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The take of "All of You" that wasn't on either Sunday... or Waltz... was on Time Remembered, which was an odds-and-ends release that also contained some tunes from the Shelly's Manne-Hole date in 1963 and the solo tracks ("Danny Boy", etc.) from 1962 that were recorded after his post-LaFaro hiatus.

The box set also includes a handful of songs recorded at a session under Milt Jackson's name--available on the ghastly-titled RVG "Wizard of the Vibes"--which are essential.

I think it's from a session in Japan in the late 1960s/early 1970s.

Oh, man. Jevon Walker is out for the year with a torn ACL. My Packers are toast. My only consolation is that the other three teams in the NFC North looked lousy, too.

So what. How is that going to change your response to the hurricane? Should we try less hard to save, heal, and resettle the victims? If not, what's the point of your remarks. If so, what do you propose not to do for them that you would have done if they were less to blame? In a similar line of reasoning, obese people should know better than to eat all those Twinkies and red meat, do you say they had their heart attacks coming and that you don't have alot of sympathy for them? How about the folks who live in Oklahoma and Kansas, what with all those tornados? The folks west of the San Andreas fault? The folks in the upper Midwest and all of Canada with the terrible snow storms? Same deal, or is New Orleans somehow special?

Detroit has a good D-line, I think. Other than that, the Bears are it for defense in the NFC North, that is true. But the Vikes and the Pack, and this year maybe the Lions, have enough offense to cover for their defenses--enough for the Vikes to win the division (probably) and for the Pack and the Lions to be maybe a touch above .500 this year.

NFC North I think my Packers will be, if not bad, unimpressive this year. Favre's improvisation, arm strength, and willingness to take chances will win the Pack a few games that they shouldn't, but it will cost them a couple games, too. Ahman Green is a fine runner, but he's still a fumbling machine (three times so far in preseason, for God's sake!). Their defense just plain sucked last year, and does not appear to be better this year. Minnesota, despite losing Moss, made some nice acquisitions and should win the division; Detroit should be better, and will likely give the Pack a run for second. The Bears will suck again. Minnesota should be the only team in the division that makes the playoffs.

Miles', Wayne's, and Herbie's solos on "Circle". As close to perfection as I expect I'll hear.

Oh, you know it will be! ← I am waiting on this--so I'll lose out on the nice pre-order discount--because if it is copy-controlled I do not think I can get it. I rip MP3s for my portable and do 99 percent of my listening to actual CDs at work--where I cannot load programs onto my computer, meaning I can't load the little dedicated CD player for the copy-controlled disc, which means I couldn't play the #$@$ing thing. Gaaaaaaahhh Is there any way to find out beforehand for sure, one way or the other?

When I moved to DC about a half dozen years ago the various Towers and Borders had pretty nice jazz sections. They have shrunk a great deal, especially in the last few years. Sad--it's fun to peruse.

Any suggestions for a set of 5.1 speakers for, say, a $1000, plus or minus a few hundred? A set that would be good for music, in addition to movie-watching? Gracias

Gaaaah, even worse. The computers where I work won't allow the users to add applications, so I couldn't install the little CD player application; I wouldn't be able to listen to the CDs at all.

Great. This has me worried about the upcoming Cellar Door box set. I always burn copies of the individual CDs of the box sets and listen to them, keeping the originals safe. Maybe I won't be buying this one.

I bought the tunes from the second disc from MSN MUSIC (they're available separately on MUSICMATCH, too). Very nice.

And now the alert level in the US is being raised to orange.

PKD astonishes me still; despite the pulp trappings there's a depth and perception there that I don't even find in most "respectable" fiction. I also very much like J. G. Ballard Brian Aldiss Thomas Disch Harlan Ellison Gene Wolfe Kim Stanley Robinson Bruce Sterling Greg Egan Jonathan Lethem

