Big Wheel

With the Euro so strong against the dollar, we'd just end up with Ipod-tourism--people in the Netherlands deciding to take a quick trip to the States to go shopping. It's starting to happen with other things already.

Larry David says in the commentary for the episode that he wrote it this way because he didn't think the show was coming back for another season and the NBC execs were pressuring him to bring in some romance. The weird part is that the 3rd season begins as if nothing ever happened, except for Jerry's conversation with his parents in "The Pen". Guy Yeah, I watched that part of the extras. You can tell that David was not at all comfortable with the idea. They did do a nice job adapting it to the general tone of the show with the "this, that, and the other" bit. Very well done.

I got seasons 1 and 2 as a gift awhile back but didn't start watching them until this month. I'm mostly familiar with the middle seasons, so there was a lot of new stuff for me. Very interesting was the last episode of season 2 where Jerry and Elaine start getting romantically involved again, not only because it never happened again in the series, but also for how that aspect of the story was pretty much gone entirely by the later seasons. You could watch all of season 5 or 6 and never realize that Jerry and Elaine had once been a serious couple.

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Seriously, what a dick. Didn't he know that Katie's all mine?

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Guys, just be thankful that they didn't have the Internet when most of you were college freshmen. I'll probably have nightmares 20 years down the road from some of the shit we made each other watch back then...

Out of all the record dates Alfred Lion had for Blue Note in 1955, only one person is playing tenor saxophone: Hank Mobley. (at least, I think--not sure if Gil Melle stuck to bari for his 1955 date. There were only 15 BN sessions that year, by my count.)

That's not a bad theory. My first and last name are both very common so it's not impossible that's what happened. The only other thing I can think of is that I misheard her when I thought she said my last name. Then it could have just been a regular wrong number. Also, it looks like there are three women in the Boston phone book by her name, so it's possible that the crazy story has nothing to do with this woman.

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Not much time to cook this week as I was out of town Tuesday night to Thursday, out Friday and at my relatives' Passover seder Saturday. Tonight I defrosted some bison I'd had for a while and threw it on the Foreman grill for a couple of minutes. Not bad, probably would have been better fresh and whacked a few times with a mallet to loosen it up a bit. Also made a really easy but good recipe for Swiss chard sauteed with leeks.

Would this be the best (or close to the best) introduction to Ayler?

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He plays (and I mean PLAYS) on two Tyner albums, Expansions and Extensions. He matches wits with Sam Rivers on Tony Williams's Spring. And he also shows up on a few albums by Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd. I'm sure I'm missing one or two other BN sideman appearances. Guy Only two, one of which was not released for quite awhile: Some Other Stuff and Lou Donaldson's Lush Life.

I'm just worried that this is some kind of identity theft thing. If it is, I'm not sure why they bothered to call my phone.

So I'm out and about this morning, get to the office (working on a Saturday ) , and see there's a missed call on my cell from an unfamiliar local number. I call the number back and ask if anyone called me, and the woman on the other end asks me for my name. I give my first name, but I'm almost positive I did not give my last name. Then this woman says "oh, [my last name]." Do you know Laurie Cunningham?" I don't. Then I hang up. The weird thing is that I then do a reverse lookup and google that person's name. A couple stories come up from a decade ago about a woman by that name from the area who was beaten by her husband, then had him killed by someone else, went to jail, and got out on parole. I've only had this phone for three months. AFAIK there is no directory with this number in it. How the hell did somebody get my number and name? Could this be a scam?

Don't forget the oeuvre of Lennie's obscure brother, Arr Niehaus.

I was only 6 when my grandma took me to the Automat on my first trip to NYC, and barely remember it, but do have a fond memory of heading to that HoJo's on my second trip about 10 years later.

Actually, it depends. Period yes, comma yes, question mark and colon, no. edit: I am wrong. It's actually even trickier. (LINK)

bullshit Actually, I thought about this afterwards for a while tonight, and I changed my mind. Apologies. I still don't think there are more than a tiny handful of gay people out there offended by the word "gaydar," though.