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My goal upon waking every day/afternoon is to outlive myself. Long as I can do that, hey, good day. Ain't gonna be so for everybody.

It is here, yeah. I make it a point to buy large when it comes around, both because it's good, and because it's a kind of a "good neighbor" thing I like to do. But if the stuff was not good, I would not buy large, right?

I'm telling you - what Girl Scouts got around cookies, Boy Scouts got with popcorn. Damn good product and you can buy it from friends and neighbors. Win-win.

Them Boy Scout popcorns will do right for and by you.

Yep!

7 Dwarfs Joe Newman's Midgets The Little People, Whom I'm Sure We All Would Like To Thank

Lu Watters Babalu Keye Luke

Just finished the series...best show ever? Maybe. Definitely one of them. Damn sure one of the most painful. If this The Corner is on HBO Go, I'll give it...a go, as soon as I get over the Wire thing. Had to wait a week after season 3 before getting started on 4. This shit is painful as hell, and I say that as somebody who's always had a ride home after the game, if you know what I mean. Accident of birth. Prayers going out for all the Duquans & Randys of the world as well as for all the Bubbss, as well for myself that I never have to run into any more Omars, real or metaphorical, because, all things considered, moral (at best) ambiguity is not something about which I can be trusted to always side with "right". Play, be played, or, hopefully, get to someplace where there ain't no game. Good luck on that, everybody.

I am reading this book very slowly, because I have to. But damn, this is some entertaining provocativeness once you hit the zone with it. Maybe I'm feeling it wrong, but there seems to be a lot of dark comedy in this, a lot. Then again, maybe it's just that I see dark comedy in pretty much every damn thing. Everywhere I look in this world (as well as that one and the other one) I see dark comedy, what else could it be? Either way, I'm taking my own sweet time to eat this thing up and fully digest each bite, and not minding it nary one bit about doing so.

Perhaps. Definitely an easily-overlooked contributor of quality.

The crack thing is "funny" to me, because I figured it would have come around the early 80s, the time of Monster & Magic Windows, that stuff, neither particularly interesting for any reason, nor particularly inspired in any way. But no, it came in the early 90s, when Herbie was making ok-enough records for Verve, like the Massey Hall thing with Brecker. So, ok, don't blame the drugs then. And besides, there were some other things going on in those years, like Mr. Hands, that were actually pretty good. But Monster in particular, I'd prefer to think that that was the work of a crackhead gone wrong than to think that it was the best Herbie (or anybody) could come up with at the time. That's just depressing.

It's in this 11 disc box, which if you get there in time can be had for about $80.00 total. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00062138A/ref=tmm_acd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&sr=&qid= Depending on what you already have or don't have, that's a really good deal, about $7.00 a CD, and most of it is pretty good. If you don't get there in time, prices jump considerably.

Jackie Mills went back to the Swing Era days, so he knew what a dance beat was. I first knew of him from the Lionel Hampton Just Jazz record, and then with that fine Harry James band that had Willie Smith in it. This is a short but pretty sweet interview here: https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/jackie-mills

I know a guy who saw her walking through an airport and he, being quite a wise guy, yelled out, "Hey Ellie May!!!" and immediately thought UH-oh, but Ms. Douglas just looked at him, smiled, waved, and yelled back "Howdy!". Hard to argue with that!

Only dumb if it goes unsold, said Mr. Barnum.

Crazier still, look at the label - it says the original label was Tradition, meaning that it's this reissue of Vee-Jay material!

The Ongoing Curse Of Jerry Jones has upped itself up a notch from comically absurd to sinister. Cowboys fans would be well-served to get the pitchforks, stakes, and focused laserdeath rays ready before more innocent people get hurt. Give Satan what he paid for, now, and let this team finally be able to play some natural football.

Not sure about the 77 stuff, but the things with Brecker are highly unlikely to be legit. That stuff's been out there for decades, and the label itself specializes in things "things like that".

All praise is due to the Ann Nessa and the union that has been sustained with her. I love it when that happens to people.

I've heard that Herbie tells us about his time as a crackhead in the 90s.