Neal Pomea

I reached my own conclusions about what Imus said quite independently of Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and I think that's true for many people. Probably most. Can't pin this on Sharpton and Jackson. They don't lead me or most of America. Basically, some people don't want others called ho' or the n' word, or gay, or retarded, not even in the "hilarious" way rappers and comedians do it. What's the problem with honoring that?

Makes me realize how many of his phrases have entered my own language: a weak kid could do it (Trout describing his job installing aluminum storm doors and windows) Pan-Galactic Straw Boss (a Trout novel) Pluto Gang (police misinterpretation of Trout's description of his unseen mugger -- "it could have been a gas from Pluto that did it, for all I know") Now it can be told (the Trout novel that unfortunately influences insane Dwayne Hoover in Breakfast of Champions)

The cartoon show was hosted by a friendly Cajun named Polycarp Pili Pecou Number 2. His nemesis was a creature called Matchuflang.

I sure wish this had happened! Absolutely! Monk could have kept up.

Yeah, I have been hearing about this. One theory is that there is a pesticide that disorients the bees so much, they can't find their way back to the hive. That is why they haven't found any dead bees in the hive. They die outside it.

Thanks for posting this! Great defense. A couple of timely steals at the end. That last one, wow!

They dig music from shellac and vinyl

Vinyl is not a synonym for records. Records were made of shellack in those days. Nobody was writing the obituary for vinyl at a time when it was not yet in use.

Ferris Fain (he was fairest but was oh so vain) Juio Gotay (Polio Bowtie?) Zoilo Versalles Amos Otis (like a Jerry Reed song down in the swamp) Horace Clarke

I would try to find the Victor recordings of 1929-1930 of Henry Allen and His New York Orchestra. Biff'ly Blues, Everybody Shout, It Should be You, Roamin', Sugar Hill Function, Swing Out are classic songs. http://www.redhotjazz.com/hallennyo.html

Major Swindler (Though he didn't make it all the way through the Texas Rangers farm system, my brother in law played college ball with this guy. (All conference, too!). He is now an educator. Guess he couldn't make it in business or politics with a name like that.)

Interesting theory, but I wonder how it takes into account the fact that people can appreciate some forms of instrumental music but not others. Jazz but not square dance. Opera but not mariachi (for the person who doesn't understand Italian or Spanish), etc. Shoot, in my own case, Cajun but not particularly Zydeco, though I understand the lyrics in both and they are thought of as related genres. And country music fans who don't like bluegrass....

I loved his bit about how people can get crazy in restaurants, barking out orders as though we are Roman emperors. "WINE! Bring me wine!" Or, upon seeing a lobster in the tank, "I'll have the little one. He amUUUUUUses me." We've been using that joke at my house for years. In a nice way...

Master Pimp Pa Schmoove with his dime:

Shout out for Ice Master King Slick!

Nice letter, Lazaro! On another note, if a musician's work is performing music, I would like to know why a recording is considered a performance. It is not. It is just a record of one performance, maybe several performances spliced together. It's no more of a performance than me audiotaping myself at work, then playing it back and claiming that it is me performing my job. I can't mail in my tape to my boss and say "See, I am performing my job." I need to perform my job over and over again. The musician needs to, also, in my view. Why the special meaning of "performance" for musicians, actors, etc. ? I think that if the public looked at it this way, they would wonder about this stretch of the language and the success of the music lobbies' special pleading. As much as we want to support artists, this stretch of the language that makes copyright the means of economic support is just too much, tending toward absurdity. IMHO. True, you wouldn't pay a thing to hear a tape of me performing my job, in contrast with a musician's performance. I just mean that this should be covered by contract law instead of playing around with the language to make it a thing covered by copyright law. The Supremes went down a slippery slope a long time ago when they called playing back a recording a performance.

It's easier to copy an FM transmission on cassette and listen to it later. I don't know how to copy a stream. If I did, what is the difference between the two kinds of copying?

Nobody pays attention to mass media anymore. It's too popular.

I would get it into the hands of an organization like the Red Hot Jazz archive who can digitize it, stream it, and share it, within the bounds of copyright law. If not Red Hot Jazz, then some other organization. If he had any Cajun material, I may be interested. PM please.

Belated birthday wishes to you!

Booker, Eric, Richard, Ed, and Mal (at the Five Spot) Thanks to the person posting on Lester and Billie! Also, Hall and Evans.

Django and Stephane

Fats and Tadd

Sometimes the technology can be so puzzling! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU

For me it means something like "WTF". World Taekwondo Federation? Well, if that's what the young people are saying these days....I guess I have to go along