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Fucking cancer. Thanks for the link Aggie, one hell of a tribute. R.I.P.

Thank you! Great to be able to go to one of the horsey's mouths.

Okay, looks like I'm not going to be stalking her after all.

Have a great birthday, and many more!

You misread the quote about Oswald for Whitman there. Kubrik's marine sgt. wouldn't lie.

Don't you get it Dan? He's "The Rocket." He can travel through time. See, he doesn't need pharmaceutical help, as by traveling back & forth through time he knows what the batter will swing at and makes adjustments when he returns to the present. Or wait, is it the past for him? It gets awfully confusing when you have these powers and use, er, abuse them. He really had the whole thing down for his years in Toronto, but like Homer in that episode with the toaster, he swatted one too many mosquitos going back & forth and now his sense of time is completely shot. All of those retirements, and the examples you pointed out. It's really a shame.

I'd be interested. Could be a lot or if it's going to have links.

Nothing new to report for now, but as the last bit of news said May for the release, we may still be a month or so away from pre-order news. Earlier in the week I got an email from the Dead store with the word "limited" in the subject. My heart jumped, then I saw it was for a limited edition St. Patrick's Day stealie t-shirt. Boo hoo... Keep the faith!

Oooo, be careful ducking 1st sets entirely. Playing In The Band often ended the 1st set (such as on 7/19.) Sometimes the China>Rider and Weather Report Suites are tucked in at the end too of the 1st set too. And Bird Song is almost always a 1st set song too. If the goal is to hear the jams, I think you might want to be a little more precise with the scalpel. And as these aren't tapes, it's easy enough to do.

"Goin' Down, Catch Me A Woman." Whoa yeah! It's been too long since I gave this one a spin. This music will clean the cobwebs off the top of yer winders and mop the floor! (Oh shit, but I have carpeting...)

I clicked. I had to. Had to force quit the browser (Camino on a Mac) to get out of it. I guess enough time has passed and some hints have been dropped already, so... This is what you're missing. SAFE to click - it's a video linking to youtube.com I've noticed that linking to a safe version of this video is a popular response to dumb questions at the Hoffman site.

At best he's half the player Kirk is.

Feeling the "spark" is good, making music is good too! Good to have one of the good guys back.

But that's ALOT work to do. Remembered as acomposer or amusician, or as afresh breathmint with amagic ingredient known as retsin?

Don't touch the plate, it's very hot. OUCH!

Well, it's all relative, but only once did he crack the top 5 in his league in innings, though he did have 2 seasons over 230 IP. I don't consider barely making it over 200 to be "a horse." He also never cracked the top 5 in starts, though as you point out he has lead in complete games, albeit small numbers because of modern use of closers by managers. Given the shoulder injury he developed with less use than pitchers from the past I doubt he would have lasted long in the days of 4 man rotations when pitchers were supposed to finish. Not being a horse isn't so bad though. Livan Hernandez was a horse. I'd rather have an ace like Pedro! The above points by me are small stuff though. Pitching the way he did in Boston vs. the DH is insanely great, and his Montreal years get overlooked because he did it Montreal. The 3 years of injuries (2001, 2006-7) hurt him with career counting numbers as far as "the greatest" talk, but I would happily take him in my all-time starting 5 based on his ratios, especially when adjusted for the DH, ballpark, and the high scoring 'roid years.

Tough call. Walter Johnson & Lefty Grove both were outstanding, but whereas in jazz since we become familiar with recordings from long ago and might feel comfortable thinking that a guy from the '20s was the greatest trumpeter (if you're into ranking musicians), it's harder to in sports I think. Both of these guys just faced white guys, although Koufax didn't have to face as many players from other countries like current pitchers. Koufax had a great peak run once he moved to Dodger Stadium, but he also had the advantage of the higher mound and a by-the-book strike zone. How would he do with the more modern stupidly small strike zone, or conversely how would Pedro do back in the mid-60s? On the other hand Pedro has never been the big innings horse. Could he have gone 9 in the older way of playing the game? Does it matter if he couldn't have? (because it is almost criminally stupid how Koufax was abused.) I don't really believe he's the greatest, but my all-time favorite who I'd feel more than comfortable facing whoever you pick would be Bob Gibson. Killer attitude, the falling off the mound motion is my favorite (while wearing one of baseball's best looking uniforms), phenomenal postseason record, plus he could hit too (2 world series HRs in 3 series.) Easy enough to say Koufax, Seaver, Carlton & maybe Marichal were better amongst those who he pitched against at least part of his career, but go ahead, pick your best. No DH, so you might not want to pick Clemens.

