Randy Twizzle

Sorry I can't help you to upload videos and I resent being called a dope.

Watch out NYC, one of our buffoonish NJ assemblymen is out to take your money

The boss man over at bixbeiderbecke.com has been lobbying for years for a Bix stamp. I don't know much about stamp technology but a gin flavored stamp would be nice.

Looks like Randy wins the prize; the radio just said it was from a chemical facility along the Jersey shore. As for my original theory, they are saying that a temperature inversion yesterday morning (hot air on top of cold instead of the other way around) trapped the odor close to the ground. Looks like it was wind driven after all. Read the thread again. This is what I wrote in the first place, except they think it came from Secaucus - not Bayway. Sorry, once the prize has been awarded it can not be retracted. The last thing I want to do is to rob a fellow New Jerseyan of his rightful prize in predicting the source of an objectionable odor. Give it to 7/4

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Most people wouldn't call those with mental illnesses ''idiots'' -- but the New Jersey Constitution still does. Senate President Richard J. Codey on Monday proposed removing the archaic language, inserted in 1844, through a constitutional amendment. The measure would have to be approved by both houses of the Legislature and by voters in November. ''This is yet another big step toward removing the stigma of mental illness,'' said Codey, who has been an advocate of the mentally ill since his wife suffered postpartum depression 22 years ago. Codey wants to change a section of the state constitution that addresses who is eligible to vote, saying: ''No idiot or insane person shall enjoy the right of suffrage.'' The amendment would delete the ''idiot or insane person'' language and replace it with ''person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting.'' Luke Koppisch, a coordinator with the New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council, which brought the idea to Codey to sponsor, said the language is insulting. ''It harkens back to an era when people with disabilities were treated like second-class citizens,'' he said. Six other state constitutions -- Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico and Ohio -- also contain the ''idiots and insane'' language pertaining to voting rights, according to the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, D.C.

When all is said and done, they'll find some way to blame it all on New Jersey.

I believe there might have been a regular posting in the Voice. That street (Bond Street?) was totally deserted at night. Desolate. Now there is probably a Gap there! There were also some listings in the Times as seen in these assorted "Events Today" notices from 1973 and 74

I'm terrible at remembering names and labels, but it was a five LP Earl Hines box set purchased at one of those down market stores like Disc-o-mat for all of $5 in the early 80s.

My ex-wife used to refer to my love for jazz as "Randy's sick sick perversion." When we were dating I once took her to a Cecil Taylor concert at Symphony Space. After 20 minutes she rushed the stage screaming obscenities and had to be forcibly removed from the hall. During our first year of marriage I once came home early from work and caught her scratching my LPs with a can opener. Whenever a jazz musician's obituary appeared in the NY Times she would scribble "GOOD RIDDANCE" in red ink across the article and put it under my pillow. Then things really started going downhill...

I think my New Year's Resolution just became to stay the fuck away from wherever you are!

Here's the original NY Times review

Here's an answer from: http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/questions.html#berternie Are Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie named for Bert the cop and Ernie the cabdriver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life"? Jerry Juhl, head writer for the Muppets for many years responded to a statement in San Francisco Chronicle writer Jon Carroll's column that Bert and Ernie were named for Bert the cop and Ernie the cabdriver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." Jerry Juhl writes: I was the head writer for the Muppets for 36 years and one of the original writers on "Sesame Street." The rumor about "It's a Wonderful Life" has persisted over the years. I was not present at the naming, but I was always positive it was incorrect. Despite his many talents, Jim had no memory for details like this. He knew the movie, of course, but would not have remembered the cop and the cabdriver. I was not able to confirm this with Jim before he died, but shortly thereafter I spoke to Jon Stone, Sesame Street's first producer and head writer and a man largely responsible for the show's format. (Jon, sadly, is no longer with us either.) He assured me that Ernie and Bert were named one day when he and Jim were studying the prototype puppets. They decided that one of them looked like an Ernie, and the other one looked like a Bert. The movie character names are purely coincidental.

