Big Wheel

No need for me to dirty my nails......our guys own the 'box' companies and the software has already been pre-programmed, remember???? Guess yer again in '08. Wheel, if you're right about 836 W., I'll never say 'Cambridge' again. B-) Gracias. That's assuming there is no construction or anything (which there could well be, it's been awhile). The Palmetto (826) to 874 to the Turnpike may be a workable alternative, and less distance. Taking US1 from the Palmetto, though, is a bad idea even if it's a shorter distance.

Midday, maybe 2.5 hours, IIRC. Rush hour going south...by the time you get back there won't be any voting to tamper with. Google maps says only 1 hour 38 minutes but I think that could be a big underestimate, especially if there is traffic on the highway on the way to Largo. I would budget at least 2 hours. PS: take 836 West to the Turnpike. You'll thank me later. PPS: don't forget to feed the tarpon.

The story as I've read it in at least two different sources says that Wes picked up the guitar shortly after getting married (at age 19). Wonder where that story got started. Maybe that was his first attempt to learn six-string guitar?

I think it's mainly that they are running out of sessions in the vaults to issue, but like the idea of having "regular" and "limited edition" product lines. Since they'd rather not rebrand the Connoisseur series as something else, the Connoisseur line just becomes shorthand for "titles we don't think will sell very well." If they restricted themselves to things that hadn't been issued on domestic CD before, it would be a tricky business to release the Hope as a limited edition that wasn't part of their Connoisseur brand. (FWIW, I would have much preferred that the Hope have come out as an RVG!)

Didn't Wes Montgomery pick up the guitar as an adult?

I guess over 95% must be turned off by your posting record of being an abrasive dickhead. I know I was when you approached me a couple of years back about some Jaco tapes I had played on the radio.

BTW, if WHRB ever decides to run a Bill Stewart or Larry Goldings orgy (in which they try to play the artist's complete works, if possible), you can bet that I'll be sending them a copy of this one...

I love the Bill Stewart quote in the blurb:

Hank, would it be possible to post the OJCs from that list here? I changed my address recently and don't currently receive Mosaic flyers and catalogs.

I am pretty sure he was not blind. His struggles with mental illness, however, are fairly well-documented.

Most if not all of them. Phineas is a bad MF. I would perhaps go for Roy Haynes's "We Three" first.

It looks like you can't do this yet via Google Maps. My advice: bring up a map of the area, print the screen and save the map in an image editing program, and then manually place Xs or stars or numbers or whatever to denote your locations. (By "manually" I mean "using the program to make changes to the image.") Then print out a bunch of copies of your map. You can also paste the pic into an MS Word document and annotate it that way.

The guy us obviously delusional. You'd be surprised. When I went to Thailand last summer all any Thai kid who came up to me wanted to know was if I liked Linkin Park. Granted, this may have been because Linkin Park had played Bangkok only a couple weeks prior and they go crazy about any American act that comes through Thailand, but still...

Tonight: Curryburgers! Mix some leftover Thai green curry paste with ground beef, throw on Foreman grill, stuff into pita pocket (I can't get enough of that Middle Eastern bread). Couscous with pine nuts on the side. Easy! Now if anyone has any other inspired ideas of what to do with some two-month-old curry paste, I'd love to hear them...

It depends. With the Blue Note sets I'm far more likely to base my judgment on what I've heard already of the artists than on a trust factor. But after thinking about it, the trust thing defninitely factored into my decision on the Tristano-Konitz-Marsh box and the Atlantic New Orleans box. If I've never heard anything of a player and their Mosaic is going OOP, chances are the opinions of certain people on the board who largely share my taste are going to carry more weight than the trust factor.

If memory serves, Bromberg was on a lot of smooth crapola well before the albums you mention. The leader dates may be more the exception than the rule.

Haitian, more likely.

I can't play the above game from Firefox, although IE has no problems. (I can play other Flash games in Firefox.) Anyone know why?

We're talking about the marching band here.

Have been dipping my toe into South Asian dishes, starting with the simpler ones. Tonight: homemade masoor daal (orange lentils mixed with onions--in this case, leeks--a little tomato, garlic, and toasted cumin). Mixed it with some leftover Indian rice (one of the roommates had gotten takeout a couple days back) and some kind of pita-like bread. I think it was Syrian bread but I'm not sure. Whatever it was, it was dirt cheap and good.

Anyone seen them live? They are playing Boston next Saturday and I'm debating going...

Is it not as terrible if he does it at 3:00 in the afternoon?

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Why fly to to the US when you can just drive a half hour or so to another Euro-zone country to shop? You would think that iPod sales in the Netherlands would just disappear for this reason. I was under the impression that th iPod is already much more expensive in all of Europe than in the US, regardless of surcharge.