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"Yet another groundbreaking story from the pages of the medical journal, 'DUH' ..." (Norm MacDonald on SNL's Weekend Update: "A person who suffers two sharp, powerful blows to the head within a short period of time can suffer brain damage or even die, according to a new study in the medical journal, 'DUH'!")

Very sad. Humbling to think of how vulnerable our bodies are -- at first I was stunned that someone who could presumably buy the best of care could succumb to an infected pressure sore -- but life really is precarious, even thought it houses a drive that's tenacious. Two good friends of mine went to high school with him, so I'm feeling this in a more personal way, too. Only 52 -- same age as me and my friends. RIP

I was in graduate school there, and met Chuck when I went by the record store and was amazed by the Art Ensemble window display, lps by Roscoe, Lester, et al. Asking who did it, I met Chuck. (Didn't know who it was I met until telling this story online, and Chuck said it was him). Caught the AEC performing in Spring '72 at the Newman (Roman Catholic) Center just off campus. I saw some great things at the Newman Center (including a reading by poet John Berryman) but I remember I had some school performance or rehearsal (classical) I couldn't get out of that AEC night... did see Cecil Taylor quite a bit while he was teaching there (including that very semester, I think).

I was in college in Madison when Chuck Nessa sold records there...

And the cherries are apparently having a threesome with whatever that green thingy is. But apparently what bothers the students most of all is that: Oh no! Female pleasure!

Well, as "spokesman Marco Alter said, 'The new wrapping is certainly fruitier than the old...' "

Parabens pelo seu aniversario! ou Parabenspara voce! ou Parabens e muitas felicidades! ou Feliz Aniversario! ou Parabens!

Happy birthday, Brad!

I never thought I knew "April in Portugal" -- but it must be the source of Mickey Katz's "Pesach in Portugal" (speaking of silly)...

Been there!

Yeah, that headline to the obit was annoying, but this (from the editorial page) was interesting:

What's really intriguing is that the COLOR green was the easiest to say -- the others were headache-inducing but for some reason when I saw green, the word green over-rode the printed word...

Wow, what timing -- I just had the same question myself, as I copy and paste, copy and paste...

Sorry, don't bother. I found it. Oh -- so I don't need to bring that one with me when I finally arrive for lunch in Vienna!

Are you serious or joking? I'm on something Judy recorded along with a million other people! And she once told me that a song of hers was a composition exercise she set for herself based on a song of mine... Yikes, if my actual name is Google-able on the board, I'll feel so inhibited from now on! Seriously. I'll have to take Paxil or something. AND go crawl in a hole. But I don't really mean to be coy either. The CD on Funny Rat is the Tom Cora posthumous compilation "It's a Brand New Day" (Knitting Factory).

Maybe this refers more to TEXT than images: A year ago some of us were discussing Yoko Ono's career as an artist in the 60s (Fluxus, anyone?), before she met John. Several of those pieces involved her being nude (or naked, I'm sure both words were used in the discussion). It was in the Politics forum, triggered by her 2003 announcement that she would (as the thread title put it) "repeat [her] naked appeal for world peace." Somebody mentioned it again somewhere here this summer. My comments about Yoko Ono in 2003 were also kind of my position statement on the Babe thread, prompted by some eager Babe thread participants being so snotty about Ono:

Interesting points, Jim. And related to why I've never posted in Funny Rat! That happens to be the only place on Organissimo where there has been mention of a CD that I actually played on... [Apologies to Chris Albertson, but I guess you'll have to start giving me the "Berigan" treatment -- I confess, "maren" is not my real name (has strong family ties, though)!] Anyway, some of the Funny Rat artists constitute a world I spend a lot of time in, and I feel a Funny Divide within myself -- I can comment on musicians I've never known, but when it comes to the world I've worked in, I feel much more reticent... I hope nobody minds too much! I really value the feeling of friendship I've found here while presenting my "day-job" persona!

Awww!!!

You mean Romance With the Unseen? No Dave Holland piece on there, but Don Byron's composition, "The Homegoing" (African American term for a funeral service) which is also on Ralph Peterson Presents the Fo'tet as "Homegoing (for Lee Morgan)." A beautiful composition.

and lest we forget: OMFUG!!! (that's a "No" vote, BTW)

Will everybody who plays the Walt Disney Hall "Organissimo" be outfitted by that Japanese clothing emporium "Cecil McBee"????

Anyone familiar with that dancehall crossover hit "Action" (by Terror Fabulous and Nadine Sutherland, around 1993: "I need some action, tender satisfaction")? That seemed intentionally microtonal -- with a didgeridoo-sounding bass line and Nadine Sutherland singing "extra-major" on her major thirds -- it was that not-quite-settled tonality that made me really like it -- and this from a genre that usually leaves me cold.

Between this and Johnny E's "vote for chicken pot pie" thread, I'm starving!!!!

Extremely creepy, that Willie Wonka movie. The first time I saw it was when my son was 3 or 4, and my father got it for the grandkids. I thought it was very S&M toward kids, tempting them with candy and then punishing them for it. As for the Wizard of Oz, the scariest parts for me were the talking trees, and when Auntie Em in the crystal ball dissolves into the Wicked Witch, cackling "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" But the Wizard of Oz seemed morally coherent about who were the bad guys and who were the good guys. Willie Wonka, though -- what a quagmire!

Again, no consideration for the women who post here!!! Well, I guess it's up to me... http://www.birdwatching.com/birdgalleries/...an_woodcock.htm