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I head back to NY tomorrow. Record low at JFK yesterday and I'm glad I missed it.

Sorry to hear about the loss of your cat, Flurin.

If so, the most I can contribute is an illustrative image of Fiat. I never was too good with my gazintas.

Your list make take the prize since it includes Sha Na Na and Dr. Hook. The others I can understand. A few for me..... Rick Springfield and not 1980s Rick Springfield, but rather attempted comeback Rick Springfield in a casino lounge type show. My ex-wife was a dip shit fan and conned me into it before we were married. The things we fuckin' do for the ladies. Billy Squire, although I only stayed about 15-20 minutes after the opening act was done (Def Leppard).

Okay, okay, just in case I've never mentioned it before. I hate snakes, and that means all kinds, colors, and sizes.

Ditto! hehe

You're not alone in your opinion of his playing on "All Music".

All dumbass snakes deserve to die.

Belated birthday wishes to both of you.

Best wishes to all.

Happy Birthday, TM.

Ive defintely heard it before and am thinking along the lines of a 70s TV show theme song. But I was unsuccesful in pinning it down, so I'm probably wrong. That's my thinking as well. It almost sounds like it could be "walking around" music from one of the Peanuts specials. Yeah,"walking around" or "background" music could be it. Peanuts? Fat Albert? ??????????

I'm hoping JS will re-consider. I volunteered to be a moderator to help Jim out. to relieve some of the stress that administering the board was causing him. If there's going to be a big stink about a "bullying moderator" every time I piss somebody off, rightly or wrongly (and I'd like to think that I have a history of recognizing when I've caused inadvertent offense and acknowledging same), then that's not helping Jim. And apparently there's always going to be the risk of that, because of the whole fixation that some people have with the "power of the post count", as if the number of posts you have equates with the amount of land you own or something like that. Wake up folks - this is cyberspace, not The Old West. There is no such thing as "land" here. All posts are equal going in, and the only thing that gives any post "power" is people deciding that they're going to let it have some. That means that if you like something I post, you are choosing to like it, and if you don't like it, you are choosing to not like it. The cool thing about cyberspace is that you can pretty much "be" anybody you want to be - if you believe in yourself enough to be that somebody. If you don't, then nobody can bring you up but yourself. Unlike real life, where there's always bosses and co-workers who you need to form alliances with and against in ways that inevitably end up having nothing to do with "the work at hand", in a community such as this, it's all about the content. And as Jim correctly implies, your content is what you make of it. Look - over the years I've gottten into diputes here with people for whom I have the highest respect for about things like house music, opera, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Max Roach, imaginary "what are you listening to now" posts, all kinds of things. Hell Chuck's all but called me an apostate for getting into the dance music thing like I have. Do I now, or have I ever felt "bullied" by these disagreements? Frankly, yeah, but only for a moment. I think it's totally natural for one's first reaction to be one of "betrayal" when somebody whom you love/respect/whatever tells you that for all intents and purposes that you're full of shit. But then you have three choices - retreat into submission ("I'll not say that again!"), play the passive-agressive card ("well, I'm not as fill in the blank as you, so what do I know other than what I like, wrong as it probably is" ) or you can just accept the fact that you're never going to agree on everything with everybody, accept that some things you disagree with some people about are going to bring out some fire in them, and accept that love ain't always gonna be pretty, but even when it's ugly, it's still love, and love beats the alternative any day. I really feel bad that Hot Ptah felt that: That's a bit....never mind. And it appears that he might have some shit going on in his persopanl lfe that's stressing him out. Hey, it happens, and I can relate. But the notion that the dialogue on this board has to take only one "tone" because me or a few other posters accept it, participate in it, at times even thrive in it, is, unfortunately, a self-fulfilling prophecy. This board is a blank canvas - you can put on it what you want to. Now, if you're looking to express yourself, hey, go for that. Right on! Just know that not everybody here is gonna dig it. And if you're looking for "recreational value", hey, go for that too. Right on! Just know that not everybody here is here for that type experience - some people are here to talk about music in depth and with passion, which means that it ain't alwasy gonna be sweetness and light, because life ain't always sweetness and light, so music - and the in-depth discussion of it - ain't always gonna be either. If those type discussion aren't for you, hey, they're not always for me either. But I ain't gonna let it ruin my day, and I sure ain't gonna feel like The Big Bad Organissimo Board is oppressing me and/or depriving me of my peronal dignity. Whaddup with THAT? Yes, this is what I think, how I feel, and this is the attitude that I carry into my dialogues here on the board. As much as I would really like to assist Jim w/moderation duties, it is apparent to me that this attitude is not compatable with carrying an "official" title (although, geez, all I did while I was a moderator was delete some newbie's personal phone # from a post, kill a few overt spam posts, move a few threads, and delete a few duplcate posts. Hardly a chance to get "drunk with power" or anything ). If I'm going to be seen by some as an asshole (and I guess I'm going to be), let me be seen as being My Own Personal Asshole (wasn't that a "feel good" movie back in the 90s?), not The Asshole Who Helps Run The Organissimo Board. Part of me feels selfish in placing my own need to post over the need to assist w/administrative duties, but another part of me recognizes that I ain't ready to sit back and not express an opinion anymore - actually, I'm incapable of it right now, still - and that my "role" as "content provider" here is still valued by some. So, in a conflict of interest that's inevitably going to cause friction from time to time, I'm choosing the scenario that will displace the friction to me personally and not to The Organissimo Board Administration. I can hear it now, somebody somewhere is going to be saying "well that's all good and shit, but the bottom line is that you still set the tone for the board and if we don't like it we can't do anything about it and etcetcetc" Look - for once and for all - You have a choice as to what you do or do not say. You have a choice as toi how you "feel". You have a choice as to whether or not somebody who disagrees with you "makes" you "feel bad" or not. You have a choice as to how much or how little comfort you feel with your belief in your convictions. In short - use your choices, and use them to be who you want to be. It's the adult thing to do. Now, I'm starting to sound like a freakin' bad motivational speaker, I'm definitely getting sick of talking about myself, and I really don't think that Oscar Peterson is worth all this drama. Can we possibly just move on now? Still, you were a logical choice for a moderator and I don't think any of this little shit should have made you feel like it was best to step aside.

That was the beauty of it.

I'm hoping JS will re-consider.

Ive defintely heard it before and am thinking along the lines of a 70s TV show theme song. But I was unsuccesful in pinning it down, so I'm probably wrong.

Mark, I'd add one thing. If you haven't done it already, get yourself another kitty. Pets can be a lot of help with a move and getting over shit.

I'm sorry for your current problem Mark, but have no doubts you will move on and have a much better future. Can't say I blame you for not wanting to stay in Pineville. I would have been gone before she even finished the "it's not you, it's me" bit. In all seriousness, best of luck in your move wherever that may be.

I wish you hadn't resigned as moderator, JS. Any chance you will reconsider that one?

Thanks, Rachel. I'm glad to hear you're still cornerless.

I'm hoping Rachel will happen upon this thread and let loose a chuckle post to bail me out. 3....2....1.....

Tilting at half-mast in some fat blue tub, all the ice melted into moldy water... oh yeah, those mornings-after! Here in B-town the police would occasionally confiscate the keg if your party got busted, and then you were out an $80 deposit. Never happened to me, but had a friend get shafted that way. Shit, I lost one once, it hurts.

I hear yeah. After all, why them mutherfukkas round if not to roll themselves back home? Myself, I blame us - we romanticized the kegs too much, they got to thinking that we needed them rather than the other way around, and they just got lazy. Let's put some corners on their asses and see how they like that! Are we talking about kegs here, or women?

I don't blame the keg as much as I do the dip shit doing the tap work. A keg tapped properly can be just fine, one done poorly is a foaming nightmare. One major downside was the hassle of having to return it the morning after to get your deposit back. Kegs should have been able to find their own way home.

No doubt that was said after somebody passed a hat around to collect cash for another keg. Shall we start a "I-never-cared-for-a-kegless-party" thread? Now that should create some unamity! Truth be told, I often found keg beer to be flat or have an ackward taste, so I used to keep a private stash on hand and pour it into the standard red plastic party cup. Of course, this is not to say I didn't respect the principals and necessity of the keg. And I always donated to the cause, private stash or not.