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I was just about to say "well looks as if mine won't arrive til Monday" when I heard a "plop" on my porch. . . . #92 has arrived.

NYC From this page: http://www.nathanielturner.com/charlieparker.htm The other Bobs who indulged wisely in the flaming feathers of Charlie Parker back in those Beat G days were Bob Parent, a very good photographer and hipster, unlike Fred MacDarrah who wasn’t hip at all to jazz or Bird, but Fred did produce two valid books: The Beat Scene and The Artists World, plus started a lucrative business of Rent A Beatnik. Another Bob was Robert C. Reisner, a hipster who taught jazz at Brooklyn College and ran the hippest weekend jazz club in New York at that Beat G time: The Open Door, at the corner of west Broadway and 4th Street, in the Village. Gilbert Milstein for being hip enough to recognize the merits and the avant garde living conditions Kerouac’s On the Road warned America. He reviewed the book for the N.Y. Times Book Review 1957.

Man, Lost was intense. Right now "Men Behaving Badly," Season 1

36 dollars new at Amazon, I paid I think more than twice that when it first came out long ago! It's worth it.

The box set "Turn Out the Stars" featuring Bill Evans' final trio live, is back in print and reasonably priced. This is phenomenal music. This is perhaps (I say perhaps) the best recorded of the final trio's live output and the music is Evans at his best, in my opinion. I'm very happy to see this back in print. I really love this music. It encompasses many moods and feelings and has much for the brain to work on as well. I like Evans of all periods, but I do reach for this final one a bit more often. In many ways he left us at the top of his piano playing.

Human. Willing to explor the Kardashian Empire.

I have a promo set as well with no numbers. I don't have any with numbers lower than double digits, 27 is I think the lowest that I have. . . got that one through immediate preorder.

Good stuff! Probably uses recent remastering. I bet you enjoy it a lot!

An episode of Lois & Clark, Season 4, starring Drew Carey and. . .Kathy Kinney (Mimi.)

She's beautiful, but she needs to eat. Quite a few meals!

I really like Lift Every Voice, and the expanded cd release. REALLY. My least favorite Hill is Point of Departure. Just doesn't do anything for me. It's too bad he's gone. He had many good ones left in him.

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I knew it would be good, because of J. J. . . .But I am disappointed that they almost cut loose from the past but had to bring in that damned old fart ringer. Weakness on their part in my opinion.

I'm glad you're enjoying the bike. I'm enjoying mine more and more as it gets miles on it and I get it set up as I like. And I've always loved the looks of it, and the feel of it. Those 400-Fs are fun but I'm glad I don't have one now. My bike is so much better in all ways! But I loved mine then. It was very very good to me. I ride all year round and so I have lots of jackets. I have two L. L. Bean replica WWII flight jackets, I've had at least one of these for over twenty-three years. One is insulated with 3M thinsulite and the warmest jacket I've ever had. I also have two Harley denim jackets, one with a button out fleece chest lining. I also have a Harley "fatigue" style jacket with a quilted lining, very warm and very practical with lots of secure pockets. I have three Levi's denim jackets, one flannel-lined. I have two canvas zipper jackets for warm weather driving. Starting about this time of year most of the jackets get hung up and left alone for four or five months unless I take to the road for days or do a lot of night riding. I haven't ever had a mesh jacket to use on th road. I may look into one of some type with a bit of armor if I find one that is REALLY light enough for summer here. I hear people talk about them as being cool enough for Texas summers. . . but I've never actually found anyone to verify that. Very very very few riders wear jackets here in the summer. Period. I know we should protect our skin. I was given a Vanson mesh jacket with armor as a gift, very nice, but too small for me, and too warm for summer use really, sorry to say. I'll have to look into a kevlar mesh shirt or something. Maybe. It seems so. . . well it's not the kind of thing I'm used to.

I'd be interested in this as well. John, have you sent this in as a suggestion to Mosaic?

I am definitely not addicted to exercise! I try to walk three to five miles a day but that and some drumming is it. I want to add that when I said I was addicted to my girlfriend I did not mean it in any "cute" way. I try to keep cuteness to a minimum in deference to Chuck. I meant it pretty literally. . . I want to be with her all the time, in a very loving way. I've had nothing but joy when I'm with her for almost a year. Pretty phenomenal. And addicting.

Looks like a cool bike. I had an air-cooled Honda four in my first street bike, a Honda 400-Four I think it was called. A reliable and sporty fella. Had many fun miles on it, including a cross-country trip, believe it or not. Mine looked like this, without the mudflap. My mom thought it was a great color of blue. She was really opposed to me getting a street bike, she was okay with me riding dirt bikes, but when she saw this she thought it was so pretty and the heat was off. I wasn't living at home but I was still living around. She started buying me things for the bike that matched the color, like a back pack and rain wear. Freaked me out at first but was better than lectures.

I believed that "Hitler was his man" was a dramatic overexagerration, all I'll say is I can believe the anti-semitism charge may be true, I'm not dismissing it outright out of some sort of vision of what my jazz heroes should be like. (I've also observed as Jim has that not all prejudice leads to extremist stances). I know from experience that heroes are far less idealized than we think or a PR department might wish us to think. That's all. Even the sanitized version of Zawinul I've seen showed fierce egotism. I think youmustbe may possibly have told us the truth in important ways. One can say: so what. I've learned to do that with heroes.

Well, I put hours and hours on the Corbin seat. Unbelievable. The most comfortable seat I've ever had. So glad I ordered it. So, despite what Kevin read on the internet, I have had a very very positive experience with a Corbin seat. With the True-Track and the Superbrace installed on my Fat Bob I'm getting the type of handling I wanted but didn't really have the right to expect out of the stock Fat Bob. And I'm really enjoying riding and I'm building up to a road trip. . . .

I'm calling my mother in just one minute. Happy day all you mothers!

I haven't seen many of the other movies . . . not that much of a Star Trek fan I confess. Drove up to Waco today because the weather was good and saw this movie there. (Drove to San Antonio yesterday and saw Ghosts of Girlfriends Past which I enjoyed.) I'm down with J. J. and I think he did a good job. I'm glad to see it all reinvented. SPOILER: I hate that they brought in one of the original characters and hate the whole method they used to "make this all new again." Trite, silly, dumb. I wish they'd just introduced the new staff as they did and gone on with it. That's a big beef I have with this one. But I DID like the backstories of the characters, I did like the environment. I hope they take it somewhere new. (Enough of Klingons and Romulans etc. They can always get to those later.)

You'll never forget them, you'll have them within your memories. That's how I feel about my late wife. I think of her everyday, and I'm very happy to have had her in my life and to have her still here within me.

I'm a big Henry Miller fan, I think his writing is important to American literature. I like the Sexus/Plexus/Nexus trilogy better than the two Tropics. I really like two posthumous releases, Moloch, and Crazy Cock. I'm also a big fan of less "fictional" more "opinionated" works like The Books in my Life, The Colossus of Marousi, and The Air Conditioned Nigthtmare.