Son-of-a-Weizen

Happy B'Day!!! From the Martini Republic site: A Curator's work is never done

Hard to say too much unless you state a preference for a particular theater or battles (Glantz & House 'Battle of Kursk' is good). A good all 'round WWII book is 'Total War' by Peter Calvocoressi and Guy Wint. About 1,000 pages......covers action on all fronts & is chock full of solid info. I think it went oop in the mid-80s....not hard to find though. IMO the best of the lot in the 'big canvas' category.

...but just to play it safe, might be time to summon Atom Ant out of retirement.

Naaa, they basically equate this with a mosquito hitting a freight train. Gotta love that Russian scientist who filed suit ($300 million?) against NASA claiming that they're disrupting the natural balance of the universe -- as though these comets aren't already severely pock-marked from repeat collisions over the years.

Now that's a neat looking site, Take. That 'Heavy Duty DVD Pro Case' for $159 looks like it would be perfect for mini-lps. Wonder how many it'll hold? Don't suppose you've had any experience with (or know of someone) those little jobbers?

I'm considering that new Stones mini-lp box (w/"Sticky Fingers, "Exile On Main Street," "Goats Head Soup," "It's Only Rock N Roll," "Black And Blue," "Some Girls ," "Emotional Rescue, and "Tattoo You") due out in Japan in August. I haven't purchased a single rock cd in 8 or 9 years.

A new 'One For All'? Boy, they certainly are spitting out the Higgins discs fast & furious. Another was released this week, yes? I've come to rely on the Tanno e-mails and stuff posted here but I must have been asleep at the switch because I sure didn't notice any 'heads up' regarding the E. Higgins and Cedar Walton Trio discs that were released earlier this week. Guess I'll have to go back to checking the Venus site from time to time. Maybe Hiroshi messed up and sent the Venus update to Lon instead of me?!

'Bend Me, Shape Me'

Well damn! Now I'm getting all excited about this place. Okay, so they're selling some Mosaics with sawcuts...what else? Trading bootlegs? Running numbers? There a meth lab in the back???

Jeez, with all this talk you guys have Reinier all 'worried' that Frank Serpico and a well armed strike force are gonna assault the place and take some folks down while he's perusing the Phil Woods mini-lps. It was the guys at the Tower in the east village that actually suggested the place to me and who said that's where they go to find items of interest that would never see the light of day in their visibly shrinking Tower jazz dept. That said, I've been amazed at the number of Venus discs that I've seen in at that one Tower location. They seem to be peddling alot more Fresh Sounds and Jasmine discs as well. Think I picked up that 'Fabulous Claude Williamson Trio' FS in there.

Really? I bought a bunch in March and they were all new. Have picked up re-wraps w/fingerprints & scratches from Red Trumpet & Tower though. The thing about that place is that they're happy to crack open a disc and give it a quick spin for you which I thought was kinda neat. If you decide not to buy, they very well could pull a re-wrap. I dunno. Say, um....when you're on a mission from Stamford, do you flash your Mosaic badge? Anyone ever pull a gun on ya?

Picked up the 'Mr. Ed' and 'My Favorite Martian' DVD sets for the kids. I'd actually never seen the first 2 in the Mr. Ed series, so it was good to finally catch up 35 years later.

That's funny. The way they've seeded the article with 'unsettling' and 'scurrying for...' you'd have thought that it was something approximating an anthrax scare.

Permanently banned? Oliver Stone films, Ben & Jerry's....and most toys that are 'Made in China' (although that's tough to pull off....even if ya have some decent alternate shops like KinderHaus Toys in the neighborhood)

Try Norman's Sound & Vision down in the East Village in the vicinity of the Village Voice (67 Cooper Square).....Norm runs the place.

Same set I mentioned in Dec. '03.

or Far Away Lands!!!!

I think it had been...as a TOCJ, that is.

First person to say 'RVG' gets clobbered!!!!

wow, fun job.... Yeah, I can just imagine.

General Von Steuben. .............and that person most responsible for giving us the ability to screen phone calls.

Been waltzing his way though the legal system since at least '84. Next round of Senate votes on judicial nominees can't come soon enough.

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. -_- .Oh, no...wait a minute....wrong pic! Here she is!!!

My Dad's a riot! He actually sent me the Father's Day gift this year --- a t-shirt & some rib recipes from the New England Barbeque Society's cook off up in NH last weekend. Naturally he had to enclose the photo he snapped of the reigning Miss New Hampshire.