Dan Gould

In effect paying twice for dinner, if you eat elsewhere and are obligated to buy an entree during the set?

How much Vanguard material wasn't issued on CD back in the 90s/2000s? I know the issue policy was haphazard with different dates being combined and shitte like that but I am wondering how much is "new". That will determine whether I open up the wallet for that set.

I guess those outrageous prices are needed to cover the rent and the musician fees. If the family home in CT were still ours, I still wouldn't be going to Smoke, I don't think. Funny that he mentions the West End Gate ... I guess he moved there in the brief time that it existed. Of course, it was the West End for 20+ years before that, The Uptown Home For Swing run by Phil Schaap.

Wondering how fans view the ASB these days? As a kid I watched the game religiously but now, and even pre-tie game, couldn't really be made to care. For the homer competition I think I watched one or two and that was it. I really view this week as an opportunity to get to bed earlier every single night. Like 9:30 at the latest instead of 10 or a bit past. Sort of like a west coast trip for the Sox.

Well the day went as I hoped with the added bonus of the Yankees blowing the win after a big comeback in the top of the ninth. If it's any consolation, Verdugo probably makes that mistake of breaking in about once every two years. Bad timing for Yankee fans.

Yeah, I am counting on the Sox continuing their Sunday dominance (1 loss on Sunday all season) plus facing another righty to go into the break strong. And hoping the O's do pull out the last game, to keep things tight in the division. Heading into the second half I guess if you have to play the Dodgers on the road, this is a good time to do it with all of their injuries. Losing to the Tigers with a four run lead in the 8th was brutal.

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/dave-loggins-dead-please-come-to-biston-singer-songwriter-1236068565/

Red Sox have tied the Braves for the league lead in shutouts, and three have come in the last seven days, two with Kutter Crawford as the starter. His cumulative line against the Yankees and Royals: 14 IP (on an average of 82 pitches per game) 6 hits 1 BB 8 K His WHIP in three July starts is 0.50.

So sad ...

Those are not hints, they are passive/aggressive taunts.

Definitely shocked that the Cubs came to Baltimore and swept them, including back to back shut outs. With the Yanks finishing the first half in Baltimore, it works well for the Sox in that one team in front of them has to lose but I should be more worried about the Royals coming in to the Fens. They have three strong starters lined up including a lefty and lefties are kryptonite to this team's offense most of the time. Fingers crossed that they keep it going for three more. 18-7 since June 12 and the opposite of the Yanks, having done no worse than splits in series since early June.

They are in a restaurant and he says this? I am still not getting your retooling.

Your setup makes no sense if she replies to the suggestion of 69 by naming a menu dish, if she is the frustrated one. She knows what 69 is then. You need both to be inexperienced which is why I rewrote it that way.

I wasn't sure the dry cleaner twist made sense the same way that "69" or "#69" does in context of someone who works at a Chinese restaurant.

I would tell it this way: Two life long friends emigrated from China to the US, and one started a dry cleaning business and the other opened a Chinese restaurant. They had traditional values and so when the time came, the two men decided that the daughter of the restauranteur would marry the son of the dry cleaner. On their wedding night there was a bit of fumbling hesitancy, and the daughter, having been told by her mother that a good Chinese wife would do anything in bed for her husband so she told him, "honey, I love you and will do anything you want to do ... what is it you want?" He said sheepishly "I want ... 69?" Now she looks sheepish and says "... you want beef with brocolli?" Alternate punch line (I think its funny but will understand if you say it doesn't really work): Switch the genders and she says "i want ... 69" and he looks confused and says: "You want Fluff/Fold/Press Same Day?"

Not bad GA but when I use it I gotta make some alterations to the set up.

And here is your update: The innocent CD envelope made it to Ybor City yesterday, which is supposed to be last stop before my Post Office in Plant City and my mailbox. So where is it this morning? A completely wrong post office which is getting ready to put it on some truck for a delivery to god knows where. Or maybe a return to Ybor City and a do-over. I said it 9 years ago it deserves repeating yet again: THE USPS SUCKS.

The second sentence was Kevin's comment on the news. Not from his wife though that blog I linked to took it as such.

Shows how little I know about the group and its releases. Were these shows like the Dead or Phish and fans need to hear it all?? Staggering overkill to me.

Yeah, 27 discs is way too much of a sort of OK thing. If they condense it into 80 minutes of the best - or even two discs worth? - I might.

I think I had to buy a copy of that LP to get an orphaned Percy France track for the project that ultimately resulted in the website. 👍

In the context of coming from his wife, its an odd statement about how he was a good guy to chat with between sets.

Almost the entire post was used for the announcement on this page: https://londonjazznews.com/2024/07/09/rip-jim-rotondi-1962-2024/ its still up the same way even after I commented, and they published, to point out that the second paragraph was a comment on the announcement by Rotondi's wife.

My dusty groove experience vis a vis the USPS is somewhere in between that of Brad and Ken. Probably about half the time it sits in Chicago and the other half, reasonably quick delivery.

My understanding for a long time is that Media Mail surely does not have any dedicated plane. Media Mail boxes get processed last. If they run out of time in the sorting/passing along process it sits until the next time. There ain't no plane flying media mail.