BruceH

Nice teacher! My younger kid got really into Tintin and read all of my books. The nice thing is he didn't need any encouragement from me, he just liked them on first sight.

Mine too. It's barbaric.

Indeed, as I wrote that I was reminded of the old notion of the best musicians, singers, writers, artists, and entertainers going to "Hell" and having a grand ol' time, while the boring, self-rightous twits go to "Heaven." Of course, then you'd need a second, REAL bad Hell for the likes of Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, David Addington, etc.

I figure I'll start looking for this the day after I secure a copy of "Wahoo!" for myself. Some of my favorite Duke Pearson "albums" are ones that aren't under his name, per se, but that he's all over, as pianist and even composer. For instance, ahm...ahm...ahhhhhhh, well that Little Johnny C album for one. I wonder if Coles was being mentored by Pearson here, because not only does Pearson play piano on the entire album, but also composed 5 of the 6 tunes, if memory serves. And a very nice album it is, too.

Bingo.

Man, these look good. Very good.

Nothing...yet.

I can't help wondering if Sonny Stitt went to Hell for being so very, very bad.

The Morgan/Shorter Vee-Jay. (What else? )

I'm a Drums and Wires/Black Sea man myself, but English Settlement is a good one, ndai.

So this sounds like, what, late hardbop?

If Bud Shank could do soundtracks to surf movies so well, then yeah, "It Must Be Summer" seems like a natural. (Though I'd personally like to hear Art Pepper do it. If you could somehow reincarnate Art Pepper.)

Count me in. I like their first two albums. The latest one (Twin Cinema?) not so much. I borrowed it from a library first, and it wasn't bad but just didn't grab me somehow.

"The Masque of Manana" (short story collection)---Robert Sheckley. I miss this guy.

I remember when this article came out. The glory days of The Onion.

BTW, Snowy has got to be considered a comic-book version of "Asta," the dog in the Thin Man movies. Or Asta a cinematic version of Snowy. Except that you get to see what Snowy is thinking, of course.

***What Kalo said.*** When I was in first grade, our weekly reader ran the entire Tintin in Tibet story in three parts. I became a confirmed Tintin fan, and that was my favorite for years. Still is in the top five for me. There's something about his drawing style and panel layouts that is pure visual crack for me. Add in the characters and globe-trotting stories and you're in graphic-novel heaven. Indeed, start anywhere. I also dig those newer, smaller, three-story reprint books.

...and it's about time.

I wish they would reissue it too because---hey wait a minute!! You had a girlfriend who was into jazz????

You have my unmitigated sympathy. I don't know how bad he is. I've never knowingly heard him. MG Thanks. Actually, I only "knowingly" heard his stuff a couple times, once in a music store, once in a Borders. (I know Borders sells CD's too, but I don't think of it as a music chain.) In both cases I asked someone who worked there what they were playing over the sound-system, and found out it was Kenny G. It really did sound like some sort of muzak-from-Hell.

I don't have (and have never had) the CD or vinyl, but would love to get either.

Hefner's life story strikes me as the original revenge of the nerd.

I'd like to hear it. Take time to read the title of the thread.

Nice one.

The theme to The Waltons. Damn.