Big Wheel

From an old book by Gilbert Seldes, a collection of essays in which he argued that the popular or "low" arts could be as deserving of critical attention as the old "high" arts. The seven were: Comic strips, Movies, Musical Comedy, Vaudeville, Radio, Popular Music, and Dance. I think the book was written just a little too early to include television. I used to have a copy; probably still do, banging around here somewhere. Also, a TV show. This is where "The Sound of Jazz" video/album comes from.

Has anyone checked out the live webcams that CERN has set up? Very educational.

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Are you absolutely sure that you are on the correct site? Check it very carefully. Did you access the site by typing it in directly, or did you click the link in an email you received about a sale or promotion on this site? The reason I am asking is that many evildoers try engage in phishing - stealing your personal information - by creating sites that look and feel like well-known sites that people use (especially your bank, for example), but actually are just fronts for people to log into their account and unwittingly input their payment information. Sites that look familiar, but actually are non-functional except for the sections where you log in and submit your CC info, are a hallmark of this kind of phishing attack.

It's not just Valdosta - it's the whole stretch of I-75 in Georgia (Atlanta possibly excepted). My family is from the Tallahassee area and it was the habit of my relatives to call the Georgia Highway Patrol the Yiddish word for "thieves."

Apparently, AAA is pissed off enough about this practice to buy billboards on both ends of town warning drivers about it.

I'm thinking Mosaic may have switched to a different brand of these slimline doubles that has teeth that are designed to catch the disc more tightly. I've had a bit of difficulty in the past with double jewel boxes but it was nothing like the experience I just had trying to wrench discs 1 and 2 from my new Oliver Nelson set.

Always loved this film. I first saw it on Cartoon Network, of all places, when I was 17 and it was an eye-opener.

So when does he permanently replace Schaap?

Handedness in my experience doesn't have much correlation with facility for an instrument. I think at least some of this is because the muscles required for playing are often very different from those used for grasping a fork or a pencil or throwing a baseball. I write, eat, and throw with my left hand but my right hand can play scales on the piano at a much, much higher level than my left.

Is there anything superior about the TCB release to this recent version, which appears to have the same material for a third the price? Besides the cover art, that is.

can't believe nobody has posted this one

Follow up to my question upthread: I got my order and can confirm that these look to be identical to the regular Sony/Columbia CDs that were previously going at higher prices. Thanks Jack!

The temperature must be really hot right now in NYC. The only time I ever see that many shirtless dudes is when I'm passing through the heart of the Castro. That montage was kind of the flip side of (Sorry for contributing to the spread of viral Levi's marketing.)

Does anybody know what the deal is with these "Sony Special Markets" CDs that are going for cheap? Here's an example: http://www.alibris.com/search/music/qwork/...0/used/Rosewood These are going for $5.99 a pop at Borders. But if it's some cheap piece o'crap or copy protected, I'd rather not pull the trigger.

Looks like you need to watch your "best before" dates. We let some Chinese Oolong go past its date and my wife said it was disgusting! We chucked the rest away. MG I'm aware that shelf life is an issue, especially for green or half-fermented teas. Oolong lasts about a year and this stuff was picked this past winter, so I have about 6 months to enjoy it. My guess is that the reason for the special deal was either that they couldn't move the tea sets fast enough (they are brown, which isn't the most attractive color) or that there was less American demand for this particular variety than the company expected.

Absurdly fancy Taiwanese winter oolong tea. My local premium tea store had a deal on it where they were giving you free tea sets if you bought a certain amount, so I sprung for it. The tea is pretty good, though not so much for everyday drinking!

Is Borders completely separated from Amazon now? I was planning on cashing in at Amazon with a Borders gift card + this coupon, only to find that the "new" Borders.com appears to have nothing to do with Amazon. Argghhh!

I as well. This board is bad for addicts and compulsive buyers.

This is $40 (half price) for the next hour at Amazon (it's a Gold Box deal). For that price, should someone who only has a handful of 50s/60s Ellington get this as a starting point for the 40s?

Of all the places I've lived, Boston is easily my favorite. It's expensive as HELL, though. If I could afford it, I'd move back in a heartbeat. Same here. I regret moving to this shithole. Are you serious? I mean, it's not like SF doesn't have its faults (annoying public transit, less than perfect jazz scene, no real summer, hippies) but I'd rather live here than 99% of America. Seriously tongue-in-cheek. I agree with you on the 99% thing, but it's no Boston. No summer? No FALL; no real SEASONS period! Lack of bookstores, shitty PBS affiliate, lack of trees, lousy library system...jazz scene, did you say? What jazz scene? I could go on, but I don't have all day. (And yet, the real estate here still costs MORE than Boston...go figure.) Lack of bookstores selling new books, maybe. The Mission is wall to wall with used books although I admit I haven't pored through them very thoroughly. City Lights stacks up pretty solidly against something like the Harvard Book Store. Public library systems in Boston and SF strike me as about the same...at least the branches I've visited, although maybe the main library in each makes the difference. I was spoiled from the university libraries anyway so any public library was a big step down. I hear you on the lack of trees, though. It definitely is a bit weird that all the trees are basically concentrated in parks and "undeveloped" parcels of land on hillsides. SF > Boston in terms of variety of good food. On a two-block stretch of 16th Street you get: 2 tapas restaurants, sushi, chinese, burgers, Breton-style crepes, 2 Indian-Pakistani joints, Vietnamese, Salvadoran, Thai, a taqueria, and a decent Italian restaurant. On the other hand, no pizza place with good and cheap slices exists anywhere in the city's 50 square miles...

Of all the places I've lived, Boston is easily my favorite. It's expensive as HELL, though. If I could afford it, I'd move back in a heartbeat. Same here. I regret moving to this shithole. Are you serious? I mean, it's not like SF doesn't have its faults (annoying public transit, less than perfect jazz scene, no real summer, hippies) but I'd rather live here than 99% of America.

GregM: We must torture the chicken and invade the coop, and those of you who don't understand why are clearly anti-Semites.

Yeah, this is kind of a weird attempt to compete with Free Cone Day yesterday at Ben and Jerry's. I guess the point is for branding purposes (to make sure people don't forget that Baskin-Robbins exists also)? Or maybe that if you want like 5 scoops you'll be happier with this than with Free Cone Day Anyway, I happened to pass by the Mountain View B-R's tonight and the line was around the block. Good thing the plan was to go to one of those newfangled frozen plain yogurt places instead. $5.00 for a medium with raspberries and mochi, but not half bad and way healthier.