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The only real news here is that Woody Allen is doing a TV show with Miley Cyrus. And Elaine May? For real? https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/05/woody-allen-soon-yi Though details about the series are still under wraps, the film is set in the 60s, co-stars Woody Allen and Elaine May, and, from the looks of it, John Magaro (The Big Short) will also appear as Cyrus’s love interest and the latest on-screen Woody Allen proxy. Oh, so he's the guy who did The Beatles Capitol LPs then, right?

Hardly a Morton expert, but a tune of his with "Nippon" in the title doesn't ring a bell. Was it Ad-Lib On Nippon? This?

Wow, that's a drag. All three were good, and the two with Woody Shaw & Carter Jefferson were really good, imo, the last of the really "forward" Messengers albums (Keystone 3 being a notable exception!).

I remember that the buzz about the Atlantic record was that this was not the full potential of the group realized on record, but don't worry, one that did was in the can and on the way. I've kinda looked out for other dates that have come out, and I can't say that any of them really generated more energy or whatever than the Atlantic record did. so...huh.

Like the legendary Soapy Slabberwocky, who pioneered laser butchering in the back lot of his brother Slippy's equally legendary Slippy's Chop Shop. Yes, he would only remove the part of the cow that was needed to fill an order, which allowed the animal to live longer, if misshapened lives, while at the same time giving customer's the absolutely freshest cuts of me imaginable. You have to eat the cow alive yourself to get it any fresher, and your teeth are NOT that sharp. People loved it for a while, but then attitudes and mores changed, and Soapy became a pariah, had to go underground, literally, built a tunnel system to move him and his beloved cowmeats to safety somewhere off the Atlantic coast of New Jersey, where the cows finally learned how the lasers worked and ate him all the way down to the bones. And then, without a dominant and/or predictable lead user/abuser, they did what all cows do when they follow somebody deep into a tunnel - they forgot how to get back out, and died. Somewhere off the Atlantic coast of New Jersey is buried a unique piece of Americana. Now, some might bemoan the loss of all that delicious meat, and others the loss of a brilliant scientific butchermind, but hey - they knew the job was dangerous when they took it, and Soapy himself didn't really give a fuck about stuff like that. A lesson for us all, that's what it is.

He's now Moms Mobley. Been a while since his last post, I always looked forward to his commentary.

Bingo - this is not a "Hollywood" problem, this is a predator problem. Shifting it off to be Hollywood or political or whatever is a diversion away from the core issue. It may well be that the "natural instinct" is for the strong to hunt the weak, and it may also well be that the "natural instinct" is to give in hopes of getting in return, but to just accept that natural instincts should not be directed and/or evolved towards more ennobling ends than just getting what you want at any cost is not going to result in a civilization built on mutual trust and empowerment. Of course, there will always be those who look at it differently. They're Makers and the rest of us are in their debt. After all, God made man in his own image, so if you don't look at yourself and see God, the problem is you're not looking hard enough.

That "I Remember Bird" made an impression on me as a kid. And Frank Strozier did not diminish that impression. OTOH, Ed Thigpen, great drummer, but still, make mine Tate. Grady Tate, that is. Not Larry Tate, not Sharon Tate, even if Live From Los Angeles, no, we all know how that turned out. GRADY Tate. Remember, it it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it might well be Grady Tate. Quack quack quack. Duck, duck quack.

Wait, are you saying that Weinstein was simply playing the odds? Would you fault a man (or a woman) for playing the odds? That's too simple. But as long as we're at it, why you wanna limit that to Hollywood and actors? It's not like predators only live there, or even mostly live there. Or is this going to turn into a YouTube Hollywood Illuminati thing before it's over? Because believe me, I came up in the age of the REAL Illuminati conspiracy theory. It's so far from the Bildebergers & Trilateral Commission to Hollywood shit-eating devil worship animal sacrifice parties, not even in the same league, this Hollywood stuff, that's just rank hedonism, excessively "common", if you ask me.

dude, that's nuts.

Y'all remember Turk Farrell? Any relation?

hey, it's a pretty broad canvas, right?

