Dmitry

Yeah, I was being tongue in cheek. I'm pretty sure the Ghanaian does great tiling work. You're in NYC? You have to understand that where I am it's either "a guy with a pick-up or a white van", or an expensive remodeling company, with nary anything in-between. I have yet to find a good reliable remodeler who doesn't charge the holy s@#t fees. BTW, what did you mean by " ex-engineer who had an NBD"? What's a NBD? Cheaper than the tile work I was quoted. And definitely an option at this point in my life. Thanks, Chuck!

No way. I want to die on that radiant-heat floor, clutching onto the towel warmer.

Yeah, that sounds cool. Hook me up with their numbers. When we bought our first house, and didn't know anything about anything, I hired a company ran by born-agains, who employed convicts in their rehabilitation program. Didn't know that then... One of the said convicts destroyed the newly-placed bamboo floor with a nail gun, right in front of me. Did you know that refnishing bamboo floors is a real bitch?! Neither did I. Cause it shreds. Oh, also, they laid down the floor with a serious slant. Like if you put a marble in one corner, it would roll quickly to an opposite corner...diagonally. Now I want impeccable references, pedigree, a family tree dating to the second crusade. One GC I'm not hiring because he came for a meeting in our house and asked if he could take a pee. That's what she said. I mean the certified bathroom designer. Except she said $20k for the steam shower. OK then..

So wer're going to remodel our existing master bathroom. 8x12. Wants - full gut steam shower soaker bath tile on floor and in shower in-line fan heated floor towel warmer nice vanity nice light new toilet move toilet a foot or two Hansgroche fixtures Got 3 quotes - $35k, $43k, $55k. WTF... Anyone done this recently? Am I crazy to think these prices are crazy?

I didn't get it at first. Looked at the date...4/20.... Yes, happy holiday for those whose every day is a holiday. I'm positive that grass makes you stupid, if you smoke every single day. Nothing against social use...

Me Love You Longtime

This is what Korean porn looks like.

Yep. Korean porn is on its own level.

Buster Williams looks like a corporate lawyer comparing to Archie Shepp. Shepp's got style.

Rewatched it?! Good lord...

I was thinking it was the hard water, which is surely not conducive to maintaining the coiffure.

How big was he in St.Louis 15 years ago? You're from that area. He must've had some serious presence in town, a restaurant, amuseument park, something like that? He studied business & accounting during his second stay at the state pen, and heavily invested in real estate, I'm presuming in the St.Louis area. People do give artists a break in cases of weird and wacky, often times bordering on criminality. Think Woody Allen.

In a 1980s documentary Berry stated that Chess speeded up his voice on studio tape, to make it sound higher, and consequently, younger, to appeal to teenagers. What we're hearing on those early seminal hits may not be his god-given vocals, but an early incarnation of music industry marketing.

Rooster, the details of that case are in his Wikipedia entry. He was a peeping tom. Berry had a pervy side to him, in case you forgot. In the early sixties he got sentenced for a good stretch in prison for transporting a minor across the state lines, iirc a 14 year old native American girl.

Same place where Jim copypastes them from, i.e. the soon to be late NY Times.

Unless JSngry copypastes about your death on organissimo, your life was nothing. You might just get lucky, though.

Them that die'll be the lucky ones....

Is this some kind of a contest I'm not privy to? Every day there's half a dozen obits posted here. This place is starting to smell funny, if you know what I mean...

I'll take it

What a crazy deal...this'll take like 20 minutes to sell

Yes, I read it, thanks. My post was directed more at epistrophy. You've advocated for music worse than this, so...

Why not focus on I Just Called to Say I Love You original album version, for starters? It sounds like crap to me, precisely because of the instrumentation, incl. the Roland drum machine.