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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.

Tina Turner checked out today. 83.

On the positive side, an afternoon in the stands would greatly expand his vocabulary.

Interestingly, I know two Britons, one a Scot, another an Englishman, neither of whom could give a hoot about football, but they follow rugby very intensely. As i was explained, rugby is a toughness-building sport in schools, while football is not as popular.

Recently a participant in an online discussion I sometimes participate in, who referred to the "premiership' as another term for the PL, was corrected by another participant to the effect that premiership was to be applied to rugby, not football.

King Power, the conglomerate of the billionaire Srivaddhanaprabha family of Thailand which owns LCFC, took a very significant hit during the Covid air travel ban. KP is a chain of duty-free shops in South East Asia. This video explains rather succinctly the Leicester business model, and how it has come undone. I will just add that the tragic death of the owner Vichai, who is lionized by the fans to this day, and who was the force behind the family riches and loved his club, was a precipitating factor. His son Top doesn't seem to be nearly as involved with the football club as was his father. https://youtu.be/I6Ss0p2Oiro

We started following Leicester in 2015, when Vardy was unstoppable, and the Top 6 clubs weren't looking forward to playing at Filbert Way. The absence of the relegation/promotion system in the USA is why I don't watch the sports on tv anymore.Takes away the dreams of small clubs rising from the bottom, and no-one is safe. I would imagine that being a fan of a local team has a significant community-bonding effect in the UK. There is nothing like it here in America. Too bad about Reading. Good old club. Perhaps they'll get back into the Championship next year.

The judgement day is coming. This Sunday, it's either Everton, Leicester or Leeds that is going down. Everton is at 33 points, the other two are at 31. Only a victory will do for my Leicester City. Keeping hopeful, but realistic. The club is being mismanaged, and everyone knows it. I do love the promotion/relegation system, which is not an option in major sports in the USA, where everything is "hooked up", as they say.

Duke Ellington - Portrait of Billy Strayhorn Duke Ellington - Satin Doll

April 21, 2023 Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen The Met, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Indeed. It was known as heavy smokers and alcoholics cancer.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12106405/Renowned-British-author-Martin-Amis-dies-aged-73-cancer-battle.html I was introduced to his work by a film The Rachel Papers (a brilliant film that meant a lot to me at the time), which was based on his eponymous first novel. I met him briefly at the reading he gave at either the Brentano's or Shakespeare & Co. on 5th Avenue in the mid-1990s, and he signed a copy of this novel for me. I still have it. He was sort of an enfant terrible of the English language prose in the 1970s-1980s. I haven't read any of his other books, but I did buy a novel that made waves when it came out. It's titled the Information, I think. My reading list is too long, but perhaps one day I'll get to it. Also, the same film, the Rachel Papers, was my introduction to the music of the late Willy DeVille, a remarkably talented and creative musician, who, sadly, was an addict. You know his music from the Princess Bride.

As a rapidly approaching retirement white man I bet these are just the boxes and booklets. The cds are stored elsewhere. If these were LP sets, they’d be kept with the rest of the records.

Just list them here, like everyone else does.

At 16 I was smoking cigarettes, drinking, thinking of sex a lot and listening to the likes of Duran Duran. And no, reading that someone was buying Mosaic sets when I was doing all of that does not make me feel inferior. 😁

There are so many mechanical steps in the process of making vinyl records, it's a miracle they can sound so good.

Some titles are probably slow sellers. Others, like the Stones, Lennon, etc....no idea why they are so discounted. Maybe "much better new revolutionary definitive end-game" pressings are forthcoming.

Acoustic Sounds is running a palpable sale on vinyl, which includes the Blue Note Classic and the Tone Poet series. https://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results&start=1 &saleid=677#

Another vinyl project that uses digital transfers. It's like playing a giant black cd that costs more. I really like listening to my records, but digitally-sourced LPs don't appeal to my ageing ears.

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jiveass Slippers

Art Pepper was born in Gardena. Incidentally, just days ago received this book, but haven't opened it yet.