BruceH

I especially love his short stories! Have you checked out the mammoth collection The Masque of Manana (NESFA Press) which has all his significant short SF work, as far as I can tell? There's some stuff in there that ranks with anything by William Tenn, though with a different flavor of course. The novels are (for the most part) great too, with Mindswap my favorite and Dimension of Miracles not far behind. Looking back at Sheckley, it seems that he did the "Hitchhikers' Guide" schtick both first and better.

Larsen must be a jazz fan!

I completely forgot that there's a swan on that thing.

I love Gryce!!!

I'm not sure WHAT to think!

This is reminding me of that TCM thing that shows clips of all the actors/screenwriters/directors and other movie people that have passed away in the past year. Interesting, almost salutary, and a total bummer at the same time.

Long ago I read a mid-70's essay by PKD in which he claimed to start hearing a voice in his head. Without pointing any fingers, it did make me wonder a bit.

I'm still bummed.

The sad thing is that those novels were written after he kind of went off his rocker.

Up.

Thanks a lot, NBC.

I bought Eldridge's The Nifty Cat years and years ago, and recall it being very good indeed. I think I may have lost it in a move though.

I love Clyde McPhatter.

The Mingus Candid

I like both the early, pre-1935 jumpin' Goodman, and the later, Sauter/Powell-arranged Goodman roughly equally but in completely different ways. Different colors of the rainbow, and all that. In fact, I like all Goodman, except for what I would call the "autopilot" period, which I put at roughly 1945 until his death.

I'm probably going to cave and get the Goodman despite the alternate tracks... The Goodwin is good. I guess that's part of my problem, I don't find O'Day's voice to be sexy. I don't listen to her mainly for sexiness but because of the high quality of the singing, at least in a jazz context. I think she had a terrific rhythmic sense, and a wonderful grasp of nuance, dynamics, timing, timbre...all that good stuff. Sex appeal is just icing on the cake, although I get that at times, too.

My wife and I had a good time seeing Slumdog Millionaire. My older son went to the movies with some friends yesterday and ended up seeing Bolt. He said it was very good.

Same here. I find that reasonably peculiar since both physically and from an acting/performance standpoint, there's zero simliarity between the two. I guess it's got to be the name that creates the confusion. I must admit to a little "Van" confusion from time to time myself. Fact is, I like them both in different ways. TCM last night had a mini-Van Heflin festival; reminded me just how good he was. The sad thing about Van Heflin was that he died relatively young, in 1971, at the beginning of his sixties. Quite a contrast to Van Johnson.

Happy Birthday!

The Wrestler Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire I've Loved You So Long The Reader You forgot Milk---the feel-good movie of the season.

It looks like a pile of crap. However it does have Jennifer Connelly...

I was kind of scared to take a look, but my God! She looks unbelievably good for 80! More like 50, at the most.

One of Clark's top 2 or 3 albums, certainly, and a smart one to get before it goes OOP.

I think you mean "short stories" don't you?

I'd agree with the "more interesting than good" perception. But worth seeing once.