Brad

It's not available outside the UK; it's probably a copyright issue of the material presented.

Reading The Best Hamer History Essays on Lincoln, edited by Sean Wilentz, a collection of essays by some great historians and writers on Lincoln. Recommended.

Maybe not anything. Maybe just some posed photos or perhaps an idea that never went anywhere.

It seems amazing to me that this thread just goes on and on, with nothing new really being said, except a trotting out of the same old arguments. At this point, I would think people would just say "I've made my points," and move on.

Great book. Read it when I was a kid also; still have it.

Good advice I believe.

Sorry to hear this Soul Stream. A friend once said to me when it comes to relationships that you have to make sure you make a lot of deposits and not too many withdrawals.

Yeah, I'm tired of this nonsense too with these babies.

That's great Ed. My son plays guitar in his school's Jazz Band. They actually have two but he didn't get into the one he wanted. The last two years he played clarinet but this year wanted to do guitar.

Wow, what a bummer. RIP.

All three are great.

Both are at the top of my list. Hendrix opening for the Monkees is definitely odd!

Listened to Rubber Soul again the other day. I would have to say that is my favorite; it's an album that I never tire of listening. When I was a kid I used to hate "Michelle." Now, I think I really like it. Guess I'm old

Are these through the web also or just on tv?

That't not exactly true, assuming he's listening to Channel 70. However, they do tend to repeat things here and there. I actually find that to be more of a problem on their Classic Vinyl station (60s rock).

That's a real shame. Should be a stop light to all men.

I don't know if he wrote that but no matter, he was very forthright. Doesn't excuse what he did but at least he owned up, not like Clemens or Bar-roid.

Have a very good one!

Article in today's Times about what it takes to be a Hall of Famer: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/sports/baseball/11hall.html?ref=baseball

Or baked, to use common parlance

You heard it here: the championship game will be at the Meadowlands with the Jets hosting the Ravens

I think it's around 20 F today but later in the week it's supposed to hit 40. 35 is very cold for Florida. Must have devastated the citrus crop. What a shame.

I'm not sure it's an apt comparison because in certain pursuits we expect things to be unchanged such as sports. In music, we don't necessarily expect that and music has shown that there's always inventions and new developements taking place. Some would prefer to stop time on its head or turn hardbop into something like classical music where what a past master has done must be slavishly copied. Well, I can't hear how Bach originally did it since there wasn't recording technology at the time but I can hear how Hank or Blakey did it and I would prefer to hear them. As Don Byas said to Bird, and it applies here, "you ain't showing me anything new on that horn."

I have some of Alexander's records and I have seen him in concert and I enjoyed them and him but there's a certain sameness and it just doesn't grab me. I love hardbop but why not listen to some of its trailblazers rather than its followers?