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Oh well, I think each episode has been a joy. To each his own. It depresses me that there are only two more episodes and then we've got to wait for a year. My comments aren't too objective about the show. It's more my state of mind with worries about some family and friend's health care concerns weighing on me. For me I'm wallowing in the misery of Walt's family, so it's tough to watch. Still I'm intrigued so I'm committed to keep watching.

I've been watching Breaking Bad. Two more episodes to go this season. Each episode is a chore to get through and I'll be relieved when it's over for the year.

I never realized that one of Miles' influences could have been squeaky doors. (RDK, your link was a real hit at last night's party!)

A lot of the Johhny Smith Mosaic relaxes me into a nice nap.

Reminds me of the Miles Davis comment to Coltrane about his lengthy solos when Coltrane said something to the effect that he had couldn't stop playing until he got all his ideas in. Miles said "then take the goddamn horn out of your mouth". Edit to remove bulk of post that now has no context. But I still like this Miles quote so I'll keep it.

Posts 60 and 61 (among many others over the years) are more examples of what makes this board so invaluable. How would I hear about experiences like these without this forum?

Bingo. How that is achieved and accomplished is one of those mysteries of life. All I hope for is that I'm aware enough to appreciate and enjoy it.

Enjoyed all Woody's books and standup too. ("If it wasn't for that bullet in my pocket, that Bible would have gone right through me".) Through him I became a fan of S J Perlman and PG Woodhouse. I believe Woody was also an admirer of Bob Hope's movies.

Oh no! I feel so awful for Chuck and others who were so close with him. What an amazing talent and person. I'm very very sorry to hear this.

I also loved the 5 and 10K races won by Mo Farrah as well as the back story of his friendship with the US runner . I never thought I'd root so hard for anyone in those particular events. I also was very happy for Allyson Felix and Missy Franklin. Just a few examples why these Olympics were so compelling for me.

to MG. I found a Gary Burton LP in the boiler room of my high school at the time. It was an ECM record with an orchestra. Someone wrote "Sucks!" with double underlines on the cover. It was so warped I never could play it.

I think I get it. They ate too much and got the runs. It's all in the telling. Funny stuff.

I shall endeavour to provide satisfaction. Might I venture to add - in all humility and sincerity - that I trust you shall not find it a surpassingly onerous, nor indeed an intolerably odious duty? Sounds like an introduction to a doctoral thesis that will prove to be onerous and, alas, intolerably odious. Otherwise I venture to add, in all humility, very well written if not surpassingly so.

Bump to mention my edit to my previous post.

I've always thought that $2.98 price for shipping was a rip. Edit to add the smiley face. Tried and failed to make a joke by being petty about the $2.98 shipping fee when the cd cost $1,000,000. (Sometimes I think my Alfred Neuman serves as my smiley face.)

I guess it's supposed to be symbolic but it is pretty ridiculous. Do the teams beaten byPenn State gain wins or are these games considered forfeits?

Thanks to you Matthew I figured out today's Jumble.

Two that, if we have time, my wife and I watch whenever they're on tv: Napoleon Dynamite Office Space

In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larsen

Also in the same movie: "that is one nutty hospital".

I'm surprised I never posted on this thread. I always liked the magazine satires drawn by George Woodbridge and Joe Orlando. I think GW drew Modern Teacher magazine and Gun Lovers (?) magazine, a Field and Stream type satire. Also Readers Digress...with a Gone With The Wind condensed novel, condensed to one page. ("Boom! 'Thank god that bloody war is over'...) I recently bought The Mad Genius of Comics: The Art of Harvey Kurtzman along with a hardback edition of all 11 issues of Humbug. Humbug was a somewhat overlooked humor mag started by Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth. An admittedly poor businessman, after leaving Mad, he struggled and lost money with Humbug and Help. Playboy hired Kurtzman but ended their upscale humor mag Trump after two issues. It wasn't until Little Annie Fanny that he became financially successful but artistically unsatisfied.

I thought a virus was taking over my computer.

Passed away March 16th. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio before moving to Toronto and then New York. Played one of my favorite cd's this morning, Alone Together, with Flip Philips.

After reading all the comments and never hearing the album before I expected the worst. But, of the first You Tube example that Rooster posted, I thought of the commercial where NBA player Blake Griffin tells his Kia to play him some funk. Not a bad groove! The second tune totally blew.

Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration