Randy Twizzle

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

This may be a good time to post a Tribute to Orrin Keepnews

What's wrong w/the sound on Riot?! Riot and Fresh are by far Sly's two best albums, otherwise (mostly) a singles band (mostly), & after Fresh, a sad, precipituous descent. The other essential Sly is his appearance on the Mike Doulgas show w/The Champ & some ofay congressman from Ohio-- brilliant! I searched Youtube for this recently but it didnt' turn up; ya'll seen? thankufortalkintomeafrica, c

Go get 'Singin' In The Rain' and watch You'll never regret it! YES!!! I never get tired of Donald O'Connor's Make 'em Laugh

Fred Astaire. (I even loved him in The Towering Inferno) Larry David. Binder Clips Abandoned Warehouses William Frawley Abandoned Train Stations Jesse Royce Landis Sennheiser HD650 Nighthawks (the painting) The Self-Service Scanners at my local Pathmark (though the morons who always seem to be in front of me and don't know how to work the thing, and always whine to the attendant to help them, can go to hell).

Yes also on the verge of the swine flu scare, Whip Inflation Now buttons, Earl Butz, Legionnaires Disease and The Brady Bunch.

Let's just hope she doesn't start her own website and begin to issue political proclamations like Babs Streisand. Of course if she does, some of the people now mocking her might start praising her for her bravery.

Oh, he was doing some Blindfold Test thing and they played him a cut off that album and he went batshit, talking about how "they shit on Ellington! They shit on Duke!" or some looney-tooney crap like that. Same as his infamous comments about Braxton in a similar context many years earlier, only his sense of "outrage" was even more f-ed up because he'd had more than enough time to figure stuff out and obviously hadn't. Maybe I'm crazy but I seem to remember that it was Stan Getz who did the "they shit on Duke" diatribe during the blindfold test.

According to the YouTube description this is a trailer for an

OK, what were you/ drinking/eating for dinner/ reading/when you heard about Michael Richards?

A NY Post article explains a little about Richards' psyche and reports that Al Sharpton is now on the case: By DAVID K. LI and HASANI GITTENS November 22, 2006 -- Michael Richards - lovable and goofy as the hipster-doofus Kramer on "Seinfeld" - is actually a ticking time bomb of rage who refuses to let anything stop his "art," friends said yesterday. "Bombing [onstage] for a guy like this is more of a risk. There's no safety net," said Louise Palanker, a Los Angeles comedienne who has performed with Richards at the Laugh Factory - where he launched a racist tirade Friday night after being heckled by some black audience members. "It's more of a thrill-seeking act in that if he does well, it's a big high, but if he crashes . . ." She also said he's jittery about punctuality. "He gets very upset if he doesn't go up when he's scheduled to go up. He's very tightly wound." Melanie Chartoff, who worked with Richards on the sketch comedy show "Fridays" in the early '80s and had an appearance on "Seinfeld," said he becomes enraged "when someone disagrees with his point of view." "My sense of what occurred the other night is that someone was stopping his process," said Chartoff. "I never thought of Michael as racist - but don't get in his way when he's trying to create." She said some girlfriends who'd seen Richards recently said he looked "angry and lonely." Richards divorced his wife in 1990, and Chartoff suspects he recently broken up with a girlfriend. Chartoff said Richards would have flipped out, no matter what color the hecklers were. "And if it was a woman, he would have gone after her, too," she said. One woman who allegedly felt Richards' wrath is comedienne Jeremy Beth Michaels. On MoronLife.com, she wrote that the lanky funnyman once barraged her with a tirade peppered with the dreaded "c-word." Michaels said that a few weeks ago, she hosted a night at an L.A. comedy club, and Richards did a "racially charged" and unfunny set. When it was over, she accidentally knocked his tape recorder off a table. "You will never work in this town again. I'll make sure of that, you little c---," Michaels quotes Richards as screaming. "You're a c- - -, c- - -, c- - -, dirty little c- - -, on and on, and I starting thinking to myself, you know, I only accept those kinds of terms of endearment from my dad or grandma, not from some p- - -k who is using his fame to be a d- -k!!" she wrote. Richards made an apology on David Letterman's "Late Show" Monday night for his Laugh Factory tirade - an appearance arranged by his old TV pal Jerry Seinfeld, who said he felt "sick" over the racist rant. But many aren't accepting Richards' peace offering to what he called the "Afro-American" community. The Rev. Al Sharpton called the Letterman venue "unacceptable." "[He] should apologize to the people to whom his remarks were directed and most offended," Sharpton said in a statement. "In all due respect to David Letterman, it seems strange that one would insult African-Americans in a long tirade and then go on a white television show with a mostly white studio and viewing audience to make a statement of apology." A statement posted on the Laugh Factory Web site said Richards is now persona non grata, and will never perform there again. But club owner Jamie Masada said yesterday that Richards could be onstage again - but only after personally apologizing to the African-American customers he verbally attacked last week. "We don't want to keep a grudge against anyone. That's not our intention," he said. "There's going to be a time for forgiveness, and it's going to have to come from the African-American community first. I'll be the second person in line."

...and made institutional racism safe for the 20th century. Definitely influential. Unfortunately. Hey nobody's perfect... My favorite fact about Woodrow Wilson after his stroke and while still in office:

This 1993 magazine cover carries new meaning. Yes he can break free...it's taken 13 years but by god he's done it!

Bossa Nova: Ramsey Lewis (p) Jose Paulo (g,pandeiro) Eldee Young (b) Issac "Redd" Holt (d) Carmen Costa (cabaca,vcl) Chicago, September 22 & 25, 1962 11903 O pato Argo LP705 11904 Manha de carnaval - , 5431 11905 As criancinhas - 11906 A noite de meu bem - 11907 Roda moinho - 11908 Canacao para Geralda - 11909 Samba de Orfeu - 11910 A felicidade - 11911 Care de Palhaco - Generique -

Thrilling. That's why I posted it dude... I guess I should have added one of those silly faces to add to the comic effect.

Our top story tonight, Jerry Seinfeld leaves the Ed Sullivan theatre...

It's possible career suicide for the K Man...

Billy now knew, never ask Mr Nessa about free discographies...

By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong And I had a really sore back

I'm sorry but that AOL screen names Pedo_ LI_Priest101 should have been a dead giveaway that all was not well in the parish.

1 Shot in Conn. Playstation Waiting Line Nov 17 8:31 AM US/Eastern Two armed thugs tried to rob of line of people waiting to buy the new Playstation 3 gaming console early Friday and shot one who refused to give up the money, authorities said. The two confronted a "bunch of people who were in line" outside a Wal- Mart store shortly after 3 a.m. and demanded money, said Lt. J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the state police. The new Sony consoles are selling for around $500 to $600. "One of the patron's resisted. That patron was shot," Vance said. He said the two gunmen fled, and the victim was taken to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. There was no immediate word on the victim's condition. Vance said police were searching for the suspects. Short supplies of the PS3 and strong demand led to lines of buyers, some waiting for days, outside stores across the country. In Palmdale, Calif., authorities shut down a Super Wal-Mart after some shoppers got rowdy late Wednesday. In West Bend, Wis., a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart. In Lexington, Ky., police were investigating a drive-by shooting that hit four people with BB pellets outside a Best Buy store, causing minor injuries, according to WKYT, whose own reporter was hit as she interviewed buyers in line. A Best Buy in Boston, aware it had only 140 of the consoles, got smart _ its employees gave out tickets to the first 140 people in line so everyone could go home.