And yet the book is still called Profiles In Courage! It's easy to blame "being in love with money", but it's more than that, it's about "career", which is only partially about money. Ego, insecurity, actual honest to god ambition to play on the biggest stage to see what you can do, it's not all about money all the time, that's too easy. Never having been "career oriented" myself, that's easy for me to say. But I have seen so many people in so many walks of life who are willing to compromise on some pretty basic things in the interest of career advancement. I'll call a weasel a weasel, but I've compromised on some things, pretty sure we all have. It just motivates me to do better myself.. What other people do...never surprises me, however it goes. Although, the bigger the weasel, the greater the odds. At some point, you go from coward to asshole to weasel, and by the time you make weasel scout...good luck.

Yeah, the book was called Profiles In Courage for a reason! OTOH, most people - in all walks of life - are weasels about upsetting any applecart that's got their apples in it. Most people are weasels that way, it's true.

http://starlocalmedia.com/denny-garver/image_1bbd3c52-a9f1-11e7-a214-07e7bb8cb0cc.html Note the use of the word "commentating". I approve.

Thanks to Joe Medjuck for including the Gil Evans track from this on his BFT. I was incentivized to get the entire CD, and it has proven to be a welcome addition to my listening library!

As for Donna Karan's thing...there have been many movements that have coalesced around the evolution of "putting up with it" being seen as a mind-numbed version of "asking for it" and then moving into a more conscious version of "oh HELL no". so let's hope that the collective consciousness is indeed moving that way. Because, for real, Dick Power need to be over for a while, if not longer...people want to talk about "adjustment periods" and shit, well, let's let Dick Power be over and then adjust to that.

And keep applauding until there is none! Men...for all their vaunted "work ethics" are still basically lazy when it comes to sex. I'm all in favor of women making them earn it. Or is it asking too much to ask people today, male and female, to work at shit, to earn and to be earned? I've not read that Donna Karan (who is she, anyway?) thing, but from the sound of it, she might have had some decent kernel ideas in there, because, I tell you, in most cases, men will do as little to get laid as they know they have to do. No, nobody should ever be assumed to have been "asking for it", but, you know, too many men play that shit because they know that they can get by with it, if not actually getting some action, then at least not reported and shamed by their fellow men. Zero tolerance for laziness! People in general are all lazy with their genitals. And as the genitals go, so goes the brain, you think I'm wrong, tell me one time, any of you, when your brain did the thinking for your genitals and if your brain won, it was because your genitals didn't ultimately let it. I have seen the ways of man/woman, and people are smart about how the anatomy works and dumb as fuck about how the anatomy works with and/or against the brain. If your brain is weak, that's entirely on you, and don't look for excuses, shelter, or sympathy, train your brain to do right, train your genitals to do right, just train your whole goddam self to do right. I hope that's not political.

IMO, the only part of "this" that is truly relevant is the issue of sexually predatory behavior. "Politics" is the lens through which opinions are formed and actions taken. To the extent that they obscure the root of this evil (imo) "politics" are merely excuses for whatever you want to project onto the act itself once encountered. To a woman who has had an unwelcome dick pulled out on her, and then, for whatever reason, feels unable or unwilling to tell the guy to go fuck himself (with his own dick, if need be), I really don't think politics enter into it, nor do I think does it enter into the thinking of the owner of said unwelcome dick. Now, what everybody does about it, that's all about power, and sure, that's going to be political. And politics pretty much demands either blindzombieloyalty or some kind of relativist compromise, even/especially within one's own self. But the act itself, sheeet, that's not political, that's just some unevolved caveman thug shit.

Stop wasting your time, there's only one thing that will work - Delete the whole board! Make a fresh start for a new generation!

Yeah, many people do at first... I prefer the former option, because political discussions around here tend to be everybody hunkering down to the corners of their choice and not too much more. Larry, edit us outta here!

Local sports anchor yesterday cracked me up, talking about how the Real News story is that the Cowboys D just didn't play good enough, while the Fake News story was that the Cowboys O didn't manage the clock well enough. Losing to the Rams like that, I think (no, I know) you gotta go with the Real News story, but hell, Aaron Rodgers, that shit will happen, period.