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Just got At Ease with Coleman Hawkins from Newbury Comics. If they want to sell jazz albums for very low prices, I'm happy to take advantage.

I always thought it was a little strange how he and brother James Arness don't appear to have any family resemblance to one another, at least to my eyes. Could they have been adopted? But then I suppose brothers don't have to look like each other.

Don't make me gag-gag.

More Dexter. Still liking it.

A CD of Art Pepper's The Way It Was! Really something of a compilation album, but a very fine one. I've had it on vinyl for ages and have been meaning to get a CD of it for some time now. Ordered this from Newbury, oddly enough...

He wasn't a part of the main story, he had a supporting role - he played the companion of an elderly clinic patient who doesn't really want sex as often as modern chemistry creates the ability, and it turns out neither one really wants sex but thinks the other one does. And then House figures out that they aren't even married but are carrying on an affair. Pretty funny, as I recall. Yep, I definitely missed that one.

That makes me like him even more!

Happy Birthday!!! :tup

Very sad to hear of his passing. To my generation he'll always be associated with Mission Impossible. One of the obituaries says he appeared on House, but I must have missed that.

That "Thundering Herds" Columbia really is a great little compilation! Recently received "The Hawk Flies High" and "Zoot Sims Meets Jimmy Rowles" in the mail.

Nude vaginas? And all this time I thought the Grammy's were boring.

There was this movie that I saw at a drive-in when I was a kid, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"---oh, wait. Already told that one. Twice. (Sorry.)

Never even heard of this show before! Who aired it, initially?

As I recall, back in the 70's, she, Joan D. Vinge, and of course Ursula K. LeGuin were considered the Big Three women SF writers.

"Breaking Bad" starts up again soon. Can't wait.

I do too. Always thought it was an obnoxious and crappy song. Not worth killing someone over though.

Please do. I'm a big fan of his stuff. It's been almost 10 years since he last book, but apparently Katchor's The Dairy Restaurant is about to come out. I have no idea which strip it will collect. I kind of wish he would gather up all of Cardboard Valise and Shoehorn Technique, since there doesn't seem to be any easy way to look through them at once (or some of the uncollected Knipl for that matter). Those two also seem thematically similar, whereas Hotel & Farm is in a different setting. Good news. Any new collection by Katchor is good news.

Congratulations and best wishes!

I actually happened to see Zero Hour! on TV when I was somewhere around 6 or 7. Showing them back-to-back was inspired, and demonstrates how Airplane! lifted numerous chunks of dialog verbatim from the earlier movie.

Recently have been going through a bit of a Spoon binge--- Girls Can Tell Telephono A Series of Sneaks Loveways Gimme Fiction

Certainly a great year for jazz. My favorite Mingus album and favorite Miles Davis album both released that year. But THE greatest?? C'mon... 1939 was also great, and a bunch of others. I'm with Ghost on this; let's agree to call it "vintage."

"The Return of the Film Corner" for me. It's wasted a lot of my time very enjoyably.

So Damages is all about Rose Byrne?

Yeah, that's a very good commentary. He also provided a nice commentary to one of the editions of "Casablanca."

My burger? Thomas Berger, of course.