Jazzmoose

Speaking from experience, if you have cats, leave the dust cover ON. Spinning vinyl apparently really looks like fun...

Johnny Cash Johnny Rotten Johnny Carson

I've been watching Leverage. I don't recommend it. The characters are cardboard cutouts, the plots are silly, and the whole thing is one second rate caper story after another. Good times. Been watching the Australian Open this week. Thank goodness for Australia; I don't get the opportunity to veg out for hours glued to sports that often as a night owl, so it's a bit of a treat.

Eighth grade? Well, for me it certainly would have taken the shine off of Kirby's New Gods stuff...

Interesting. I've never noticed either being sweeter than the other. The main difference to me is the aftertaste. Coke seems to have an aftertaste of citrus to me, whereas Pepsi's aftertaste is somewhat similar to the way roses smell. Yuck. My choice? Hey, I'm cheap: Safeway's caffiene free diet cola. Maybe I didn't view enough ads...

Yeah, I was surprised to find that my current job has the old seperate vacation/sick leave set up. I personally much prefer the PTO system. Nothing cuts down on fake sick days like the knowledge that you're burning your own vacation!

Which reminds me...anyone know where I put John's book? I thought it was next to Hentoff's Jazz Life, but I can't find it...

Surely that band name has been taken already?

Damn. I paid five bucks for a David Essex LP back in '74 and felt like I'd been screwed big time...

This article is useless without links!

It's six degrees above zero, F. There's patchy fog that is inpenetrable. The roads are covered by frozen snow and sheets of ice. But, by god, it's NOT SNOWING!!!

Yeah, you're right. I guess I was thinking more of Blish after reading a bit of the first 'Cities in Flight' book.

Excellent!

That's one I actually have on my shelf; how is it?

Wow. I've read the Foundation Trilogy many times. I guess you're not much on the "hard SF" stuff, eh? Speaking of which, has anyone here read Hal Clement's A Mission of Gravity? It was a real struggle for me to read, and I have hopes that I'll never get the urge again, but in spite of that, I think it's one of the true classics of the field.

I also read A Case of Conscience a few months ago, but its theological slant wasn't my cup of tea, leaving Cities in Flight as the preferred read. I read A Case of Conscience years ago and remember liking it. So, finally convinced, I started on the Cities in Flight books (I have the four old Avon paperbacks) today.

Widely? I don't know about that. Detour is like a bloody car wreck; you can't help slowing down to look, but the word 'best' hardly applies. To me, Detour is like a dream that reveals more about the dreamer in the retelling than the dreamer would conciously chose to reveal. However, as film noir it's no where near the level of, say, Out of the Past.

Tie each one to a turkey, rent a helicopter, and...

Finally, after all these years here and on the BNBB, name dropping that impresses me! (First live jazz I ever heard had guess who on the drums...)

John Lloyd Wright (invented Lincoln Logs) Mike Shinoda (member of Linkin Park) Jimmy Dean (sells sausage links)

Nicely played; much better than our usual class of spam...

Damn, I hate it when I'm not quite sure if someone's pulling my leg or not right off the bat!

You know, when you put it like that, I think I remember reading them as well...

Considering the start of the thread, I'm sure it involves Audrey Horne at the Great Northern and a 'magic fingers' bed, but I'm afraid to go any further...