one of her latest works from  2016 - Sherman a la Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, part of her recent series of aging starlets, likely as she confronts her own aging now that she’s in her early 60s, within the context of an industry notorious for discarding actresses as they age.

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After a quick stop at some of her very early work, we moved on to Untitled Film Stills (1977-80) from when Sherman moved to NYC from Buffalo at the age of 23. In these, she uses makeup, costumes and scenery to present herself as popular stereotypes of generic Hollywood stars and other women.  The pictures look so real that at first you struggle to place which film they are from.  Even though your brain knows that every picture in the exhibit is Sherman, she is so skilled at the art of deception that you get pulled in.  Our group decided that the picture below looks like a young Liz Taylor-type caught in a tryst.

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Although she occupies both sides of the camera, Sherman thinks of herself as an artist, not a photographer.  For her, and for the viewer, the art is in the transformation and the transformation is intended to make us think about the pervasive influence of history, advertising, cinema and the media on identity and particularly female identity.  Nowhere else was this more powerfully evident to me than in the Centerfolds.   Artforum magazine commissioned Sherman to create a series of centerfolds. She did, but rather than looking erotic or sexy, hers look scared, hunted and victimized and the magazine rejected them.

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I haven’t even scratched the surface here. So much to see! Did I mention that you can see pictures that I swore were Sherman as Courtney Love and Hillary Clinton, but they weren't? Did I mention that you can watch Sherman's 1997 horror movie, Office Killer starring Molly Ringwald, Carol Kane and Jeanne Tripplehorn which, if you bring the kids, is in a separate viewing room along with Sherman as a mutilated hermaphrodite sex doll?  Or that there’s a free audio guide with celebrity commentary by Miss Sixteen Candles herself and John Waters (which I didn’t listen to on my first visit but will on my next)?

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You just gotta get to the Wex!  - AML

 

#allwomenallyear #theWex #leapintotheWex #womenattheWex #theWexrocks #cindysherman

 

Pencilstorm Remembers Tom Petty - by Colin Gawel

Monday October 2nd was a shitty day. As the body count was racking up from pyscho-guy shooting up Vegas for no apparent reason, word broke that Tom Petty had passed away unexpectedly. I had been out running some errands when I heard the news so I cancelled whatever I had been planning on doing and ended up sipping a beer with Dan Cochran at his Four String Taproom. We just sorta sat there listening to Tom Petty. 

Anyway, since I play the Four String Taproom every Thursday, I figured it made sense to a do a set of Tom Petty songs. Soon word got out and people started lining up to join me. Nobody was asked, it was an all-volunteer force. It all happened very organically and very quickly. Ricki C. stage-managed the whole thing. There were no advertisements and there was no cover charge. You won't find any footage online as we respectfully asked folks to keep the phones away and stay in the moment. It was one of the best nights I ever had playing music. It was one long Tom Patty sing-along. The only thing missing was a campfire. Below is the set-list and players to the best of my memory. 

Colin Gawel - The Wild One Forever / WildFlowers (solo) w/ Jim Johnson on drums and Rick Kinsinger on guitar: Change of Heart / Listen to Her Heart / Rebels / Straight into Darkness / The Waiting 

Dave Masica - Walls (Colin on Drums, Rick on Guitar) / Shadow of a Doubt (Jim - drums) / Angel Dream / Southern Accents 

Brian Clash - Century City

John Estep - You Wreck Me / Sea of Heartbreak (Herb Schupp on drums) / Kings Highway

Patrick Buzzard - Yer So Bad / Learning to Fly / Into the Great Wide Open 

Dan Orr Project - Breakdown / Don't Do Me Like That / American Girl

John Estep & Everybody - I Won't Back Down / Mary Jane's Last Dance

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Also a couple of my favorite Tom Petty tributes: the first by Tom's contemporary, the great Dan Baird. (I snagged from his Facebook page. reproduced without his permission as they say.....) 

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For me, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were a rock and roll band that came onto the scene when the pigeon hole genres were taking over. Punk rock, new wave, heavy, hard, prog, glam, etc. There were a bunch of em. Not that they were at all bad. Some great bands came out of those rebranding and fashion trends. I was going along with the times and trying to find music I related to inside those brands, but something was missing for me. 

And here comes this rock and roll band that doesn't apologize for being just that. 2 guitars, B3, piano, bass and drums. Sing along choruses, tight punchy songs, great simple arrangements played by a gang of mo-fos on each instrument and a shaman/believer for a front man and songwriter disguised as an everyman. 

They'd picked up rock and roll and placed it onto a trajectory that seemed like the simplicity of what they were reintroducing had never stopped. It had. Was very close to complete dismissal. Their whole "We just don't need anything new, other than more great songs" was a bold move in the face of the change. Obviously it struck a chord with me. 

Yes they dabbled in new sounds after a few years, but it somehow sounded organic inside the song. Acoustic ballads got more common, but it felt right because of the conviction and honesty of both band and singer (didn't hurt that those ballads contained some of Tom's finest lyric either). 

The live shows could have been a greatest hits for 2 hours. They weren't. Great covers, older obscure numbers, new songs. To me, his North Star might have gotten hidden behind the clouds now and then, but when they cleared, look out, shit was back on. 

Thank you for showing the way to work inside a traditional medium and not sacrifice integrity, heart and soul. 

A rock and roller of the highest order to the end.

And click here to read a story by Annie Zaleski .

Or here for a story by Petty Biographer Warren Zanes .

And this story about Tom's acting career was fun

I was lucky enough to catch Tom and The Heartbreakers on the last tour. I was sort of leaving it up to fate when at the last minute I got an invite. As I was watching the show I thought to myself I should have brought my son Owen to this show. He has seen Springsteen, The Who, The Stones, AC/DC, Cheap Trick, KISS, Aerosmith, Foo Fighters and Green Day. For some reason I didn't feel it necessary to bring him to Tom Petty and it was a parenting fail. It is/was easy to take Tom Petty for granted. Tom Petty never demanded attention. He didn't need to. He was focused on earning your respect. Well done.  RIP Tom Petty

Colin Gawel plays in Watershed and fronts The League Bowlers. He founded Pencilstorm and wrote this at Colin's Coffee in between serving customers.