Big Wheel

Bummer. According to the Sapporo USA website they discontinued the export of Yebisu to the US at some point. They recommend Sapporo Reserve as a substitute. Ah well, I'll just have to pay a visit to Japan sometime and give it a shot...

That thing is only 121 pounds?? Judging by its sheer size I would have guessed it to be about 200-300.

Perry is a nasty MF with a very distinctive sound. He has several solos on the last few Maria Schneider albums. Also have dug his playing on his own Steeplechase records.

While I haven't heard 27th Man yet, and would probably pick the Prisoner if I was buying for myself, I think given Scott's affinity for the grease he might want to pick up the Silver first.

Er, I don't think Mike meant anything by it. Switzerland IS far tidier than just about any other country I've seen (with a possible exception of Singapore). I didn't visit the Italian parts when I was there but it was very interesting taking a day-trip from Brig, Switzerland (mostly German-speaking I think) across the border to Domodossola, Italy. It was ASTONISHING how much dirtier the Italian town was, considering it's just over the border.

I don't want to demean Chuck's expertise here, but does anyone have any solid evidence of imminent mass deletions? I'm a bit squeezed for cash at the moment and don't really want to plunk down a few hundred bucks with only an educated guess to go on. Has anyone here talked to anyone at Fantasy about what might happen?

Yikes! Is it just me, or is Gene Harris a dead ringer for an older Alan Keyes?

That's because it costs $15 for a burger in freakin' TGI Friday's in Times Square. Yecch!

I tend to get mine at the local Pep Boys. Wait, that's Valvoline. Never mind.

Probably because of the apostrophe in the email address, or maybe it was just too long. You don't have to actually enter an email (I realized this too late...hope he doesn't sell mine to spammers).

Sure, what's the name you posted it under?

I think I read somewhere that alt-Prt Scrn captures only the active window being used, not the whole screen. (In this case, either would be ok as long as the whole image was visible on the screen.)

Hm, that's strange. If you use a Windows PC you should have a "Print Screen" key right above your "insert" and "delete" keys and next to the "F12" key on your keyboard.

Is the problem that the file is too big? You may have to make sure the pic is a jpeg before posting as a .bmp file is likely to be over the 100KB limit. You can do this in MS Paint (assuming you have a PC) by going to "save as" and changing the type to jpeg.

You can post it by doing a screen capture (pressing Print Screen, which copies a screenshot to the clipboard). Then either just post the whole image or crop your mug with some image editing software. Then attach it to your post. You can see the saved ones by clicking "load image" from the right-hand menu.

Here's mine and the original I was working with. My art skills are pathetic.

I'm in awe of how accurate Jim's and Chuck's are. I couldn't even get mine close to a likeness.

Which is exactly why it would fit right in with Jim's tastes! Seriously, that was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about a mixture of sweetness and onion/garlic-like flavors.

I wonder if the blowing changes on the Unity version are different. I played through it tonight and it doesn't really remind me of the one in my head (I'd just sit down and transcribe the damn thing, but my copy of the album is sitting at home about 1000 miles away right now...) OTOH, maybe Larry is just playing some funky voicings...

Jim-- You, sir, would probably love durian. If you have any Asian markets in your area, see if they ever have them.

Thanks! Is that for both the head and the blowing? There sure seems to be some wacky stuff going on around bars 4-5 of the head.

Yes, but log files show that there are not all that many inquiring minds about that actually click to read the rest of the article. Just one of the many problems. Fair enough, but fair use is fair use, at least in the US. I don't see how this argument is much different from arguing that using quotes in scholarly journals and books leads to declining sales of the quoted books and back issues of periodicals. You can't write with sources very effectively if you can't show people the parts of the sources that are relevant to the point you are making.

I was under the impression that most bloggers usually don't lift entire stories for posting. Rather, they usually will quote a paragraph or three and provide a link. This at least seems close to fair use. But I don't frequent Kos that often, so I've never really seen what they do.

Anyone know the changes? This tune has always intrigued me.

I haven't heard all of We Three but that version of After Hours IS essential. Phineas is baaaaad.