The Music: Passport, Looking Thru, 1974, (CD release, 1994. )
Hailing from Germany, they were Germany’s best progressive jazz group, back in the day. I have something of a personal history with this album, it got used quite a bit at a radio station that I worked at about the time it came out.
If you like jazz rock fusion, with some early electronics thrown into the mix, along with some flat out fabulous playing, this is a good one to have. It’d be a great sample disk, as well, lots of interesting licks on it.
Recommended.
* I’ve been remarking for the last couple days, as regards John Edwards, And what I’d take to be a sympathy ploy. Whatever else you take from this post tonight, take this: the ploy is working. I doubt there was a talk show in the nation this morning, and during the day, that wasn’t at least mentioning them. Good lord, do you realize how much money it would cost any campaign to get that kind of buzz going? The don’t think for one hot second that the value of all of that, was lost on Edwards and his people.
And, as I said in the comments, yesterday, assuming John Edwards should attain the White House, Elizabeth Edwards is going to undergo a miracle recovery, which will stump the doctors. But I will guarantee you the press will NEVER question it.
* I see Christopher Tolkien has completed The Children of Húrin, and it will be in publication officially as of the seventeenth of April. It will be interesting to see what he’s come up with.
* Both first place and honorable mention to yours truly, this time around, at the OTB caption contest. Sometimes those things just set me off. This was one such occasion.
* I find it amusing, that so many people as suddenly discovered the subject of the anger, when I’ve already written on the point at the beginning of this month.Certainly, that I wrote on the subject first doesn’t invalidate the other comments, but it’s interesting to be at the front of the parade for change.
* Scott Ott over at Scrappleface comes up with a real gem of an idea, today… the idea, here, it is to trade the fifteen British sailors is currently in a rainy in captivity for peanut brained Jimmy Carter. Ott suggests that only one party would get anything of value, there. He’s right, by the way…. there is a certain amount of poetic justice to this one.
* Hume, tonight:
The New York Times Magazine published a false story on March 18 about a woman who claimed to have sustained a brain injury during military service in Iraq and to have been raped twice while in the Navy.
But the Navy says it warned the magazine that Amorita Randall may not have even been in Iraq — before the story was printed — a warning the Times disputes.
The Navy says it established that the woman had never been in Iraq on March 12 — six days before the story’s Sunday release.
The Times could have pulled the magazine, which had been printed, or at least put a correction in the news section of the paper. It could have changed the online version of the article. It did none of those things. Instead readers had to wait until yesterday — a full week after the story came out — to learn the truth.
The magazine wrote: “It is now clear that Ms. Randall did not serve in Iraq, but may have become convinced she did. If the Times had learned these facts before publication, it would not have included Ms. Randall in the article.”
Go ahead. Ask me again why I don’t trust the New York Times.
* Ace points out a list of the 100 worst reviewed movies, over at “Rotten tomatoes”. surprisingly enough I haven’t seen a darn one of these. I noticed that “Rollerball” was listed… but it was the remake, not the original. So I got away with that one, I guess. Other than that …. not a one. Maybe it’s because I don’t go in for the horror genre of film, where so many of the really stoopid stuf seems to be.
* This is my obligatory Anna Nicole Smith remark: she pulled an Elvis.
* I see the U.S. capitol police arrested an aide to senator Jim Webb who attempted to enter the senate office building carrying a loaded pistol and two fully loaded magazines that belong to Webb. I’ll bet he will continue to fight against second amendment rights. And it would be a really nifty if someone could come up with a quote of his as regards the court case against handguns in DC. And nobody press or in the Democrat leadership, will see the contradiction.
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