Jazzmoose

Reed Richards Eel O'Brian Stretch Armstrong

I sold most of my CDs a couple of years ago when financial troubles hit, but Alchemia is still here. I just couldn't give it up. I'll admit to being a bit of a Vandermark nut, though.

Thanks; I needed another reason to miss the Bay Area and feel miserable...

To drag out the old Fark.com cliche, this thread is useless without pictures.

Where do we send contributions? Attempts to better society should not go unrewarded.

Tony Shalhoub Traylor Howard Ted Levine (holy shit...wasn't he the sicko in Silence of the Lambs???)

In rock, everything I had minus the fifty or so I've found since the Great Toilet Bowl Flood of '92 wiped out my collection. In jazz, everything there is minus the fifteen or so LPs I've bought from Paul Secor...

Oh, yeah... On the other hand, where I live now, the biggest and broadest musical selection in town is WalMart, so you're not going to hear me complaining about online shopping for quite a while. For those of us in small towns, the good old days are now, as far as music shopping. I have this place (and others) to clue me in to stuff, various merchants...yeah, I miss the music stores, but I miss a lot from the big city.

Hey, aren't we all waiting for their take on jazz?

If not a winner, that's definitely a finalist!

The Blue Note Street Team Blue Mitchell Adrian Belew

Not a big name in the grand scheme of things, I guess, but as the out-of-place looking pale guy in the African-American History classes, a big name in my life... From the Washington Post: Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, 94, a revered historian of life in the South and the African-American experience, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Duke University's hospital in Durham. Here's the 29-inch AP version of his obit. Author of the seminal "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans," which has been republished more than seven times, Dr. Franklin was part of the team of scholars who assisted Thurgood Marshall to win Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case that outlawed the "separate but equal" doctrine in the nation's public schools. "The tragedy," Franklin told a New York Times Book Review writer in 1990, "is that black scholars so often have their specialties forced on them. My specialty is the history of the South, and that means I teach the history of blacks and whites." Continued here...

Tom Lord...wait a minute; that was further up the page! Roy Haynes Roy Rogers Mike Royko

From Glenn Greenwald... Desmond Lachman -- the former chief strategist for emerging markets at Salomon Smith Barney and a long-time official with the IMF (no raving socialist he) -- argues today that the most apt comparison for the U.S. now is not Japan's "lost decade," but rather, "that the United States is coming to resemble Argentina, Russia and other so-called emerging markets, both in what led us to the crisis, and in how we're trying to fix it." He begins by recounting an IMF trip to Yeltsin-era Russia: I still recall the shock I felt at a meeting in Russia's dingy Ministry of Finance, where I finally realized how a handful of young oligarchs were bringing Russia's economy to ruin in the pursuit of their own selfish interests, despite the supposed brilliance of Anatoly Chubais, Russia's economic czar at the time. He then describes the numerous similarities between the U.S. today and those corrupt, collapsing nations he studied in the past: The parallels between U.S. policymaking and what we see in emerging markets are clearest in how we've mishandled the banking crisis. We delude ourselves that our banks face liquidity problems, rather than deeper solvency problems, and we try to fix it all on the cheap just like any run-of-the-mill emerging market economy would try to do. And after years of lecturing Asian and Latin American leaders about the importance of consistency and transparency in sorting out financial crises, we fail on both counts: . . . . In visits to Asian capitals during the region's financial crisis in the late 1990s, I often heard Asian reformers such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew or Japan's Eisuke Sakakibara complain about how the incestuous relationship between governments and large Asian corporate conglomerates stymied real economic change. How fortunate, I thought then, that the United States was not similarly plagued by crony capitalism! However, watching Goldman Sachs's seeming lock on high-level U.S. Treasury jobs as well as the way that Republicans and Democrats alike tiptoed around reforming Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae -- among the largest campaign contributors to Congress -- made me wonder if the differences between the United States and the Asian economies were only a matter of degree. . . . In the twilight of my career, when I am hopefully wiser than before, I have come to regret how the IMF and the U.S. Treasury all too often lectured leaders in emerging markets on how to "get their house in order" -- without the slightest thought that the United States might fare no better when facing a major economic crisis. . . . If we insist on improvising and not facing our real problems, we might soon lose our status as a country to be emulated and join the ranks of those nations we have patronized for so long. more at link!

Well, I really don't think that one compares. I realize that a move to Portland from Cove would immediately switch me from the "radical left" to the "radical right", but you'd think a grown woman would have enough sense to have a light on her bike while riding at night, and would also have enough life experience to know you don't give shit to a cop who's pointing that out...

This thread is bullshit.

So I guess it could be worse. But still, that sucks.

Laid off, you mean?

At the risk of distracting the thread, it sounds like typical cop behavior to me.

Well, you're definitely the show that never ends...

Shut up and quit interrupting; we're talking about you!

It's never safe! By the way, if I'd known I was starting a pile-on, I'd have just kept my mouth shut. If it was possible to keep my mouth shut...

Wo Fat Steve McGarrett Danno

I suppose it all comes down to how many people you want to put at the top. I can certainly relate to those who want to prevent the "overcrowding of the hall of fame" syndrome that affects baseball.

No. If they were that smart, they'd find paying gigs...