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I wouldn't feed that to my labradoodle!

This is the only Andy Dick performance I can recommend: ... And God Spoke http://www.directorscut.com/ags/cast.html With Soupy Sales as Moses, Eve Plumb as Mrs. Noah, Lou Ferrigno as Cain, and Andy Dick as Abel.

I only thought I knew fear before.

Their tour could be sponsored by Ambien. Or maybe Hoover.

I yelled "Free Bird" at a Philip Glass world premiere in Atlanta. They didn't play it.

Congrats, JK!

I got 15 of 20 correct. That's a lot better than I thought I would.

Not overheard in a music store, but in a carpool I was in. One guy was digging through a shoebox of cassettes (yes, it was in 1982) and pulled out one, looked at it, and asked "Who's this Beeth-thovan guy?" The wit of the group (all things being relative) said, "You know - used to play rhythm guitar for Ted Nugent: Derek Saint Beeth-thovan".

That's the first album my father ever gave me! The second one was by the Ventures (Going to the Ventures' Dance Party!). Unfortunately, I was about 5 years old and spent as much time playing the records as I did rolling them down the driveway to see how far they could get before falling over.

Those lions didn't just get owned - they got buffalowned!

Last year I stayed at the Campus Inn on East Huron Street. That put me in walking distance of everything so I didn't need a car (took a shuttle to/from airport). But they're booked up that weekend in 2007 so I went with the Microtel Inn (Edgefest sponsor by the way) instead. Had to get a rental car for that because they are 5+ miles from the venues, but the price per night is much lower so it evens out. I think that the artists, if they are spending the night in Ann Arbor, usually book up at the Microtel. There's the Bell Tower hotel (corporate cousin of the Campus Inn) but they were booked also. There's no University of Michigan home game that weekend, but maybe something else is happening on campus and that's why the U-Mich hotels are booked up. Openings at these hotels may occur closer to October, but I wanted to get everything squared away early before I forgot. There's a place called the Embassy Hotel that is near the venues, but it has nothing to do with the Embassy Suites chain and according to the research I did, is not the kind of place anyone would want to stay. That was my one and only trip to Ann Arbor so others may have better advice. One bit of advice I can give is to bring your appetite - lots of great restaurants in town.

I'd already gotten my airline tickets, hotel room, and rental car squared away months ago - before the line-up was announced. I went to Edgefest for the first time last year and knew that this was going to be an annual pilgrimage for me. Can't wait...

He shat in the fridge. He shat in the crisper drawer. Classy. And I thought it was bad when I discovered a friend of mine was disposing of dog turds by tossing them under the sofa.

A friend of mine had the same job. He said the people that get most offended when you ask them if their computer/phone/whatchamacallit is plugged in/turned on/charged are the ones who usually do not have their computer/phone/whatchamacallit plugged in/turned on/charged. He changed one manager's password to the manager's name because the manager could never remember his password. The manager asked how he was supposed to remember his new password. My friend told him that it was written on his business card.

Small world - I did the same thing last week. I knew that there was more to the Asbury Park improv that the USA album was letting on!

I just finished the last of the 5 JL/JLU seasons on DVD. Great stuff - and so many good actors involved as well. Best moment: Dr. Polaris (seeing Lex Luthor leave the restroom): "Ahem, are you going to wash your hands?" Lex Luthor: "No... 'cause I'm evil."

Do what? They named their rooms after Igor Stravinsky (possibly) and Miles Davis? Don't they have any corporate sponsors that they could name these rooms after? I'm not sure if I'd feel comfortable listening to music in a room that wasn't named after a softdrink or a cellular phone service provider.

Atlanta has a three-day jazz festival for free (as opposed to a free-jazz festival) and every year it's the same thing: bland yuppie music plus one or two real icons (like Jimmy Heath or Slide Hampton) so that they can use the word "jazz" without getting sued for false advertising. Hey, it's a free festival - you get what you pay for. A friend of mine saw Miles Davis and Ornette & Prime Time there about 25 years ago so it used to be cool way back when. But this year, they can actually call it a "Jazz Festival" and look you in the eye while doing it. Check out this hand - all aces: Vijay Iyer Quartet Charles Tolliver Big Band Terri Lyne Carrington and Friends Herbie Hancock Quintet The Bad Plus Flora Purim & Airto Moreira Bobby Hutcherson Quartet Lou Donaldson Quartet Monty Alexander The Pete Escovedo Orchestra with Sheila E, Steve Turre, Ray Vega & Juan Escovedo There's other acts too, but I'll be listening to them from the lines outside the porta-potties. No disrespect to the other acts, but you gotta go sometime. All for free!

Got it on order from Jazz Loft. Should be here any day now. Has a version of Ornette's Lonely Woman - can't wait.

And they can use it as a prehensile tail during the off-season.

Ran into Nigel Olsson (Elton John's drummer) when his solo hit Dancin' Shoes was on the American charts. He was standing in line at a hardware store in a podunk town in northern Georgia. I asked if he could break a five; he said that he couldn't. His was the first British accent that I had heard in person. A few years later I changed the vent of a heating duct in the office of the manager of Lynyrd Skynyrd. He wasn't there, and neither was the band, but practically every inch of the floor was covered in empty beer cans. If I'd thought of it, I could have taken some of the beer cans and sold them at school - where they would have been revered as holy relics and possibly incorporated into some type of shrine.

When I saw that there was an instrumental titled In the Mood on the CD I was hoping that it was a cover of the Glenn Miller classic. But it wasn't. However, the CD does contain the song Alcohaulin' Ass, which - just going by the name alone - has to be a classic.

I should have suspected something when he did that remake of It's My (Nazi) Party on These Foolish Things.

I just thank God we live in a time when Oprah can help us heal. Look! Up in the sky - it's the Oprahcopter!

The guy I work for literally cannot judge time and is only dimly aware of it if there is some type of ultimatum involved (he has learned that airplanes will not wait for him). I handle it by telling him MY schedule and then keeping it regardless of how it puts him out. A couple of years ago, we had an after-work dinner for a bunch of former co-workers. We met at a restaurant 1 mile from his office (where I also work). The dinner was scheduled for 6PM. He didn't show. We ate, hung out, then went outside to the parking lot to say our goodbyes. He rolls up about 8:30, comes over and joins the group. After 10 minutes or so, he says "Who are we waiting for? I'm starving." He thought we were waiting to go in. We left. He went home hungry. Sad but true: his doctors and dentist have banned him from making appointments because he never shows up for them. His wife and kid can make appointments, but not him. If he wants to be seen, he has to show up at the office and wait until there is an opening. They won't hold anything for him.