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This just doesn't seem vicious!

About hearing loss (stood too close to cymbals for about 20 years as a bass player -- and the guitarist's amp didn't help a lot either!): I mistakenly thought that because loud sounds, like fire engines and rock guitars, started sounding LOUDER I wasn't having hearing loss. I was completely wrong! It's called "recruitment" and it usually involves the same frequencies where you have developed a deficit. Here's a LINK that lists manufacturers of those custom sound-attenuating earplugs (scroll to bottom).

Rooster Ties, your avatar man looks decidedly like Ben Affleck. I don't know what the point of this post is... other than curiosity...

Bassists: Slam Stewart! Major Holley, too. Also, trombonist Ray Anderson. (And on the classical tip, Glenn Gould unable to hold himself back from singing along here and there while playing Bach.)

You're right, Moose. I must confess, I was afraid to be the first to go against the crowd here! "Slave" is certainly a very vivid term -- witness its use by Grace Jones and Nas. I think there's a difference between total language policing and thoughtfulness toward the people you need to work with! I mean, free speech should allow people to say "when I hear 'master/slave' it brings up some disturbing mental images I don't want to think about when I'm trying to concentrate on my job skills!" ("Boss/drone" might work for computers.) When I was about 11 and first heard the terminology "male/female" for plugs and sockets, it scared me, it just did (wondering about being penetrated chased electronics right out of my head). Forty years later, it doesn't -- but if I was teaching shop to kids and wanted the girls to learn, I would come up with a different pair of terms! (I heard a pair about 15 years ago that seemed great, but of course I've forgotten now! But "prong" and "socket" seem pretty clear.) Thoughtfulness isn't a BAD thing. Free speech should be a two-way street: if my intention was not to offend, but someone I care about takes offense, I reconsider my metaphors.

lyrics from rapper Nas (son of Olu Dara): "They shootin'! -- Aw made you look You a slave to a page in my rhyme book"

Wisconsin, no. Ohio, yes! My sister + brother-in-law + their 3 kids live in Duluth. It's beautiful in the summer (even then, you'd better bring along a warm jacket for the occasional 48 degree day in August). I had to go there one December -- it's only for devotees of snow, ice and subzero weather! There's a free summer festival on the beautiful Lake Superior shore featuring mostly regional bands and one "name" -- Buddy Guy in the summer of 2000 -- and mostly blues/bluegrass/folk-rockish-northwoodsy-singer-songwriters. Don't know that jazz has reached there... There is a local airport, but it costs a fortune to fly there. I flew to Minneapolis/St. Paul AND rented a car for 1/4th the cost of a "New York to Duluth" flight. There's some good food. The scenery's beautiful. Finnish Family Sauna has been closed down following the discovery of NON-family-style massages having been proffered after hours. Still a GREAT (and great-big) used-book-and-old-magazine store downtown. An hour north of Duluth is a memorial to the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Takes me that long just to get out of bed AFTER I've woken up. -_- I resemble that remark... Congratulations, PHILLYQ! Impressive!

The Milwaukee Braves of 55-59 were my kindergarten-era heroes (then we moved from Milwaukee to the sticks). Baseball began for me like this: 4 years old, back yard, summer afternoon, my dad mowing the lawn (push mower) between breaks in the hammock with a bottle of beer, and the Braves announcer on the radio ("Joe AAAADcock, Lew BurDETTE, Billy BRU-ton, AARON! AARON! AARON!, Spahn STRUCK him out swinging") -- you know? just soaking up the language and excitement and mysterious importance of the names? Anyway, here's one more pic and the NY Times obit (though I won't vouch for the accuracy of the stats!):

Wingy -- please note, this is the MISCELLANEOUS forum.

And I'd be most upset that someone shot off a high-powered rifle in close proximity to my yard and house. I'd be worrying about more than the wildlife: pets, property, family...

Like the professional athletes who somehow manage to seed a sentence with 'you know'...two or three times over? I always enjoy hearing that peculiar placeholder 'jigga' (sp?) that the Chinese use so liberally. Doch, doch, na ja. Eben!

Thank thee! I suspected we needed some grammar lessons! But I think it's a little late to bring "thee" back -- it's probably trademarked by Quaker Oats!

Two interesting points, Uncle Skid! They kind of epitomize where my feelings diverge. Yeah, I'm annoyed or amused by mistakes like "the point is mute" or the confusion of it's (it is) and its (of or belonging to "it"). Especially when it's done by people who believe they're in the know! But youse guys, you guys (as we said in Wisconsin), yuhz, yooce, alla yez, YOU-all, y'all, "you lot" (as Bev may say?) -- people may call it "wrong" or "quaint" but it actually fills a grammatical need that "standard" English somehow lost (while "transitioning" from old Norse/Saxon/French roots?) -- the need for the second person plural! Lots of other languages have it, but we don't! So every little region comes up with its way of making itself clear! And I believe youse guyses might be youse guys's (of or belonging to all of you)! ("Is this youse guys's check?")

Interesting that "Vox Day" is the way you pronounce "Vox Dei" -- Latin for "the voice of God." And he's criticizing "the proud atheist"? Plus it just strikes me as weird (more lack of "internal consistency") -- the website is called "Vox Populi" -- these terms are linked NOT in Christian theology or politics but ancient ROMAN! The motto of the Roman Senate was originally "Vox populi, vox Dei" meaning that whatever the Senate voted for, reflecting the will of the people, would turn out to be a revelation of what God wanted all along. Then, as the emperors got more megalomaniac, the phrase got switched around: "Vox Dei, vox populi" -- when the divine emperor speaks, the people have been spoken for.

Good site, but I know several friends (and occasional sidemen) of Bluiett's who ALL say HAM - it so I don't know why it's listed as "alternative" by WWUH. Also, I thought Phineas Newborn was pronounced "Fine-ness" -- at least, I'm always getting corrected when I say "Finny-us"!!!

Since I first looked at this page, I'm now seeing metal hats everywhere -- this was in today's New York Times: James Joyce's daughter Lucia in a dance performance, Paris, 1929.

Do they serve potent potables at DisneyWorld? (I'm decoding Weizen's post to mean the kids are dragging their parents to Orlando for Thanksgiving -- is that right? We took our son to Disneyland ONCE, for one day, when he was 10 -- I did most of the rides, while dad hung out in "Old New Orleans" and really enjoyed the live band -- when mom and son caught up with dad, he was hanging briefly with the clarinetist on break -- I think they made each other's day, with dad saying he never expected to hear blowing like that in "the happiest place on earth" and the clarinetist saying he was glad somebody noticed!) As for this Thanksgiving, my son will be home from college -- I'll make turkey with wild rice stuffing and gravy, plus sweet potatoes, cranberries, some garlic-slathered green and/or leafy vegetables...

I had to laugh at the cat ears poking through the top of the hat.

Autumn (Girl with Apple), Prudence Heward (1942)

Tile from the Astor Place subway station in NYC (Jacob Astor made his fortune in the fur trade):

William Parker

Mary Lou Williams

And a band I was in recorded a tune entitled "Blood Meridian" in 1998!