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It does if you get it from a good Vietnamese restaurant. In fact, you pretty much can't make good Southeast Asian food without using limes. (full disclosure: I voted lemon.)

Ok, I know I mentioned it in a thread of its own, but greazeheads and funkateers should really give a listen to this one: "Sweet Thang" positively drips with the greaze.

I'm also on Comcast. Thanks for sharing the info! Gmail seems to be working now, although not Google...

I've tested a bunch of sites...here are the working ones: Organissimo Newegg.com talkingpointsmemo.com ropeadope.com Dustygroove.com Aol.com (very slow)--BUT AOL Instant Messenger works fine Expedia.com ebay.com Those that don't work: Google/Gmail Yahoo/Yahoo Mail Amazon Any blogs on Blogger or Typepad CNN BBC News jimdye.com nytimes.com alldirect.com epicurious.com bluenote.com

In our apartment the 'Net has been weird today. Everything works with the wireless router and whatnot, but...Organissimo is one of the ONLY sites that I can access. Everything else times out without loading--Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and so on. Does anyone have any idea what's going on, or is having similar problems?

There are several ways that Concord could go: limited edition box sets, perhaps even signed by some of the surviving principals (Bud Shank, Scott Hamilton, Hank Jones); or "twofers"; or complete sessions with alternates. Instead we get bullshit. Don't these marketing whizzes know who buys this stuff? I suspect not. I wonder if they think that compilations are a kind of compromise: casual fans get their "best of," and the true fanatics at least get something rather than nothing. They don't realize that for most of us, having a compilation is little better than having nothing. We're more likely to already have much of the material, anyway.

Certainly I'm not surprised either by the shutdowns, though I'll admit to being a bit disappointed--you could amass in weeks a collection that took the old elite collectors years. While I definitely don't feel entitled to the possession of that material, I still wish that I could hear it. To me it comes down to how you define "provide." Easytree did not host the material. It only created a space where it was easy for you to connect to other people who had the material. The programs on your computer and those people's computers did all the trading. Moreover, the registration requirement added a degree of privacy to the whole business, although you could certainly argue that there wasn't very much of it.

The problem is that these sites are BitTorrent trackers, and are never even in possession of the material at hand. They only serve as meeting places. Some things there are completely legit and authorized. Some aren't. People here use the PM system all the time, I'm sure, for facilitating the trading this kind of stuff. Is that an argument for shutting the whole board down? If not, then what is the difference that would make this site "legit" and BitTorrent tracker sites "not legit"?

That sucks. They were incredibly strict about what could be seeded--I'm pretty sure they banned a few things that were OK under their own rules.

Some sick Booker T and Cropper on a few tracks of this one: Soul Mission

Stones Throw Records is mentioning that they are planning on releasing a "complete anthology" of the Stark Reality albums. Does anyone have any info on when this is coming out, and on what formats? (The description on their web page is vague--I can't understand if it's going to be 2 LPs, 2 CDs, or both.)

Very true, and it wasn't even that long ago. Didn't one of the very early Simpsons episodes feature Bart throwing a cherry bomb down the john?

D'oh! I forgot I met (the other) Adam when he came to Boston for his 10th reunion! Great guy.

I think they were taken at various times. The shots of my old street in Miami have much more realistic colors than the ones of Massachusetts. (Or maybe the Massachusetts ones were shot in autumn, and that's why everything seems to be brown.)

Just think, when they upgrade to "Google Pentagon Satellite Maps" we'll all be able to read our own license plates...

Glad you're ok. Clearly the kid needs to be dealt with seriously, but this sentence from the article sure did strike me as dumb: You know we've reached a new low in bureaucratic language when "learning" becomes "the school process."

86--though I may live a good deal longer, as one of my four great-grandmothers lived to be 93 and the other on that side made it to 107...

I think I may have chatted briefly on the phone with Michael Weiss when I was the jazz director at my college radio station. Usually I got all these calls to check on airplay from people whose CDs were complete dreck, and I remember being surprised to get a call from someone whose album I actually enjoyed...

Oh yeah, we Easterners are REAL friendly. I didn't mention that the Dmitry thing was a complete coincidence--neither knew the other would be there until a review of the show/CD was posted on the board. shrugs and I got in touch before the William Parker show and planned to meet, but he left at intermission (the show kinda sucked) and we didn't manage to spot each other before that point. He had to drive all the way home from Boston to somewhere in Connecticut, I believe, so pretty understandable not to waste time getting home... As for Marla...I think I was in a hurry to split, maybe?

Hardly. I've met: JazzKitten (rarely posts these days) Trumpet Guy (see above) Kevin B Jazzshrink Stereojack In fact, ran into Kevin and Jazzshrink as I was heading out of Stereo Jack's two weekends ago! I may have also briefly met makpjazz57 (Marla) at an Eric Alexander show at Scullers a couple years back--I think Kevin and Rob introduced us, but am not 100% sure. And shrugs and I were at the same William Parker/Marshall Allen/Kidd Jordan show about 4 years ago, but didn't see each other...and possibly the same thing happened with Dmitry at the Andrew Hill "Beautiful Day" Birdland shows.

Bumping this up as I picked up a sixpack of Sapporo today in Somerville and discovered to my surprise that the bottles, and probably also those big silver cans, are brewed in Canada! This has been going on for the last couple of years as Sapporo entered into an agreement with the Canadian brewery Sleeman's. Also, Kirin, it turns out, is brewed somewhere in the States. I guess the Japanese breweries are trying to either save on transport costs or are worried that too much of the stuff gets skunked during shipping.

Before I clicked on this thread, I assumed it was about Star Jones's recent nuptials.

Only heard Future 2 Future once through, in the library, but was pleasantly surprised by it. I think Laswell really makes this one a success. Definitely lots of electronic stuff going on, but it's still rooted in the blues.

Or maybe the first led Zeppellin Pope, John Paul Jones I I think I agree with George Carlin on this one: It's time for a Pope Corky. Pope Corky IX. "I think they'd have to skip straight to nine to give him a little credibility, don't you?"

A buddy who is an excellent jazz guitarist loves speed metal and is in awe of some of the lines the guitarists come up with. He particularly likes Slayer.