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This morning's listening... Andrew Hill Faces of Hope (Soul Note) Rudd/Lacy/Mengleberg/Carter/Bennik Regeneration (Soul Note) Max Roach & Cecil Taylor Historic Concerts (Soul Note)

Rock on, dude!

Billy Bang - Rainbow Gladiator (Soul Note)

NBA - Fines will be imposed for clear cases of flopping http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3416579 Detroit's Rasheed Wallace, a player who has 15 technicals this season and has been suspended in the past for being over the limit for technicals, gave his opinion of floppers to ESPN after the Pistons' 106-102 loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday. "All that bull[expletive]-ass calls they had out there. With Mike [Callahan] and Kenny [Mauer] -- you've all seen that [expletive]," Wallace said. "You saw them calls. The cats are flopping all over the floor and they're calling that [expletive]. That [expletive] ain't basketball out there. It's all [expletive] entertainment. You all should know that [expletive]. It's all [expletive] entertainment." Rasheed Wallace, pride of North Philly. Keepin' it real

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24282568/ Brewer ordered not to use ‘Legal Weed’ caps Says it’s just a play on where he makes beer; regulators call it misleading The Associated Press updated 9:25 p.m. ET, Wed., April. 23, 2008 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Vaune Dillmann thought the wording on his bottle caps was just a clever play on the name of the Northern California town where he brews his beer — Weed. Federal alcohol regulators thought differently. They have ordered Dillmann to stop selling beer bottles with caps that say "Try Legal Weed." While reviewing the proposed label for Dillmann's latest beer, Lemurian Lager, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau said the message on the caps he has been using for his five current beers amounts to a drug reference. In a letter explaining its decision, the agency, which regulates the brewing industry, said the wording could "mislead consumers about the characteristics of the alcoholic beverage." Dillmann scoffs at the notion that his label has anything to do with smoking pot. "I've never tried marijuana in my life," he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "I don't advocate that. It's just our town's name." The town of 3,000, sitting beneath Mount Shasta about 230 miles north of the state capital, takes its name from Abner Weed, a timber baron who opened a lumber mill there in 1901 and eventually was elected to the state Senate. Dillmann, 61, started the Mount Shasta Brewing Co. in 2004. He said he has always used the town's name on his beers and named the company's first official brew Abner Weed's Pale Ale. His bottle labels follow a long tradition of exploiting the town's name. Even city officials do it. A sign posted on the way out of town reads, "Temporarily Out of Weed," while another says "100 Percent Pure Weed." Dillmann noted those examples in an appeal letter he sent to the alcohol bureau. Once, Dillmann said, his wife, a former teacher, was delayed on a field trip to San Francisco as tourists clamored to pose next to the school bus, which said "Weed High." But illegal drugs are no joke to the federal agency, which maintains meticulous rules about labeling. Drug references on alcoholic beverages were banned in 1994, agency spokesman Art Resnick said. "We protect consumers of alcohol beverages against misleading advertising and labeling," he said. He said the agency is reviewing Dillmann's appeal. The Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association, which represents 1,100 craft brewers nationwide, said the Tax and Trade Bureau seems to have become more aggressive in recent years. It has gone after brewers for seemingly innocuous claims, such as descriptions that say one beer is stronger than another, said association director Paul Gatza. "We're seeing the TTB starting to poke around at breweries' Web sites and issuing letters," he said. "Our trade association is feeling like TTB is overstretching a little bit." Gatza said a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the 1980s protected truthful speech on beer labels. Meanwhile, Dillmann has placed a rush order on unmarked bottle caps so he can keep bottling while he awaits word from the federal agency on his appeal. He has enlisted the help of his congressman, Republican Rep. Wally Herger, who has asked the agency to explain why it rejected Dillmann's bottle cap labels. The decision banning the "Try Legal Weed" caps came just after Dillmann had placed an order for 400,000 of them, at a cost of about $10,000. It took him four years to go through the first batch of bottle caps, but Dillmann said his sales have been increasing steadily. Still, the native of Milwaukee said he wonders how some other brewers have gotten away with the names for their products, such as Hemp Ale or Dead Guy Ale. And he can't understand how his label has run afoul of federal alcohol regulators who must surely be aware of one of the most famous advertising slogans in American marketing: "This Bud's for you."

