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Karen Carpenter when healthy and happy:

Cynthia Robinson (of Sly and the Family Stone):

Happy belated birthday!!!

Wow, hardbopjazz -- she's beautiful!

No, no -- EXACTLY my time! I was a freshman in the fall of 1970 and lived in Madison for the next 7 years. I know this has come up before between me and Chuck -- not that we remember meeting, but I certainly bought records there. I think this came up on a thread about AEC at the Newman Center? I missed that concert, but went to a number of Cecil Taylor's at the music school when he was a visiting professor. (And saw John Berryman read at the Newman Center -- but I think that was before YOUR time!) Poets in Madison? I knew people who knew the looniest ones...

babysitter (jr hi/high school) church organist, weddings, sing a churchy song or two at weddings (high school) office 'gal' at tiny commuter airline in northern Wisconsin circa 1970: reservations, ticket sales, answer phones, tag luggage "library runner" (college work-study job): went around to all the far-flung libraries on big campus, e.g., picking up genetics or engineering tomes for economics professors cafeteria tray stacker/dishwasher at Univ. hospital waitress State Street hangout Madison, Wis paper route - delivered by car to rural/exurbs outside Madison production assistant, UW press grantwriter, patient education pamphlet writer, health fair organizer - community clinic, Madison waitress, Cambridge, Mass. was paid a pittance to sing, play piano in theater group, Boston apartment paint crew (one summer) NYC waitress, NYC (too many places to list) little rehearsal piano jobs various office things (typing, writing) in publishing -- some temp, some longer brief excursion into photoproduction -- 4-color separations, etc -- when printing was semi- but not completely computerized eventually made some $ with some bands (bass) worked for 3 months for a psycho doctor at another research hospital before landing at this research hospital where I've been for 18 years

Fits like a glove!

Never watched WHAT'S HAPPENIN' Agree about Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart?) But the father from ALF? Max Wright? I think he's great!!! His voice is totally annoying (I always thought SNL should get him to play Sen. Joe Lieberman -- they are aural dead ringers -- whine for whine!) so he needs to be in a sharper setting than ALF was -- did anybody ever see a very short-lived NBC sitcom called "Buffalo Bill" ??? 1983. Ahead of its time. Too biting for network TV. Dabney Coleman as a local TV star you love to hate, Max Wright as his terrified, cringing "boss" -- plus Joanna Gleason and a very young Geena Davis. Anyway, loved Max Wright in that, so I have a soft spot for him.

Those are a couple of cute pink puppies!!! If space becomes an issue, maybe the Beanie Babies can take up residence in the gold-rimmed beer glasses???

Keanu Reeves is "Ted" (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) ! He should've left it at that! EDIT: To quote Jazzmoose: "Damn, I should have read further -- you guys (Ron S, Big Al, B3-er) are onto him!"

Exactly. RIP. (Just last week I noticed Ruby Dee on Channel 11 in NYC, doing a solo movie commentary of the type that she and Ossie Davis had been doing together for years -- thought at that moment that he must have been sick. My condolences to her -- what a long and beautiful partnership they had.)

to Zora and all the babies here!!!

"Brand new" monkey species discovered in Bolivian Amazon! (if you haven't seen it before, it's new to you?)

SEK, sorry to hear your news -- hope they can keep you in good shape.

I'm glad you finally found this guy!

Ooooohhhh!

Speaking of books, the opening line of the original Dr. Spock is a good one: "Relax -- you know more than you think you do."

Danger! Danger, li'l Weizenson!

Laton, Really liked "Pest Control Man" -- read it in Chicago Review online. As soon as cash flow permits, I'm looking forward to reading your whole book.

That was my first thought, too... Or is it ? Or a variation on ?

At last !!! Congratulations to all three of you!!! Melissa looks fantastic, the beautiful Milo looks like he's happily sleeping off the big journey -- and John, you have that incredulous, awed and devoted new-dad countenance! What a great-looking family!

I've worked in the same research hospital for 18 years: "research grants coordinator" or some such thing. Write/copy-edit/ghostwrite/re-write things like original research papers, grant applications, grant progress reports, patient informed-consent forms, clinical trial protocols and case report forms... Also computer graphics (tables, graphs, charts, line drawings, photomicrographs) to accompany the reports... Also slides to present the work at conferences... Also some actual research that gets my name on a few papers: chart review, meta-analyses, literature review. In the field of immunology/autoimmunity. B.S. in biology... which took a while to get because I kept switching between pre-med and music... (segue to) lapsed semi-career playing electric bass (roughly 1979-1999) -- see "musicians' rant" in Musicians' Forum for explanation of lapsed-ness!!! mother of a 21-year-old...

"seemingly calculated to offend as many human beings as possible" No kidding.

Happy half-birthday!!! Yesterday you turned 26-and-a-half!!!

Don't know if that's gonna happen, but I've been at every one of the concerts in his Symphony Space series, and loved them!!! What has really come across in this series is his love for working musicians! Past and present. Each installment has been a showcase for bands/bandleaders with a distinctive instrumental stamp -- and he's put together a group (pretty consistent personnel over 5 years, plus guests) who can pull off these tributes. Francis Davis expresses it pretty well.