Son-of-a-Weizen

They should 'fix' the Gordon Select comment section where some guy from Netherlands shows up in triplicate. Must have been couw after too many Dunkel-Weizens. "Pity the taxman added an extra 25 dollars to the parcel on arrival". Ouch!!!

Ether, The Vol. 5 Quintet you covet can now be had over at Red Trumpet for $17 which is pretty good for a mini-lp. They also have the Mike Cuozzo 'MM' Savoy mini-lp for $9.99 which is completely insane. Ball, Costa & Clarke for $9.99? Waste not a moment...

At one point they put out a ltd. issue gold cd that included both volumes of 'Live @ Vanguard' and it soon disappeared. I hope they bring that one back.

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Maren, Sounds like a nice gift that he made for you....and probably a bit difficult to make due to the size and all. I love to build these little things and basically use scraps & whatever's lying around. Problem I have is a limited tool supply -- basic bare bones collection w/your standard screwdrivers, hammer, couple of hand saws, power drill and various ancient odds & ends scattered about. Pre-Xmas '99, I managed to steal away to the garage for a few weeks and build a dollhouse from scratch. It certainly wouldn't win any design awards and Martha Stewart would undoubtedly let out a shriek in horror at the color combo trainwreck ...but it was alot of fun to put together. I built it atop a coffee table because I aways see kids having to bend way over in order to see (or do much) on the first floor....so thought it would be best to raise things a bit so that they could sit there and peer right in. Picked up some various carpet end pieces at a local shop and found some miniature picture frames for the walls and a small plastic fireplace on eBay. Also used some old floral pattern dining room wallpaper that came from my great-grandmother's house up in Boston. Believe it or not, the thing that gave me the most trouble was the stupid chimney..... trying to hand hold the small block of wood and make a perfect 'V' cut so that it would properly meet the slope of the roof was a royal pain. I think I did it four or five times over. I should really bag the cd collecting and get a decent set of tools.

It is...just appeared yesterday. One thing I noticed on the label is that it says '22-bit remastering'. I don't think I've ever seen anything with 22-bit......is this just flat out wrong? MassMan With Golden Arm, Yes, you did indeed warn me. B-)

Yes, thanks Kulu S.... that virtual debit card deal is pretty slick....just used it to buy my spousal unit a raincoat. Now if only I could get her to find something for me at Mosaic. Perhaps if they'd scrap the baseball hat and the goofy mouse pad and market instead a nice black men's tie with random 1 1/2" square pics of various b/w box set covers on it....Parlan, Byrd/Adams, Morgan/Shorter, Mulligan.....

I honestly can't recall anyone laying down the kind of blistering guitar that Moore does on this G-Force tune. It's unreal.

Now THAT'S impressive. B-) Next project: bear down on that rusty Evans Verve wall safe and turn 'er into a fabric covered hat box. Do you like the concept?

We've got a Kit & Samantha living here. Wife & I made the mistake of entering the American Girl shop up on 5th Ave. last fall and wound up getting 3 or 4 outfits for each doll w/matching hats, mittens, etc. (that's alotttta cds .). It's an amazing shop, an entire section devoted to each doll and an eye-popping number of detailed outfits....the little flip-flops w/the bathrobe are a riot. Turns out my neighbor down the street is a consultant for the company and she does things like authenticate the various period undergarments. I then managed to dodge the 'let's buy a wardrobe for the clothes!!' bullet by working a little magic with some wood dowels & a few French wine crates from the basement. Voila!! My advice to you is to break out the hand tools and start building some 'stuff' or you'll go broke acquiring all the roll top desks, beds & wardrobe sets in triplicate

The thing that really amazes me about this is not so much that someone came up with the idea -- half-baked ideas are floated in corporate boardrooms, ad agencies, etc on a daily basis -- but that there wasn't a clear thinking realist in the room who chimed in and said something like: 'well, you get an 'A' for creativity...but do we really want the consumer -- who, in all likelihood, inhabits the semi-finicky end of the music appreciation spectrum -- to actually get rust on his/her hands each & every time they access the set?' Hello? Simply amazing.

I'll sell it to you -- still freshly packaged & as beautiful as an East Boston scrap yard -- for a mere $149.99.

The X-Mas material is the best stuff on that set imho.

Universal Music warrants a permanent ignore for sending this ridiculous rusted hulk.

Oh good......can you program the cute little jumble-o-numbers gizmo in such as a way that some of us will be beamed a special 'Good Morning, Daddy' message every time we log on?

....me too....I'm watching ScottB's eBay auctions...

I do that too.....it's still enormously fun!! I listed an old punk 7" a short time ago and knew it was in that scarce category.....picked up the lone bid like you early on and then nothing 'til a day out. Ended up going for $140...but half the fun was dropping in a half-zillion times to keep an eye on it.

sneak. B-)

I was waaaay down there in southern W.Va. last week.....no Mothman sighting though. You should flip through 'Albion's Seed' by David Hacket Fischer.......fabulous book.

Now you're Dutch? I thought you said German on another thread? Must hail from the border area around Meppen? Well prove it -- say a few words in plattdeutsche for me and then tell us if this is gorgeous pumping installation near the border is Dutch or German?

I just called your family members and invited them to join this board Wonderful! I'm sure you'll have an absolute ball arguing with all the Norwegians & Germans on the 'Is it true that the Dutch are a wee bit more high strung than other europeans?' thread.

I honestly can't imagine taking the daily rumblings & assorted goings on at a tiny speck of a bulletin board so seriously that I'd have to resort to using an ignore feature. Now, were it possible to actually acquire a jumbo-sized 'one', specifically designed to provide peace of mind at large family gatherings, that might be another story.

AB, You're a good egg too, babe!

What course are you playing that's a par 59?

Years back, toward the end of a closed door meeting of House democrats, one member floated a tactical suggestion and then wondered aloud what the "enemy" (Republicans) would have to say about it. Danny Rostenkowski quickly piped-up and reminded those in the room that the Republicans were opponents, not enemies.....and that the enemy was the Senate. The problem as I see it is that there aren't enough people posting in that forum who're able to cross swords on a regular basis mindful of the fact that they're facing off against an opponent...not a sworn enemy. The fact of the matter is, we need more dignified characters like the Red Menace in there who knows how to take a shot (or call for a quick deportation to a labor camp out near Lake Baikal) without sinking to that "you're %$#@! immoral scum" level. In fact, just to illustrate that point, perhaps this afternoon I'll start a juicy little thread about the weekend I just spent with a boatload of House, Senate & White House leadership staff and shower 'Red' with fresh details about how we'll advance various legislative balls (Social Security, judicial appointments, etc) through an increasingly sticky thicket....and allow others to witness his signature velvet fist of a response.