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I had really, really hoped that the Louis C.K. "thing" was a parody. Now it seems more like an attempt to self-therapize. Wouldn't be the first artist of any ilk to go about that.

Oh, I am like many of those "other evil men". I just evolved to realize that it's not somebody I have to be. That is an option, you know, a lustrous, well-groomed "mangina" like mine doesn't happen all by itself.

yeah, this!

Seriously dude, you need to cultivate a network of family-friend geeks, the type who sneer at people who do it for a living, and fairly so. Find one and take him/her to a local Micro-Center. It's like taking a kid to a circus! There are definitely people here who know more about this than I do, but I'm thinking that if all your guts and peripherals are the same, it should be more or less a seamless P&P. My daughter's current BF is really, really facile with this stuff, swapping parts, building from scratch, resurrecting Werewolf into Frankenstein, etc. and I've watched him work. He makes it look easy, but I'm not sure if it really is. The closest personal experience I have had is with two Dell XPSs bought at the same time, one for me, one for my daughter. She grew out of a desktop, so we've switched all kinds of parts back and forth between the two along the way (always with somebody smart in the room, though). It works. I think the main thing you want to try to do with the refurbished model is make sure that the guts are the same, same BIOS, same processor, same video card, same everything, maybe even same RAM. Because your OS is on your hard drive, the first time you start it up, it's going to go looking for the same thing it's always looked for. P&P is pretty much the norm these days, but there's always little surprises, you might have to give it permission on some things, but that's about it.

Hey, I know that men can easily be horndog seed spillers and that women can be flirtations conniving honeypots, I mean, that's not a question not, that's never been a question. But that's not the question in question here, which is simply, wow, some Berkeley dude got fired because he hit on a student, was too drunk to get it up, but apparently not too drunk to pass out before he continued to make unwanted advances, as well as Greg Osby got let go, and readlly did say some ignunt ass bullshit. To the drunk/limp guy, hey, I've know literally hundreds of people like that. You can't get rid of them, even as they try their damndest to get rid of themselves. As for Osby...I always preferred Steve Coleman, then, and, especially now. As for me and my "mangina" or whatever that word was, I keep it clean and I keep it handy. It serves me well. It has given a wife, and then children who have had children of their own, and none of them have yet to be people who don't know how to act. A little more mangina and a lot less dickhead, please.

A corporate entity is essentially asking you to come to a rent party on their behalf. Ask them will they return the favor if/when it's time, and proceed accordingly.

I'm seeing some weakenedass intellects on display here. Weak or else already drunk on that Kool-Aid. I expect a reliable journalistic outlet to quote accurately. If it's got that " " around it, it should be accurate (including a ( ) around all paraphrased or otherwise not exact statement). But context is an endlessly unfolding arc, so I own my own responsibility to dig deeper/further as needed and/or desired. This whole "don't believe anything the MSM has to say" is pretty much total bullshit, a diversionary projectionistic discombobulation tactic used to further an agenda at least as "menacing" as the one its purveyors purport to be against. "Don't believe ANYTHING unless you hear it from me", I mean, my god, how fucked-up batshit crazy zombie acquiescence zonetrance is THAT? Osby does not deny what he said, so I guess we should believe that he said it. Problem, officer? Not too much of a disconnect, I should hope. Point A to Point B. If somebody tells you an outright lie, call their shit on it long and loud. But if it's greater context you want, think for yourself, and accept all facts for what they are - data points. And there's always more data points. always. So think, motherfuckers, THINK.

Fishing. Cannonball. Jazz. If you find a better real-world deal than that, take it. (scarf not included)

Real fans want newer better music.

Well yeah, sorta, but otoh, you get people who are used to "road behavior" and/or "club behavior" and put them in a classroom, an altogether different type of "paying customer" and, you know, some people are more able to change skins that others. Believe me, the road is not a place that brings out the best in you, especially if your rutting habits and/or courtship skills are baseline-at-best to begin with.

And yeah, pittance is about a good price. Although, again, the Hines, Doggett, & Mingus are worth a little more than that!

Greg Osby has made DVDs?

No luck here, either, sorry. But have this as a consolation?

The story I heard was that it was Tiberi himself who wanted "too much" (i.e. - more than the estate was willing to pay him so that they could get it over to impulse!). He recorded that stuff himself, it had deep meaning to him beyond the monetary, and he felt that if he was going to get money, it should be a LOT of money. Now, that's just the story I heard.

One more reason why teaching "jazz" in schools is a bad idea.

Got a spare scarf to throw in? A well-supplied tackle box? Unreleased Bettie Page photos? Find a way to make me say "yes", please.

yep. it's easily taken for granted, but that guy, anybody, anytime, any music, he could play the gig like it needed to be played. if it was THAT easy, everybody could and would do it.

Are we talking fly fishing here? I've never done that type of fishing, neither that nor whale harpooning. But the latter is not of interest. Fly fishing, otoh...

I'm thinking that the inclusion of a Zebco 33 would make it the perfect Christmas gift for the beginning fisherperson/jazz enthusiast in your life.

Dexter. Maybe not all over the place, but I get excited about George Duvivier being on this "type" of record. and Milt Hinton on the Hines. Ditto.

Check him out on Tavis Smiley. Interesting guy for a jazz player!

I think it's a "boutique" thing, object and content in presumably equal measure. Some people are into that these days. But $200.00? GEEEEEEEEE-SUSSSSSS!!!!