New York Art Quartet - Mohawk (Fontana/Nippon Phonogram reissue)

Josh Hamilton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Hamilton_(baseball) Wow. He's been through a lot.

Yannick Noah is Joakim Noah's father??? I had no idea. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/bask...f=si_topstories

The Fightin' Phils have scored 35 runs in the past two games. The Amazin' Mets have lost 7 of 8. Good times.

I won't be getting a check... I'm self employed and usually don't end up owing any money to the IRS.. Randy, did you file?? It doesn't matter if you owe or not. You get a stimulus check if you file a return. that's not entirely true. I think you have to show $6000 joint income, $3000 as an individual to get the check. Below that you are SOL, which you were already anyway. Yes, you're right. $3000 individual/$6000 joint income and file a return.

Muhal Richard Abrams - Hearinga Suite (Black Saint) Muhal Richard Abrams - Rejoicing with the Light (BS)

I won't be getting a check... I'm self employed and usually don't end up owing any money to the IRS.. Randy, did you file?? It doesn't matter if you owe or not. You get a stimulus check if you file a return.

Adams/Pullen - Don't Lose Control (Soul Note) Adams/Pullen - Live at the Village Vanguard Vol.2 (SN)

I e-filed this year and had our refund direct deposited. We got our check on May 5.

Just finally getting around to listening to this CD today. I have only given it one spin but I really like it. The first tune "1324"is pretty out there - very cool. The Macalester College stuff(tracks 2-4) reminds me of Trane's quartet circa A Love Supreme. The bonus material is very good - it's pretty free/out - don't understand why this stuff was not released before now. There's some interesting tidbit's in the liner note as well. Like Byard's assertion that,"in 1824 Francis Johnson began playing Jazz in Philadelphia." Take that New Orleans!!! Also, that listening to these Dogtown tapes after 30+ years made Byard realize that he had,"...been bullshitting for the past 27 years.... I lightened up my style to please the masses, rather than continue on my Lancaster development of the Avant-Garde." Whoa.

Dodgers' Jones out 4-6 weeks after going on DL for first time in career http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3411156 Some of the comments.... the only surgery andruw jones needs is gastric bypass! Also, I don't know what everyone is talking about regarding his unwillingness to make plate adjustments, he adds more and more food to it everytime he goes to the bar!

Happy Birthday to Jim and Miles!

Sigh.... Maybe I should just stick w/ digital.

Why can't Death take off for Memorial Day weekend like everybody else? Too many good people leaving this mortal coil lately... R.I.P. Jimmy.

Yeah, I've come to expect that from BYG. However, there is a scratch that is visible w/ the naked eye and, more important, audible to the naked ear at the end of side one of "This Time". Seller described it as "mint minus". Don't even get me started on "Afrodisiaca".

Next up a "conservatively graded" original pressing of Giuseppi Logan - More (ESPDISK). Graded "EX: a faint mark or scuff. doesn't effect the music in any way".

The 3 biggest lies ever told. 1. The check is in the mail. 2. I'll pull it out before I .... 3. I grade conservatively and do my best to note any flaws.

John Tchicai - Afrodisiaca (MPS) next up.... Anthony Braxton - This Time (Actuel/BYG)

Wife and kid are at my mother-in-law's today. So I'm having a little marathon listening session. So far... Hamiet Bluiett - Endangered Species (India Navigation) Baikida Carroll - Shadows and Reflections (Soul Note) World Saxophone Quartet - Revue (Black Saint) Billy Harper - Black Saint (Black Saint)

Great minds.... I just remembered six more I bought on vinyl this month Roscoe Mitchell - Congliptious (Nessa) Von Freeman - Doin' It Right Now (Atlantic) Sun Ra - The Other Side of the Sun (Sweet Earth) Cecil McBee - Alternate Spaces (India Navigation) Leroy Jenkins - Solo Concert (India Navigation) Arthur Blythe - The Grip (India Navigation)