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Oops..nevermind; looks like Quincy already took care of this one.

This is strange. I was discussing this episode at work, and I must admit, it's a lot funnier in the discussion stage than it is actually watching it. Maybe I'll give it another shot. My ex and I used to watch that, so it would probably be a bit too bittersweet for me at this point, but it is good.

Is that anything like a rusty Bill Evans boxed set?

I only ever noticed what crummy records the group made. Never interested enough to wonder why. Just poor pop music. MG I strongly disagree. California Dreaming is one of the classics of pop music as far as I'm concerned.

Sorry; the American one.

I don't know if NO one else on the board would be interested, but I'm sure that at least a huge majority would have no interest in my LPs and EPs by Lene Lovich, or Ian Dury & the Blockheads, or particularly Pop Music by M, among others. You kinda had to be there.

I picked up Live Bullet just because I couldn't get enough of Katmandu, loved it, but went no further. I later ended up with a copy of Night Moves, but either I'd changed or he did; I didn't like it at all.

Hopefully I'll get the chance to hear them together some day, though I'll pass on the LP with the split vocals; sounds like it would be too much like listening to that early fake stereo garbage.

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I'm not sure I care for this talk of wiring one's dongle, but welcome back anyway!

I just watched the first episode, Season 1 of The Office, and I've got to say, I can't stand it. The office manager is so completely and totally over the top that any scene he's in is actually painful to watch. And the lower key stuff around him is still so obvious that no payoff is possible. I realize that with just one episode, I don't know the characters, but what I saw here weren't characters but sketches that held no interest. Then again, maybe I've successfully passed into the "crotchety" stage. Either way, I think I'll pass.

I didn't even know there were mono and stereo mixes of this stuff. I'm learning something from a thread in the political forum!

That's the way it's supposed to work.

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Just finished rewatching the first set of the House of Cards trilogy. I remembered this as being damned good, but not this good. Great stuff! I wish I was more familiar with the work of Ian Richardson, though. I know most of his work was on the stage, but all I've seen him in is this and Marat/Sade. Quite a time gap there!

It's great! Still in the low 80s/high 70s during the day, dropping down to the low 40s for sleep, not a cloud in the sky. Perfect!

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KCSM just after midnight with Dave Ramirez spinning Milt Jackson right now playing Plenty, Plenty Soul. It's been too long since I had this station on!

I dunno. It all depends on how cheap it would make flying. If it would allow me to say, fly somewhere I wanted to go for $50 round trip, I might sign on. I certainly wouldn't pay any more for that. And I wouldn't touch a flight of more than an hour or two. As far as small talk goes, I learned how to handle that on buses years ago; you just look deranged. Works like a charm, unless you run into someone who actually is deranged and they decide you're a fellow genius...

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The first pipe I would recommend for a beginner is a good old Missouri Meerschaum corncob pipe. Yeah, I know; every potential pipe smoker who hears that rolls their eyes and mumbles something about wanting "a real pipe", but the lowly cob has several advantages over briar. First, the obvious: it's cheap. You can get a decent cob (stick with the MM brand; the others are generally crappy junk imported from Japan) for less than $10, in some places close to $5, leaving you more cash to spend on tobacco. Secondly, the cob needs no break in. Many briars can be a bit nasty at first until a cake of carbon and tars is formed on the bowl. With a cob, you don't need the cake; it smokes fine right from the start. Finally, (and this is probably just an extension of reason one), when you start, you'll probably puff too fast and too hard, raising the possibility of damaging the pipe. It's much better to learn and possibly destroy a five dollar cob than a hundred dollar briar, right? Now, if you're stubborn and really want a briar, I'd recommend getting a Dr. Grabow. It's cheap, tough, and a good starter pipe. Yeah, neither of these suggestions are for sexy, name pipes, but we're talking starter pipes. If you decide you like it, and think you've got the hang of it, you can move up to Stanwells, Savinellis or Petersons. All three make fairly inexpensive briars (and some nice high end briars as well). But I'd seriously wait on that until you're sure you're really interested in pipe smoking. There's really no point in plunking down $100 for a decent pipe and then discovering that pipe smoking really isn't for you. The good thing with the cobs are, it's not like you've wasted your money on a crappy pipe if you're still smoking pipes a year later. Cobs are great knockaround pipes, and I've yet to meet a pipe smoker, either in 'real life' or online that ever smoked a cob and then quit smoking them. As far as tobacco, it kind of depends on where you're coming from. If you're looking for a great smell to impress the ladies, good old Captain Black is all you need. If you're looking for taste, however, I'd skip that dreck. For some reason, pipe shops have this thing about recommending aromatic tobaccos to newbies. I have no idea why. Take you, for example, Alexander; you're coming from smoking cigars, so you already know you like the taste of tobacco, but I guarantee that if you went to a pipe shop, they'd recommend some kind of sugared up candy concoction that reeks of vanilla, or cherry, or some such; anything but tobacco. My recommendation would be to start with either Prince Albert or Carter Hall. Yeah, another recommendation that gets the eyes rolling from new pipesters, but they're decent tobaccos, without any added flavors. A good start, I think. After that, the exploration road gets a little tricky, as you have various avenues to choose from: straight Virginias, Virginia/Perique blends, English blends...all very different from each other. I don't know if this helps at all, as I don't know what kind of cigars you smoke, but I used to love cigars with maduro wrappers, and english blends kind of remind me of that deep, smoky taste. English blends are one of those things that people either love or hate, though. Tell ya what, we pipe smokers are pretty much as evangelical as jazz fans; if you decide to go ahead and get a pipe, PM me your address, and I'll throw together a sampler package from the stuff I have. I don't have any aromatics, but the rest I can cover. Don't forget, you also need a pipe tool, cleaners, etc. Pipes, even more than cigars, are as much about futzing around with shit as smoking...

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Damn. That's....different.

Pardon me if I slow down on the posting a bit...