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TTK, I bet you've got the video of that!

Mike, they should have sent you an email confirming that your order was shipped. That email should have contained a tracking link. Due to my Dec. experience with Newbury's, I recommend that you daily check on that tracking link, and don't wait till the 14th if something looks wrong.

Here's an article explaining the new OT rules: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/02/05/super-bowl-goes-ot-new-rules-st-test/

Congrats Mark! That's terrific!

So far I haven't found anything for $20 that I want to spend $10 on.

Bob Hurst has two new albums out, the first of which is called Unrehurst vol.2. This was a live recording of a 2007 gig at Smoke in New York with Robert Glasper on piano and Chris "Daddy" Dave on drums. There are five songs - two originals by Hurst, one by Glasper, I Love You and Monk's Dream. Due to a snowstorm, the group was unable to rehearse prior to the gig, although Hurst and Glasper had played and recorded with each other before. I like it. For the most part, your opinion of the album will depend upon your opinion of Glasper. The two standards are pretty much mainstream, and the three originals less so. This is one of the better new albums I've heard in the last couple of years, but you have to like piano trios.

A lot of what I have seen at B&N seems to be almost $10 more expensive than the Amazon Marketplace.

Andy Fantuz has signed with Chicago. I give him little chance because I think the NFL values speed more than the ability to catch the ball. I guess production of Fantuz Flakes will be suspended until he returns. Steve Buratto will be the Riders' O-line coach this year. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/roughriders-andy-fantuz-signs-with-chicago-bears/article1894841/ ***** Ticats DL Garrett McIntyre will sign with the New York Jets, and try out for outside LB. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=352408

I'd rather not. Maybe the trainwreck session would finally be released as something like "Tyrone Washington Plays For Star-Crossed Lovers" Felser's post reminds me that it's that time of year again to pull out the Plays for Lovers CDs!

Barnes & Noble sells music at their website bn.com, so I thought you would be interested to see this. This is apparently groupon's response to LivingSocial's similar deal with Amazon from a couple of weeks ago. $10 will get you a $20 gift card at Barnes & Noble's (valid in-store and online). Offer expires April 10, 2011. http://www.groupon.c...&utm_source=rvs PS - Apparently the offer to buy it expires February 7 at 11:59 pm. The gift card expires April 10.

Medjuck,I don't remember where I saw the article, but it was within the last week or so - very recent. I gather that most of the debt was owed to Citigroup, so Citi took over the company and converted the debt into equity, thus cleaning up the balance sheet. As I understand it, no one said that EMI's sales were ridiculously low, only that they weren't enough to make the payments on the large sum of money borrowed by Guy Hands to take the company private.

I read that Al Cohn's response to this story was, "It's good to hear that success hasn't changed Stan Getz!"

My experience with Movie Mars in Dec. was quite good. I got a box set from them promptly and without problems.

Happy Birthday 2011 Thom!

Well said, Chris. You know something's wrong when not even the kids are interested anymore.

Rob Lazeo announced his retirement today. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=352113

Marty, when I applied for my refund from Amazon for the Sonny Rollins Prestige box that didn't show up, it said that you are limited to four refunds for life. If my Rollins box ever does show up, I'm going to tell them to charge me again.

Here's a Jan. 23 NYT article that says that the record industry is concerned that legitimate downloading may not grow to the extent they were counting on. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/technology/24music.html?_r=1

Happy Birthday 2011 fent99!

Quincy, the article said that Bronfman and his partners had taken all of their money and plenty more out of the company. Perhaps that is why the price has fallen.

Some news about kickers: BC has paid Paul McCallum his bonus, so it looks like they won't cut him after all. Montreal is talking with Nick Setta because they are afraid that Damon Duval will leave. Hamilton is open to signing a new kicker, considering the poor year Sandro DeAngelis had. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/mccallum-likely-to-remain-a-lion/article1891018/

Chuck, I read an article about Warner just the other day. It said that their stock had remained essentially flat, while two of its competitors had fallen 20%. I was surprised to see that, because I have no faith in Edgar Bronfman, Jr. By the way, the article said that Warner was also putting itself up for sale. Was that story linked to in another thread here? I don't remember.

Warner has been interested in acquiring EMI. Maybe now the price will come down.

The first commenter had it right. Citibank was bailed out bigtime by the taxpayers. If there was going to be a bailout, I'd be better off if EMI got the money!

The Riders today hired Richie Hall to be their defensive coordinator. Over the past fifteen years, the two defensive coordinators considered the best in the league have been Hall and Greg Marshall. Now Marshall is the team's new head coach. I have to wonder if this will be a case of too many cooks spoiling the pot. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=351902