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In my experience, the key to a good lawn is developing a healthy root system, which means not cutting too close in the heat of summer (up to a point, the taller your grass is the deeper the roots run, which means healtheir, heartier grass), slow & deep watering (as opposed to the daily quickies - once a week is adequate if you do it long and slow, and I know that sounds blatantly sexual, but we are talking about life here, ya'know?), and application of a sane fertilizer. In our part of Texas, a 4-1-2 ratio is best, but you see all the "quick green" stuff that's front loaded with nitrogen to get MAXIMUM GREEN as quickly as possible, and that's just stupid. Soil conditioning is important too. Take a week or so and weed the yard by hand. Yeah, get out there, plop your ass down in the dirt, and pull all that shit up by the roots. It's only work at first, because you get into the whole symbiotic dirt/vegetation/etc harmony thing after a while, and it gets pretty cool, really. Besides, if you do it right, you're doing de facto aereation, as well as freeing up space in the dirt for the grass' roots. And create a favorqable soil environment for earthworms. Too much chemicalization kills/runs 'em off. Earthworms RULE! I used to do all this stuff religiously every year and I always had nice grass. Then I hit middle age and lost interest. Now my grass looks like crap. You get out of it what you put into it, if you get good info from jumpstreet.

I never knew that Waleter Perkins' wife was on Peyton Place!

What kind of discographical research are you looking for?

I am in awe. You guys rule!

hey, THAT one was EASY! what's up? lost your google skillz? Hey, Google is where I found the image! I just had never heard of the Mahogany label, and didn't realize that it had never been issued until the Storyville CD... Sooooo...let's go to Phase Two: What's the story about the Mahogany label?

Quoth AMG (Amazing Misinformation Guide): Tenor great Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis teams up with altoist Michel Attenoux (whose sound looks toward Tab Smith and Johnny Hodges) and his French sextet for a hard-swinging set of standards. With fine solos also contributed by trumpeter Patrick Artero and trombonist Claude Gousset, Davis romps on such numbers as Neal Hefti's "Splanky," "Flying Home" and "Shiny Stockings." Excellent modern swing, released for the first time on this 1992 CD. — Scott Yanow Or not...

Thanks, John!

And...correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Toast 'Ems precede Pop Tarts in the marketplace? Pop Tarts is better, though.

And you gonna crack on POP TARTS?

Saw a bigass stack of them at Borders today going for $9.99 a pop. Picked one up for the pictures, not the articles (as opposed to Playboy...). BUT - Whilst thumbing through the first copy I picked up, I noticed that some of the pages had been bound upside down! Let the jokes begin...

Save away! ...and did you know that in case of a discrepancy between the amounts in the courtesy box and the legal line of a check, a business is supposed to honor the amount on the legal line, no matter how great or in what direction the discrepancy? So, watch those hastily written checks! OTOH (and you didn't hear it from me, ok?) if you need to stretch the budget for a week or so, this information can be used to your advantage if an observant individual handles your check - put "500.00" in the box and "Five & 00/100" on the line, and the check is LEGALLY written for Five Dollars! If some sharpie catches the discrepancy and cashes the thing for a fin, you can always claim "OOOPS, my bad!", sweet talk your way out of a late fee, and get the money in when you really have it, as long as it's before the end of the month (which is when a typical loan technically goes into default if not brought current). Hey - it's a SYSTEM. There's a loophole for everything. Just don't overdo it, or else the jig's up. No guarantees though - attention to detail ain't what it used to be, which is really no surprise now, is it...

Jaws was, excuse my language, a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDD MUTHAPHUKEER!!!!! You can't explain how he played the instrument, because he had some homemade techniques (best as I can tell). James Carter seems to have figured them out, lots of them anyway, but he's the only one that I know of. And as excellent a player as Carter is, he don't have the swagger & swing of Lock. NOBODY did, not like that. Any talk of "originality" that doesn't give Lockjaw serious consideration as a leading exponent is a talk that is worth neither listening to nor participating in, since it obviously is clueless in origin. And don't get me started on the magic that happened when him & Griff got together and both of them were in the mood. Long Dong Silver & John Holmes combined resemble a baby in ice water in comparison to what gets going there. Yeah, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - a PLAYER!!! HELL YEAH!!!!

