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Larry, I agree with your last paragraph.

Sondheim is one of the most over-rated songwriters around. He should keep his mouth shut and listen to Hammerstein, Gershwin, Hart, et al.

Very patriotic - perfect colors for Veteran/Armistice Day!

Add me to the grateful, Jeff. Actually, I am reminded of Kizzies every day as I work on the St. Croix slave records. It is amazing how inhuman we humans can be.

The following describes a new post on my blog and this will take you there, directly.

I agree, he is a bit hard to take and he could have made the interview more interesting. He is also too hung up on Sinatra, in my opinion. I like Sinatra, but never thought that he walked on water. Yes, he can throw in some fine jazz, but he also often reveals a terrible taste in his choice of singer, usually ones we have—for good reason—not heard of. Of course, I personally can't stand Sondheim's songs (with one or two exceptions) and when they are sung by Mandy or Bernadette, I may even become nauseous. I do, however, greatly admire Doris Day, so I listened to the interview both times when he aired it.

Assuming that this is about Jonathan Schwartz's interview with Doris Day, she was great (I always was a fan). She also instigated the interview, being a fan of Schwartz's show. He, of course, is the son of Arthur Schwartz, a prolific songwriter who, with lyricist Howard Dietz, wrote such standards as Dancing in the Dark, Alone Together, and I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan.

That "luxury condominium apartment building" is probably the one that's a block up the street from me. It was built in 1885 by the Astors as a cancer hospital, the genesis of Sloane-Kettering. They were going to tear it down, but we protested and they finally agreed to restore it and build a high-rise apartment house where the crematorium was. For several years, the original building, patterned after a French Chateau, stood empty, but often serves as a set for the Law & Order series. BTW, West 106th Street from Central Park West to Riverside Drive is Duke Ellington Boulevard. When I took these photos, they were offering an apartment for eight million, seven hundred thousand, and change.

I believe his name was Peter Lemongello and those late-night TV ads were so successful and so much talked about that they inspired others. One, I recall was a very pedestrian painter. The screen zoomed several household names at you: Monet...Picasso...Degas..etc. and then came this guy's rather common name.

$39.99 is really not such a great price when one considers how much work is involved in extracting the great vintage clips and removing the audio from them.

Look at it this way, at least she sank!

Never use the stuff!

The iPhoto problem some people encountered using iLife was fixed by Apple yesterday—check Apple.com. Jim, I have been using Macs since 1984, when they were introduced (and Apple ][s and ///s before that), and I regularly upgrade to a newer model, but I have never had to discard a Mac because it ceased to function, only because it became outdated. As for customer service—last year I spilled coffee on my keyboard and rendered 2 or 3 keys useless. I took it to an Apple store, hoping it could be fixed but expecting to purchase a new one. The man took it, disappeared for a few minutes and returned with a new one and a receipt for me to sign. The cost: $0. I have friends who love their Toyotas.

Jim, your case it the exception rather than the rule. The last time I had to take a Mac in for repair was about ten years ago. I have many, many Mac-owning friends who share my good experience with the product. This is not really a debate, nor is it "old and tired" to ask a question re running the Windows platform. It may well be a question that has been asked before, but the technology is ever evolving and new software/hardware often takes the subject into a new ballgame.

PLEASE NOTE: The audio file that originally accompanied this post was the wrong one. Instead of hearing Dr. Smith's account of this tragic event, you hear an interview with Ornette Coleman! I apologize for the mixup and have now attached the correct file. CA If you have read my biography of Bessie Smith, you may recall the chapter in which I quote extensively from Dr. Hugh Smith's eyewitness account. Well, here, published for the first time, is the actual recording of that account. It gives more details than I included in the book, and it has a surprise ending. Here is a direct link. Let me know what you think.

With many more to come, and much good music!

I have Word and Open Office (the latter is free), but I use Mariner Write, which is also totally compatible with Word. Microsoft has just released a new Office (incl. Word) for Mac and early reviews are good, some of the clunkiness having been fixed.

I don't think Ted is Tadd, but Tadd may be playing Ted, as well as trombone—well, perhaps not quite as well. Perhaps a case of too many arrangers and no piano. Didn't know that the BAA was to be found online—thanks, Niko. I looked beyond the photo and found this interesting item... As well as a Philip Morris nose job...

Gort im Himmel!

I think you can install it without Parallels or Unison, but you will not be able to run Windows and the Mac OS simultaneously, you have to switch and, I think, reboot. The Mac OS comes with an app/utility called Boot Camp, which is what allows that.

Yes, programs such as Parallels and Unison only give you the Microsoft platform, not their operating system. That said, since you have a PC, you probably also have a copy of Windows lying around. Apple does not assign serial numbers to its OS, so there is no problem, but there might be with Microsoft, because they—being super suspicious of their customers [they know they are hated], and, seemingly incapable of writing user-friendly code—probably ask for your social security, phone, and apartment numbers.

If you are the sort who likes to keep track of things, I recommend that you hop over here.

Here's a link to Ruby's Sobering Experience in New Orleans. Did I ever imagine that a woman in her seventies would relate such an experience to me? No, not even after having known Ruby for awhile.

Leave Fritz alone!