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Sounds like the majors know how to say Simon says. Threat of suing for copyright infringement catches the attention. On a tangent, Onion has this article on Google and privacy.Google Responds to Privacy Concerns (about Google Buzz)

What genre of music is YouTube blocking? I see many videos of copyrighted songs, even lots of YouTube links posted here, where you would think that's frowned upon. What is your son listening to? It's a rare take down, in my experience.

Thanks for posting! Columbus "Boy" Frugé lived into the 1980s. He is heard here playing accordion on two recordings from 1981. They are from 45 rpm records on a label called Buffalo. Johnny Richard was a drummer and James Thibodeaux a rhythm guitarist. Arnaudville Two Step Valse de LeBouef Saute crapaud! Ta queue va brûler! Mais prends courage, Elle va repousser. Va y donc, crapaud! L'hiver après prendre! Saute crapaud! Ta queue va brûler! Mets (mais?) chère Pauline Une tasse de café. Oh crapaud, Qui q'as fait ton gilet? C'est Rose Martin, La fille à maman.

I still don't see much balanced press coverage of this. Maybe the big story is this: How much does Google care about our privacy? Google would definitely NOT want that to be the story. They want it to be about Google as the non-judgmental host or conduit of information, but they will lose big time if the public begins to suspect that Google does not respect their privacy. To the person on the street, I bet it won't matter if viewers should have flagged the video instead of commented on it. Google's defense will sound like 'You should have said Simon says!' I bet most people on the street won't care if the list of most entertaining videos was generated by a 'bot or some hot shot. The issue will still be privacy. Anyway, it looks like the story may have run its course. For me, the bigger case is whether Google's settlement with the American Association of Publishers will allow it a preemptive monopoly of the market with Google Books.

From the Washington Post article on this story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022401170.html?hpid=sec-business "The prosecutor's case emphasized that the video had been viewed 5,500 times over the two months it was online, when it climbed to the top of Google Italy's "most entertaining" video list and had more than 80 comments, including users urging its removal. Google argued that it was unaware of the offensive material and acted swiftly to remove it after being notified by authorities, taking the video down within two hours." Sounds to me like Google was negligent. How could they have been unaware of their own "most entertaining" video list? And who are the "authorities" that finally got Google to delete its indexing? What about the users urging its removal? I am not satisfied with the press I have seen reporting on this. It's all so one-sided in favor of an absolute immunity for Google and supposed freedom of the Internet.

Can you explain what you mean by lacking in intensity, and why this kind of playing should be intense? I would say that Robbie Basho's music is quite intense, especially the music on his compilation, Guitar Soli. The Japanese sounding stuff is intense, such as Golden Shamrock.

Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin with Canray Fontenot - La Musique Creole The best portion of that cd was recorded by Dick Spottswood in Falls Church, Virginia in 1966 when Ardoin and Fontenot were returning to Louisiana from performing at the Newport Folk Festival. Probably the best black Creole music recorded since the 1930s. Accordion, fiddle, and triangle.

It's pretty much over for me. My favorites are ski jumping (by far) and luge, and they're pretty much done. I thought the first few days were exciting! Remember Wide World of Sports' opening, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat? To illustrate the agony of defeat, for years it had a clip of a ski jumper falling off the ski jump in Oberstdorf, Germany. I have been to that ski jump and it amazed me! Been a big fan of ski jumping ever since. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvkT2uMnIY (see around 0:12-0:17)

Reckoning that it began in 1903, can't wait for World Series CVII.

I just hope I can open the door to my house, that I am not shut in! I woke up and looked outside and indeed it looks to me like about 2 feet of snow on my patio. We're going to be hobbled by this for days. You know what JFK said about DC. Something like, it has all the charm of a northern city and all the efficiency of a southern one!

Got it here! From the Columbia 78. Shootin the Pistol

I think I have heard this Socarras thing in Joe Bussard's basement. Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings. Unfortunately the song itself is not available at Red Hot Jazz: http://www.redhotjazz.com/cwjazzkings.html

Django Reinhardt, or, as my wife called him the other day, Ringo Jinehart. Bill Evans. Jelly Roll Morton.

I can speak up for Harry Choates, Devil in the Bayou. Not only is the music so enjoyable, the cd producers Andrew Brown and David Sax did the best notes we have on this important figure in Cajun music. Now if only Choate(s) had recorded some of his great swing guitar playing. Supposedly that was his best stuff of all! On another note, Joe Bussard swears that Jimmy Murphy was the last great country music artist. Plays Murphy's music on his radio broadcasts just about every week.

The same thing happened in Washington DC with the station that played more bluegrass weekly than any other station in the country, WAMU. Demand was for more talk shows, the stuff you could get anywhere, while they relegated the unique stuff to HD radio. Strangely, one of the only music shows they kept was Hot Jazz Saturday Night (more of a big band era pop music show than a hot jazz thing anyway). Music is getting squeezed out everywhere.

On Bended Knee Great belly rubbing slow song!

Bobby Charles Guidry, composer of Walking to New Orleans and other swamp pop hits, has died at age 71. He had been in poor health the past few years. He will be missed. Obit here Yeah Yeah One Eyed Jack But I do

Just loved Tom Boswell's post in live chat at today's Washington Post, about Ken Griffey Jr. versus other players of his era: Tom Boswell: Junior is the perfect example of why we shouldn't throw open the doors of Cooperstown to all the cheaters. "Oh, everybody did it, so I don't want to keep anybody out, so I'll vote like there was no Steroid Age." What kind of Amoral Dumber-Than-A-Rock logic is that. The world is complicated. Deal with it. If you have a HOF vote, do your best to figure out who cheated __beyond a reasonable doubt__ and don't vote for 'em. But vote for the others. It's not perfect. But it's better than "I give up."

I remember George Carlin once had a routine where he named a whole bunch of sitcoms in some bizarre tense, one of which was "Had Gun, Would Have Traveled." I guess the western was something like what zombie and vampire movies and tv shows are to today's kids, the mythology we saw everywhere we looked!

I wondered about her weight too. She played a good part in Girl, Interrupted, which wasn't too bad a film.

Didn't I hear that he did it on purpose to get arrested, because he missed his daddy who was in jail. If he got arrested then they would be together?

Conversely, would the depressed people in these states where many people report they are happy feel even more isolated and apart? It might actually be worse to be depressed in a happy state!

Rankings Findings published in Science magazine "Their results come from a comparison of two data sets of happiness levels in each state, one that relied on participants' self-reported well-being and the other an objective measure that took into account a state's weather, home prices and other factors that are known reasons to frown (or smile). The self-reported information came from 1.3 million U.S. citizens who took part in a survey between 2005 and 2008. "We wanted to study whether people's feelings of satisfaction with their own lives are reliable, that is, whether they match up to reality — of sunshine hours, congestion, air quality, etc — in their own state," Oswald said. The results showed the two measures matched up. "We were stunned when it first came up on our screens, because no one has ever managed to produce a clear validation before of subjective well-being, or happiness, data," [Andrew] Oswald [of the University of Warwick in England] said." Interesting results.

Enjoy it!

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