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From your town & mine, Happy Birthday! Hope the newly arrived summer is treating you well.

YEOW! That's a blast from the past! I'm really starting to love this trend of digging out shows that were too good for TV and slapping them on to DVD. indeed!

Of all things it's up there already: John Coltrane - Live Trane Underground Disc 11 (Reseed) John Coltrane - Live Trane Underground Disc 12 (Reseed)

Aside from asking the good foodie folks here there's a site called roadfood.com that can be good to look through. There are forums for BBQ, sandwiches, and so on, along with a "Where Should I Eat" forum devoted to people wanting to know the best eats for various cities and drives. The site was started by the Sterns who have written guidebooks on road food and also write a column for Gourmet. Most of the site is free though there is a subscriber section as well. I don't visit it that often anymore as reading about the finer hot dogs, pizza and BBQ in other parts of the country can make this Oregon boy wanna cry. Oh well, we do have great beer here to drown our sorrows in!

Got individual pictures of the women's and men's team here. The men's is on the following pages. You can go one at a time to see the name & event associated with each photo by placing your mouse over it (but don't click.) This trick doesn't seem to be working for my browser but I'm not using IE.

DVD Beaver says... Image: Elite Millennium & Elite Collectors - tie Sound: Fox Extras: Elite Millenium See the site for more detail. It's graphic intensive so even on a high speed connection it can take some time to load.

Very reliable. I've used them a few times for previous OJC runs. Helpful Hint : To see if the disc you're after is in stock click "(CD Info)." I haven't ordered from alldirect in a few months, but I know* at least a few OJC titles that were out of stock last time are now in stock. *I have an alldirect OJC spreadsheet that I use to plan my orders.

That's a heck of a program line up they've killed! I've been renting Firefly and have been told about Wonderfalls by a few friends. I loved The Tick & Andy Richter but probably missed a few episodes. So The Tick is a great DVD idea for now with an eye out for Andy later. As it's rare that I try more than one new show a season I started to take these cancellations very personally. I find it interesting that a cancelled show (Firefly) ends up having a movie made (out in autumn I believe) with the possibility of 2 more after that if that one does well. Ah, the power of the internet I guess.

The Bob Newhart Show Season 1 South Park Season 3 Looney Tunes Golden Collection 2 On the way: Rocky & Bullwinkle Season 1 Lonesome Dove (The 1st mini-series. For $7 what the heck.) I resisted buying I, Claudius during the big deepdiscountdvd sale. As much as I love it I can rent it instead as I'd rather spend the $ towards another Mosaic.

I think the travelling/charges by Manu are offset by the travelling/double dribbles by Hamilton (and vice versa.) It's long been a given that certain players are allowed an extra step, but sometimes it's just silly out there.

I just have the last three titles (well, I have "other" too). Sun Ship & First Meditations were neck and neck but First finished first. Somehow I picked up a fair bit of pre-'65 and post but I missed the other titles on the list.

Wernher von Braun. Wait...I mean Tom Lehrer!

Yeah! I was just listening to the radio show package that I plucked off of the Dime last night. Lucky you!

I think Pink Floyd should have gone this route rather than dive right into Live8.

GOOD! On to Mosaic or Dusty Groove then...

After 12 business days I received word today that all but 1 disc are shipping. So it looks like the package will arrive right around my birthday. Not bad at all! Hmm, so that sale is still going on ya say...

As my friend found out after I played a few of Lehrer's songs (I had 3 albums to pick from) a couple of days later. Which is exactly what my friend said afterwards. Yet another thing Lehrer does better than Russell. Math!

I knew the words to this song & "Pollution" when I was 5. Didn't completely understand "Vatican Rag" at that age, but I knew the lyrics nonetheless. That Was The Year That Was is still my favorite for those songs and "National Brotherhood Week" and "Wernher Von Braun." Oh hell, "So Long Mom I'm Off To Drop The Bomb" too, and... When telling someone about Lehrer one time the person interrupted and said "Oh, you mean like Mark Russell." I nearly bit the person's head off for trying to associate Mark Russell with Tom Lehrer.

There's an outside chance you might like England Dan & John Ford Coley. England Dan's real name is Dan Seals, brother of the Seals in Seals & Croft. I believe brother Jim Seals even played on an album or two of theirs. Probably Nights Are Forever is where to begin your audition. Or perhaps a greatest hits package. They ruled the AM airwaves with Seals & Croft around the same time.

I've found a couple of boo-boos so use at your own risk. For the 2nd disc of the Champs-Elysees set there's what appears to be a transcription error. The online site has Andre Ekyan playing on "Swing 42" when he doesn't. He does play on the next song "Vega Blues." On "Vega Blues" they forget to include the drummer Arthur Motta. Might be the only errors for all I know, but there you have it.

Even though so far I'm just getting 1 of 11 and not getting any feedback about the rest, I'm thankful for the sales notice. I'm patient so if it takes them a month I don't mind given the price, and there are plenty of other discs on my hunting list that I can go after while the status of the ones being processed is (somewhat) uncertain. It is reassuring to know that they've done alright by others in the past. I imagine with the free spenders at this site and probably a few other places that they got hit hard.

Still haven't received an e-mail from J & R, but I noticed just 1 of the 12 I ordered is shipping. All the others are still being processed. (Everything was an OJC btw.) Kinda interesting how some here are getting e-mails and partially cancelled orders, while others are still being processed and not getting feedback e-mails. I guess I can be patient, just sorta strange when you see how differently people's orders are being handled.

Sounds like a delightful souvenir of the show I saw (well, while I don't know where the songs were recorded it'll work as such.) I wondered what the song titles were. I have an order I need to add to so I'll add this to it. Good timing!

My understanding is that if you are the type who: 1) invests a great deal of time & money in your stereo system or 2) buys a lot of Japanese discs and is obsessed with finding the very best sound then you may have a problem with the sound on at least part of the set. However, even amongst people with these traits many say that the music is so good and as it's hard (or you can't) find it elsewhere you need to have the set. If you're less inclined to hear flaws in the recording/mastering process or you don't own special speaker wire or interconnects then I think it just comes down to how big your wish list is along with your wallet. For the record I don't have it but it moves around in my mental Mosaic queue. It's either 3 or 4 at the moment. P.S. - Regarding types 1 & 2: "Not that there's anything wrong with that."

Same here. Still processing, no e-mail from them. Oh well, at least today some fuller priced OJCs arrived from CD U (I threw 'em in for myself as I was ordering a Jazz In Paris box for a gift.) In honor of the Byrd/Adams going last chance (already have it!) I now (finally) have Pepper's 10 to 4 at the 5 Spot. And 2 Coleman Hawkins. 1 is Soul, which at first I was kicking myself for forgetting it is/was supposed to be released as a K-2, but I guess a regular edition in hand beats a hypothetical upgrade in the bush.