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You know these tapes circulate among collectors for YEARS. They don't HAVE to have been from uploads, which are quite late to the distribution systems. Too bad that such great music comes out and benefits the artists not at all. Neither downloads, nor boot cds or the tapes going around. Just the way of the world I guess. You know these tapes circulate among collectors for YEARS. They don't HAVE to have been from uploads, which are quite late to the distribution systems. Too bad that such great music comes out and benefits the artists not at all. Neither downloads, nor boot cds or the tapes going around. Just the way of the world I guess.

The beginning was pretty stressful, with a constant battle to stay with the agency I spent more than 24 years with by the end of my state career. It had gone south fast and was in its peak of crappiness by 2002. I made a severe job change to stay employed and was unhappier by the day. Faced with her own challenges working at the University, my wife was frazzled but a great haven for me. When I finally got a bit of a chance to relax into my job, my wife was diagnosed with lymphoma and we spent two years battling the disease, ultimately unsuccessfully. I had to fight to remain employed all over again, and also to have every bit of time I needed to be a support for her throughout her treatment. I just managed to do that up to her death and literally while I was at her deathbed my job was changed radically again and for the worse, and I lasted it out bravely another seven months and was able to retire myself out of it. I got through my grief, I gained some financial independence, and I gained a new love in my life all in 2008. 2009 has been a year of comfort and ease in many ways. Additionally, I've been able to help a few friends and that is a good thing. I consider the decade closing off well for me, and I'm beginning to think of employment. Still no clue what to seek, but it will come to me soon. It will be good to get back in the stream of things, a different stream I hope.

My favorite of those sets is the Parker and the Stitt! Nice to have choices. You had a great Xmas!

I don't do vinyl any longer really. Wish this were also a cd release! Right now I'm listening to the Armstrong.

Ha, you really are a dreamer! I'd love to see the entire collection on Savoy in one place. . . .A Mosaic. It's possible I guess, but I'm dreaming too.

I've seen both 9 and Avatar. . . . Really liked Avatar much better. 9 was "okay." Want to see "Nine."

Bad news. I hope he recovers.

Randy, thanks for joining us again. So sorry to hear of the hardships.

Glad you didn't finish the drink. Hope it was a great one!

VB II: Glad you got it and enjoy it. I might get it one day. It's such a . . . historical document.

Oh Caravanserai is wonderful. No doubt you'll enjoy it.

Look at Claudia. . . desolated she missed it. Hope it was a great one!

Happy Holidays, and please. . . be safe. Don't drink and drive.

It's really the other way around: Emarcy was created by Mercury Records to be their jazz label.

Bye Terry! Wish you had recorded more. Quite a player!

"I Thought About You" my favorite track from the Miles Davis '63 Antibes Festival performance. First discovered this on the four cd set "The Columbia Years," then in better sound on the "Seven Steps" box set, and it's now on the separate "Miles in Europe" cd (and in the new Columbia Album Collection set). Just beautiful and moving.

Thanks. Oh I know. . . I love Lost. . .I've watched all the seasons more than once. I was actually looking for a tanktop photo/still from the movie Avatar. Not yet. . . .

I gave you credit, and that's the way it's going to stay.

I just read that post to my girlfriend over the phone and she burst out laughing.

I was disappointed with that book, but it did have some interesting information. He could have spared me a lot of his sociological surmises however.

You did good Flurin, you're going to like these.

I don't associate Gaia ('the Gaia hypothesis') with feminism at all. It's eco-conservatism in the extreme perhaps, and the "mother" aspect seems totally removed from human female motherness to me. I read a fascinating book recently that examined gnosticism and eco-conservatism, very well thought out and compiled book, "In Her Image," Cameron's vision of this planet fits right into the ideas in this book.

ESP

Couldn't find a tank top picture!