RainyDay

...and was blamed for the whole thing which led to the hen's demise. Moral: Women and hens have a lot in common.

Wasn't it the great Frank Costanza who wanted to know who has sex with the hen? If you wait long enough, all of life's mysteries will be revealed. B)

What about the guy from Good Eats, or whatever it's called? He seems to be getting a lot of air time and I can't bear the man. All the scientific stuff is just not interesting and I LIKE science. When Mario and Flay did Iron Chef, he was the moderator. That was just the weirdest thing I ever saw on TV having to do with food.

I'm a Tyler Florence person, myself. I love his "ultimate" shows and the "911" series. Besides, he's cute! Has anyone watched any of the "The Restaurant"? This reality show about the startup of a new restaurant was on Bravo last season and moved to NBC. I caught part of two episodes the other night and discovered that Rocco has turned into a real idiot. This guy doesn't want to run a restaurant, he wants to be a rock star. He fires his chef so he can spend more time in the kitchen to straighten things out. Instead, he's having his photo taken with customers, getting bombed, and asking some dame if her boobs are real. What a clown. The media attention really went to his head. I think his investor is going to fire him. The most disgusting thing was watching him make food without washing his hands. Wearing a pizza dough on his head then proceeding to cook it. Cooks sticking their fingers in food to taste it then touching other food. I may never eat out again. Yuck. Does anyone else out there NOT get the Iron Chef? I even watched the ones with Bobby Flay and Mario and like it only a little bit more. Adore the gal who does 30 Minute meals and eating on $40 a day. And love Unwrapped. Now I'm hungry. We need to start a TV food thread. I could go on about this stuff forever.

Every time I see this adorable child I have to smile.

I really dug the movie a lot. Some parts were weighed down by cheese but mostly it was a nice action adventure flick with no one fighting, getting stabbed, or shot. It was about folks pulling together in adversity, the importance of family, and an amusing dig at US policies toward illegal Mexican immigrants. The Veep looked suspiciously like Cheney but not nearly a big enough asshole. The special effects were reasonably good but not knock out. Oh yeah, and a nice slam on current government policies on global warming. (What melting ice caps?) I wanted something escapist and entertaining and this filled the bill nicely. Also, I'm a big fan of Dennis Quaid and it was fun to see him in something a little different. He was terrific as always. The young actor who played his son was also very good. It had a nice beat, you could dance to it, I'd give it a 7. So there.

Haven't read the whole thread but I have only second hand info. My cousin and her husband had one child, a boy, who was just a huge handful. He turned out to be nearly gifted but he was just a handful. Not a bad kid who did drugs or got in trouble, just extremely willful and mouthy. He could outhink his parents in a heartbeat. It took both of them to keep him in line and focused. Lots of discipline. He's graduating from college next month. He started working in a computer store when he was 15 and has focused on a career in information systems ever since. He turned out great without prescription drugs, but his parents were really committed to making him be a responsible person and today he is. It took tons of time and sacrifice but it was worth it.

Not much. Debating whether to go see Hank Jones and Clark Terry on Saturday. Sleep in. Spend much time creating good karma so that I don't get laid off on Tuesday.

I voted for the goat. You'd be a fool not to.

I'm so confused...

I'd listened to jazz radio off and on for a few years but other than the big bands, I didn't really know jazz artists by their sound. Then in freshman year, a friend who was a musician walked into a student office with a copy of Sketches of Spain under his arm. He played it and I fell in love with the sound. Miles has THE most special place in my heart when it comes to jazz. The other day I was talking to someone and remarking that I still can't believe he is gone. He was such a great artist and so much larger than life. The light in the world dims a bit when someone like that leaves us. Happy Birthday, Miles! Hope they have chocolate where you are.

Congrats to the whole family!

