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This is the cover that started my love for his work. R.I.P.
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This reminds me of the story of "Speedy," which I first heard about on either Ripley's or That's Incredible.
From Wikipedia:
Charles "Speedy" Atkins is an American folk figure. Not much is known about his life. He was born in Tennessee and moved to Kentucky to find work. He settled in downtown Paducah, Kentucky as an hourly employee at a plant with ties to the tobacco industry. He gained the nickname "Speedy" because of his speed at working in tobacco, and was also said to be a womanizer. He was single without known relatives and befriended funeral home attendant A. Z. Hamock, who, at the time, owned the city's only African-American funeral home.
In May 1928, Speedy went fishing and fell into the Ohio River along with his line, where he drowned. His body was turned over to Hamock's Funeral Home for a pauper's burial, but Hamock had a better idea. He had created a powerful preservative and decided to experiment on Speedy's body with it. It turned Speedy's body into a wooden-like statue, and turned his black skin a reddish color. It also preserved his facial features, and he still remained recognizable.[1] Rather than bury Speedy, Hamock put him on display at the funeral home. The body was only away from the funeral home one time: when it washed away during the Paducah flood of 1937, and was returned to the funeral home as a flood victim.
Hamock died in 1949, and his wife Velma took over custody of the body. Mrs. Hamock had originally planned to bury the mummy in 1991 on her late husband's 100th birthday, but waited until May 1994.[2][3][4][5] "Speedy" Atkins has been featured in Ripley's Believe It Or Not, the TV program That's Incredible, and the National Enquirer[6] His story was also told on the Discovery Channel.
Atkins is buried in Maplelawn Cemetery, in Paducah, Kentucky
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Art Taylor - Taylor's Wailers
Are those the stairs out of some jazz club?
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I don't know for sure, but I think the stairs are for an elevated subway in New York.
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Art Taylor - Taylor's Wailers
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The original post was serious - just do the Google search. I knew this topic would get some laughs (it has already given me a few).
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I just wanted to warn other people here who frequent AAJ that it HAS been hijacked. I went over there a few minutes ago from my favorites and my browser started spinning a series of numbers. I'm running a virus scan and have picked up three tracking cookies so far but nothing else.
A few minutes later:
My computer seems O.K. - nothing else showed up but the tracking cookies, and I know they came from AAJ because I had just updated my virus definitions a half hour before and ran a full scan with nothing showing up. I just did a google search for "AAJ forum" and it says "Hacked By Doped."
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My condolences.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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What would be funny is if the fan turned out to be one of the trolls who has been banned from here and/or AAJ.
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Thanks!
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Happy Birthday Bill!
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I'm pretty sure it's K. D. because of his voice on Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia.
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Glad to hear you're doing better!
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The Equalizer was one of my favorite shows back in the 1980s. RIP.
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How does Morgan's Take Twelve with Jordan compare to the Blue Note?
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You guys were probably snickering when I commented once that I had 18 Dexter Gordon albums and I thought that was a lot!
For a relative newbie it might be. I have about that many Lee Morgan CDs and they hardly get any more airplay. Hard bop has given way to cool/west coast jazz, at least for the last few months.
With 18 you've got more than me: I've got 8 with Dexter and 12 with Lee.
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I only own about 210 jazz albums, so I'll say Hank Mobley because I own more with him than anyone else. Nothing against Hank, but out of 210 I think 21 with him is enough.
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I have both Bierce books now and am enjoying them, but I want to correct a mistake I made in my first post about them. I was wrong about the number of stories they have in common. In the Dover a number of stories are grouped under headings like “The Way of Ghosts,” and in the table of contents only these headings appear, which make them seem like the titles to stories. Looking at the table of contents on Amazon, then, did not reveal how many of the same stories are also in the Penguin. Twenty-two of the stories are the same. In total, the Dover has thirty-seven stories and the Penguin thirty-six, so there are fifteen different ones in the Dover and fourteen in the Penguin. If you like Bierce, I think they’re both worth owning, but the Dover might be the better buy because it has the celebrated “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” while the Penguin doesn’t.
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Among the things i discovered reading Poe, english not being my first language, was the use of the word ejaculate, as ejaculating a sentence. Not sure i'd be able to use it today...
It also leads me to think that in a world wide web era where everybody can express themselves on line, they are a lot of ejaculations going on and i'm not talking about the plethora of porn sites we can find everywhere.
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I have the exact one you pictured.
I have got to read Bierce; I can't believe I've put it off this long...I've been meaning to try his stuff for thirty plus years now.Unlike Poe, Bierce's stories are often very short descriptive sketches, sometimes only three or four pages long, and they can also seem to be a bit forumlaic. That said, I'm impressed by how well Bierce can create a whole creepy atmosphere in such a confined space and with such simple, direct and surprisingly modern language. In some ways his stories seem like a precursor to those one or two page horror stories that used to be published in Gold Key/Whitman comics, and the surprise endings remind me of some episodes of The Twilight Zone, which is fitting since his story "An Occurance At Owl Creek Bridge" was made into an episode.
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Complete tales and poems by Edgar Allen Poe.
Is it the collection published by Vintage? I've had a couple of copies of that edition over the last twenty years. I've been reading some classic horror stories, too, by Ambrose Bierce - the Penguin collection, Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre. I've enjoyed these so much that I ordered the Dover collection Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce last weekend. Fortunately, there are only three stories in common between these collections, so they are an easy and affordable way to get most - if not all - of Bierce's horror tales in good editions.
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I just found these ones doing an image search on Google. I hope they're helpful. We can thank Durium for the second photo!
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And for all the fanboys . . . .
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Happy Birthday!
Dave Brubeck - RIP
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RIP, Mr. Brubeck. Thanks for the music.