JSngry

Will to overcome leg cramps will only work if the leg cramps are willing to yield. Do leg cramps have a will of their own that can be broken, or is it just a matter of them not being as strong as their possessor might first think? Maybe what we're describing as "will" is really just the willingness to raise the ceiling in the ongoing test of ability vs circumstance. In almost all such tests, there is a chance of success and a chance of failure. At some point, randomness of outcome becomes a factor, and "will" recedes to being nothing more - or less - that a willingness to engage in an "advanced" test. I don't see any way, though, that "will" itself can be seen as the actual cause of an outcome (unless we have the ability to send out Magic Mojo Hoodoo Waves from out gut that alter the laws of motion and some such). It's just what got you to the place to have a chance. I'd not downplay the will-factor when it comes to "getting there" in terms of motivation, but actual outcome once there? I don't think so...

Something else that should have been a CTI record arranged by Don Sebesky. So many things were!

Ironic is the new ironic.

That price is too good to refuse!

I like what Lee Konitz said. It makes sense to me in a logical/rational kind of way.

Ok, I've had issues with Mark Cuban for a while now, but this is superb. http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2012/06/video-mark-cuban-destroys-skip-bayless-on-first-take/

Can't we all just get along?

Dick Rising (of Capitol records) Johnny Mercer Mercedes Ellington

Dad would not have enjoyed this one...but that's cool, I never enjoyed Frankie Carle. Here's to common ground as well as individual space!

If you were a moderator, you could do it yourself! (hint hint hint)

Things haven't been the same since Elvis joined the army.

Just imagine the militant leftist atheist world in Bizzaro World, then make the incremental adjustments towards sanity to get a bigger picture. Voila. you're there!

Wish my dad would have known about this one...he loved him some Mills Brothers, and the first live jazz I ever heard was a Count Basie gig he took me to in 1970 as a birthday present. We'd have had some fun listening to this one. But we had a lot of other fun, so...guess you can't have all the fun, eh? Carpe diem!

Things haven't been the same since Elvis.

EX-cellent!!!

The visceral unseen!

Red, then!

I dunno, what color are the parts we can't see?

Mandrake the Magician Mandrill Baboon Butt

Slack cut, by Slack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWV9J-lEf4

Friends, no. Classmates, yes, and more than one. But they had it made clear to them in no uncertain terms that this was not acceptable behavior and would not be tolerated under any circumstances. Some got it and some didn't. The ones who did did ok as they went on. The ones who didn't...didn't. Explaining a behavior is not the same as excusing it, nor is understanding it the same as advocating for the tolerance of it. By the same token, lashing out in rage is not the same as punishing with purpose. I'm all in favor of the latter (and the stronger the punishment, the strong ther purpose needs to be). And yes, I spanked my kids, on occasion. Sue me. But I never told them they were worthless, and I never told them that they would be doing the world a favor by dieing. They're both good, conscientious adults now, but they had to learn right from worng, and they didn't always get it right on the first try. But it's a parent's job to get them there by any means necessary, if at all possible. I've yet to see a case where aiming the invective at the person rather than the act really pays dividends. Would you really say shit like that to your kids, no matter what they did? You can do a lot of things in the name of love, but that ain't one of them. That's just abdicating responsibility, giving up, not taking responsibility for getting the motherfuckers to understand that as they do, they become, and that there should be no doubt in anybody's mind - especially theirs - that they will most certainly not become that, not if you have anything to say about it, so they damn well better walk away from that path they're getting on ASAP.

So it has "The Sky Fell Down", right? Waaaaay cool, you get to hear it in context! Desert island record for me too. Gorgeous in every way?