paul secor

"Yogi" makes more sense than most critics.

What book or collection is this from? From A.B. Spellman: Things I Must Have Known - Coffee House Press (2008) I have a copy of his first collection, The Beautiful Days, from 1965. This one, his first collection of poems since then, slipped under my radar until earlier this year.

Abbott and Costello Jim Abbott The Fugitive

Thought this would be an appropriate place to post A.B. Spellman's poem, "Bobby's Ballad". Bobby's Ballad by A.B. Spellman bobby hutcherson is playing polka dots and moonbeams & it's so clean & pretty you'll miss the lyric if you listen lite. bobby tests you to hear a voice on the other side of beauty that asks then answers the questions you never thought to pose. his vibes lift a soft tintinabuluation to the ballroom's cornices where the notes merge as bell tones do then float back down upon us. if you could descry bobby's song with your prismatic eye it would describe a silver rain i'm remembering bobby as i knew him in 1964 on the lower east side when nothing stopped anything we tried we learned the discipline of freedom & tuned our minds with the substance of the hour--- it could be weed, it could be war, it could instant, disposable love it could be any of our little teeny revolutions but now at the frisco bay his voice weighs much more as i hope mines does. he's found the balance that we fought to escape & it's better than it was though the people we used to be would laugh at us & call us square. this is the failure of hipness it stands casually in the mind of now & pulls a reflecting shade down the eyes so it can admire itself uninterrupted carpe diem my ass: the now has no body save what eidetc form reflection lays upon it such is the truth of bobby's song as he floats plump effulgent polka dots into the argent beams of the bayside moon.

Before I forget, thanks for bringing Dewey Phillips to Organissimo. It had been a long time since that CD was in my player.

Basil Bunting Phil Rizzuto Huckleberry Hound

Miss Peaches Little Miss Cornshucks Little Miss Dynamite

Has anyone heard the Pacifica Quartet's recording of String Quartet No. 13 and String Quintet op. 97? http://www.amazon.com/Dvor%C3%A1k-String-Quartet-Op-Quintet/dp/B00005UCI2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1346879704&sr=1-1&keywords=pacifica+quartet+dvorak

Peter and Gordon G. Gordon Liddy Tim Leary

Dewey Phillips was a wild man who never had a chance of lasting long - either as a dj or as a person. Was just listening to Red Hot & Blue, a collection of radio show airchecks. At one point, he's trying to read a list of requests, and he mumbles, "I cain't read too good. I just had a morphine shot." At another point, singing along on air with a melismatic portion of an Amos Milburn record, he comes out with, "I just swallowed my gold tooth." Listening to him is entertaining, but it's immediately obvious that it wouldn't be long before he imploded and crashed.

Dr. Strangeglove Slim Pickens Fats Navarro

Happy Birthday!

Charlie Pride Lew Ayres Donna the Prima Donna

Wish that someone had recorded and issued Cecil Taylor's music from The Connection. Though possibly some of the Candid material relates to that.

Dyan Cannon Jim Wynn Julian Adderley

Boplicity issued it on CD - Boplicity 019. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/ReddFreddie-ldr.php Scroll down to June 13, 1960.

Rosey Brown Ray Wietecha Jack Stroud

Margaret Millar: Beyond This Point Are Monsters A dark book.

But it does demolish any legal logic used to justify this board policy. The point of the policy, I presume, is to immunize Jim from lawsuits lodged by copyright holders. But if the world's largest online retailer is selling the product, arguing that linking to such products will amount to likely lawsuits for Jim makes no sense. The point of a lawsuit is to obtain relief from harm; if nobody is bothering to sue Amazon, which is causing about 1,000,000x the harm Jim is in such a case...then why does Jim have anything to fear? It's asinine. Jim established the Organissimo board. He made the rules. If we want to remain here, we follow them. It's as simple as that. It seems ridiculous that people have to quibble over nonsense. Nice. Then if that's the rationale, let's just replace Forums Discussion with a pinned thread that says BECAUSE JIM IS THE DAD AND HE SAYS SO and leave it at that. Jim isn't my dad, but it's his site and I know I have to abide by the rules if I want to continue posting here. If I don't want to abide by Jim's rules, I can start my own site.

But it does demolish any legal logic used to justify this board policy. The point of the policy, I presume, is to immunize Jim from lawsuits lodged by copyright holders. But if the world's largest online retailer is selling the product, arguing that linking to such products will amount to likely lawsuits for Jim makes no sense. The point of a lawsuit is to obtain relief from harm; if nobody is bothering to sue Amazon, which is causing about 1,000,000x the harm Jim is in such a case...then why does Jim have anything to fear? It's asinine. Jim established the Organissimo board. He made the rules. If we want to remain here, we follow them. It's as simple as that. It seems ridiculous that people have to quibble over nonsense.

If it looks like a bootleg, it probably is a bootleg. Don't post a link and let people find their own way to it. If they want it, they'll find it. Simple enough.

Lord Buckley Lady Chatterley Loverboy

Paul Smoker Bertha Butt Snuffy Stirnweiss

Harry Barris Bing Crosby Al Rinker

The Beasts of Bourbon Tht Whiskeyhill Singers Gin Blossoms