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Deal! Except I'll leave your name off if I think you may suspect forgery! (My religious beliefs tell me that God appreciates the intent to honor him, regardless of the skill of the praiser -- "pa-rum-pum-pum-pum" and all...)

I'm doing the best I can!

you have blue skin?? Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 525 AM EST FRI FEB 6 2004 ... A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS... IN NEW YORK... SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER... BRONX... NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)... ... HEAVY RAIN HEADING OUR WAY... AS ANOTHER WINTER STORM HEADS OUR WAY TODAY... THE MORNING MIXTURE OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO PLAIN RAIN ACROSS THE WATCH AREA BY LATE THIS MORNING OR VERY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE RAIN WILL LIKELY BE HEAVY AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. AT THIS TIME... A WIDESPREAD 1 TO 2 INCH RAINFALL IS EXPECTED... WITH VERY LOCALIZED AMOUNTS OF UP TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE... ESPECIALLY OVER LONG ISLAND. THIS RAIN... ON TOP OF SOME SNOW... WILL CREATE URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. THE PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF LATE TONIGHT.

Thanks for the Gottschalk reference, Muskrat Ramble! I actually played a number of his pieces as a piano student in college (and used them for "atmosphere" in a production of a play set in 1898 for which I was the musical director) but I never knew all this about his background.

Very true. The culture has to be elevated; the attitudes need to be elevated; the expectations need to be elevated. And possibly the minimum wage and employment options, too...

Maren.jpg: There IS a certain resemblance, but it's a few years since I've hennaed my hair to that shade...

Look HERE, Peter -- there are all kinds of Indian groceries in Philly! (I myself happen to live 4 blocks away from a hotbed of Indian groceries and restaurants here in NYC.) I've given the Julie Sahni book as a birthday present -- at the time it was only out in hardcover, absolutely lovely -- and cost more than I would spend on myself! I've gotten lots of great crowd-pleasing meals out of the Jaffrey.

Maybe it will help return me to the good graces of Deus62 ! A lot of the above I had already known, but not the World's Fair story, nor the extent of Still's apprenticeship with W.C. Handy. Kind of a mirror image of bluesForBartok's suggestion of Still's influence as an avant-gardist on Herbie Hancock et al. A bio I read somewhere said Still's mother was very upset when he went to work with Handy -- she had raised him to play violin, on a steady diet of 19th century European classical music. [some parallels to another African-American 20th century "classical" composer, Ulysses Kay -- whose uncle strongly encouraged him to pursue that "legitimate" vein of music -- let's see, his uncle's name was, it's coming to me -- KING OLIVER!]

I've heard his "Suite for Violin and Piano" (at a Juilliard violinist's senior recital, exciting) but no recordings. I've been aware of him as "the dean of African-American composers" -- he: studied, played with and arranged for W.C. Handy (1916-21) and then studied with Varese (1923) premier of his Symphony in G was conducted by Leopold Stokowski in 1937 (off-the-wall segue: I just recently saw that Bugs Bunny cartoon where he flings his ears back and stalks to the podium, with the audience murmuring "Leopold! Leopold!") did a lot of scoring/composing/orchestrating for radio, films (Stormy Weather, Pennies From Heaven, Lost Horizons) and TV (Perry Mason, Gunsmoke) He also wrote theme music for the 1939 World's Fair (where this picture of Still and Handy is from): BUT From: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sgo/start.html

I'd recommend starting with Madhur Jaffrey's "An Invitation to Indian Cooking" It should be easy to get in paperback. She has a bunch of books out -- this one is GREAT (I also have her "World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking" but am not crazy about it). Anyway, "Invitation to Indian Cooking" is very easy to follow, has tons of recipes, tells you where to get ingredients and what to substitute if you can't. (In my experience, once you get used to making a few dishes, you could try cutting back on the amount of oil the recipes call for -- I pretty much get by with HALF.)

Uh-oh...

For today's bar mitzvah boy:

Very sorry for your loss -- your mother is surely reflected and lives on in the strong and loving connections between you, your wife and your father. My thoughts are with you all.

What is this plug-in model? Not battery-powered???

Maybe John Lennon was wrong after all.... But at least Galileo was right...

I guess sisterhood IS powerful, because here's what happens when the contest is one-on-one!

I was expecting something more like THIS...

Berigan, that story ranks right up there with this blast from the past:

Oh. My. God.