Dmitry

Sarah B. Pomeroy - GODDESSES, WHORES, WIVES, AND SLAVES: Women in Classical Antiquity Illuminating and pioneering.

I saw that also, but chased that thought away...it's just weird.

Of course, but we want quality. Curated, as they say today.

Aha. Googled Ed Bedno: A designer from Chicago, born in 1925, Second World War veteran, has a FB profile. Designed a few album covers for Mercury / EmArcy. https://www.discogs.com/artist/6170989-Ed-Bedno This one is odd. Are these...spuds?

I wasn't going on about pot per se. In 2008 seeds in buds was not a frequent sight. It was already hydroponic, designer grass then. Now, if the OP were selling the OP of the BB, then seeds would definitely be period-appropriate.

Bring them on, put them here.

Seeds in buds? Schwag. You owe it to Miles to do better than that. He was class.

Interesting album cover art for both the Holiday in ... titles. The anthropomorphic figures of the Holiday in Trumpet album are signifiers of the trumpet valves? Are the art directors/designers for those two mentioned?

I don’t know how the Forest managed to stay up, with that lackluster lineup. They are my candidate for the relegation next year. The Saints were a much better team, at least on paper, and look how they sunk. But Leicester was much-much worse. The first club in history to be relegated after five consecutive top ten league finishes. The FA CUP FINAL starts in half an hour. Will Man City make history and win the treble? We shall see.

Amazingly, I read the same thing said by another Nanaimo native, who married Elvis Costello.

Al Pacino is a daddy, at 82. https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/8247597/al-pacino-expecting-child-girlfriend-noor-alfallah-pregnant/

The best club in the world right now. I see no equal, or even a challenger.

How the fortunes change...we are out, along with the hapless Leeds, and Everton lives on.

Kick-off is in just over an hour from now. All the PL teams are playing. It's do or die for Everton, Leicester and Leeds, two of whom will be relegated. If Leicester do go down, they will be the first club in 28 years to do so after having won the PL, since the Blackburn Rovers in 1994/1995. It's needless to talk about the venerable Everton, who have not been relegated to the lower division since 1951. In fact, they are the second longest-tenured club in the top flight of the English football, after Arsenal, who've been in the top league since 1920.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/marijuana/marijuana-addictive Truth be told, we are supporting the new Stereo Jack's with this thread. It had but an original post and one reply, and crickets for nine months, until I read the article that mentioned that Jack's was being replaced by a weed shop, and went on a tangent. Long live Stereo Jack's and its eponymous former proprietor!

I’m on the “no new music” moratorium , but must commend you in the effort and time spent on the presentation! This is the best I’ve seen.

Yes it is. The cannabis of today isn't what we had in college. It can be 20-30 more potent. The effects of it on the brain are in dire need of significant research, before it's too late for many. I disagree. If someone is drinking alcohol at 7am, you wouldn't call it an addiction? Or if someone lights up a cigarette when they just woke up? Same with cannabis or any other substance that alters the brain to seek it because of the changes in brain produced by repeated use of that substance.

Agreed. Marijuana vapors emanating out of construction company vans are expected at all times. A giant Dunkin Donuts "coffee" with extra-extra-extra and a joint...they keep America running.

Since a reopening after the worst of Covid, owner Jack Woker said business has never been better – the draw for vintage vinyl is at a remarkable peak due to its audio quality, usefulness to DJs and collectibility – but the locale is making way for a recreational marijuana dispensary called Budega. Woker believes the cannabis shop will pay a significantly higher rent... These marijuana joints are springing like mushrooms. I'm not a Bostonian, and don't have the nose for that city's fragrance, but New York City doesn't have the smells it had. The NY air now smells like weed when you're walking down the street, and nothing but weed. When I lived there, it had its own smell: yes, there was a little weed in it, customarily below the Union Square, but it was also street coffee, danish, yesterday's trash, hangover, geraniums, expensive perfume. Now it's just weed. Driving to work at 7am here in Rhode Island...trail of weed on the highway enters the car and stays. Who smokes grass at 7am? Obviously it's someone driving to work. I'm sure it's a medical necessity, like an emotional support rabbit, or two-three antidepressant prescriptions that are almost a routine for twenty year olds.

Man U - Chelsea starts in a few minutes. While Chelsea is again proving that money can't buy me love, Man U is only a point away from the Champions League in the coming season. Should be a blast to watch. Maybe Misha Mudryk will finally score...he's 14-0.

Turner had signed up for assisted suicide, before husband gave her his kidney. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12124541/Tina-Turner-admitted-considered-assisted-suicide-2016-Erwin-Bach-donated-kidney.html

Turner's husband Erwin Bach donated a kidney to her in 2017. Love got to do with it. https://people.com/music/tina-turner-health-crisis-kidney-transplant-husband-donor/

River Deep, Mountain High is a phenomenal song. I don't know if you're aware that Private Dancer was written by Mark Knopfler, who later pitched it to Turner.