Trolling around the web I found this: (http://www.islets.net/faq.html#Anchor-Was-47857) Was Ellison really there when L. Ron Hubbard invented Scientology? Excerpted from a posting on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup, 2 May 1995: The following excerpt was taken from a magazine called "Saturday Evening Wings," which was printed for awhile in the 1970s. "Wings" described itself as "Wings -- The New Age Satire Magazine". The issue this excerpt was taken from was the Nov.-Dec. '78 issue. It is of great interest, because Harlan Ellison, a rather famous science fiction writer, claims to have been present the night L. Ron Hubbard decided to write "Dianetics." On Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard: Ellison: Scientology is bullshit! Man, I was there the night L. Ron Hubbard invented it, for Christ Sakes! I was sitting in a room with L. Ron Hubbard and a bunch of other science fiction writers. L. Ron Hubbard was famous among science fiction writers because he was the first one to have an electric typewriter. Wings: He claimed to have written "Dianetics" in a weekend, and nobody can deny it. Ellison: That's true. He wrote "Dianetics" in one weekend, and you know how he used to write? He used to take a roll of white paper, like paper you wrap fish in. He had it on the wall, and he would roll it into the typewriter and he would begin typing. When he was done, he would tear it off and leave it as one whole long novel. We were sitting around one night. ... who else was there? Alfred Bester, and Cyril Kornbluth, and Lester Del Rey, and Ron Hubbard, who was making a penny a word, and had been for years. And he said "This bullshit's got to stop!" He says, "I gotta get money." He says, "I want to get rich". Wings: He is also supposed to have said on that same night: "The question is not how to make a million dollars, but how to keep it." Ellison: Right. And somebody said, "why don't you invent a new religion? They're always big." We were clowning! You know, "Become Elmer Gantry! You'll make a fortune!" He says, "I'm going to do it." Sat down, stole a little bit from Freud, stole a little bit from Jung, a little bit from Alder, a little bit of encounter therapy, pre-Janov Primal Screaming, took all that bullshit, threw it all together, invented a few new words, because he was a science fiction writer, you know, "engrams" and "regression", all that bullshit. And then he conned John Campbell, who was crazy as a thousand battlefields. I mean, he believed any goddamned thing. He really believed blacks were inferior. I mean he really believed that. He was also very nervous when I was in his office because I was a Jew. You know, he was afraid maybe I would spring horns or something. Anyhow, the way he conned John was that he had J. A. Winter, who was a doctor, who was a close friend of John's, and he got him to run this article on Dianetics, the new science of mental health. Wings: Dianometry was the first article, I believe. Ellison: Right. And science fiction fans will go for any goddamm thing. They'll believe anything, man, they will believe in the abominable snowman and the Bermuda Triangle, in Pyramid Power, in EST, in Scientology, in the Second Coming, they'll believe in any goddamm thing, they don't give a shit. They go to see "Star Wars"; they think it is for real! So science fiction fans picked it up, they began proselytizing, he started making money, when he had made enough money he was able to spread out a little more, then he got more cuckoos, you know, pre-Charlie Manson assholes that had no place else to go, and he began talking to these loons as if "Dianetics" really meant something. Then he wanted to get tax-exempt status, so he called it "The Church of Scientology". Now, they've gotten so big that they own property all over the country, and it is impossible to stop it. They infiltrated the FBI, they infiltrated the tax department, ... the funny thing is, Ron Hubbard and I still occasionally communicate with each other. Every once in a while, a couple or three times a year, we exchange letters. And I write to him, you know, and I say, "Hey Ron, when is this bullshit going to cease? These cuckoos are really driving me crazy! They come around the house with pamphlets!" And he writes me back, and he says, "It's the good work, it's the good work." It's all very funny stuff. He was going to write a new story for me for the last "Dangerous Visions", but I guess he got too busy counting his money. I don't know.

A bet over drinks with fellow (although much better) SF writer Robert Heinlein, I've heard... ← I thought it was over drinks with Harlan Ellison.

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If you click through the sessions on Pete Losin's awesome Miles Ahead website, it sure looks like there's a lot of studio material from the On the Corner dates through 1976. Six or seven discs? Man, would that be cool.

A silly quesiton, maybe, but does anyone know the actual recording/performance order of the tunes on the five CDs?

I forget the album (Devil May Care?), but whatever early album has "Baltimore Oriole". Best version of that tune I've ever heard.

Come the Rapture, can I have your car?

I dunno, my wife keeps asking for a pool cleaner. Oddly, we don't have a swimming pool.

I would have expected 1. and 2. to be flipped; I'm curious about which answer I gave made the distinction. 1. Unitarian Universalism (100%) 2. Secular Humanism (98%) 3. Liberal Quakers (85%) 4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (83%) 5. Nontheist (73%)