Larry Kart

I'm sure they're fabricated. The responses from, say, Missy's owner Shannon are just too obtuse, but pitch-perfect for all that. I particularly like his second poster, in response to her complaint that the image of Missy in the first one is too small. A definite Monty Python vibe, a la the Dead Parrot routine. One of the other exchanges suggests that Mr. Thorne is a resident of Adelaide, Australia.

This one also has its moments: http://www.27bslash6.com/flash.html

... this one did to mine: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html Thorne may be old news, perhaps, but if you have a taste for this sort of thing, he does seem to be a specialist.

No sprechen zie Esperanto? P.S. I'm leaving the house for a good bit of the evening, so if I don't respond to any new hand grenades, that's the only reason.

That was hardly the main gist of your response, which was more like "I know (or at least seriously doubt) that you're not serious", when, for the reasons I gave, I was completely serious. You have a point there, so let me amplify/modify. Your response to Medjuck's post seemed to me to say 1) that anyone who has the responses you understood him to have had is living deep in a semi-ancient past that may never have even really existed, and 2) that you're puzzled that anyone could think in those benighted ways in the 21st Century. I then took 2) to mean that you not only really didn't understand how anyone could think that way but also were puzzled that there even was anyone who still thought that way. This last is what I found it hard to believe that you believed.

He's not angry; he's Sangry.

Jim -- Was my "nor ways that are or ought to be exclusive any more" not clear enough?

I'd try to ask the Trip Lite people about this before ditching the unit.

I got one that Jim recommended, the Trip Lite LC-1800 (actually two of them, about $160 each). He'd battle tested the unit in clubs where a fluctuating/nasty-dirty power source can really screw up a Hammond B3 or the like. I have one hooked up my music playback gear, the other to my flat-screen TV. Can't say I that I recall noticing a significant A/B difference when I first plugged them in, but I can tell/see when the units are compensating for a drop in the outside power source. Where I live, that does happen.

Not really sure what this means.... It means (but you're just being your "new cosmos" self here, right?) that dealing with a regular song form and a steady rhythm are among the traditional ways in which one judges a jazz musician's skills. Not the only ways, of course, nor ways that are or ought to be exclusive any more, but traditional, even if they are (or are on their way to being) outmoded. Thus, I would think, not a cause for "not really sure what this means" puzzlement, genuine or "be fooling with you."

It ain't jazz, but I think this is very nice, not unlike something Giuffre would have done in the late '50s:

I was mostly thinking of Best Picture, but why not the whole schmeer? My reverse weather vane instincts are usually sound.

"The King's Speech" all the way -- because I disliked it intensely (for its one-note tale of fake uplift and oppressive use of goggle-eyed closeups, among other things), and that's usually a good sign when it comes to picking Best Picture.

Frank Foster? Don't you mean Wardell Gray?

Congratulations, Allen. Well deserved.

Is there any chance that that/this might be Charlie Mariano on alto? Doubtful. Charlie was in Los Angeles playing with Shelly Manne at the time. It does sound like him, though! Oh, and by the way, the tracks on the Maxine Brown album are not by Margie. She once told me that she made an LP of 1920's songs as well as the "Blues" album, but I've never run across a copy. I do have two of the Columbia 78's. Jimmy Mosher?

Sure sounds like Mariano to me.

Sounds food enough to eat.

Thanks to Jim's hint, Berigan, I already did what you just suggested, and it worked. When things came on again, I got a "jobs stopped -- do you want to continue?" window when I tried to print something out, chose "continue," and voila! Didn't want to buy a new printer/scanner anyway.

My Canon MP500 printer/scanner, long hooked up to my Max OSX version 10.4.11 computer, suddenly stopped printing images (from IPhoto or anywhere else) or Word documents today, though it will still scan images and print them out. Any suggestions as to what I could do to diagnose/fix this? It looks like the "stop jobs" option on the printer may be in force for some damn reason, even though I never gave it that command. If so, I can't figure out out to countermand or undo this. Or is this a sign that I should just get a new printer/scanner. If it is, any recommendations?

But the question is whether Jamal (b. 1930) dug Shearing in his formative years. Certainly possible time-wise, and I think style-wise, too, up to a point. Shearing's hiring of Crosby and Fournier could have been because of that (possible) underlying musical kinship.

Shearing's harmonization of "Over The Rainbow," realized by an unidentified pianist: Also, tonight I was listening to his "Velvet Carpet" (Capitol), apparently the first quintet with strings album, charts by Shearing and Dennis Farnon. The harmonization of "'Round Midnight" (for one) is quite something. Also, those walking-ballad grooves that Shearing seemed to have a patent on, with Al McKibbon (I assume) putting "one" right on top of the beat and playing his ass off. Makes me wonder again if Jamal was a Shearing fan.

See the first paragraph of this Alfred Hitchcock bio: http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/hitchcock.html Perhaps we've got a new Hitch in the making.

Also, Scoot LaFeral.