Neal Pomea

Tonight's episode begins the story of Eugene Sledge, a Marine private from Mobile, Alabama. In the live chat with Ken Burns that I took part in through the Washington Post last Monday, Ken Burns said he was greatly inspired by Sledge's memoir, With the Old Breed. The images and footage are very moving, and some of the stories, like Babe and his Waterbury Connecticut family, and Walter Ehlers from Manhattan Kansas, or the story of Senator Daniel Inouye from Hawaii, well, it's great that these are preserved!

I couldn't find a topic on this. Sorry if I am redundant. WAMU in Washington DC has switched to HD radio, so that analog listeners can hear a news/talk station on their old fashioned radios, and music listeners need to buy an HD radio in order to hear 88. 5-2 for its musical offerings. I ordered one from the station for the price of a pledge (public radio station) but haven't received it yet. What I have read suggests that the technology is already obsolete and burdensome and will never catch on. What's your experience been? I hope it works out because 88.5-2 will be 24/7 of music as opposed to the analog station playing the music I like only on weekends!

I've watched two episodes and the background music has not had even a hint of country music, not even when covering Mobile Alabama. I thought one of the Japanese battle cries was "To hell with Roy Acuff!" I took part in yesterday's Washington Post live chat with Ken Burns (but somebody else asked the same question about how he chose the four towns.) You may have to register to see it, I don't know: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7090702377.html

His pantomimes are fully protected by copyright and will be for another 70 years. So don't try to mime your way out of a box. Maybe your great grandchildren will be allowed to do that.

Exactly!

I think The World at War will continue to be a more authoritative source than this documentary (magnificent!), but I look forward to this and reaction to it. I saw an hour of it in a presentation to a room of about 500 people and it was very moving. There'll be more footage of corpses washing up on the beach in the Pacific, from what I saw. The World at War was a bit distant about that sort of thing. Can't say how this documentary covers Africa and Europe. Musical choices? WTF? Burns spoke and gushed about Norah Jones' performance of a song that "summed it all up" at the end of the series. Well, it didn't represent ME too well, but I guess it represented somebody's taste.

Hamiet and Bluiett (Ham and Blue)

It's not like 1/5 is more than 1%, so no worries!

There seems to be no recent phenomenon deemed too trivial to appear in the encyclopedia authored by Wiki (I knew ________, and Wiki is no __________ ). In fact, if it is recent and trivial, it is bound to have all the more information! http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902

Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Devo - Whip It Springsteen - I'm on Fire (jess being silly)

I wish CNN would stop using the term "IReporters" for non-journalist bystanders with cell phones.

I watch it for the spelling bees and poker.

I am hoping to find time to go to this legendary place, and to American Flatbread in Waitsfield Vermont, on a fall trip through New England.

The best days have been the ones ever since Al Gore invented the Internet! 21 years with my wife, priceless. The most long lasting impact days were childhood and teenage with my family. If I hadn't move away, I'd have laughed myself to death...on a tractor. Thanks, your stories were very interesting!

I misread the title and pictured a lady named Grace baking sinsemilla bread.

I hope Forum members in the DC area will visit this link to what may be the premier discussion group for "foodies" in the area, i.e. Don Rockwell, at http://www.donrockwell.com/index.php?showtopic=6372 The site may even be of interest to those of you outside the area. I am personally not a fan of the prepackaged hamburger patty, unseasoned and slapped on a grill. Salt and pepper, to say the least.

Hank Mobley - A Taurus for Doris Cannoball Adderley - Same Old Thing Wynton Marsalis - Unforgiveable: The Rise of Wynton Marsalis

You have my sympathy. I had considerable flood damage to my own record collection. Flood insurance is usually not included in home insurance. Home insurance usually will only cover flooding from within (broken pipes, etc.), not flooding from without (rain, levee break, etc). Flood insurance needs to be purchased separately through a federal government provider. It's too bad you didn't open up your boxes and at least dry things off much sooner. But they may not be as damaged as you think. I have mold on the jackets of much of my vinyl lp collection but the records are still ok. I too should dispose of the jackets but I don't have the heart. If I dispose of the jackets, can anyone here suggest how they should be stored?

Like the time on Newhart when someone plays 3 or 4 notes on a piano and George exclaims "Boy, he can really make that thing talk!"

I remember the Simpson's episode in which Homer ate an improperly handled blowfish(?) and thought he was going to die. He had a list of things he wanted to do before passing, one of which was to read the whole Bible. So he got Bible on Tape read by Larry King. Hilarious! And do you remember how Larry ended it after Revelations? "How about those San Antonio Spurs? They've evened up the NBA finals at 2 games a piece and are a real juggernaut! Hard to see how anyone will stop them now." (Or something like that --- after the word of God, and now for a little bit of sports news!) That about sums up Larry King. He will talk about matters great and small as though they are equal. Not to be taken seriously, just entertainment.

I have MusicMatch Jukebox and would like to record my voice speaking with a Plantronics SP 500 headset. Anybody know how to do that? The MusicMatch help files don't seem to cover recording your own voice. After selecting recording source, Mic In, I can't figure out what to do.

I'd respond, but it would be like driving over fish in a barrel.

I was listening to an interview about possible brain defects in mass murderers -- damage to a part of the brain believed to inhibit aggression. Not brain damage that would make you a slow learner. I hope there is more research in that area. I have seen brain scans of people who are angry (being emotional) vs. people who are solving problems (being rational) and it is surprising to see which areas of the brain show electrical activity.

I agree. Capturing the streaming audio via Internet is comparable to a listener capturing a radio broadcast on cassette. I am surprised by the arrogance of the CPR board to not even hold hearings, certain that they are in the right about this. They are just plain wrong, IMO.

I don't know about Sharpton's outrage, but it was not fake for many, many people. I doubt that Sharpton has leverage to twist arms at CBS. Again, Sharpton had little to do with leading so many people into insisting on Imus' punishment and/or removal. Cannot blame or credit Sharpton with this, in my opinion. It is Imus and his team that shot themselves in the foot. Since he had said even worse things in the past, he drew little sympathy or spoken support this time around, even from his own guests. I will miss his musical guests. Even his conversations with politicos and journalists. But not the "comedy."