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I don't know. I suspect not, but I'll probably offer anyway the next time I come in.

Sounds like getting the job might revolve around your answer to that question. That is what I'm afraid of...I'm writing my follow-up email right now and have no idea what the hell to say. What if he thinks my opinion is totally bullshit?

I'm currently interviewing at this small firm downtown. It's sort of a long drawn-out process, but I'm nearing the end of it. Not what I thought I'd be Doing With My Life, but it seems an engaging and friendly enough place to work for a while. Today I got to interview with the president of the company. I'd sort of heard from the other people that he was a jazz fan, but for all I knew his collection could have been mainly Boney James with Kind of Blue and Time Out thrown in for yuppie cachet. So I walk in to his office and the first thing I see is a framed print of the No Room For Squares cover, with prints of Herman Leonard photos on the other wall. Also Herbie's autograph, framed. I had mentioned my jazz experience on my resume, so after a couple of minutes the conversation turned to that. First of all, this may have been the fastest-talking individual I have met in my entire life. And he's firing questions at me like what I think of George Coleman! (Apparently a very big Maiden Voyage fan.) When I tell him that one of my favorite piano players is Monk, he asks me what my favorite Monk record is...then heads to his cabinet and hands me a sealed copy of Monk's Dream. "Go listen to the solo on "Bye-Ya" and tell me what you think." I guess it went ok...going back in next week for the final round of interviews.

I'm going to depart from my usual no-pissing-on thread rule and say who fucking cares? I'm even sicker of hearing about this than I was with OJ. People kill each other every damn day. If they don't do it in some spectacular or innovative way, they don't deserve my goddamn attention.

Women hate the word. George Carlin referred to it along with "piss" as the two that women simply refuse to say. My theory is that any English word whose only vowel(s) are a short "u" is going to be seen as at least a little gross. For example: "butt," "crust", and "butt-crust."

But were any of them allowed to hang out in the Red Sox clubhouse?

(religion)-(morality)+(materialism)^2+(jazz)+(classical)+(.5prog)=?? maybe I should have made the materialism an exponential?

It's not just that she has no talent, it's that she has no talent, no stage presence, and blames the band for it. Having played with a couple of nightmarish singers who don't have any respect for the band behind them, I completely understand the sentiment behind any vitriol directed at her. Actually, this isn't the first time I've seen butchery like this out of the Simpson family. (No, I'm not referring to OJ.) In 2000 I was at Disney World for my high school's "Grad Night" and Jessica Simpson was performing outside Cinderella's castle. One of us (notmenotmenotmeIswear) really wanted to go see the show for some reason, so we headed over just in time to hear a tape start and a well-amplified squeal of "Stop the tape!!" from backstage. I think there may have been vocals on that tape, too.

Dan, I think that was a joke. Though what country are you IN now, Bebop?

Does Waters of March have any such lyrics?

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp (scroll down a bit)

Good point, Jim. I looked it up and despite throwing that no-hitter, Brown lost Games 2 and 6 of the World Series that year (though the Marlins eventually won in a huge Game 7, maybe one of the best ever).

Harold Mabern on most anything from the '80s/early '90s

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The always charming NY Post

Newsday's column

http://www.nydailynews.com/ The cover says it all. Columns are just under it.

BTW, in fairness to Kevin Brown, he did pitch a no-hitter in '97, with the Marlins.

For me this doc was interesting for the non-musical content, that is, how it shows that Woody Allen is EXACTLY like his persona in his films--constantly neurotic. Also interesting were the scenes with him and Soon-Yi. How does that woman put up with him?

And Jazz Corner now has Stanley Crouch being very defensive re "Mr. Marsalis," and embracing troll Rob Damen, who has a crush on all things Marsalis that equals Heaney's. Check it out! AFAIK there is only one Crouch post on JC. Am I missing any? It almost looks like he just emails the admin, who posts for him. I hereby announce my endorsement of the Stanley Crouch "flypaper strategy." The more he is allowed to post 2000-word bloviations on Jazz Corner, the less time he has to pen articles for sources I might happen to read.

No, not that one. I'm talking about the one where they ask Sox fans what they'd give up for World Series tickets. Maybe that commercial is only airing in the New England area?

3 1/3 innings and the Yankees are already on their third pitcher. I'm still not relaxing just yet.

Off topic, but does anyone know who's playing that New Orleans-type music in that Mastercard commercial they keep playing during the telecast?

It was pretty clear that his view of the whole play was obscured by Mankewiecz. I guess he saw the ball flying out of the glove and made the ruling based on that, assuming Rodriguez had touched the bag.