Son-of-a-Weizen

Good question, Chris. What's up?

Wonder who has? ...and how it stacks up to this one?

The 3-foot-tall guy vs. an aggressive Komodo Dragon --- he'd certainly put up a far better fight than the St. Louis Cardinals.

Cakes are okay.....pies are better.

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Hardly enough for the Sox fans at this little jazz speck of a planet to properly drown their sorrows ---- best bring in a dozen more. B-)

15 runs and we're still in the 4th! This is like some bad softball game....bring out the pitchers already!

First real job while in high school was tanning leather at a couple of ancient, now shuttered, firetrap leather tanneries up in Peabody & Salem, Mass. Used to work 2nd shift and tan 'raw' New Zealand sheepskins that came in on pallets. For 6-to-8 hours, a huge quantity of leather would rotate inside of dual wooden tanning-wheels (picture a giant wine cask that holds 10,000 gallons of fluid) constructed of 2" thick bands of Italian wood and lined with dozens of oversize wooden pegs to keep things from clumping up. At various intervals you'd pump in chromium, formic acid, wattle, dyes, etc.. Drain it......fill 'er full of cold water a few times & 'rinse' ....then send thousands of pounds worth of wet leather & water crashing down into the 20 foot-long, 3 ft deep 'carts'. Funny story for all of you pack rats out there. I saved one piece of tanned suede as a souvenir and had it stashed away in various boxes & drawers for close to 30 years. I can't begin to tell you the number of times over the years that I'd happen upon the stupid thing while cleaning out a box and think about tossing it in the trash. Never did though. About two months ago, I took my jacket in to get dry cleaned and they somehow managed to mangle the leather collar and even tear a small gash in it that couldn't be prepared. I searched the house, found that piece of leather and the nice Thai seamstress who works down there used it to make a replacement collar. Thirty dang years I schlep that silly piece of leather around...and then one day...bing!!

Famous? How 'bout the greatest of all American newspapermen, H.L. Mencken? I like a PG (Paul Garmirian).....a Macanudo 'Hyde Park'...or an Ashton 'Corona' (heck, any Ashton'll do)

Yeah....I actually like the French.

Correctamundo as usual Moose! And speaking of "rantings"......Cheney looks like WHO, Brad?

I've tried to be a good sport and refrain from using the pol. avatars & signature lines......but I guess I'd better start going with the flow. Maybe this one'll work?

The Xanadu link brings you to a Fitzgerald site which says: "Label established in 1975 by Don Schlitten, formerly a producer for Prestige Records. A number of Xanadu albums have also been reissued on CD by EPM, Prevue, and Crown (Japan)." So who's going to step up to the plate and make the pitch to Nippon Crown for an Al Cohn '75-'80 Xanadu box?

I originally went that route too.....but after a series of unenthusiastic e-mails from them, I cancelled and picked up the Miles box instead. I wonder if those CDUNI sets will have the 'bum' disc in 'em?

Sounds logical.

I gave 'er a shot but the Oct. 2 program still seems to be hanging around. Flip a switch or somethin' & work some magic will ya??!!

Geez, no Sabu in this one, Reinier? Yech, I'm definitely gonna hate it then! Naaa, I only have a couple of Corals (Al & Zoot , Costa..) in the stax and the sound quality on that Zoot sounds magnificant to my ears....so was just wondering about this one.

Same here. Shall we form a club? Okay. Johnny's not allowed in... Let's not be too hasty here! We'll need someone to staff the bar & rotate out the empty kegs.

He passed me a copy as well when I saw him playing a duet w/Charlap in NY in Sept....how many discs is this guy carrying around??

Thanks David! Sorry to say that I missed it as well and will have to catch the archived edition w/gdogus. I planned to catch the show but made the mistake of watching the tube....& as Geraldo yammered on and on, the eyes started to glaze over......and the last thing I remember seeing was her larger than life grinning face filling up the entire tv screen as she started to say............and then zzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

Same here. Shall we form a club?