Dmitry

All I know is that in situations like this and other calamities, it's the small business owners, myself including, who ALWAYS get shafted. Corporations receive money and buy their own stock back at a serious discount, and there is no law that would prohibit that. Soft banks get bailed out and carry on as before. But the local diner, transmission shop, landscape company, yoga studio, what you call "an independent contractor", they get...low interest loans. I hope I'm wrong this time around.

I just looked him up. You're right. I didn't know who he was. Did he have a musical number in The Animal House?

If this were a matter for a vote, as you appear to suggest, Dan, then I would vote against your proposal. He's not being threatening, just wrong, possibly existing in the universe of his own, if you know what I mean. There are billions of highly-functioning adults who have beliefs of some sort of another, like being sure that that one guy parted the Mediterranean to make way for him and his friends to walk on the bottom; others are sure that their guy could glide on water and feed everyone with a baguette. Others believe in forced vaccinations and government conspiracies. At least we have precedents for those. On the positive side - FDA just cleared a 2-minute COVID-19 antibody test. It's serological, which means you have to have your blood drawn for testing. Testing positive means one has had the virus and has developed immunity. https://www.axios.com/fda-coronavirus-two-minute-testing-kit-bodysphere-a665429d-488d-4edf-bd36-9180e2a06e4c.html

Flu makes you shit your pants? That's something new, Doctor Jim. But I do agree on the stupidity factor.

Is this Babs Gonzalez?

NPR has done a good job on the obituary. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824801424/wallace-roney-intrepid-jazz-trumpeter-dies-from-covid-19-complications-at-59

The virtual song-along is getting viral. This is the Berklee edition. I can’t say I enjoyed it, but here it goes.

My god.... i saw him at the revived Cafe Bohemia in NYC on January 11. It was a fantastic gig! He was a very heavy-set man and could do not get up and about without difficulty, but he played superbly. Immediately after the concert I bought his new album that just came out last year. Blue Dawn- Blue Nights is really good, refreshing, inventive post-bop, infinitely better than the cookie-cutter, uninspiring music the conservatory graduates are churning out on industrial scale these days. AND I was slated to hear him at Briwn University on March 14. That concert was canceled due to quarantine at the last moment. Oh man..

As much as asking an advisor why toilet paper was disappearing, I think. This, and other common sense things have been illogical this month.

Guys, in your opinion why in a time like now the Facebook stock isn’t up, but instead has tanked? I’m not a regular FB user myself, but many if not most adults checkin just about every day. Don’t they make money from advertising based on traffic?

What if the whole band had c-notes stapled to their charts also? They probably would be less pliable to agree with you then, no? The reason I'm asking is because you probably had to have played really bad music in your career, for a lot less than a c-note, and at times probably for free.

Question - if the guy stapled a c-note to the Trayvon chart, would you play it?

I thought the criterion was to have a picture of the child in the respective album cover.

Karl Denson- Herbal Turkey Breast

C.P.E. Bach

Don’t have any of the albums from the 6500 series.Do you have a mono switch in your preamplifier? Maybe what you’re hearing is true mono, but not properly channel-separated, so it may give an impression of stereo. Some of these “electronically re-engineered for stereo “ albums are mono. It’s just a sales blurb in some cases.

I was looking forward to seeing his band doing the complete hot rats album .... ain’t happening now.

Don’t cry. Can you take walks? We’ve been doing it almost every day. The spring is here, and it’s beautiful.

Italy is bracing for riots, MSN article says. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-risks-losing-grip-in-south-with-fears-of-looting-and-riots/ar-BB11V5A1

It's time to brush up on my reading. Maybe I'll finally be able to focus on one book at a time.

ZEROZEROZERO miniseries on Prime. Nice, well-made international drug smuggling thriller. USA-Western Africa-Calabria-Mexico. Recommend it. No "beautiful people". Cinematography is very good. It impressed m so much, that I'm now watching GOMORRAH on Netflix. I'm on the Episode 2, so it's way to early to tell how the show turns for me, but so far it's feeling like like the Italian version of the Sopranos, with a lot more grit and bang.

The social experiment to continue for another month. President just announced that he’s extending nationwide social distancing till April 30th. Peak deaths are expected in 14 days.

Thanks. Another winner in the sub$10 category is Torrebruna Sangiovese. I bought two cases, comes up to well under $8 per bottle. I buy it from Wollaston’s in Quincy. Malbecs are great budget wines too!

Well-spotted!

Guys, this was an attempt at bons mots. How’s this : If schools are to stay closed for three more weeks , parents will discover the vaccine much faster than scientists.