Son-of-a-Weizen

I dunno....the thing about Theismann is that he seems to be one of these guys who's not pre-disposed toward mouthing cheerleader lines at every turn and'll regularly say: 'hey, that was not a good move'. His equivalent in the golf world is Johnny Miller. While the herd is out there jumping all over the 3-wood that landed on the green, spun off a trap lip and wound up 2 feet from the pin, with a collective 'OOoooooo, what a spectacular shot!!', Miller says 'Ya know, I question that club selection....had he not caught that lip he could have easily skipped over that dry green and into the pond. He should have used a low iron and come in around the front of the green and then......". Theismann's got that goin' on too.

Does that mean we're finally rid of Hank Williams, Jr?? Excellent!! Now if they'd just get rid of domed stadiums and ditch all the Johnny-come-lately teams (Texans, Jaguars, Panthers, Titans) we'd be moving in the right direction!!

And some pizza and/or hot wings, please. The gifts of food would be most appreciated. One of the times Soulstation1 was visiting, I forced him to organize my RVGs while I watched. Did he ask you if you'd cracked open your Turrentine Mosaic box yet? (I still haven't) B-)

...though I did watch an episode of that 'Growing Up Gotti' show on A&E. The sons are the personification of ill-bred wretches. "Um, you mean I'm supposed to use a knife to cut steak, Mom? Duuuuh, I didn't know that"

....or 'Sex in the City'.

I've never watched an episode of "Friends".

I continue to find it amazing that the fed. govt. has made absolutely no effort over the decades to whip together a brief ad campaign stressing the importance of saving money.

Yes, and notice how they use rice during the "mash" (step 3)? That's what gives you that good 'ol Weezer headache. Accept no substitutes!

Since it's uniform sized chunks spread out in a non-random fashion, you should have taken a photo of it and at least saved a piece or two for testing. Got a shotgun handy?

Some Jpn reissue trio stuff: Don Randi "Last Night with the Don Randi Trio' Frank Ortega trio 'Swingin Abroad' Don Scaletta Trio 'All in Good Time' Harold Corbin 'Soul Brother'

Hey, I used to live on Essex Ave. I see things have spiraled wildly out of control since I departed. What's next? A riot aboard one of the tourist packed whale watch boats docked at Cape Ann's Marina?

16 was indeed sweet....but overall, I think DiMarco outplayed him and should have been able to take it. That ball rolling back on the seventh green due to vibrations a 30-45 secs after it had touched down was just insane. I love listening to these fawning announcers. Woods lands it 30 feet from the flag on 12 and one of the toadies gives us a hearty "Bullseye!!". Dimarco gets a "Very Good!" for dropping in a foot from the pin on 14.

At least you can hunker down & watch re-runs of Tiger putting off the green. B-)

Ah yes - the Windows equivalent of Duck Tape. B-) Glad I'm not throwing in any late bids on eBay tonite....I'd be suicidal if a Morgan 'Infinity' TOCJ was up in 3 minutes.

Hey, access this! B-)

Same here......and just 5 minutes ago about same window opened, one after the other in rapid succession, about 20 times over, so I restarted the system. edit: Comcast here as well.

I agree......and can honestly say that, were I commanded to trash all but 20 cds, these five would remain. I'm actually amazed that the Japanese have yet to spin out a nice looking re-mastered box set.

I stayed at the Kitano Hotel in NYC this past weekend and had the good fortune to catch Jason Lindner who was playing in the hotel's small jazz lounge in a quintet and trio setting on Fri./Sat. night. I'd only read small bits about him and knew little more than he'd played with Roy Haynes and had steadily built a solid reputation as a somewhat innovative big band oriented composer/post-bop pianist. Thought about catching both shows but decided to zero in on the trio show and headed off Fri. to see Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring (as an aside: when the 'live' cd of this show at 'Smoke' comes out it's going to be a killer!!!) Anyway, on Saturday, Lindner had John Benitez w/him on bass (a monster of a guy in person! ...must be 6'6 & 275!?) and Jonathan Blake on drums -- both super nice guys. I can't remember the last time I saw a small group have so much fun. Lindner improvising like mad and grinning like a kid at Blake while slowly turning up the heat...and Blake just eating it up & hammering the drums toward the end. During one number, Lindner deftly changed gears and moved into carrib/latin land which really got Benitez all ginned up and playing like mad and delivering two or three 'Oooay' calls with that deep voice (he told me that he got hooked on jazz listening to Philly Joe recs as a kid in Puerto Rico). I'll always have this mental image of Lindner grinning at the two throughout and just leading 'em on and on.....great stuff! We stayed for both sets and it was a shame that there were so few folks there....no cover either. When they started up at 8:15, my wife and I were the only two sitting there....and a handful of others trickled in during the set. By the end of the 2nd set there were about 30 bodies....the lousy weather probably had something to do with it. Anyway, he said he'd just put the finishing touches on a trio recording....so that's definitely one to look forward to.

The 'One-a-Day' Mens formula (blue label) which contains no iron. Women, as we all know, need the extra iron...and there's a growing body of evidence suggesting that excessive levels of iron negatively impacts the 'ol pumper in men. Most men who take a standard multi-vitamin are getting way too much iron.

You didn't happen to walk past the Heidelberg Restaurant up on E. 86th yesterday afternoon 'bout 4:15, did you. I was standing out there in the light drizzle waiting to share a Camel Light & a Bitburger Pils w/you. B-)

Stefan Wood Marvin (back at BN.....I don't know if he lurks here anymore??) Free for All Spoke to KB & Dmitry on the phone and came within an inch of hooking up w/Tod (Out to Lunch) in Boston last year. Wife & I spent the weekend up in NYC and was hoping I might bump into Chris Albertson sipping a glass of vino at either Henry's or Carne up at Broadway & W. 104th. B-) Some pleasant little neighborhood joints up there around Smoke.

Absolutely.

Yes, the Mastercard only biz is nuts. I don't think that my wife could have sent in a request because we have the same card # and I think that the rules cautioned against that!! The other thing is that these instructions are quite confusing and I'm happy that the organizers are getting an earful. We have four people who're going for tickets -- 2 people living in Germany and then my Dad and I sending in our requests from here. Each one of us submitted the names/data of the other 3 people as 'guests'. Since my Dad and I have the same name....it shows up twice on each of the four applications, which after again carefully reviewing the ticket/rules section (English version) seems to be prohibited?? If you look at the 'FAQ' page on their site --- and specifically question #11 -- they tell you flat out "One applicant....can order up to four tickets per match. In addition to ticket for themselves, applicants can order so-called visitor tickets for up to three more persons." It then tells you to note the "the following limitations" - one price category per match - per household only 4 single tickets in price categories 1-3 for up to 7 matches - matches cannot be on same day - only one application can be submitted per sales phase - if accepted in early phase, deduct those matches from total of 7 for any later phase request. And then says "failure to comply with these limitations CAN cause complete rejection." So, so far, so good. But then it goes into the "please ensure you do not order more tickets than permitted per person, per household" and then defines that by stating: "The applicable criterion is the SUM of applications in which persons appear as applicants AND applications in which persons appears as VISITORS on other applicant's applications.” What??? These people are insane. This seems to indicate that you are supposed to total your own applications (7) with that of the number of times you are listed as a Visitor and that total should not be greater than 7. But because of the way it is written, people would have a strong case that it does not list this apparent requirement under the "limitations section", and thus would be very unfair. But since they do not define “per household” in the limitations section, they would probably argue this is their definition. Why do I have this sinking feeling that I'm already screwed?