I smell an auto-generated response from "Steve Redmond", that's what I smell!

YES! Their packaging is a thing of anal-retentive beauty, and I mean that as nothing but a compliment!

A project and a study!

As far as i'm concerned, any label that releases something by Bob Dorough is taking a risk...

Agreed about the prices, but if you get on their mailing list, you get weekly e-mails. When you see a sale, search the site vigorously and carpe diem. There are deals to be had, especially on OOP Japanese things.

This appears to be a matter about which to consult with Paula Poundstone!

Did they have AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL available for download? That & the duets w/Rowles are my favorite Xanadus.

Same.

HUNH?!?!? I CAN'T HEAR!!! BEEN PLAYIN' WELCOME TO THE PARTY TOO DAMN LOUD, SONNY!!! AS IF SUCH A THING WERE POSSIBLE!!!! DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE - If it's too loud, you're too ooooooooooollllllllllld.

Is it just me, or does Sophia Coppolla look kinda nasty in a "I might not be a classic "babe" but I've got more than enough brains, imagination, self-confidence and energy to fuck your brains out and leave in the morning without fixing you breakfast and you'll be dying to get back together and I will but only if I really want to so deal with it and if you're man enogh to handle it we'll see" kinda way? I think I like that. Other than that, I thought that I had become as disinterested in Hollywood as I could possibly be about 3 years ago, but each succeeding year proves me wrong.

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. She is not a BABE or a CHICK - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN. 2. She is not a SCREAMER or MOANER - She is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE. 3. She is not EASY - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE. 4. She is not DUMB - She is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. 5. She has not BEEN AROUND - She is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION. 6. She is not an AIRHEAD - She is REALITY IMPAIRED. 7. She does not get DRUNK or TIPSY - She gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED. 8. She is not HORNY - She is SEXUALLY FOCUSED. 9. She does not have BREAST IMPLANTS - She is MEDICALLY ENHANCED. 10. She does not NAG YOU - She becomes VERBALLY REPETITIVE. 11. She is not a SLUT - She is SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED. 12. She does not have MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS - She is PECTORALLY SUPERIOR. 13. She is not a TWO-BIT WHORE - She is a LOW COST PROVIDER. HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. He does not have a BEER GUT - He has developed a LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY. 2. He is not a BAD DANCER - He is OVERLY CAUCASIAN. 3. He does not GET LOST ALL THE TIME - He INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS. 4. He is not BALDING - He is in FOLLICLE REGRESSION. 5. He is not a CRADLE ROBBER - He prefers GENERATIONALLY DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS. 6. He does not get FALLING-DOWN DRUNK - He becomes ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL. 7. He does not act like a TOTAL ASS - He develops a case of RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION. 8. He is not a MALE CHAUVINIST PIG - He has SWINE EMPATHY. 9. He is not afraid of COMMITMENT or a CHEATER - He is MONOGAMOUSLY CHALLENGED

A bright, young, fresh-out-of-school auditor just joined the IRS,excited to begin tracking down high-powered offenders-just as the Enron or WorldCom guys. Anxious for his first high-powered audit, he was a bit dismayed when his assignment was to audit a Rabbi. Looking over the books and taxes were pretty straight forward, and the Rabbi clearly very frugal, so he thought he'd make his day interesting by having a little fun with the Rabbi. "Rabbi," he said, "I noticed that you buy a lot of candles." "Yes," answered the Rabbi. "Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" he asked. "A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save them up and when we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker. And every now and then, they send us a free box of candles." "Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his unusual question actually had a practical answer. So he thought he'd go on, in his obnoxious way..."Rabbi, what about all these matzo purchases? What do you do with the crumbs from the matzo?" "Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up all the crumbs from the matzo and when we have enough, we send them in a box back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of matzo balls." "Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi. "Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the foreskins from the circumcisions?" "Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save up all the foreskins, and when we have enough we actually send them to the I.R.S." "The I.R.S.?," questioned the auditor in disbelief. "Ahh, yes," replied the Rabbi, " the I.R.S. " ...and about once a year, they send us a little prick like you."