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I always enjoyed him and John Madden. Be well!.

Heard about the New London School explosion from those alive at the time it happened. Some of them children themselves when it happened. None of them wanted to see the documentary.

I think you mean the Texas City Diaster. 581 people were killed. Close to 6000 injured....and over 500 homes destoryed. The 16th was the 66 anniversary.

Before I went to sleep last night; they were reporting 60 dead and a couple hundred injured. I was expecting to read even more had died. Thankfully, the death toll has been greatly reduced. I have stopped there when when visting family in both cities.

It's the first group. Last year there was 250 performances in 50 venues. Went to several of them. The Schlippenbach interests me. I would be interested in seeing Sonny Rollins, but the last three times I bought tickets haven't turned out well for me, my then fiancee, or Sonny himself.

Considering on top of prefunding for 75-years anyone currently working.....they're setting aside $5 billion a year just to prefund benefits for 75-years for people not even hired, or born for that matter.....the gas bill really isn't close to the issue in comparison.

That's blown a giant hole in their budget, and there are a couple other things that are problematic financially. Everytime the price of gas goes up, the USPS takes a huge hit. They have over 400,000 vehicles! The other is that they are severely limited as to how much they can raise postage rates.Sorry, the gas thing isn't even an issue, really. When you're not only prefudning people working, but but each year those you haven't even hired for 75-years.... Not a single private company....no matter how big could survive anything like that. Can anyone even imagine how many would join the military if they could get what those not even born can get if they became a postal worker, and they wouldn't have to deal with the VA thing?

Just like to point out that those complaining about the service live outside the country.

They just raised the prices on April 2nd. Here are the new prices. http://www.royalmail.com/prices-2013

As a result of the postal clause in the Constitution....one way or another Congress will have to provide a postal service.

The problem with the postal service is that for some stupid reason Congress passed a bill in 2006 that gives postal workers something that no other Govt union/employee has....fully prefounded benefits for the next 75-years. They're even diverting $5 billion a year to prefund benefits for people who they haven't even hired yet. No matter how often they raise prices....they're constantly in the red as a result. They're cutting hundreds of post offices and thousands of employees, which has effected how quickly things are delivered. You can't even get next day delivery anymore using first class postage. Before the most recent cuts....40% of first class mail was delivered the next day. Noj: They're backing off cutting Saturday because they need Congress to approve that....and they won't let them.

I read this thread WTF?....and I am supposed to be the "Troll". P.S. Glad to see some actual modertaing....and consistent at that.

Okay, I actually made it through the thread Jim A linked to....and while it got into the whole "Jews" (who knew Gumbo and Snoozehand could even lead to Don Rickles and Lenny Bruce amonst other things) thing it stopped in 2011. The thread in question that Jim A meant was this.

1. I bookmarked it for later reading. Should be interesting to read how a Gumbo/Snoozedhand (as Pops calls them) playing Blues thread turned political. 2. Thank you! Just as long as one way or another it's consistent.

Eve Plumb Maureen McCormick Davy Jones

Liked the music on Be Still, but not the singing. Glad to hear Aoife O'Donovan isn't involved. @ mjazzg Have you heard Live at the Jazz Standard? He plays cornet throughout it.

Keeping in mind the whole once an Alcholic.....you're always one, but 1979. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/my_name_is_roger_and_im_an_alc.html

Both his parents died as result of smoking. One from cancer and one from emphysema. As in, no. It started out as thyroid cancer and it metastasized from that point.

While I don't always agree with Kehr....I like his writing. He and Hoberman had some recent reviews involving John Ford. Hoberman's is on a book about The Searchers. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/the-searchers-by-glenn-frankel.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/movies/homevideo/new-dvds-how-green-was-my-valley-and-quiet-man.html

Not aware of Hoberman. Absolutely not a fan of Rosenbaum. At one point, I was reading and disliking his work on a regular basis (so an anti-fan of sorts), since I felt compelled to read all the reviews in the Chicago Reader. The Reader has fallen on hard times (and Rosenbaum may have moved on) and I am not in the city anymore, so he has completely fallen off my radar screen. He started out at the Village Voice under Sarris. Was the head critic until he was fired to save money at the VV last year. Now he writes for several http://j-hoberman.com/

Any fans of Jonathan Rosenbaum and J. Hoberman?

I don't know that I've ever seen it be good, at least not in the sense of solving anything vs. just relocating it. Dallas has had this going on for several decades now, and no, not good. Brooklyn, too, with lifelong residents displaced for hipsters with lots of $$ It's spreading deeper into Brooklyn. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/realestate/moving-deeper-into-brooklyn-for-lower-home-prices.html?pagewanted=all A pretty interesting map. http://www.propertyshark.com/mason/ny/New-York-City/Maps?map=nyc2&x=0.5316666666666666&y=0.6848333333333333&zoom=1&basemap=bknhincrease&tab=themes&ll=40.627135894237,-73.9436368646481

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Vladimir Nabokov who was also renowened entomologist. Franz Kafka (Nabokov actually taught a course at Cornell on the Metamorphosis. Unlike what many think Gregor doesn't turn into a cockroach but a beetle) http://www.kafka.org/index.php?id=191,209,0,0,1,0 Christopher Plummber played Nabokov teaching the course. Oops, sorry. Herman Melville Jean-Pierre Grumbach Lino Ventura