JSngry

If you feel the need to do it, do it. Definitely. $400.00 to break even should be very do-able. Any possibility of you hooking up w/some Detroit techno/house guys to put your chocolate in their peanut butter (or vice-versa/whatever)? I'd really be interested in hearing that Reese's cup. No matter, keep exploring, please. The point where you get to where you start finding questions that don't have answers (at least not ready ones) is the most fun point of all. Onward!

Hmmm...regular sex with Ellyn Barkin or finding a Charlie Parker album filed in the rock & roll section of a collection that looks to barely number 100...which would be the greater irritant? Not exactly time for a Jack Benny moment, if you know what I mean...

Too easy!

That was like the I Ching having a party in a room full of naked people. and you know the I Ching is always fun!

There was a reason for that question - my paternal grandfather lived in Sterling, Illinoiis & we went up there every summer. The houses there and the houses in Texas where we lived looked totally different (age, geography, lack of basements, etc etc etc), and one of the main differences was in the type of screen doors. The one in the Rosco picture gave mean "Illinois flashback" & triggered the question. Totally unrelated to anything important, just an impulsive flashback to a time, place, and people I'll never see again. Besides, have you ever seen Von Freeman's house on an album cover? If not, then you should, and you should also listen to the album inside the cover, assuming, of course, that it is indeed the album that was intended to be inside that album cover. And when I say "should", I actually mean "must", becuase if you can't dig Von and his album cover house, then you have forfeited any and all rights to tell anybody else what should or should not be fun, much less mock (or "mock" them (or "them")) becuase Von & Fun are essentially the same word, therefore actually the same thing, and they both are headquartered in Von's house, and if you don't know that, then what do you know, at least that is of any use? Especially at Christmastime?

Some of the women in the video looked like they know how to have some real fun in the presence of a stronger groove. Then again, most women do.

This is an above-average 60s Wilson date, I think. I'm frequently less than fully-engaged in her work, especially from the 60s, because of the "breeziness" of the records. Short tracks, nothing really has time to set in. But on this one, things do set in, and it's all the much better because they do.

FWIW, Nancy claims that her biggest influence, bar none, was Little Jimmy Scott.

He'd not have existed without him. RIP, and know that you mattered.

Joe Comfort is the Unsung Uber-Hero of Capitol Records.

"Did the camera catch that?" Really?

Let's sign two!

What was Barzun's ERA last season?

Happy then, happy now. Thanks!

http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101208&content_id=16282782&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb STATS: http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fellebo01.shtml

Mark Moseley;s farewell letter to Cliff Lee: http://c.espnradio.com/audio/478207/galloway_2010-12-14-192907.mp3

Looks like Jim was right. My aim is not to be popular. My aim is to give you the news you need at a price I can afford.

No thing lasts forever, nor is it supposed to.

More detail here: http://texas.rangers...ws_mlb&c_id=mlb I'm impressed at some level by this quote: Cliff Lee, Baseball Purist. Who knew? Of course, never mind that it's (theoretically) harder to pitch to an AL batting order...especially when the #8 hitter on a NL team in an AL-park World Series game hits the HR that loses your teams World Series...the sentiment is what counts, right? Debt-due aside, it really sounds like the guy wanted the NL from jump, Philly especially, and was willing to take a little less to get it. Demand a fair price for your work, but go with your heart once you can get it. I call that setting a good example for people in general.

...forced to play naked.

Not without a map, anyway...

I don't plan on coming down my own chimney, if that's what you mean.

Any one (or maybe two, depending on which two) of the stylistic elements in that stew could have made for a good (enough) track. But they're all just thrown together as if the expectation of the listener is that they'll pick one, latch on to it, and ignore the others, either individually or collectively. Fail, Jars of Clay, a band my son hipped me to about 10 years ago, when they were a reasonably interesting "alternative" "Christian" band. Whatever this is an alternative to, I think the alternative to the alternative might not be nearly as bad.

Continuing/ongoing thanks to all...no beef or pork today...Indian buffet for lunch (there's a place in the unlikely sub-suburb of Murphy that has the best goat I've ever eaten in 30 years of eating goat, for real) & seafood fra diablo from the LTB Kitchen for dinner. As for Karen Valentine, she used to send something up some part of mine, but I don't know what happened to her. Anybody look in Room 422? Funniest moment of the day - Chuck Cooperstein talking baseball with co-host Nate Newton on ESPN Radio...Nate wanted to know what the big deal was about trading prospects en masse, because hey, isn't that what the farm system is there for, to put all your players you want to trade? And what kind of a pitcher was he before he got traded to Toronto? I hope Coop kept a straighter face than he did voice...