Dan Gould

Are you generally dickish? Because by not saying anything about the obvious fact that it can't be Coltrane, say by putting quotes around "signature" or "John Coltrane" you simply set it up so that you could come back with your "witty" reply. Because someone had to put 2 and 2 together and point out the obvious.

Leaving in a few for my second Moderna at Publix. At the time I got thru to get an appointment, I didn't even think about the fact that it was end of month for both of them, when my current gig gets pretty bad because everyone wants their loans closed before end of month. So I really hope that once again I only have the shoulder discomfort and this doesn't trigger any sort of flu-like symptoms to keep me away from my desk. I don't want any loans pushed off to May since my bonus is dependent upon volume of loans closed/funded.

Bjorn Borg Stefan Edberg Eddie the Eagle

The Blakey says "pre-order" while the Dexter does not. So perhaps this is a re-pressing of the Blakey that has been delayed, and since you probably didn't pay for separate shipping, shipping is delayed until both are in hand? If the Dexter never shows up I might be willing to part with mine.

Barney Miller Wojo BoJo

Pistol Pete Maravich Novak Djokovic Slobodan Milosevic

How about you engage with his arguments instead of calling the guy names? Whatever he's concluded about the education outcome for kids with gay parents, it has absolutely zero to do with his economic arguments outlined in his paper.

Very interesting review of COVID lock-down studies that argues that costs of lockdowns are way higher than benefits and that other studies have systematically under-counted costs and over-counted benefits. http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport.pdf Most interesting points in my opinion are: That if costs only take into account hits to GDP they are grossly underestimated, for not taking into account losses to "civil liberty, lost social contact, lost educational opportunities, lost medical preventions and procedures, increased domestic violence, increased anxiety and mental suffering, and increased deaths of despair." And, that the assumption about the "value of a statistical life" (set to $10,000,000 for these studies) does not account for the way deaths have been concentrated among those 60+. (VSL varies from around $14 million for an infant to about $2 million for someone over 85). Thought provoking, IMO. What do you think?

Raquel Welch Dolly Parton The Kissing Bandit

I am just going to enjoy while it lasts before everyone returns to what should be their rational level. We are already seeing signs of it on the Sox roster, though I have to say E-Rod's return and performance is very pleasing. Maybe if they somehow hang in to the summer they get Sale back but the guy isn't even throwing off a mound. With his surgery I can't imagine them rushing him back before end of July. And it might be miraculous if, right away, he is the Sale of old.

Garrett Morris Buck Henry Samurai Tailor

Yeah but none of it coming back at them, which is really the point of dirty talk, isn't it?

Well I didn't do the pitching, I was in the verification department - calling to verify that they were ordering the product and verifying the address. The pitches I overheard were like what you see on TV for Rid-X but it was way more expensive. As I recall they had a consent decree with several state's AGs for not marketing in those states, I think it was for both over-selling and under-delivering but also for dishonest business practices regarding auto-renewal charges. Google Krane Products. BTW on the phone sex "matching" gig a big part of the inbound calls were young kids who thought they were going to get free dirty talk. So you had to make sure they were "of age" which I always verified by asking what age they were and then what year they were born. The variety of years they would give on that challenge was pretty damn hysterical. I'd usually tell them what age they'd really be if that was the year they were born. Got quite a few obscenities hurled at me then.

Pretty much. It also wasn't the only time I was involved in an operation that ran afoul of the Feds and was subject to an armed raid of the premises. My first phone gig in south Florida was at a "phone dating/phone sex" shop. Cast the widest possible net by advertising in both hardcore porno mags and also Rolling Stone type general circulation publications. So you had people calling in to be "matched" with "local" girls for phone "dates" but also being "matched" to "local" girls for dirty talk, and since these were "local" women, a lot of calls who thought they were booking an outbound escort, too. (I could have put "girls" in quotes too, as we had one who was pre-op and called herself Fabia, as in the female version of the romance novel cover-dude Fabio.) Anyway I was one of many who took these inbound calls for supposed "matching" and we got a base rate plus bonuses based on whether they were going to pay by charging it to their phone line (.50), call the 900 number ($1) or charge their credit card ($2). I was consistently in the top three of "bookers". I remember the book of "profiles" we were supposed to read from, which had only three. Seems like everyone went with "Sandy" the "hot blonde" for whom "anything goes". Anyway, they were scummy, and the scummiest thing they did was to churn the suckers who called in and had their conversations, by calling them back to say 'Sandy' really wanted to talk to you again, would you like to talk to her?' They neglected to mention that their phone or their credit card was getting hit again. SO - long story short, I found out not long after I left that they got raided by the FCC, with management getting frog-marched out, the owner's Ferrari impounded and towed away ... I held these types of jobs with 3-4 companies in south Florida, from phone sex to septic system treatment systems to vacation sales and all of them either got shut down, were banned from selling in certain states (the septic treatment company) or were seriously ethically challenged (the vacation sales place).

I responded to an ad. At the time I had to keep my days open for Voice-Over gigs and I held a series of phone-sale jobs in the evenings to keep a regular stream of cash coming in.

There is a lengthy interview on this FB post with a lot of different stories: https://www.facebook.com/philschaap/posts/4173610969329657

Redd Foxx Blues Boy King Tony Orlando

Cheryl Ladd Kathleen Turner (ca. Body Heat) Christina Applegate (there's an obvious "actress" connection but believe me, in my mind, its a bit more, ahem, personal)

Not being a Kentonite I had no idea, but that would have actually pissed me the f*ck off, had I seen it.

Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake Terry Bollea Terri Runnels

"Slick" Willie Andrew Cuomo La Cosa Nostra

I didn't think I'd like Soul Symphony but I really, really do. Its just loaded with Gene's piano and the strings don't detract. I took a while to pull the trigger on a vinyl copy before the CD came out. I think I came to the conclusion that Gene was dead and gone and there's only so much music, might as well try it. Boy was I pleasantly surprised. I like it way more than the Elegant Soul LP that preceded it.

On that Walkin/Talkin' thing? Hell yeah. But what I specifically recall was a Jim Hall/Bill Evans thing with the "Best in Jazz since 1939" think and I'm like, WTF?

There was a time that I bought so far into the Blue Note mythology that it outright pissed me off to see the BN insignia on reissues from labels I knew didn't have any connection at the time of original issue.

I believe that Alfred was still in charge when the Sounds came back and he produced Good Vibrations? (I also don't appreciate the implication of your second sentence, but I'll let it slide. )