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If you want to get an idea of a fair price for the Mosaic sets, please keep in mind that the out of print sets frequently sell for far more than they did at the time of issue. One thing you could look at is what a particular set went for on Ebay to get an idea. Another is to actually put it on Ebay- you'll probably wind up with the best price you can get for the set. If someone is coming to you with an offer that works out to $10-$15 per disc they are probably trying to take advantage of your unfamiliarity with Mosaic sets. Another thing to look at is the Mosaic threads on this board and the Ebay craziness thread for information.

What about Sinbad? I played one of his standup performances(on video) for a multi-generational crowd on a Thansgiving and everyone was howling- no cursing, no sexual stuff, but good old belly laughs all around.

Dmitry, I know nothing about laptops, but just be careful if you're shopping in Brooklyn. There's a lot of places that advertise incedibly low prices but specialize in bait & switch tactics. One place on Coney Island Avenue(I think the name is Sunshine, they're right near the Kent movie theater) was actually nailed and paid a fine. Be wary...

For #666, let's invite Miroslav Satan, especially if he's playing for the NJ Devils!

Jazzmoose, The NYC tabloids would have a field day with Satan playing for the Devils! 'Satan Scores, Devils Burn' 'Satan has a Hellish Game'

Chris a, Hardbop= Heaney, your favorite reviewer..

The set is up to $62.00, a bargain for 11 discs of Rahsaan. Get your sniper ready, Evan- good luck getting it!

Do we really need a paean to 'The Great One' that doesn't mention Jackie Gleason? Hardbop has been too busy hanging out with Chris A. & Stanley Grouch, quaffing a few and roving around NYC, beating up electric bass players & threatening Fender Rhodes players.

I'm dying to see what happens with Adriana and the FBI(The puke scene from last season was stunning, it was so unexpected.). Christopher would just explode!

I bought a couple of discs yesterday from this guy on half.com. His prices are very good and he has a huge collection to sell. From what he says, the discs should be in almost pristine condition. Definitely worth a look, but watch your wallet!

Congrats, now you can do double duty(doody!) on the diapers!!! Enjoy and best of luck!

I may be wrong, but I think the only recording of that group to hit cd so far is 'Echoes of an Era', with Chake Khan added asa vocalist. I don't think the instrumental dates have been issued on cd yet.

When the feds come to question you about your highly shady stock transactions, you do have an obligation to answer truthfully under the law. Martha Stewart did not answer truthfully and also doctored records to back her false story. Imclone crashed quite a bit after the Waksal revelations, paired with the FDA not approving Erbutex. It's about impossible to determine which was worse for the stock price, but both were certainly harmful to the share price and cost many investors lots of $. Martha Stewart avoided that with her 'hot tip'. While technically not insider trading, Ms. Stewart is barely on this side of the law on that one.

Similar to Rachel's suggestion, have you tried progressive lenses? I have a three-section pair, with the close on the bottom, distance on the top section & intermediate in the middle. There are no clear lines dividing the sections, and you tilt your head slighly to get the best viewing angle. It took me about a month to adjust to them, but once you adjust they seem perfectly natural and normal. One big advantage is that you need only one pair of glasses(no switching) and you don't need to make radical changes to what you can see(No adjustment period for your eyes to catch up to the lens.)

Ken Lay is hip-deep in the Enron doodoo, there's no doubt in my mind about that. There's also no doubt that Ken Lay is very politically connected- Bush is a close buddy, as are many others high up in the administration. Connect the dots here, Ken Lay probably gets a light sentence for his role. In considering Martha Stewart, it's not enough to say that nobody was harmed by her activities. The integrity of the marketplace has to be maintained. When someone is dealing on the basis of material, non-public information, they have a great advantage over other investors. Suppose you also held Imclone stock but didn't get a call from Waksal or your connected broker telling you to sell? Martha Stewart has gained a huge advantage over you because of her inside information. You didn't get the inside dope and lost your shirt on the stock. When it can, the SEC is pretty diligent about pursuing cases like hers. Martha Stewart was also a broker, so she's well aware of insider trading prohubitions and she certainly knows what lying and covering up are. She worked very hard to cover her tracks and concoct a story(Stop-loss orders are very rare and are usually noted on an account quite clearly when issued) that seemed plausible- it just wasn't true. Shed no tears for Martha Stewart- she's guilty as charged.

I don't know, Deuse. I read books all the time, play/study chess, listen to music, and my kid only wants to play computer games and watch TV. None o' this is rubbing off... Conn, That's almost me to a tee- I don't play chess, but I'm an avid reader and music nut, and my son has very little interest in that. I tried...

Or is it Dianetics? No,wait, that's the Chick Corea thread...

WNMC, That 'junkyard dog' song is probably 'Bad Bad Leroy Brown' by Jim Croce "Bad bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole dang town, badder than ol' King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog" I actually remembered that off the top of my head- is that a head crammed full of useless information?

What got me hooked on jazz was an article in the Village Voice in 1972. I was 16 and thought I was pretty hip and cool when it came to music, and the VV had their annual pazz & jop poll. usually I knew almost everything in the top listings on the poll, except that year. For 1972 the critics voted 'The Inner Mounting Flame' as the album of the year. I was aghast- I never heard of these dudes and they had the album of the year?! Mortified at my lack of knowledge, I made sure to get a copy of it and played it every day for a month- it still didn't click for me. Frustrated at my lack of understanding, I got incredibly lucky- they were playing in NYC in a few weeks. I went, it clicked when I saw it live, and that started me on a lifelong love affair with this music. McLaughlin led to Miles, to everyone else...

Isn't Syanon the drug rehab place?

Congratulations! Let us know if it's true that the best part of being a grandparent is spoiling the hell out of the kid and then handing them back to your daughter!

I think Conn has the best approach to this problem. This realtor made some very large cash on your referral. Any decent human being would at least say thank you quite profusely, and most would take you out to dinner, slip you an envelope with some cash, buy you a Mosaic set or six, etc. This ingrate did nothing. I would let bygones be bygones, but never refer anything to this person ever again. If this cheapskate should ever mention that nothing has come from you since these two transactions, THEN is the time to mention the parsimonious response politely but firmly.

I don't know if this qualifies as 'craziness', but this sure is a high price for one disc: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...5&category=1056

I have the book- I got it as a Christmas present from my wife. She meant well, but she's not a jazzaholic , so she didn't get my objections to the film when we watched it together. I read a few sections and had to put it down or I would've torn the book up into little pieces. The authors spent two pages doing nothing but ripping Keith Jarrett(KJ had the temerity to criticize Wynton Marsalis!), even to the point of inserting a racial angle into KJ's criticism. For $9.99 you could buy a decent cd of something that has more value, say, sound effects. The pages are set upside down so that you can appreciate Stanley Grouch's upside-down view of what jazz is & isn't!