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Possibly the post-season as well... http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8271981/melky-cabrera-san-francisco-giants-suspended-50-games On "bright side" (such as it is...) to this - he's copping to the offense and not offering excuses or looking for obfuscations: "Forced" or not, there's always those who will look to play games and buy time. Not this guy (and in this case, his union), and for that, hey, good on him.

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Ok, I have two albums of this stuff. I think one is enough, but this one has Hank Jones and the other one doesn't. But the other one is less..."obvious". But it does not have Hank Jones. Ah, the perplexities of star power. So I guess I keep both, especially they were both given by my wife's Aunt after her husband passed away because she knew that Bob would have wanted me to have them when he was gone.

Ah, you've encountered the Texas public school system, I see.

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I wonder if Charlie Shavers ever wondered why he didn't get a hit and a deal like Jonah Jones did. Really, right time, right place, good player with total cred, Jonah Jones was. Pops & Louis Prima both were big, and Jones seems like he's splitting the difference between those two, commercial, totally, but not demeaning or anything. The man got himself a job, he knew what it was, and he did it well. But I hear some of the stuff he plays on here and can't help but think that Charlie Shavers could have done it too, and I wonder whose decision it was to not see if that couldn't get done. Maybe Charlie Shavers willful intensity meter stopped one level above Jonah's, and maybe that made the difference.

You mean like Tori Amos does?

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KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first (1920) "offical" radio station in America. I used to be an "old time radio" geek (when I was 14...talk about a misspent youth...) , so this was one of The Things You Had To Know. That & Herbert "Oh The Humanity" Morrison. WOR hit in 1922. We started getting Jean Shepherd in Dallas when we got a public/NPR (don't think it was called that then, though) radio station. 1974 (yeah, it took that long...). The captivation for me was immediate. The guy actually made some "comedy records" back in the day, at least one of which made CD reissue. Worth looking for, for real.

Hand tipped! Unlike Woody Allen's, my experience is by no means universal, but it's always been Wednesday when shit started getting weird like that for me. Sundays you can still fuck through, Mondays you can leave, Tuesdays you can still pretend, but when Wednesdays roll around, there's always a...decision starting to foment/ferment/vomit its way to the forefront. Make it past that Wednesday, one way or another, and it's time to warm up the tubes so you don't miss the first pitch. Lather, rinse, repeat. Some people get their beliefs reinforced by Woody Allen movies. Me, I just use shampoo bottles.

That band might well have been a "machine", but still...the machine be swingin'. Anti-Drama, FTW, or,at least )more likely, for the block.

Thanks for waiting a day to share..right now I'm laughing and crying at the same time in reaction...yesterday I don't know that I would've been able to laugh nearly as much. That's a beautiful story. For real.

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Is the wait almost over?

Significantly more than dig Bach, I'm pretty sure!

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Really? I don't think so. That is, I think it's more than "a relative handful of specialists." Relative to the overall global population? Sure about that?

How far out into the future are you willing to guarantee that A) The technology will still be there B) The "common humanity" of what we've known it to be in our lifetime will still be there C) The various geographical & cultural points of reference will be commonly and easily understood D) Humankind will not have evolved (or devolved) to the point where more or less everything that we know and love now will not seem hopelessly simple-minded? I mean, "reaching out and connecting on the most basic levels", that's something that I'd imagine has been going on since before recorded time. But hell, you can't get more than a relative handful of specialists to dig Bach these days, ya' know? If, as I suspect has been happening for quite a while now, the trek of "the focal point of human civilization" makes its way back towards its origins (which are certainly not here in "the west"), what use will they have of us? And to what extent will they go to show how little use they really do have? "Eras" are easy enough, it's the transitions from one to the other that gets....messy. It's a long way from here to there. A long way. Ain't everything gonna make it. Don't everything need to. And ain't nothing has to. Been to the library lately? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria Only if we want to use it as something on which to hang our own perceived/desired immortality...

For the sake of argument, though, let us consider that "time" in that sense will eventually involve more than 50 years and the approval of the generations(s) that experienced the body of work in more or less real time. Redwoods, now that's something that stands the test of time. Cockroaches too. For everything else, there's evolution and/or extinction. I mean, I like the guy's well enough for what it is, he does what he does, and he does it with his own thing in full effect. You're never not going to get a Woody Allen Film out of a Woody Allen film, right? But I don't know how well it will translate to all of pan-galactic lifeformage in, say, 300 (or even 3000, never mind 3,000,000) years from now, or if it will even be possible for that to be a consideration. I know that nobody here will be around to see it, at least not in their current form. In the meantime, I wanna see that Jerry Lewis movie with the gigantic milk pitcher. I've been cracking up all day just thinking about it. Which one is that?

Bobby Valentine pissing off the people he works with? I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/bobby-valentine-red-sox-mutiny-text-dustin-pedroia-larry-lucchino-john-henry-adrian-gonzalez-.html OTOH, has the (as I've always understood it) Yawkey legacy of players ultimately having their way ever really been purged from this storied franchise? Not to say that Valentine's not gonna ultimately be a self-serving back-stabbing prick, we learned that here a few decades ago, but at some point, any player on any team needs to take an ass-chewing from the manager when it's deserved, and I don't know of any case on any team when that's not ever been the case.

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Hello? J.J.? Hey, how goes it? Quick question for you if you got a sec...you do? Beautiful! Here it is... Did Elvin ever not sound like Elvin?

I actually came to Von first, although entirely by accident...there was a Sunday night AM jazz show out of Des Moines, Iowa that would fade in and out down in Texas, and one night they played "Portrait Of John Young". Fortunately, the signal was coming in instead of fading out, and fortunately it stayed in for the duration of the song and the back-announcing. I was 16 or so, and to say that Von's tone caught my attention immediately and kept it forever after would be putting it mildly!