Jazzmoose

Speaking of which, I say Oscar is toast!

I was surprised as well. It's the first in a series of three books, followed by The Thurb Revolution and Masque World featuring the character Anthony Villiers, and of course, Torve the Trog. Now, if I could only find a similar surprise with Sterling Lanier. I'd love to read more by him!

Brutus Bluto John Belushi

There's got to be a more sensible way to put that, unless of course they arrested the vacuum for prostitution...

just kidding....

Yeah, that sounds like something you'd quote without having any understanding of what it means...

Jerry Mathers Ed Roth Eddie Rabbit

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but the soprano saxophone sounds to me like a duck farting through a kazoo...

That's interesting, as I actually think there's not enough "rock style guitarists" (as least as far as tone) in jazz, the sound of the guitar has changed since Charlie Christian, but many players never noticed. If you have an instrument that can create an almost endless variety of tones...USE THEM ALL! Amen!

I've thought the same about FLAC, but apparently I've just reached the "technologically challenged age".

"But officer, it's for my Mongolian Barbeque!"

John Wesley Harding The Joker The Thief

Damn, you're good! The first time around I did study electronics...

What a moronic theory. I guess the ancients made beer and wine to wash their cars...

To my shame, not me! Brits are allowed to use wikipedia for this one! Oops...good point; a very American list!

Bless your mother! I'm going to miss film a lot more than I'll miss CDs...

Eric Foner Howard Zinn Richard Hofstadter Gee....who can guess my major?

Clearly a case of premature eradication...

At some point one of those fast talking encyclopedia salesmen must have cornered one or both of my parents as we had a complete set of Encyclopedia Americana which provided hours after hours of great reading as a kid. I believe it was from '63 if I remember right. Anyway, it was from back when they weren't smart enough to realize that children needed their reference books dumbed down, so it was really great stuff. Years later in high school a librarian handed me a volume of World Book which I glanced at and promptly pronounced crap. For some reason the librarian was offended. Heck, so was I! The damned thing should have been printed in crayon. I may not have been precocious enough to read The Gold Bug at eight, but World Book was insulting.

The UAW has made many concessions over the past few years, but of course that doesn't fit into the "it's all the union's fault" theory so it is ignored. Frankly, it makes me sick when I hear top management of these companies laying the blame all on the unions. If the unions are in charge, why are these weasels getting hundreds of millions of dollars?

Yeah, I was wondering how to break it to 7/4 that he was already dead... Strange to see Zappa's name at this point for me, though. I was just thinking the other day about how I never cared for Zappa back when I was into rock. He just didn't make a lot of sense to me, even after having met person after person in life who just knew I'd love Zappa and forced me to listen to LP after LP...wait a minute; I'm beginning to realize why I couldn't stand him. However, I must admit that, after getting into jazz, I cannot say that his music doesn't make sense anymore. And I have a feeling that, if I live another twenty years or so, I'll become a big fan. That's about the weakest endorsement of an artist I've ever written or read, so take it for what it's worth...

Billericay Dickie Harold Hill Billy Bentley

Nick Lowe Nick Danger Nick Fury

Starwell by Alexei Panshin. I've read Rite of Passage before, of course, but never anything else by this author. It's a breezy book, sort of a 'comedy of manners' approach, at least so far.

I remember at age eight deciding that, since I could read, I could read anything, and grabbed Poe's The Gold Bug off the shelf at home. I think I made three or four pages before my theory was completely destroyed... I'll always be grateful that my mother considered reading to be important and passed that love on to me.