The Magnificent Goldberg

Nor me (of course). So, he's a Rep member of NYCity council. I always wanted someone to do that to Ali G. People are far too polite on TV. MG

Jackie Ivory Ivory Joe Hunter Ivor Biggun

Roland Flicket! MG

Well, someone might not have seen him on the other side of a hill, or just the fact he was in the middle of the road going 5 MPH...that can be a hazard as well.... Quite right - and it's not just pedestrians who are endangered. A car coming round a bend might hit him and wind up hitting something else. MG

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I've seen the first part of that video before, but the bit where he's getting into the sweets machine is just too, too MUCH!!!! Thanks Rod. MG

I guess that's why I haven't heard of him. MG

Good idea...too much too fast could be a problem! 1/49=0.02040816326.... 1/97=0.010309278... etc ... Ain't it beautiful :-? I've looked at that three times already (once for each posting) and I've only just seen it. Does it really go on like that forever? MG

Actually, I think I would but for one thing. Who the bleedin' 'ell is Lester Bangs? MG

Didn't you know? That was the persona adopted by John Coltrane, when in drag. MG

Mercury Hermes Freddie Mercury

I'm sure that Scratch at less than his best is still better than most. Oh indeed! This was not anything like chucking money away! I could have bought earlier material, but I thought it would be interesting to see how he'd got on afterwards. Bit like George Clinton. You wouldn't want to do without either, even though their greatest days are past. MG

Lee "Scratch" Perry - On the wire Recorded in 1988, but not issued until 2000. Listening to it now. Good, but not as wildly inventive as his seventies recordings. MG

Thanks for posting this Aloc. I'm not interested in opera, but I found it an instructive read, since I had no idea there was this war going on in opera. I am, of course, on the side of those who listen to music with an ear to what the musician intended his/her audience to hear and appreciate, rather than those who use it for their own purposes; let them use their own music for their own purposes. But I suspect that the wholesale (it appears) importation of explicit (and perverted) sex has much less to do with reflecting the present in these works than simple commercialisation. MG

Mario Lanza Franz Lehar Guillaume Lekeu

Here's one for Jim to try this winter... Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was admired for her sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea. As he sat facing her old Hammond organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it. The bowl was filled with water, and in the water floated, of all things, a condom! When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and He could no longer resist. "Miss Beatrice", he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" pointing to the bowl. "Oh, yes," she replied, "Isn't it wonderful? I was walking through the park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease. Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter?" MG

Er, I beg your pardon? MG

Did I have a formula? I wonder what it was. MG

Apparently it is indeed John Thurber. I always had the feeling he probably looked like some of his creations... With some people called Peggy Cass and Joan Anderson, of whom I've never heard. MG

Onzy Matthews Select - what a nice set this is! MG

He would've been 100 this year. If I recall, it is this one where Heinlein started in on his dirty old man of SF routine (well maybe Time Enough for Love). In fact, there are stretches that are essentially fan-fiction but at a really high level. You'll see what I mean when you get to them. That said, it is an entertaining novel, but not as good as Heinlein in his prime. Yes, I've noticed some of the in jokes already. Every so often, Heinlein really pisses me off, because he's so right wing. But he tells a good yarn, so I keep trying another book or two. MG

The complete version for those who are not already subcribers (and paid a lot from the start) is much more. But I take it it's better than Lord anyway. Aha! So what's the price for a newbie? MG

Picked up some real cheapo SF on Saturday and am just starting into Robert Heinlein's "The number of the beast". MG

OH YESSSS!!!!!! MG (Though actually, for FIRE, you just want to throw a fresh one in the pot.)

and a Groovy afternoon Richard "Groove" Holmes (with the Onzy Matthews big band) - Book of the blues vol 1 - WB orig stereo Richard "Groove" Holmes (with the Onzy Matthews big band) - Bowl of soul - Loma orig mono Richard "Groove" Holmes & the Gerald Wilson big band - You better believe it - PJ orig mono MG