Well, you'd better be a big Cab Calloway fan with that set. I need to go through the set sometime and figure out how to program it for those times when a little bit of Cab goes a long way. Um, which is most of the time... Sheeesh, I don't mean to come off anti-Mosaic, but it seems like my role here is to save you money!

There are a few different things you could do. 1)Is there a freecycle.org for your town? (I'd imagine Atlanta has one.) Essentially what it would do for you would let you post an ad that'd say "Free VHS tapes in cardboard box on my front porch" and spell out what you have, or however you'd like to arrange getting rid of them. Freecycle is way to unload a lot of stuff, or at least try. 2) Or if there's a craiglist, you could post something similar. Even try to sell them. 3) Google "yourtown" & "recycling," or whatever city or county agency handles disposal. Sometimes as long as you haul the items in they will handle items for recycling to keep them out of the landfill. Ours takes CDRs, plastics not handled by the hauler, etc. I have no idea if VHS tapes are broken down or not, but you could try calling (or checking their FAQ) and see. I'd try 1 or 2 above first though.

Good eye! I hadn't noticed the differences with the tiny online pictures I'd seen. I'm glad to see this get back into print and I plan on picking it up, as my Lowe is on cassette (a dead format for me.)

Whatya know? That's something else! Thanks for pointing that out. I see a nice earnings spike for cable companies this year as weirdos like me, who have been without cable by choice end up saying "sod it" and sign up.

Ah, okay, that changes things. You are only semi-successful in talking yourself out of buying Mosaic sets I see. The sound quality of the Hodges set is great by the way. It's a fine example of why Malcolm Addey has a cult-like following. Regarding Ellington, aside from the small group Back To Back and Side By Side, I'd recommend checking out Far East Suite &...And His Mother Called Him Bill. Aside from sounding more "modern" (they're from the mid-to-late '60s) they both contain some of Hodges's finest moments. I can't imagine a being a Hodges fan without them.

Hmm, I think it'd maybe make more sense to take a smaller bite of Hodges then the Mosaic, if you're not really an Ellington fan. Perhaps the Ellington & Hodges "Back To Back" would be more sensible, as it's not a big band setting (or Side By Side, though I like the other one more.) Or find a copy of Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges. Or maybe Passion Flower, a comp of material with & without the Ellington band that covers 1940-46 and can sometimes be found cheaply. I own & enjoy the Hodges Mosaic, but if you're looking for excuse not to spend the money, I just don't think taking that sort of plunge is for you based on what you've said. I suppose it's possible to love Hodges & not care much for Ellington, but as so much of his great playing is with the Duke, maybe it'd be more sensible & cost effective to check out some Ellington (w/ Hodges) from the library, just to see if it "clicks" for you.

Thanks, the coupon link Borders sent me didn't work.

The thing is that the used CDs at $4 to $9, while a better deal than new CDs at $12-17, are competing against free music too. $4 to $9 is still a whole lot more than free. I can't offer hard facts, but I can tell you I see a lot more "good stuff" in used racks then I did before burners. The Dylan '66, Costello Rhinos, Pavement reissues, Monk remasterd Columbias, sometimes large chunks of an artists catalog (such as Zappa) will pop up at one local store. It used to be a rare thing to find recent reissues in the racks, usually I'd just find the older issue when the newer reissue hit the market. Now honestly, anything goes. Whether it's due to increased CD theft & reselling because of lottery ticket addicts (just a joke vs. the local cops, who blame all theft on meth), or burners "flipping" discs, I can't tell you.