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  1. but i can't understand restoration of a state ID. If he was never licensed he couldn't have it restored so that he can drive again. The intermediate reporting made it sound like a typical beaurocatic (I hate spelling that word) screw up but if the case before him was 'driving without a license' it was totally understandable how the judge reacted.
  2. seems strange in the context of specific reporting that his DL had been restored to active status but not properly conveyed to licensing records. You don't restore a State ID but I guess if that is the case then he really was reporting in to a hearing on his driving without a license case while driving his car.
  3. The facts don't really match up though I would say that the reaction was true. Reality as I have learned is that the gentleman had his driving privileges restored but they messed up in the required updates and when he got pulled over he came up as suspended - but again - he was supposed to be able to drive.
  4. Did anyone catch this last night on the History Channel or on the BBC? The producer's took tape recordings of veterans, digitally "de-aged" them and then filmed actors (who resemble the veterans in their younger days) lip synching their words. There is a family connection to this - my brother-in-law sat down with his dad sometime in the 90s and asked questions about his war experience and let him talk and talk and the tape was sent to a museum eventually. His dad's name was Harry Parley and his doppelganger and his words are the first ones seen and heard on screen. I can't say for sure how closely the actor resembled Harry since I never saw pictures of him but I suspect it was very close. (When my wife and I moved to Delray Beach in 2004 we had no idea that Michael's father lived not five minutes away so I became the designated helper for Harry when hurricanes threatened or if he needed help for other things. Very nice man but I never had or took time to ask him about his experiences. And while thinking about Harry I have to mention something that was so funny, and so weird in its way, about him that was discovered after he passed: He was a little obsessive/compulsive and when banks switched to sending out scans of cancelled checks, he would cut each tiny scan into its own mini-check, and glue-stick it to a another piece of paper. Nobody knew of this habit but we all said it was "very 'Harry'. And there were boxes and boxes of them to dispose of.) ) I only made it thru the first two hours last night and will have to watch the second half online or catch it in broadcast but it was a very effective and affecting production. https://www.history.com/shows/d-day-the-unheard-tapes
  5. There's a lesson here that keeps me in the physical-object realm until the day I die. Including when I do a download purchase.
  6. And more or less as I posted this, we find out that Abreu sprained an ankle going down the dugout steps and is being sent to a foot specialist already. That has "6 weeks OR surgery and see ya in the Spring" written all over it. The season was toast already but this just puts another nail in the coffin.
  7. As down as I remain on the Red Sox chances this season, there are little glimmers like, Wilyer Abreu, acquired from Houston in the Christian Vazques trade. (IIRC the Astros won it all that year but Vasquez left after his rental and Abreu looks very much like a keeper (Sox also got the up-and-down Enmanuel Valdez in that deal, I think he profiles as a decent utility man.) Entering Monday, among qualified AL rookies, Abreu leads in OPS (.829), hits (46), doubles (14), extra-base hits (22) and total bases (82). He ranks second in batting average (.272) and runs scored (26). Abreu is third in home runs (six) and stolen bases (seven).
  8. Funny I recognized the face first, ahead of Randy Weston's. Those happy young children just make the photo even better.
  9. Earlier posted picture is Harold Vick, unknown location. Someone else suggested a recording session in someone's basement but there doesn't seem to be a record of such a thing. Second posted photo is Weston, Roach and Geoffrey Holder, best known as the pitchman for 7-Up many many years ago. He was actor, dancer and artist.
  10. 1982. Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
  11. 1985 Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
  12. There is only one downside to Angel Hernandez' retirement: Seeing some sort of "challenge" system come to fruition so that he could be named, not worst umpire, but most-overturned umpire. Then maybe someone could have asked him about that.
  13. A single panel comic I had saved years ago but can't find anywhere here or online, so here goes: Man behind a desk, the nameplate says "Loan Officer". Sign on wall says "We never say 'no'!" He's telling the man on the other side of the desk,, "F*ck you!"
  14. I found an album reference stating that the under-recorded alto saxophonist Charles/Charlie/CI Williams worked with the Quartette Tres Bien for two years ... Can anyone shed light on whether he recorded with them? Discogs is no help. Thanks in advance.
  15. In any given game, the Red Sox have 4-5 hitters who by rights ought to be batting 8th or 9th, either by history or by performance to date. The result is offensive frustration for at least the last month that is also likely to continue for a month or more given who is on the roster and who on the IL will not be returning for 4-8 weeks yet. In a best-case scenario they are a last place, .500 team. As the league adjusts to the sometimes-decent pitching, that illusion will vanish with the offense.
  16. Can't imagine adopting a feral cat into our house. We have three barn cats (only 1 from some sort of barn cat/rescue program) and its the two invaders who very occasionally manage to kill a rat, they mostly hang around waiting to be fed. They also know which side of their bread gets buttered - ganging up on Susan's legs and nearly tripping her when she walks to the barn at feeding time. They know the most I will do is fill their dry food bowl. Mama kitty's last litter (and I do mean last, Susan wore long oven mitts to grab her and send her into a carrier to take her to be 'fixed') did yield Mikey who will remain an indoor cat. To tie this into the full topic at hand: At one point he seemed to enjoy me strumming an Eagles tune when I got the guitar out, coming into the office and sitting nearby, but work has been too busy and that isn't happening very often lately.
  17. That's not much of an accomplishment.
  18. Damn, wasn't thinking who Willie might be but definitely assumed "Hank" was Mobley not Williams.
  19. Neat trick, new book with a forward by a dead guy. This has been in heavy rotation on various channels we receive ... I certainly prefer the original.
  20. I watched college football much more than pro last year but ... I got the distinct impression that in the college game they weren't doing the measurement thing nearly as often as before? Just a total eye-ball it and say its a first down kinda thing. Anybody else notice this? Did the NCAA send a memo out?
  21. But in rap it's expected. It's the wallpaper of the song. They are hearing jazz and can realize that the notes vary so that "repeating" becomes obvious. I don't love hearing the repeating but I don't hate it like Kevin does. What I wonder is what Alfred thought of it. It's apparent it didn't grate on his ears or he would have told Grant to run it down again and don't get "stuck".
  22. Says he played bari here (and looks like an interesting record given bass and drums only): https://www.discogs.com/release/2934621-Buddy-Tate-Bob-Wilber-Sherman-Shuffle
  23. So to update my experience, the BN cover shirts from the etsy store are on their last legs ... the Bobby Timmons is losing the lettering, the Mobley All-Stars is generally degraded and the Lou Donaldson Swing & Soul has that bad looking collar they used for the TV spot a couple of years ago. (It's unfortunate because along the lines of the story above about the Dolphy cover T, I was wearing the LD shirt and waiting for a Chinese takeout order, and an older dude asked about him. I didn't know you could be in your late 60s, a long-time jazz fan and not know the name Lou Donaldson, but there it is. I gave him a quick rundown of the different eras of LD from bebop to organ/soul jazz and beyond.) I should also note that a while back these shirts went into heavy rotation, pretty much each being worn every week during remote workdays and washed every week.
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