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We should write a book: The Book of Duderonomy. (I didn't make that up; I swiped it from the comic strip Zits)

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A click on "View New Posts" brings up a list of the following threads: Dumbledore is gay The Baseball Thread 2007 CD-Rs sold as CDs question for our multilinguist friends: Playlist, WBLV / WBLU FM, 10-18-07, 10p.m.-3a.m. Porter Wagoner in serious condition Lake Lanier has 3 months of water storage left-Main water supply What vinyl are you spinning right now?? Mosaic sale, ending October 14 Name Three People... Keith Jarrett on a Rant Happy Birthday, Chris A!! What music did you buy today? Only two jazz-related threads (one if you don't count the Playlist thread, zero if you think that another Jarrett rant has nothing to do with jazz). Bear in mind, I've locked myself out of the Politics zone, so this list doesn't even include those threads; who knows how many of those are active right now? So, what's happening? Did we finally run out of things to talk about? I'm not too worried.. we haven't turned into Jazz Corner or AAJ yet. Maybe I need to start another "jazz album I hate" thread.

Sounds like she was asked a question, and answered it matter-of-factly. Of course, it might be different if she had called a press conference just to make that announcement. I heard that story too but am cynical enough to think it could have been a "plant". I thought the same thing. I've read all seven books. The whole "Dumbledore-is-gay" is completely plausible to me. But I don't recall, as Rowling states, any part of book seven that mentioned where Dumbledore "fell in love with Grindewald."

Where?

utterly disgusted? boy, you've got issues. I just find the whole thing intellectually dishonest. There were SO many unanswered questions to the whole series, so many things that were forced to be left to the imagination. To isolate this one character and his sexuality is not only dishonest, it's cowardly: if it was that germane to the story, why wasn't it left in the book? We already know the answer to that one: public outcry would've been furious! (Then again, there's no such thing as bad publicity, so maybe it woudn't have hurt sales) However, that's no excuse to leave it out of the book. Hey J.K., while we're at it, I'd like to know the sexual orientation of the following characters: Sirius Black (he was awfully close to James Potter, and there's no record of him having any kind of heterosexual relationship with anyone) Professor McGonigall (sp?) (she was the saddest about Professor Trelawney's leaving, and her fiercest defender) Crabbe & Goyle (they were always together) Neville Longbottom (sure he asked Ginny to the Ball, but look at his last name) Percy Weasley (repressed his sexual desires by throwing himself into his work) Of course I'm being ridiculous, and that's the point. See how silly this all is? I agree with this statement: I just don't see why this also couldn't be left to the imagination like everything else was. [edited because jazzshrink responded to his thread subtitle]

I absolutely 100% agree. Agree with Alex as well, but after reading this story, my first question was "What was the point of THAT?"

Wow, wow, and wow! Could a game get any crazier? After Drew dropped that fly ball, shades of 1986 came flashing back. If not for that Coke bottle, Youkilis's homer would still be flying! I've never seen a baseball leave so quickly! Anything flying that fast oughta have a fucking stewardess on it! Kenny Lofton's gotta be shakin' his head right now: called out on a blown call by the ump; held up at third on an easy score. How do you get all THAT outta your system? Ah well, congrats Dan! Enjoy this one for as long as it lasts, and I hope it results in another WS ring for your team!

Was anyone else worried when they brought in Gagne to protect a 10-run lead? Besides Indians fans, who were probably jumping for joy. Anyway, I was worried. Game 7 oughta be interesting.

The Schaap Quiet-a-Thon: have donors donate money to keep the music playing and Schaap quiet (i.e. no between-song rambles, etc). Each hour costs a minimum $100. To meet the budget of 280-grand, Schaap would have to keep it zipped for 2800 hours or roughly 117 days. Is that too much to ask?

Only if you can break it up into 1000 carefully cut pieces.

I never knew she was married to Bob Thiele. RIP. It's nice to read the comments about how warm and kind she was.

