Dan Gould

Have never heard of a call from the CIA. I think I would have had fun by challenging them that if they are the CIA, they must know all my details anyway. Or at least give them a fake name like Thelonious Monk or Sun Ra (the latter even better give them an address with city "Moons of Saturn" or something like that.)

The Red Sox are officially helpless, hapless and hopeless. It only took about 7 weeks longer for them than it did for the Cubs. I have nothing left to watch except to see that the Yankees crash and burn in October and while its probably likely, its by no means a sure thing.

Cool!

I don't ever see The Good Life, with Hank Jones, mentioned, but I have always been partial to that one. https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Stitt-With-Hank-Jones-Trio-Good-Life/master/842189

The only thing I find appealing is the cover art.

Sorry to hear about this Tom, I am glad that there are decent options. You may look into elder care service companies - after a fall a couple of months ago that broke a rib, we (meaning my sister) finally convinced my mother to move into an assisted living facility. She needed essentially 24 hour care at the house to make sure she didn't fall again and the two factors were that she hated having people "hovering" around her, and the realization that she could net $300,000 more than she paid in 2013, and possibly more (and she paid cash at the time), due to the current market and the popularity of her development. My sister handled the whole thing, I was just called upon to back her up and support her on the need for this change, but one of the things she found was an elder care service company that handles the entire seamless move from house to apartment, in one day. She is marking up the things that she wants with her, soup to nuts, and they will move it all on August 31. Good luck.

Sorry to hear this Larry. I regard it as the cost of the unconditional love we get from our animal companions: the knowledge that their time will come up sooner than yours and you have to make the decision to ease their suffering and let them go. Our Weimaraner Gracie was put down in March, at the age of 14 or so. It was a decision made easier by the fact that the vet (we used a service that does euthanasia at home) took no time at all to judge that her facial lumps and copious, funky drool that had developed only in the prior ten days or so was in fact lymphoma. We're fortunate King adjusted quite easily so we didn't need to find him a new companion.

Too bad he escaped before Darwin could take over and the idiot owner dies of a toxic snake bite. Either way snake would be out in the wild but idiot owner would be removed from gene pool.

I am not interested in "high intensity level" nowadays (not sure I ever really was) and so having heard a full track on Bandcamp I am quite comfortable passing on this ... glad I got the Harold Land at the Penthouse though. That hits the spot for me, way more than "intensity".

As predicted, Rizzo is lengthening the lineup and tearing it up. The Yankees can hardly be counted out of, at minimum, 1st Wild Card. OTOH the Sox looked like shit over the weekend and it occurred to me that they are about to collapse, possibly like the Cubs did in June. And I thought that looking at the calendar and seeing Tigers, Jays, Rays just at the same time when they can't hit and can't pitch. And the much-improved Tigers take 2 of 3. What happens in Toronto now? In other sad news, JR Richard is dead: https://www.mlb.com/news/j-r-richard-dies

That is the set, and the patch on the jacket, of THE !!!! BEAT. I knew Gatemouth Brown was the leader of the house band but according to this: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/beat that might be Fathead? That article mentions the replacement of Gatemouth with someone from Nashville who brought his own horn section with him.

Plenty of love here too, but not so much for the super-successful "You'll Never Find ..." era. But the sixties recordings of blues and jazz with great backing groups are excellent.

It's just soupy and barely goes beyond like 3 minutes a cut. Even though Benny Carter did the arrangements its not at all geared toward jazzheads. @TTK would probably love it for the atmospherics - with the right potent potable, and Mrs. TTK.

Not same radio archive source, but it is Chicago Jazz Fest, and soundboard, too. Monk Tribute Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL 1986-08-27 - Chicago FM radio 01 intro 02 Eronel 03 Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues Are 04 Pannonica - Ruby My Dear 05 Little Rootie Tootie 06 Rhythm-a-ning 07 Epistrophy 08 outro Charlie Rouse - tenor sax Barry Harris - piano Cecil McBee - bass Ben Riley - drums

I think I paid $2 for this ... about a $1.50 too much. And I love Sweets.

Gershwin needs to be cancelled, clearly. Maybe we can test the theory of goose/gander with an all-white cast, but rapping the lyrics, a la Hamilton? If Gershwin hadn't written "Summertime" we wouldn't have one of Gene Harris' greatest performances, so count me on his side in this. (For the record, never seen any production of P&B only heard the hits.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/arts/chuck-e-weiss-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

No none of the Allen Housers I have found have anything to do with the Left Bank group. But I am jealous if you saw Arnold Sterling and Allen Houser. Two guys under the radar but they could play.

I didn't even look until now but Schwarber has all of 1 game, with zero put outs, at 1B in the majors. Must have been a 1-2 inning stint? Its just idiotic because he hurts the team if he plays LF, he hurts the team if he DHs (because that means JD is either not in the lineup or playing the outfield himself) and god only knows what the hell he may be at 1B. He sure as hell has virtually zero experience at the position and could screw the team over several times, for all of his all-or-nothing power. And if he becomes a platoon partner of some sort, what was the point? That's your big move at the deadline? A left-handed pull hitter with no place in the lineup. And they'd be idiots, IMHO, to sit the kid and waste his development time as speed off the bench. Not to mention, kill the defense by playing Schwarber out there. David, the Yankee lineup is no longer any sort of breeze with the two additions. At minimum they can clinch a WC birth just by being "savages" again or whatever Boone used to say. Both of them will love that cheap short porch.

Now the Sox trade for Schwarber? Literally no place to put the man (sit Renfroe, the rookie, or Verdugo instead for a shitty defender?) except 1B where I don't think he's ever played. He Ks too often, gets hurt too often, and is all or nothing as a hitter. Who if I am not mistaken is a dead-red pull hitter, ill-suited to Fenway. UGH. Meanwhile the Yankees get Rizzo, a professional hitter and plus defender, to fill another serious need. I swear if I see a graphic of Scherzer with NY cap I'll break the fucking PC monitor. About the only positive thing I can say is that I have prepared my elderly mother that her boyfriend, Mr. Rizzo, was likely to be traded by the end of the month. She assured me she will not become a Yankee fan if that's where he ends up. I hope she remembers that promise.

Well to answer my question, I'd forgotten that Joey Gallo was available. That really changes & lengthens the top of that order. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a Yankee gallop to the Wild Card, where presumably they'd have Cole start a play-in game and that would be a best-case scenario for any Wild Card winner. Ugh. (and BTW fewer than 70 posts in the season's MLB thread and its the end of July???)

Supposedly the A's are getting Starling Marte. Were the Yankees connected to any other outfield help? Two more months of the nothing-left-in-the-tank Brett Gardiner is not going to help the Yanks very much (even if he did help them steal a win from the Sox last weekend).

If they could turn strawberries into it, they would.

I'm sure that's true ... but my recollection was it was the loss of a lung or a portion that really effected him? I didn't think specifically lung cancer but I am sure that makes sense. Anyway I never thought he sounded inhibited on his last regular studio date, Breakthrough. Different, but not inhibited.

Count me and the Mrs. among the "won't ever consider a sample of fake beef, ever."