Big Wheel

Might as well update as well while the thread is bumped up... Gillette is off my shit list. I got my brand new electric toothbrush in the mail last week.

How lean is it? I was eating Buffalo for while because it was so much leaner than Cow, but someone else discovered it at the market and the bin is always empty. ← Extremely. It's 98% lean, which is supposedly 2/3 less fat than steak, if the ostrich industry's spin is to be believed...you have make it really rare though (2-3 minutes on a side) so that it doesn't dry out.

Smoking Section, huh? That is some nasty shit...I caught the end and was trying to follow all the meter changes...

Picked up a couple of ostrich filets on sale the other day and sauteed them in a little olive oil Saturday and Sunday. Seasoning: garlic, kosher salt, pepper, and ground thyme. Put some plain yogurt mixed with fresh mint on the side and added a mixed green salad with oil and vinegar. I had never had ostrich before. It's unbelievable--maybe on par or slightly better than the best steak I've ever eaten.

I'm not sure I would be so quick to recommend Dell. I see them as the best in a pretty bad field, for the most part. The machines generally work fine but their customer service is mediocre at best. They also try to push their BS "Dell Finance Plan" on you by discounting the price slightly. It can seem like an attractive option if you already have all the cash set aside (who wouldn't pass up the chance to get an easy $50-100 off the price, if you know interest rates aren't going to be a factor?) but it can also be much more trouble than it's worth. When you sign up for this thing you end up dealing with a third party that handles the finance end--and they're even harder to deal with than Dell if something goes wrong. There have been horror stories. My own experience with them is actually pretty good, but that's because Dell's incompetence resulted in my ending up with a free computer.

Does seeing the gig live count?

Prompted by the K2/SACD thread in the reissues forum, I thought I'd start a thread on the sonics of the various K2 series titles. I'm considering buying a bunch of (domestic) K2s, and while they're only a couple more bucks than the regular OJC CDs, I figured I might as well not spend more money if the sonic benefit is only marginal. So, which K2s are a big step up? And which ones are worse or at least not significantly better than their OJC counterparts?

Good to know. I bought a Seagate a few months back on Uncle Skid's recommendation and it's been working fine...keeping my fingers crossed. Sorry you've had such a hassle!

A = fucking A, man. Danielle Steel ain't all that in Boston, huh? ← Of course not. Why would you bother to dig into someone else's fantasy when you have so many strapping, hot young men like me up here?

Doubtful...they're vegetarians in the wild. Plus, they have no teeth. Speaking of big, toothless fish, did you ever end up feeding the tarpon?

Welcome to the weird world of pompous, anal retentive grown-ups at college radio stations... Part of me feels that there's actually something a little unhealthy about this particular species - sorta like the high school teacher whose major reason for teaching is that he never really grew out of the high school mentality. It's more than a little creepy, IMO.

I do, and trust me, it will be good. Robert held down the piano chair in my high school band two years before me. Even at age 17, he was sick. I'm not sure, but I think that version of the band may have included the Rodriguez brothers on trumpet and piano and E.J. and Marcus Strickland on drums and tenor.

Eh? The managerial "staff" all went on summer break? Nice work if you can get it... or should I invoke a less "out" tune? ← Not uncommon at student-run stations. At WHRB, they run automated loops almost all summer long. Lately people have been getting lazy and just been reusing old loops from previous holiday breaks. (Fortunately, I think I put Organissimo on one of those old loops, so it's quite possible that Joe, Jim, and Randy are in heavy rotation all summer.)

Some people have too much time on their hands...

I haven't heard all of these but I have a hard time taking seriously any list that doesn't include the original version of "Pursuance."

Sorry I couldn't make it by yesterday - was moving all day and was stymied by a futon that just wouldn't come apart. Will try to check the book out, though!

A big ol' pile of OJCs: Jimmy Woods: Conflict Walt Dickerson: To My Queen Hampton Hawes: The Trio Vol. 1 Sonny Criss: Sonny's Dream Roy Haynes: We Three Bobby Timmons: Trio in Person Hal Singer: Blue Stompin' Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound As much Jaki Byard as I can get my hands on

My understanding of it was that it's more carrot than stick: that the celebrities don't have to do most of the expensive garbage that Scientology demands of its followers in exchange for being public faces of the cult that people can admire. But I could be wrong about this. Oh yeah, wasn't Chick Corea's Scientology proselytizing at least partly to blame for the breakup of Circle?

More proof that I hung out with the wrong crowd in college... The Scientology people still have tables set up at the entrance to the Harvard Square T stop every few days. I've often thought it would be very entertaining to stand next to the guy who holds up the "FREE STRESS TEST" sign with an identical-looking sign of my own that reads "CRAZY GREEDY CULTISTS" and has an arrow pointing toward the table.

And I think the place I spotted was somewhere downtown between City Hall and SoHo. So that makes at least 3 of this kind of place, and I'm almost sure there are more.

After posting or doing a search query, I get the "please stand by" page as usual, except the redirect to the next page is either really slow or isn't working at all. Everything works fine by clicking the "click here if you do not wish to wait" button, but kinda strange. Is it possible I accidentally enabled something in Mozilla that blocks the redirection? Edit: just posted and it didn't happen again. Weird...

NYC, for some reason, has a bunch of hot dog/juice bar joints, usually with papaya juice. My buddy told me I had to check out Gray's Papaya, and then I spotted at least one or two other places with the same thing. Is this just a New York phenomenon? (apologies for being slightly OT)

Leftover crapola week continues with: One Hebrew National beef frank (with Gulden's brown mustard) Pakistani orange lentils (with, uh, Embasa brand salsa instead of fresh tomatoes and garlic and chiles) Couscous...maybe with some coriander stirred in? Update: interestingly enough, the daal with salsa actually came out tasting pretty good, much to my surprise. I guess I haven't been putting enough tomato in in past versions (though I'm not sure even that would help, given how crappy most American fresh tomatoes are...)

That reminds me: fuck Tonic and the Knitting Factory. ← That bad? I've never been to either but didn't realize that they had a bad reputation.

Uh....rice and napa cabbage. And some bok choy. It's about all I've got left! Tomorrow I'm going to work on the leftover couscous.... I'm not sure where I got my Depression-era mentality. Some days I think I was born about 80 years too late...