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I'm fairly certain the trombonist (who played the solo) is Urbie Green.

Am I Ma?

Lots of great berries at the store lately- I made a blueberry cobbler last week that was damn tasty. I've never been much of a baker but it was pretty simple. I tell ya, sometimes it's hard to get excited about cooking for just one but I do enjoy my various projects.

Clean-out-the-fridge soup: Slow-cooker beef thrown in a pot with onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, asparagus, corn, green beans, worcestershire sauce and various seasonings. I'll eat off that for awhile.

HBV!

I think the indirect grilling method keeps them from cooking too quickly (as opposed to cooking them right over the coals). The marinade shouldn't burn much unless it drips directly on the coals. If there's a sugar-based sauce it goes on right at the end and for a very short time, just long enough to carmelize.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! So will 40 minutes on the grill make the skin crispy? That's the critical issue w/chicken wings IMO.

I noticed lots of long lines at gas stations today, people are anticipating price hikes and shortages due to Ike. I heard someone on the radio say this "panic" was mostly consumer-driven; prices may go up for awhile, but that there were no significant shortages anticipated.

Good luck to all. Prepare for the worst & hope for the best. I'm watching the Weather Channel and it looks like the tropical wind warnings extend all the way through Dallas to the Oklahoma border. I'm afraid this may get nasty.

Hey, that pen is cool! And that handwriting & those drawings are beautiful. Artistic handwriting seems to be a disappearing art. Geez, Chris- all I ever find in my closet is CRAP!

Are you going anywhere Agg? Even though it's going to hit north of you are you expecting any extreme nastiness in Corpus?

I just ordered a few things from Daedalus- The Parisian Jazz Chronicles (Mike Zwerin) Reminiscing with Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake (Kimball/Bolcom) The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland (Crist/Shirley)

Very cool, Jim. What a sweetheart! Interesting to see her so young and with little grasp of the language. I've had the opportunity to cross paths with her several times over the years and she is still a sweet lady. Playing her charts though, now THAT'S a bitch! Would have liked to hear her throw down w/Steve Allen!

Is that code or something?

Oh yeah, I remember that one now. Yes, it gave me some nightmares for sure. Very creepy.

Standing in line for plywood at Lowe's. Life doesn't any better'n that, eh? Well, try to have some fun while you're out of town. Perhaps a visit to Mi Tierra in San Antone, or perhaps an Austin hang with Lon, Shawn, SS or any other Texas Orgamaniacs. If you're not too busy hunkerin' down, that is! And yes, all the best to anyone else in the path of Ike, hopefully the MF will blow through with minimum impact.

Looking like Ike may be a problem, Agg! Think you're going to clear out for a bit? Thinking good thoughts for ya, bro.............

Those Gil charts are really fascinating- you can see where many of the concepts (instrumentation for one) of the Birth of the Cool and other future Miles projects were being developed. The charts Gil did on the Bird tunes were amazing- as new as those tunes were at that point, Gil seemed to have digested them thoroughly and come up with his own interpretation. Even his early projects had that highly developed harmonic, melodic and rhythmic vocabulary. The Thornhill band was way too hip (and big!), that's probably why they weren't as commercially successful as some of the other bands.

Not at all, I got it on sale.

Oh, almost forgot......"National Vulva"

The human/horse sex scene. Did you miss that? I have that one on DVD- it's an equine double feature, "My Friend Fucka" and "Mr. Head".

I read several of the named books, mostly in high school and college. I will admit to liking Stephen King, Dean Koontz and the Harry Potter books (although I kind of lost interest as the latter series progressed). Also love Vonnegut and Mark Twain. Tried but couldn't get into Faulkner. There are lots of titles there I should have but haven't yet read. Oh well...... My "formative" years consisted mostly of this kind of thing: I won't be curing any diseases or discovering time travel anytime soon.

Someone had better check on Conn.

Go git it Joe!