Kenny Barron SUNSET TO DAWN (Muse, white-label promo copy)

The Rockies are damn-near unstoppable. Another sweep! If I was either the Indians or the Sox, I'd be just a little concerned. Whoa!

It has the same front cover (essentially) as the original Riverside album Blue Soul---don't be fooled! But DO get Blue Soul. Has a lot of the same qualities as A Sure Thing. It's more of a sure thing than A Sure Thing! (And I'm sure about that.) Oh, sure......

It has the same front cover (essentially) as the original Riverside album Blue Soul---don't be fooled! But DO get Blue Soul. Has a lot of the same qualities as A Sure Thing.

I hate Stanley Crouch because he's the worst goddamned jazz critic on the planet, and his wife looks like she'd rather be married to a horned-toad. On top of that, his son is addicted to MAD magazine and sleeps with his purple Prince doll. And his daughter smells like his son. Even worse is the club I played at last week, Chez Stadium. The owner is full of himself, and at 350 lbs, that's quite an accomplishment and the bathrooms smell like his son. The waitresses all used to work at this brothel firm called Dewey, Bendham, and Howe and so the service is about as efficient as the Rangers starting pitching. I'd rather play in a pigpen; at least there, the food is only three days old. At least than I might get a spellchecker, because then I would know that I should've used THEN instead of THAN and maybe have time to actually get a life, instead of playing spellchecker to everyone's grammar once in a while. Last summer we played at the Arlington TX Jazz Festival. It was about as exciting an event as reading one of GoodSpeak's posts, because the director, ol' what's-his-name, always books Styx as the opening act. Stupid director, she should book Allen Lowe and his Trane'd Devlin Sousaphone Octet. Everyone knows that Allen Lowe is almost as big an asshole as Big Al. At least that's what HE tells everyone. In conclusion, I am sick of the whole jazz world, and mostly because of Osama Bin Laden, who knows as much about music as a pile of Edsels. Next time I see him, I am going to take a promenade on his head and a doe-si-doe on his leg. Maybe that will teach him to keep his rat-infested harem out of my record collection, especially my limited edition Aldo Nova white-label autographed promo debut LP, which I swiped from Uncle Skid one night while he was out hunting the elusive lost JOHN Curulewski solo album. [Edited for fear of having my charter membership in the Styx Fans For Life Club revoked]

Way to go, Paul! I play a little chess, and I know how difficult the game is since I routinely get outsmarted by kids 1/3 my age! Still a fun game, though; good for keeping the mind busy!

I don't know about y'all, but my money's on New England. Buffalo exposed some serious flaws in Dallas overall game plan. It's New England's game to lose. Just ONCE I'd like to be right about something sportswise that DIDN'T affect my teams negatively. Last time I was right about something like this, the Mavs were swept by the Warriors in the first round. I could go ahead and predict the demise of the Stars, but that would be too easy. Face it, Guys. Dallas got whooped up on and by a team who actually faces real competition. The Ca'boyz are a paper lion. I wish you actually had something to contribute to a thread besides insults and arrogance.

Jon Daniels' has got to be feeling pretty good about himself right now..... unless, of course, he's trying to re-sign the guy right now. Which wouldn't surprise me.

Count me as another fan of A SURE THING. Mitchell seemed to flourish in these kind of settings!

I don't know about y'all, but my money's on New England. Buffalo exposed some serious flaws in Dallas overall game plan. It's New England's game to lose. Just ONCE I'd like to be right about something sportswise that DIDN'T affect my teams negatively. Last time I was right about something like this, the Mavs were swept by the Warriors in the first round. I could go ahead and predict the demise of the Stars, but that would be too easy.

Whoa!

Oh, Dan..... I'm not sure I can be more apologetic about Gagne. I just turned on the game, just as Trot Nixon knocked in the go-ahead run, and the announcers just said that run was charged to Gagne. And now Cabrera just scored, another Gagne run. Yikes!