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The Red Menace Posted on Nov 26 2004, 02:05 PM Yes, comrade Weizen, you will please to make with the tantalizing digital photographs of my beloved Old Europe, as they say!!! + + Red!! Come back! Where have you gone and disappeared to now??? Well, it was either the Armenian Navy Band or Bratislava, so we bolted to the Slovak capital in search of your old political intriguemeister, Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI), who manned the consulate from '48 'till he was tossed out on his ear. B-) Once you break through the band of soviet-era concrete housing monstrosities that hem in the train station, one finds that Bratislava has quite the scenic old quarter....beautiful place to stroll. They're doing a nice job restoring the place and things are looking pretty darned good.....yet plenty of rough edges and not a golden arch in sight! But the clock is ticking and it's only a matter of time before it'll be Pragified....so Red, sell all the mouldy fig Mosaics and those old KGB cloth patches of yours on eBay and cruise on in within the next 5 years before the window slams shut and Col. Sanders is staring you in the eye!

"California" vs. "Calfornia" B-) AfricaBrass Posted: Apr 30 2004, 09:09 PM Funkateer Group: Members Posts: 3771 Member No.: 51 Joined: 7-March 03 Location: Northern Calfornia

I become annoyed and quite often fly into a rage when foreigners fail to properly pronounce Hydrangea macrophylla var macrophylla 'Nikko Blue'.

We definitely add an 'e' to magazin as well.

No hawes? That really is a monumental outrage. Hmmmm...where to begin? I'd say that at this late date your best bet is to immediately fly into action and sell off a couple of worthless old Boomtown Rats, Wishbone Ash and Shorter 'All Seeing Eye' Lps now cluttering up the stax and use the minimal proceeds to land the oft-lauded Japanese edition of 'All Night Session!' that's now sitting on eBay. While I don't know the seller personally, I hear that he detests all beer below 4.6%.....all cities that ban smoking in bars...and the person(s) responsible for producing a shockingly inadequate 'remake' of the old Wild, Wild West show that really would have pissed off Jim, Artie, Miguelito Loveless and Voltaire.

My wife thinks I have some weird nutso disorder because not once during our recent trip to Vienna did I step foot inside the EMI store that was located a mere 100 feet from the hotel......nor any other cd store/dept for that matter. When you have goodies staring out at you from window displays on every block...who has time to waste fumbling around with cds? Not I.

Ordered the Eddie Higgins 'Christmas Songs' (Venus)

After helping a hard bop 'newbie' with a few Mobley selections up at the Virgin store in Times Square.......decided to steer him toward Dizzy Reece (said he liked trumpet) but discovered that there were no titles at hand. When I inquired about this w/the clerk working the jazz section, I was somewhat stunned to hear him say that he wasn't familiar w/Reece. He'd worked there for awhile too.

Thanks for digging that up, Reinier. I think it's time to drop Master Tanno a quick note. B-) .......glad I'll never have to fork over the cash for that old rusty lobster-pot of a Verve box.

Looks like a pair of double-cd sets (UCCV-4111/2 & UCCV-4113/4) are due to be released on 12/1. Anyone seen a full track listing? Carbon copy of what's already on the Verve box?

What's with the syringe lying next to that coffee mug?

Okay, weeded out a bunch of new ones. Say, isn't there some specific word recognition software that the moderators can employ that'll help block all incoming PMs from the guys in the political forum w/message titles like 'Die Dirtball'...'Eat Flaming Death'.....'Son-of-a-Satan-%$#@' ?? Oh I forgot...they're the ones sending them!

90 min. in line here.