Man with the Golden Arm

It's all a ruse to prevent those 1,500 ex-EMI employees from file sharing.

Yeah this looks like one of those cases where the bidder got a bit too antsy and did not do the homework. This set usually goes around $50 to $60 depending on the weather. Just last week in the Mosaic "Ebay craziness forum" a post about a new Brookmeyer Select had it up at $100! The bidder was one of us and the seller was old Jay and Marie! Luckily the bidder got out before he became the buyer courtesy of someone here not making fun but just giving a friendly holler. I am right now in the midst of trying to get dough out of a buyer who I think got a bit too excited and is now back-pedaling on the deal. It's tough when a bidder faults, turns into a buyer and then palys hardball with you the seller. Jazzmantom was more than accommodating to this chump. I would not worry much about the feedback. A buyer or seller can do anything they want in there and if someones gonna judge you by a single hit then business with them is better not to be.

You guys probably did not know that the "cuica" was invented by a nervous venezuelan cowboy veteranarian trying to get a rectal temp on one of those big boys.

Yes! Happy Birthday amidst that big blue sky!!!

Worrrrrrd Ladddie! This quote's just rrrife with photoshop poscabilities in my wee widdle bwain.

i picked chicken...all's well sunday mitsuru - order the CD!

Jurgen... Thanks, that's something new to me??? Very funny stuff eh! Well part might be from the bio as far as the Happy Meal connection. Oh yeah obesity and lung disease...that's where it's at!

My condolences to you as well.

Oh, I didn't click there. I was too excited to explore the page. Yes those too... too toy like but that is how it is... the client usually picks the odd duck. They have yet to embrace my favorite but I hope to twist their arms a bit. Man those are some weird sell sheets they got going. I love the photo montage in the background. I think that this company is selling as secondary to the client. And then the 'name' splashes? Like it's some freekin' Dali watch. Hee hee... I'll take it! Well that's a bio that I wrote up. Unfortunately the copy writer in the states edited my original because she "thought I would be perceived a little 'too weird' for that market". Man if that's just not a completely un-Japanese way of thinking I don't know what is! It's for the land of cutesy-porn, rope-bondage and sea-cucumber eating!

1000 YEN or about $8 and Black Nylon... cause it won't burn. A client had three containers of it in HK that got dumped from a failed utility-knife project so the Japanese contact had an idea to make some good old ashtrays similar to the bakelite or glass trays of yor. Well after dashing off some wackiness these became the first two. More to come I do hope. At least some good (?) is coming out of that habit that they love so much in the East. Now if I could only get a hold of a gross of em.

As we all spam away I did a google today and find a couple of my designs on a page from Japan. Quite bizarre looking stuff I must say but just for grins give it a look. SMOKE 'em if ya got 'em!

And as for trust I can remember a couple of times when Hiroshi will give you the quote and then you get busy and might pay him the next day and promptly receive his reply of thanks and that the "package was dispatched yesterday". I even sent a defective CD back just last week that was received and acknowledged for a credit within four days. This must be a completely Japanese phenomena! And we should all do so well across the board. Hiroshi has Karma.

Some serious "apart from that" it sounds like. Recalls that first RVG batch and the "Something Else" title where the spread was screwy to me. So this looks like a no go for the upgrade and they probably did not tweak the end cut job on "Tune Up" either.

DUDE... Green Bay Packers balls!!!! Gotta love those although I figured the dimples might be holes. and as rusty as I am I think i'll need to defer to some of those Lady Precepts... looks like daley plays those too! How is the feel?

Making fun of my photoshop skills? Forced perspective! Those babies are 100 compression... the kind RVG uses!

got this recent pic... only adulterated by me for the general audience!

As well... so Reinier, and i will take your word, on a scale of say one to ten how much better is the VeeJay set of Shorter/Morgan than the old (and illegal) Blue Moons??

and lookee here. the Devil Woman with an oud and a burka!

oh yeah...that's a beauty!! ever see any of his recent drawings from the French country-side? Snoid worthy!

and then...

since we're shanghai-ing this thread here's my favorite Crumb of his later years:

a bit like this but without the chops.

and I vonder vether Herr Doktor ever dropped any tabs un dug into ziss??!!! on eBay now. I love the current hi bidder moniker..."kingbullock"