I can't believe a grown adult has to be told that this is stupid. This is as dumb as parents who leave a child in a car with the keys in the ignition and the engine running, and the car thief takes off with the car and the kid. Don't get me started. In this area, if someone calls the cops for a child or a pet left in a shut up car, you could get arrested. Then everyone whines about how unfair that is. And if the child dies, then there's the old, "s/he suffered enough...it's not fair to send them to jail." I don't get it. They should be kicked in the butt about a 1,000 times then sent to Abu Ghraib, or however the hell you spell it. I sometimes wonder how children manage to survive childhood. I get mad just thinking about this. Some really horrible instances of children dying in hot cars have popped up in these parts that just make you want to weep. One guy blamed it on ADD. Can you dig that?

This is a true story that happened about 20 years ago, I swear on my own life. I worked for a public agency that was a very desirable place to work. There was a recruitment for a particular job that is very popular and hundreds of people typically apply. One person flunked out of the training. He was from Iran. He called the General Manager's office and threatened to fly a plane into the administration building because he was fired. We found out about the threat after all the excitement was over (and there was no evacuation). About a couple years later on a Friday night, a guy who was fired drove a company sedan through the plate glass window on the first floor and it started a fire. He took the elevator to upper floors and started throwing computers out of the windows. There were periodic bomb threats but I don't recall there ever was an evacuation. I finally quit during the reign of a General Manager who was nearly crazy. All the executive support staff honestly believed he was possessed by the devil. The rest of us just thought he was nuts. There was never a dull moment at this agency.

Eat Chocolate and PAAAAAARTY!!

You don't read enough of this board. But seriously, what prompted this thread? I've never confused those two, despite the aforementioned "oos" factor. Rooster is always (okay, not always) talking about Andrew Hill, or mid-late 60's Blue Note artists; Jazzmoose... well... ... Jazzmoose is kind of like thelil at Jazz Corner- he basically just goes around delivering missing punch lines. As soon as Jazzmoose starts spouting off about gerbil insertions, I'm outta here.

Good to the board back up and I hope everyone up there in Michigan is safe and dry! Yeah, I have outstanding telephone and e-mail messages to relatives in Okemos, MI who are recent San Francisco refugees. I bet they wish they were back in Baghdad by the Bay. Hope everyone out there is safe and sound.

It has become painfully clear that I SO do not have a life. But in any event, Halleluja, halleluja, hallelujah!!!

I'm going to make it to San Jose for the whole weekend. I was thinking about Monterey but probably not. There are some local festivals that are sometimes quite nice. The North Beach Jazz Festival and the Fillmore Art and Jazz Festival, both in SF. Going to see Herbie Hancock, Brian Blade, John Pattituci, and Wayne Shorter next month as part of the SF Jazz Festival. Not traveling far from home, RainyDay

I hope she finds a wonderful loving home to go to because I think returning her to her parents would be a disaster. It's just a crime how children are treated like property and how the wishes of the toxic parents put before the welfare of the child. I could be wrong and maybe she has a loving mother who is searching for her. But I doubt it. What a horrible way for one so young to be sent out into the world.

How heartbreaking is this story? It doesn't even sound like there is a missing person report out on this kid. I'm a betting person. I put my money on crackheads. People should be required to successfully pass some sort of test before they are allowed to reproduce themselves. You have to have a license to own a dog, even the dog pound checks you out before you can adopt. But any jackass can make a child. Jesus H. Christ.

Goodbye, Elvin. Goodbye.

This was posted at Jazz Corner by a very reliable source:

Note to RainyDay: Start a thread about how the Governator has put energy deregulation back in operation in California and let the companies that stole from us off the hook. Also, start a thread about how the Governator is taking 25-40% of property tax revenues from special districts, most of which happen to be in the East Bay. This will effectively gut bus service for AC Transit in the Oakland/Berkeley area, and for BART, a regional long haul rail operator. It will also decimate the East Bay Regional Parks District. Just doing our share to make the asshole in the Gov's Mansion look like a prince. Then note the State Budget Analyst's report out today that says the Gov's budget makes the state budget crisis worse. But hey, we have a MOVIE STAR in Sackammena. Who cares?!

This somebody who fell asleep half way through the class on civil disobedience. They got the boycott part right, then the pizza at lunch kicked in.