Neal Pomea

Yeah, I believe this is new. Go to Google and click Preferences. Click Do not provide query suggestions in the search box.

Good luck, man! My sister and nieces live in Lafayette, Louisiana, and my ancestral home is in Vermilion parish along the coast to the west of New Orleans. My cousin's citrus farm in Leroy, Louisiana, was just about the southernmost farm not destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005 in that part of the state. The Mississippi Gulf coast is a treasure and I hope it makes it through without damage.

I don't think the storm is as big or as strong as Katrina, but I wouldn't want to be around to test whether the Corps of Engineers sufficiently repaired the levees! Of if officials are ready to lead better this time. My thoughts are with the people of New Orleans!

Must be. The public domain was equated here with communism. That's decline.

I heard the notion of a compulsory license for these orphaned or devalued works from Chuck Nessa!

If the individual intellectual property rights infringed by the 78 blog are the right to keep the works out of print and assign them to oblivion, then I think the 78s blog's service to the public domain is more important than that individual right. What would be a fair compulsory license fee for distributing these works that have no monetary value? Certainly something very low and not burdensome for the blogger. I also feel this way about eminent domain when the government takes privately owned land at a fair price in order to build public roads. The scenarios are fairly analogous. That of course does not apply to the AEC and Saturn situation.

I say it's wrong because Chuck and the artists are still living and should benefit financially from their work. The work is not in the public domain. No need for the parenthetical assumption that everyone who downloads does it from a false sense of entitlement.

2 out of 3 for Cubs against my Washington Senators, I mean Nationals. Our TV color man, Ray Knight, said today that he saw no real weaknesses in the Cubs this year and it looks like a special team. They have the best pitching in the national league over the last 7 years, and while they always could hack they also seem to able to take walks this year. You have a good chance this year against the Mets and Phillies, both of whom have weaknesses. For a team to do well, it needs to be lucky with injuries and it needs a player to have a career season. This year you probably have 3 in Theriot, DaRosa, and Dempster.

Bummer! Good luck with this!

I thought the last event was traditionally the men's marathon. I think that is the most dramatic and moving event of them all, and the women's marathon is equal to it. I completely missed it this year. Glad I caught the women's marathon last Sunday morning.

Sorry Aggie, Lonson, Tenorman, and anybody else with the same old argument "but it's illegal!" Never gave an ounce of weight to the argument "But it's against the law!" Some of YOUR greatest heroes broke the law themselves and you know it. You would have to put Rosa Parks at the back of the bus because what she did was against the law at the time. Along the lines of your law argument, you would have had the squatters who illegally settled the western territories of the United States give themselves up for jail time. No, instead the law accommodated itself to thousands/millions of people who couldn't see themselves as lawbreakers. Eventually they weren't considered outlaws then with the way they treated land, and eventually thousands/millions who technically break your law will not be considered outlaws for their treatment of music. Cheers! I meant that with a pretty good will!

I take into account how old the music is, whether the artist or the producer are still living, whether the music is out of stock-out of print-or orphaned, whether or not I am making a fair use, and other factors. Can't really respond to the poll as worded but I answered anyway so that I could view the results. Can the results eventually be seen without having to take the poll?

The Hill (also no music) -- an underrated 1965 movie about cruelty in a British military prison in North Africa Paper Moon (good period music)

Um...his logic is somewhat underwhelming. Don't know about that. One of the 4 fair use factors to weigh is whether the use is transformative. In this instance it leans strongly in favor of the DJ, IMHO. AAJ discussed a comparable issue recently: (The Joe Farrell discussion -- I was told I should be ashamed of myself for my views, but I found that argument unpersuasive.) http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=32760 Unfortunately the discussion all too quickly degenerated into condemnation of rap music in general. "Yeah, the rapper was transformative and that's exactly what we don't like!" That thread had a lot of potential to really discuss copyright and culture, but hey, that's the way it goes. Cheers!

This'll infuriate the suicide bombers as much as naming the homeroom pet Muhammed! Thank you Paris!

I am enjoying Don Sutton calling games for the Washington Nationals. Didn't know this background story of conflict with the Braves announcer.

This is bad news for the preservation of Cajun music and culture as well. The Decca recordings by Joseph and Cleoma Falcon in the 1930s are some of the most cherished.

Good luck with Edouard to friends along the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast!

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"The kind of music celebrated here has never had mainstream appeal, and it never will." If he means "jazz," then the very first sentence is EPIC FAILURE and so so false. Unbelievable! Let's just rewrite history.

Nothing political here but when can we assign the word "blog" to the lexical trash heap? It sounds like a byproduct of acid reflux, like bile. "I had the bitter taste of blog in my mouth." Carry on.

Richard M. Jones' Jazz Wizards, Jazzin' Baby Blues, on Victor 21203A, 11-7-1927 (side B was Boar Hog Blues) What a rumbling start! Great tuba by Cyrus St. Clair, as usual.

Nationals sign Cristian Guzman to a 2-year deal ($16 mil is a "bargain") and trade closer/set up man Jon Rauch to D-backs for our second baseman of the future, Bonifacio. Guess it's good by Felipe Lopez! Those are probably good moves. It's not easy being a baseball fan in DC. Sports radio spends more time on Redskins-Wizards-Mystics-United coverage even at the height of baseball season, and Nats scores appear in the Washington Post sports section beneath the fold, especially when there's a big time golf story like Michelle Wie getting disqualified for not signing her scorecard (sic) etc.

Hello muddah!

I am glad you are ok and hope your mom gets better soon! What a frightening experience! I had an accident years ago on the Washington DC beltway. The kind people who stopped to help me thought for sure I was a goner. An 18-wheeler struck my Toyota Starlet from behind and spun me around so that it was pushing me forward while I was facing it! I eventually spun over and dragged across 4 lanes of busy traffic to land in the median area. I got away with glass and gravel in my elbow and no other harm. I was very lucky to be alive! I have never been able to ride in a small car since. I hope the insurance and the other driver do the right thing.