Brad

Season starts on Sunday for Mets. Their record for spring training was abysmal, losing 13 in a row. On Sunday it's into the fire as they play the Royals. Expectations are high so if they start slowly, the pressure will mount.

Queen Victoria's Little Wars is also a good read.

I ordered it from CD Universe but it's out of stock right now

I was looking at a site this morning and said the store might be closed for Easter Monday. Is that something new. Never heard of that before.

How about the ones you know you own but can't find them anymore. Happened to me a with a couple of CDs. Very annoyining!

Can't wait.

From today's New York Times: George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer's Impact in Five Songs

NYRB Classics has a book club. Every month they send you a book they're publishing that month. This way I read books I might not have otherwise read.

Lon, think you'll enjoy it. The book has a nice little introduction by Barry Gifford who, over the years, tried to get it re-published. He said that Chaze wrote many novels but this and Tiger in the Honeysuckle (a novel about racism) were the only ones worth publishing. He said there were hopes that the book might be made into a movie; Giffords worked on the screenplay. There is some great writing in this book. A shame to finish it.

This is one of those underappreciated works that NYRB Classics has a knack for bringing out of obscurity. According to the back cover, Gold Medal Books — known for their original crime fiction paperbacks with memorably lurid covers -- introduced authors like Jim Thompson, Chester Himes, and David Goodis to a mass readership eager for stories of lowlife and sordid crime. Today many of these writers are admired members of the literary canon, but one of the finest of them of all, Elliott Chaze, remains unjustly obscure. The story is two star crossed lovers who have plans to make a big score, with a lot of twists and turns. The writing is simple but with a lot of great ideas. Some of the dialogue seems as if it could come out of the mouth of Bogart. He would have been perfect for this book. A very enjoyable read.

Is that a gym? Not actually the train yard, is it?

Time to start playing. Mets kick off their spring opener tomorrow against a familiar foe, Neal's Nationals.

Nope, especially male singers.

Well, I'd go see her if she were in the area. Not sure I could get my wife to go along though

Good luck in the new digs Joel.

As some of you may know I'm reading War and Peace. I also picked up Give War and Peace A Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times by Andrew Kaufman, a Tolstoy expert, and am reading it along with War and Peace.

To say she's incredible is one huge understatement!

The one in New York city was awesome. I don't think they're around anywhere. The same could be said for Tower Records on Broadway. Incredible selection but sadly just a memory.

As someone noted, this has focused too much on Barnes & Noble. In looking for a CD that is probably the last place I'd look. In its heyday, Borders had -- at least the ones around here -- a pretty good Jazz section (which, as it started to get into financial trouble, shrunk). Borders' book sections were also much better than Barnes & Noble, which I generally find wanting. If I wanted to buy a jazz CD, it would be Amazon or CD Universe for me, definitely not B & N.

Why don't you call every one in the nation?

About the only good thing that's come out of this conversation is that I've found out that the Paramus store has a nice jazz selection. Although about 45 minutes from here, it probably beats anything around here.

Thought this me of interest. A Better Way to Fight Insomnia

A little on the rude side? I was trying to be a little polite but you are making too much of this. Also, so what if B & N is headquartered in NY? Sounds like Ted Cruz' "NY values."

You're probably making more of this than needs to be made.

You underlined everything except the true reason why it probably can't be ordered: saleability.