Which town would have produced more interesting music, Bedford Falls or Pottersville? One was a sleepy white bread community and the other a wide open honky tonk town. Let's not be so quick to condemn old man Potter. I bet some swinging bands played in Pottersville while Bedford Falls probably had to settle for Mickey Mouse outfits playing country club dances. But then my favorite character has always been Violet Bick, the town slut.

No offense meant, but it seems like the best place to post this cartoon.

I truly wish to become more understanding of others. In the last few years I've become more and more resentful of the things that people do that clash with my idea of how things should be done. It's a not very attractive side of me and it profoundly bothers me . Some random daily examples: while waiting for my daily commuter train, I've developed a strong hatred of people who stand and vacantly stare in the direction that the train will be coming from, as if this will somehow make the train miraculously appear, even when it's not due for another 10 minutes. I also dislike the people who come to the station, see a bunch of people waiting for the train and then run to check the posted schedule, as if to really make sure that there is indeed a train due. What do they think we're all standing there for?... fuckheads! And how about those morons, who arrive at the station just as the train pulls in and then insist on using the highly inefficient ticket machine to buy a ticket instead of buying one on board (even if there is a $5 penalty). We're all supposed to sit and wait while these jerks try to figure out how to use the machine. Hey idiots if you don't have a ticket get to the goddamn station a little earlier so you don't have to hold up the train in order to save your precious 5 bucks. What a world of assholes... I wanna kill them all...

For some, she was Billie Halliday... but wait! who was "pigmeat markham"?

I used to feel that the world would have been a lot better off if I had never been born, but then my guardian angel came down and showed me that it would have only been a little better off.

Sometimes I listen to XM satellite radio's Real Jazz channel at work. The channel seems to have become the official radio voice of the Wynton empire. Wynton and his accolytes are regularly played, and the goings on at Lincoln Center are constantly hyped,. Then there are the channel ID's, straight from the Wynton hymn book. Hey folks listen to us WE'RE SWINGING, YES SWINGING, IT'S ALL ABOUT US SWINGING. DID ANYONE MENTION HOW MUCH THIS CHANNEL IS SWINGING. But by far the most annoying is the one which features Wynton smugly proclaiming "You're experiencing a revolution in feeling..." I've go to switch stations at this point, usually to the 40s channel which sometimes features a little jazz minus the pious sermonizing.

Quite frankly I don't understand the derision directed at those who believe that we choose our sexual orientation. I remember quite clearly in the late 60s when I was in the 6th grade at Gatner Ave School in East Paterson, NJ , we had an assembly where health professionals addressed us on the choices we could make. We then had to sign up for the one that appealed to us and then have our parents sign a permission slip. I remember my father being quite relieved at my choice, but I sensed my mother's disappointment that I would never share her love for Judy Garland.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A San Francisco man who was stranded with his family in the snowy wilderness walked more than 16 miles in search of help before he died -- six more than originally thought, a search official said Saturday. James Kim, 35, his wife and their two daughters were about seven miles from a fishing lodge stocked with food, not the one mile as authorities earlier thought, said Phil Turnbull, a fire chief in Josephine County. A mapping error led to the incorrect figures, but did not affect the search for Kim, Turnbull said. Turnbull said it was important to ''set the public record straight'' and ''to emphasize the efforts Mr. Kim made to rescue his family.'' The Kims were returning to San Francisco on Nov. 25 and had gotten stuck in snow after taking a wrong turn down a logging road that is normally blocked by a gate. Vandals apparently had cut the lock on the gate, officials said. Kim's wife, Kati, 30, and their two young daughters were rescued Monday, two days after he struck out on foot in search of help. James Kim was found dead of exposure in a mountain creek Wednesday. The owner of the lodge said he didn't recognize the area as being near his lodge and double-checked. Turnbull said the vehicle was 6.37 miles farther along the road, meaning James Kim had walked that much farther than searchers first thought. ''Holy smokes, that was superhuman effort to get that many miles,'' owner John James told the Grants Pass Daily Courier, referring to James Kim. The newspaper first reported about the error.

Here's a NY Times story from 1965 for those in need of christiern news