Neal Pomea

My optimistic side says "Are you kidding? It will be cool to venerate Jabbo Smith et al. in ways unheard of in the year 2007!!"

I remember the Joe Klein biography of Woody Guthrie discussing speculation that the onset of Huntington's Disease may have given rise to Guthrie being rather prolix. In some public performances of Reuben James, he would sing "Tell me what were their names? Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?" Then he would sing from memory over 140 names of the crewmen. But I don't see anything on Medline on the subject of Huntington's Disease that mentions this strange quirk with the language.

The article misses some apparent nuances about creativity. For quite a while in the U.S. the Congress and Supreme Court have agreed that holding a copyright monopoly until no one remembers or cares anymore about a work is the greatest contributor to creativity. "To promote the progress of science and the useful arts..." Hold on to that Happy Birthday song!!!!

Inning one, Boston up 3-0! What luck! My prediction for Rockies in 4 games, maybe 5, still holds.

There's no more reassuring voice in retirement planning than --- DENNIS HOPPER!

Indian's Wild Pitch Saws Bobbing Up and Down Kevin Youkliss in Half! Which network is covering the World Series? Hope it's not Fox.

Just think! In the future we won't be sending radio waves of our music into outer space anymore! With the current state of American radio, that's probably a good thing. On some far off, distant planet they'll probably be thanking us for not sending out those blasted songs!

Just to update, we received our cheapy HD radio (free for a hundred pledge to the radio station) and we're lucky it isn't any more cheapy than it is. The signal is pretty good, only occasional fading out. Not sure we will invest in a better sounding $300 model until we know the technology isn't going the way of the 8-track tape player. An advantage is that it is not subscription. Pays for itself in no time at all.

Things can certainly be thrown off that bridge without it being linked to Emmet Till. The lyrics of the song say a girl who looked like the singer and Billie Joe drop something off the Talahatchie bridge. It was two grown men who murdered Till. They confessed in Look magazine just weeks after their acquittal. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature...confession.html

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.