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A couple of resources I've bookmarked for my quarterly-or-so trips: http://www.lajazz.com/index.cfm - news, calendar, links http://www.catalinajazzclub.com/ - major jazz venue http://www.jazzandblues.org/index.aspx http://www.jazzbakery.org/ http://www.jazzandblues.org/index.aspx - radio station with more local info Locals (Ray?) should have more ideas.

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That's two of us. My Grado SR80s aren't all that comfortable, but with all my traveling, headphones are really my only option. (I wonder how many people here understand the reference to Pantani?!)

On one level, I wouldn't argue: there's quite a bit of ridiculous-ness about all of this. But keep in mind that professional bicycle road racing is the second-largest spectator sport in the world (after football/soccer), so there's a lot of money involved. (Not disagreeing with you here clifford thornton, just parsing the word "ridiculous" a bit.)

Hey Big Wheel, keep on turnin'...older. Enjoy!

I agree 100 percent. Cycling was once my life and livelihood. Now it sickens me to even think about it. I haven't had the "gut" to open the recent/ressurected Armstrong thread, since my feelings about him are strong. I'd opened this thread out of - I don't know - morbid curiousity? Doping's gone on in cycling for many many years. I had some periprheral involvement in some quasi-legal doping, once upon a time. Much more recently, when the kids I was coaching for the national foundation grew insistent on assistance in doping - not insistence on how to compete "clean" - that was the end for me.

head-fi.org go to a CanJam, if you can. I tried about 100 in a day. Or one of the board members' "meetings", like this one: http://www.head-fi.org/t/584924/official-2012-bay-area-meet-thread-california-february-11th-saturday "complete" regional meet-up forum here: http://www.head-fi.org/f/24/local-regional-head-fi-meets-parties-get-togethers

Have't heard it, but it's the cover/feature on this month's (technically next month's) NYC Jazz Record

Any Graeme Obree fans here?

Compared to Seattle? By the late 20s, Strom Thurmond would have been in DC as a Congressman, right?

Whoa, flashback. I haven't watched television at all since 1978, so this is like my last memory of TV. John Travolta. Thanks for the memories, Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein. I know you'll make it into heaven because you've got a note.

Not sure why I misread the title/subject of this message as having something to do with Allen (Lowe) being an alien. Gotta be a subconscious thing.

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Zune. Ah, c'mon, quit laughing. I've actually got five of them (four 30GB, one 32GB model). Indestructible. FM radio. Yeah, I've got some 4G Android device too. It does eleventeen times as much as the Zune, but I hardly ever use it for anything.

At Melody Record Shop, sadness and a tinge of guilt as an era ends From the Washington Post

Oddball/fantasy answer: Winston Monwabisi 'Mankunku' Ngozi, circa 1967 Yakhal' Inkomo. I think it would have inspired the group in a new direction. I'm not fond of the term or notion "world music", but Mankunku did do a nice job blending Trane, Shepp, (maybe) Tubby Hayes and others with some South African influences. He would have been a bit young to actually work with Miles during the "interim" period, but Miles certainly had some young 'uns in his bands.

And yes, I am thinking about the word "cluck". Or maybe "pluck".

Regardless what the next line of verse is, in my "mind's ear", I fit all sorts of rhymes. It's like a set-up. A leading tone.

You're welcome, Jay. $5 off $25 purchase, in-store. Until January 25th.

I think it's the same stuff that I tackled while on crutches last January in New York. And the preceding winter in Spokane (broken arm, two broken wrists, broken coccyx...)

I can't get to work. Even McDonalds is closed. I can't claim its a big deluge here (Tukwila, WA), but life's ground to a halt. Still not so hungry that I'll eat the nutritionally dreadful food the hotel "restaurant" serves, but it may be just hours away.

Thanks BFrank. I'd just dropped by to post that link. I was glad to see this...right on the front page!

Over the decades, I probably stopped in twenty times, but seldom found much to buy...even in the days when I was an active buyer. But it was one of just a few lunch-hour time-kills in the area...along with the old Tower, Olsson's, Kemp Mill. I guess Second Story is still around, but that's another animal.