All things #7 Mickey MantleThe Mick loves the Dropkick Murphy's, especially when they blast out my favorite theme: Kiss Me I'm ShitfacedHere's another version:Crazy Irish Guitar Guys
Potato Head Bobby, Vaclav Havel, Master Cylinder, Friedrich Hayek, Wrangler Jane in Chaps, Timmy Sparks and Gigantor, Thomas Sowell, Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse, Thorstein Veblen, Don Van Vliet, Studebaker Hawk w/ Flies in Phone Booth, Mrs. Peel in a Black Leotard, Phil Leotardo w/ a Nice Chianti, Cal Shenkel, Jim Carroll the Catholic Boy, Slip & Satch at Louie's Sweet Shop, Sgt. Rock & Little Sure Shot, Commander McBrag, Shoe Shine Boy & Sweet Polly Purebread, Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Eddie Giacomin, Mel Stottlemyre & Tommy Tresh, Boris & Natasha, Suzy Creamcheese, Uncle Joe at The Junction -- Petticoat Junction, Fred Biletnikoff, Tobor the 8th Man, John Edwards' Hair Stylist, Joe Pepitone's Hair Stylist, Fearless Leader & Mister Big, Lou Reed, Barbara Boxer's Undertaker -- er, Makeup Artiste, Bailey from WKRP, Rush Limbaugh & his Pharmacist, Jimmy Carter's Brain-Removal Surgeon, Jefferson Street Joe Gilliam, Johnny B. and his Famous Cookies, Yaz, Timmy, Barbara & Laura Bush, R. Lee Ermey, Hillary Clinton's Integrity, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Mamie & Dwight Eishenhower, All those nice Breck Girls, The Go-Go Gophers, Len Bias, Billie Dee Williams, Marv Alpert's Toupee, Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz, Horace Clarke & Jake Gibbs, Fritz the Cat, Officer Joe Bolton, Otis Sistrunk from University of Mars, Hector Heathcoat, Hector Lopez, A Penguin in Bondage, Office Dibble and Benny the Ball, Ralph Houk, Ileana Amargos, Monty Hall, The Mad Yank of County Clare, Larry the Panel Beater, Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks, Snidely Whiplash, Lew Gibson, Chef Paul, Earl the Pearl Monroe, Billy the Mountain, Charo, The Teflon Don, Jerry Grizzly, The Vice Prez of Parties, Larry Raspberry, Tony Bourdain, The Great Pumpkin, The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati, Colonel Kilgore & The Roach, Sgt. Enright & Mrs. MacMillan, Private Idaho, Bald Headed John, Latrelle "Crime Spree" Spreewell, Marcus Luttrell, Danny Dietz, Matt Axelson, Mike Murphy, Breezely Bruin & Sneezely Seal, Marge Schott @ the March, Fritz, Steve Marriott, Durban Poison, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Dweez, Roy Estrada -- wherever you are!, The SeaHag, Ali Baba & his 40 Thieves, Barefoot Jerry & the CDB, Billy Bucks & Bucky Fooking Dent, Fritz the Cat, LeBeau & Schultz, Joseph Shumpeter & Creative Destruction, Travis Bickle, Halderman and Erlichman, Sport & Iris, G. Gordon Liddy, Sgt. Sam Troy, Sgt. Jack Moffitt, Pvt. Tully Pettigrew, Pvt. Mark Hitchcock, Hauptmann Hans Dietrich, The Entire McSweat Clan, Makoto Nagano, Shingo Yamamoto, Katsumi Yamada, Toshihiro Takeda, Bunpei Shiratori, Kazuhiko Akiyama, Constance Brooke Pellington, Ray Boland, Rob Nelson, Ray Lackey, Tommy Vigorito, Pete McNally, Frank Bartholf, John Scuteri, Gary "Cranium" Crane, The Entire 310 Suite, Rowdy & Jamie, Ray-Ray "Atta Peppa" in the Kitchen,
Frank Zappa. . .More Frank from Baby Snakes. . .Check out Kymani Marley:Me & Steve Marriott Don't Need No Fooking Doctor!A Fugs performance on Swedish TV:
Some Favorite Flicks:Cool Hand Luke, Little Big Man, The Man Who Would Be King, Apocolypse Now, Go Tell The Spartans, Castle Keep, A Walk in the Sun, State of Grace (despite Sean Penn's presence) Rock'n'Roll High School, Pink Flamingos
Lots & lots of TV:Vintage War Movies and playing Axis & Allies
Books too numerous to mention, butAnything by Barbara Tuchman
Here's a list of NY sports heroes:Number 7 -- Mickey MantleNumber 22 -- Dave DeBusschereNumber 56 -- LTNumber 11 -- Mark MessierAll US Marines are heroes: