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do any of you remember those sexy audio gear items from the audio magazines in the 60s rhapsodizing about the virtues and beauty of the new equipment. the photography was better than first rate? speaking of power, tuner sensitivity, and fantasizing---------------- fisher, at that time, was one of the guiltier players. i drooled more than my share; now that drool dust is in the cutout bin of a thrift store.

i thunk youse guys was all rich but me.

scarlet and grey thoughts

my favorite turntable is a 50 year old dual 1015 with a 7 pound platter. the tuner is much better than the 1990 pioneer vsx 3800 that i've used daily since 1991.

one thing for sure--an fm tuner is unnecessary and a waste of time and space.

POWER METERS!!!!! NO RED LIGHTS!!!!!!!!

-the knobs, switches, dials--all the inputs, outputs, tuners etc.-clean and smooth it must weigh 25 pounds. sounds great with my old vinyls. it's got 4 inputs-that's enough for me. no blems-- sure, it's not audiophile, but i definitely got my 10 dollars worth. http://www.audioasylum.com/reviews/Receiver/Pioneer/SX-780/general/338678.html

my 2 late wives were my finest and wisest judges, always having my best interests at heart. now that they have passed on, a daughter is doing surprisingly well at it. she took orders, too.

thank you, sir.

i agree with every word, particularly with respect to asking why mcgwire is back in bb, but not pete.

would that the incredible game 6 had such an audience---

a lawyer told me that he thought the most powerful person that many laypeople would ever come across in their lifetimes is the highest level trial court judge in their local jurisdiction. they can jail just about anyone who comes before them at least temporarily. They generally have broad sentencing power. they can impose the death penalty on a convicted murderer even where the jury has recommended life in prison. they can send a sheriff out to pick up anyone they desire. the list goes on and on. they run for 6 year terms so they are often out in the community. do you know your local judges? do you think many people do? i'm either proud or ashamed to mention that i know none of our locals. skeletons in the closet satchmo http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ae5WtA_Oqfs witches and devils http://www.youtube.c...h?v=00mt-CNeGyo

the rude one to the cubbies??? theo really wanted the awesome john farrell from the jays but toronto refused to allow talks. wouldn't the rude one be aweome on sunday night beezboll?

Yep, and we can blame Clinton for that one with the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Just goes to show that not everything is black and white (ie all conservatives bad, all liberals good and vice versa). It was / is a horrible decision that allows the conglomeration of media into a few hands and once you control the media you can control the message. The only counterpoint is the rise of the internet, which nobody foresaw (well, Kurzweil did, but he wasn't taken seriously) but that's under attack now, too. And though I don't necessarily agree with thedwork's entire post, it is true that the anger is not aimed at the person who amasses obscene wealth, it's at the system that allows it to happen, a system that was put into place by those with the wealth, to benefit those with the wealth, and maintain the status quo. And that crosses the imaginary party line. And yes, the system is fundamentally unsustainable, just like the fallacy of continually escalating home prices when average wages have stagnated since 1980 was fundamentally unsustainable (something I recognized almost 10 years ago, when I was in my early 20s). If you are even remotely familiar with history, the pitfalls of such a system should be obvious as well as the dire consequences of not dealing with it. Let them eat McDonalds. i often don't agree with your thoughts, jim, but this post nailed it brilliantly.

i'm thinking that universal wifi and inexpensive portable wifi (radios) will offer most of us about 15,000 worldwide station choices. there should be at least one or two out of 15,000 stations weird enough to have live weirdos playing and discussing real jazz, whatever that is.

thx tom- i would have missed it!!!!!!

clear channel is privately held. there are no stock holders to screw. the limbaughs of the world play a big role in this sad scenario. clear channel, the cess pool(to put it kindly), of broadcasting has again cut many jobs from its already skeletal ranks. we wish our old familiar broadcast friends and voices nothing but the best. ASHLAND/MANSFIELD<br style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; line-height: 20px; ">—————–<br style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; line-height: 20px; ">Country WNCO-FM/101.3 midday host-Talk WNCO/1340 program director Gene Davis<br style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; line-height: 20px; ">Production director Bryan Moore<br style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; line-height: 20px; ">Utility/sports/news staffer Josh Bowman this is the way the way radio used to sound where did broadcasting class, and its beautifully modulated voices go? i miss it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K97vsEYWUg radio as an art form is gone, but i worry about the people. i would not call npr with it's highly networked multicasting a reasonable alternative i generally agree, lee. they may have bought stuff no one else wanted, like gannett bought dying newspapers.

clear channel the cess pool(to put it kindly) of broadcasting has cut nearly 1,000 jobs from its already skeletal ranks. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/clear-channel-cuts-d-j-s-across-the-country/

mike shannon's prescient remarks from last march. if tv is obsessing with twitter and fb, why do we need tv? a buck isn't what it used to be. i enjoyed the local cardinal radio broadcast back on radio station kmox, with savvy veterans mike shannon and john rooney, foregoing the droll bland new buck. the sync radio-tv wasn't bad; radio was 2 seconds ahead of the pic.

the people have spoken. watch your back though. these suckers are slick, or are we the suckers? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Chase-Wells-Fargo-drop-debit-apf-905349477.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode= Eileen Aj Connelly, AP Personal Finance Writer, On Friday October 28, 2011, 7:06 pm EDT NEW YORK (AP) -- Chase and Wells Fargo are joining the list of banks that won't be charging customers to use their debit cards, as the backlash over Bank of America's planned $5 monthly fee continues. The retail banking arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. will stop charging $3-per-month fees for using debit cards when its current pilot in Wisconsin and Georgia is completed in November, a source with knowledge of the bank's plans told The Associated Press. The individual asked not to be identified because the bank has not officially announced the program will not go forward. Chase, which operates in 23 states, began its test in February. And it's not alone in rethinking its actions. Wells Fargo & Co. began a similar pilot in five states on Oct. 14, testing a flat $3 fee for using debit for purchases. On Friday it also announced that it is cancelling its test program. Other banks already have more widespread fee policies. SunTrust Banks charges $5 a month for debit cards used to make purchases, and Regions Financial Corp. charges $4. But it was Bank of America Corp.'s plan to start charging $5 per month that lit the issue on fire. The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank last month said it will begin assessing the fee in 2012. Banks are justifying the fees by stating that they need to recoup revenue lost to new regulations that limit the fees they can collect from retailers for handling debit card transactions. But the new fees sparked a huge backlash. Signs like, "I bailed out the banks and all I got was a $5 debit card fee" have been spotted the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York and its sibling protests around the country. The author of the regulations, Sen. Richard Durbin, D.-Ill, called the fee an "outrage" on the floor of the Senate. "It is hard to believe that a bank would impose such a fee on loyal customers who simply are trying to access their own money on deposit," he said. "Especially when Bank of America for years has been encouraging their customers to use debit cards as much as possible." Durbin encouraged customers of banks that charge fees to "vote with their feet," but consumers were already ahead of him. Credit unions and community banks nationwide are reporting huge spikes in new accounts as consumers seek no-fee options. "People are literally walking into branches and cutting up their Bank of America cards," Kirk Kordeleski, CEO of Bethpage Federal Credit Union in Long Island, N.Y., said last week. The backlash hasn't gone unnoticed by other banks. Citigroup Inc. almost immediately pointed to its policy of not charging for debit, although at the same time it changed requirements for its mid-tier checking accounts to make it harder to avoid a $20 per month service fee. Huntington National Bank, Ally Bank, USAA and on Friday, TD Bank, are among those that are publicizing that they will not charge debit card fees. And institutions like CDC Federal Credit Union in Atlanta are sending emails out with "No Debit Card Fees" in the subject line to entice people to move their money. The anger appears to be resonating. On Friday, Bank of America bent. A source at the bank, who asked not to be identified because the policy is still evolving, said it likely it will offer ways for its customers to avoid debit card fees through using direct deposit, maintaining minimum balances or using Bank of America credit cards. But a good deal of damage is already done. "Too little, too late," one angry customer posted on Facebook. "I've already switched to USAA!"

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http://willnixon.com/marilyn-crispell-frank-parker ← The Nude Zombie You’ll Never Forget Zombie PhD, thanks to Bobbi Katz → Marilyn Crispell performs for the late poet Frank Parker Posted on October 25, 2011 by adminMy friend, Marilyn Crispell, the jazz pianist, leads a bifurcated life. In Woodstock, where she’s lived for thirty years, she’s a homebody kept busy by errands and chores, which includes spending hours on the computer arranging her concert tours. She also watches after her cat and regularly entertains visiting friends from Europe. As a homebody myself, I’ve gotten to know her through our weekly respites at Tuesday evening yoga followed by dinner at our local Indian restaurant, where we’ve often closed the place down—at 8:30 pm. If you’re a night owl like Marilyn, Woodstock is pathetic. She’ll return home to play some piano, talk on the phone with her musician friends (who all seem to be night owls), watch a DVD. She’s even done her gardening at night. For several years, I’ve been urging her to hike with me upOverlook Mountain under a bright moon, but so far she’s chuckled and insisted that she couldn’t make it up that mountain even in daylight. Then she packs her small suitcase and flies off to Norway or Australia or Madison, Wisconsin for her other life as an internationally acclaimed improvisational pianist. To me, few things in life rival listening to the wildly gorgeous vitality she brings out of that keyboard, weaving and surging between pounding out mad clusters of chords into a crescendo that exhausts itself into plucking on solitary notes of ethereal quietude before building towards the next stampede at the loud end of the keyboard. She’s a full spectrum performer. By the end of the show I feel as if I’ve been on an emotional journey as sweeping as that of reading a novel. She deserves all the praise we can give her. After a week or three of touring, hopping on plane flights between cities, touristing at parks and museums, visiting with friends, she returns home to Woodstock jet lagged but fresh with stories and insights into parts of the world that I’ll probably never see except on her iPhone photos. When she invited me to join her on a short trip to Tucson, Arizona in January 2010, I took her up on the opportunity to visit the desert Southwest, where I’d enjoyed camping adventures in the past. As luck would have it, we were hosted by the local poetry community, for Marilyn performed on a double bill with Ron Silliman, a prominent L=A=N=G=U=A= G=E poet (and blogger) from Philadelphia. (Is Marilyn’s improvisational music to jazz what L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E is to poetry, i.e., a deliberate fracturing of familiar meanings and patterns? If so, I don’t notice it. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E remains intriguing but alien to me. Marilyn’s music goes down easily.) Our final night in town we were taken to dinner in a homely Mexican restaurant at the edge of Barrio Viejo, a historic district of Sonoran-style adobe houses that has gone artsy with colorfully painted walls and loving restorations of what was once essentially a Mexican village surrounded by a frontier city. After dinner we spent the most enchanting hour exploring this moonlit neighborhood led by our guide, Frank Parker, a silver-haired mensch, who was the sound engineer for the poetry group that sponsored the show, a musician, a printer, and a poet in his own right. After living for decades in Monterey, California, he’d moved to Tucson in 2003 to be near his son. The most magical spot of all was the empty lot next door to the restaurant. It had nothing more than a rear wall with a stone mantel and fireplace. Dozens of candles waved their fragile little flames from their wax-melted spots before the fireplace or up on the mantel or wall. El Tiradito, or Wishing Shrine, was the name. Supposedly, it’s the only shrine in the country dedicated not to a saint or a religious hero, but to a sinner, a young sheepherder murdered in the 1870s for being in a love triangle. If your candle burns through the night into the morning your wish will come true. Marilyn only met Frank on that one trip. But they soon became Internet friends. (From her travels, she has collected friends from around the world.) This past September he died of cancer, a loss not unexpected, since she knew he was in hospice, but one that’s still shocking and sad. She’d spoken to him a week earlier by phone. He’d sounded fine. He’d read her a poem twice because she’d liked it so much “I told him I might perform in Tucson again in January,” she recalls. “He said, ‘So that’s a reason to be alive.’ ‘You better be there,’ she replied.” Alas, he won’t be. On Thursday evening, October 27th, Marilyn will perform a concert webcast at 7:30 pm from a soundstage in Woodstock. (The show will be available as a video-on-demand for 30 days after the performance.) She dedicates the performance to Frank Parker. Here are four of his poems that she’d like to share. The first is from his book, Win Po, which she explains is not the name of a heretofore unknown classical Chinese poet but a bit of graffiti that tickled his fancy. Song for Michael McClure gray dove up green mesquite branches spread tiny leaves lines combine in eye and I breathe deep blue sky feathered edge of nitrogen and oxygen exploding stars today The next two are from a section of Heart Shaped Blossoms called “Wild with Spring:” a flute the moon a tiny heart sleepless music on the water all there is everywhere at once and anywhere you point points back to you at the speed of light name this thing a separate being in a crisis of perception who is whose reflection * * * words go out I hear my heart a red crown in a dark sea pages of morning white fingers cup the wind all night And a final poem from Heart Shaped Blossoms: our bodies the sun mornings dressed for church leave me drum my songs the heart shaped blossoms when I’m not there to see plum leaf butterfly wings the breeze This entry was posted in Poems and tagged Barrio Viejo, El Tiradito, Frank Parker, Heart Shaped Blossoms,L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Marilyn Crispell, Michael McClure, Overlook Mountain, poetry and jazz, Ron Silliman, Tucson, Win Po,Wishing Shrine, Woodstock. 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marilyn set to go live in a couple minutes. registration is 10 bucks and very smooth---- www.marilyncrispellwebcast.com

this color combination of a a rose in transition is so melancholy, and so very beautiful. late october rose standing tall and defiant against the world and the changing seasons. not sure who this is-- it's probably just anther blowhard dime-a-dozen politician. such precious lovely youngsters these breast cancer awareness posters loom billboard size when a lovely 21 year young sweet family member is having surgery for this dread disease friday. some of us walk more slowly. some of us do bible study drink less creme brulee; eat more chikin Beim Schlafengehen strauss, szell, shwarzkopf http://www.youtube.c...h?v=De_GiqRyvQk

dismal world series ratings for baseball---- http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/even-against-series-viewers-flock-to-the-n-f-l/?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Findex.jsonp October 25, 2011, 4:34 PM Even Against Series, Viewers Flock to the N.F.L. By BILL CARTERIf Major League Baseball truly wants to make an argument about still being America’s pastime after this year’s World Series, it will need some real voodoo mathematics. The ratings results for the Series games this year have been nothing short of dismal, with the latest evidence being the games played on Sunday and Monday nights. In the initial big cities metered by the Nielsen Company, viewership on Monday night was down 8 percent from Game 5 last season. At a 9.8 rating, it was the lowest metered-market number in the history of the sport on television. Even worse for those defending baseball against the onslaught of football popularity was what took place on Sunday. Major League Baseball had what might have been considered a stroke of good luck in its matchup against N.F.L. football on Sunday night. NBC had what looked like a dreadful game on paper, with the winless Colts – minus the marquee quarterback Peyton Manning – against the powerful New Orleans Saints. The game was a blowout from the start, with the final 62-7 score the most lopsided regular-season game since the merger of the N.F.L. with the A.F.L. in 1970. If ever the World Series had a chance to demonstrate its ratings strength, this was it. Instead, it seems that younger viewers prefer even the least-compelling N.F.L. game to one of baseball’s most compelling. In the 18-49 rating that determines so much about ratings supremacy in television, Sunday night football beat the World Series game — a close contest with a 1-0 score through seven innings — with a 5.2 rating to a 4.2 for the baseball game. The World Series did manage to pull in more total viewers —15.2 million to 12.5 million. But that only underscored how old the audience is for baseball. Even among the other audience group that most advertisers buy, viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, the football game stayed ahead, with a 5.5 rating to a 5.2 for baseball. The single biggest rating for the World Series was among men over 50 years old, where it scored a huge 11.5 rating. The evidence also suggests that a stronger football game Sunday night have produced an embarrassing result for baseball. The N.F.L. always has more football rated in prime time on Sundays because of afternoon games that run past 7 p.m. in the East. The rating for the games that ran over last Sunday on Fox was an enormous 9.6 in the 18-49 audience — more than double what the World Series Game 4 was able to score. Even Fox’s postgame N.F.L. show, “The OT,” scored a superior 18-49 number, a 5.3. A matchup of more appealing teams, say the Yankees or Red Sox against the Dodgers, or especially the Cubs, would most likely generate much better ratings for baseball. But the Rangers and Cardinals are not in small cities or television markets, and they boast many familiar players like Josh Hamilton of Texas and Albert Pujols of St. Louis. That, and hard-fought games, have not been enough to stir much interest in the World Series, especially when sports fans have the N.F.L. option.