MoGrubb

Nothing like cutting corners.

Will there be jazz fans 100 years from today?, And if so, what will they be listening to? Probably will be, but it'll be more curiosity/historical events, played by a bunch of decrepit old men and academia geeks ala Preservation Hall Band.

Go to a confessional, say 15 Hail Marys; or whatever's comparable in your Faith/Non-faith.

Seems like that "sovereign nation" thing is about due for extinction. Anyhow, that aside, maybe he should've gotten a quickie out of the marriage proposal and left it at that. He's lucky he didn't get his ass kicked. Maybe the $385 was the difference between the $2500 and all the "free" shit the casino gave him?

Emily Post Abigail Van Buren Hillary Clinton

"If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the....."

Adam's pique may stem from a conflation of 'shyster' with 'shylock' http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-shy1.htm ...... Even though both shyster's and shylock's defined origins can be construed as anti-Semitic, it is not thought of in that light today, certainly not by me. A shylock is a money-lender, a particular kind of shyster, synonymous with a loanshark.

Ken Barbi Robbie Benton Rob Ryner

What a shame, Behrman successed himself right out of a job.

Tab Hunter Rock Hudson Doris Day

I'm not familiar with your take on how my post could be misconstrued as being racist. I assure you that it wasn't.

Maybe I am wrong, but to me modern 'Vanity Fair' is a magazine based on sensational, though accurate and well written, interviews and stories about the Star System, occasionaly they had some investigative strong stuff. I couldn't see any 'culture' in it. I thought Vanity Fair had a bit more "class." That list is a surprise to me; hell, just the fact that they reviewed pop flicks is surprising. And, did I miss it, where's The Blues Brothers?

The last I heard many of the migrant workers that sleep near the fields might have to go home because they're getting burned out.

That is the deal -- they play a song that was popular the summer that you were 16 and partying, you get that warm feeling of nostalgia, and the company's logo appears. Repeat until logo = warm feeling. Mission accomplished. Devious and outright mechanical, but effective. I agree, but I also don't think that's a new development, been going on for a long time. Some of us have just reached the point in the process where we're the ones that now recognize the oldies that are being played in the commercials as "our" music. Granted, but just because it isn't a new development doesn't lend it "credibility" either. The damn shysters.

Ace Cannon Boots Randolf Carbine Williams

Exactly. In particular, most of the metropolitan areas on or near the U.S. seaboard are highly susceptible to natural disasters of one type or another. I have lived in southern California for essentially my entire life, and I cannot recall fires as damaging as these ones now raging. Anything's possible, but, I think we need to think in historical terms and include events, e.g. earthquakes, mudslides, in the past 50 years or so(?).

Does this mean that Richard Harris is gay?

*groan*

I like the way business panders to my nostalgia to sell their shit.

contessa entellina Count Chokolate Barbara Hershey

This warrants further sutdy, er, study.

Frankie Lane Francis the talking mule Zane Grey

I think in "jive"/slang (English) a lot, because I tend to be too literalistic and jive/slang puts things in a more realistic(and humorous) perspective.

heart-warming

This is my #2, reaching into an eclectic field, e.g. some country, some folk, some rock, some classical, some "soul." Jazz is #1.