I have cereal (and toast) almost every morning before work. Wheaties or Frosted Mini-Wheats.

Good to have Steve back on the new forum!

Signed by in order of importance for me:

1. God
2. Jesus
3. Satan
4. Moses
5. Job

My first cigarette was a Parliament that Bobby Colaci stole from his mom's purse. That's how it starts, stealing cigarettes from your mother. I hear that Colaci ended up doing time in the big house for insider trading. That's how I started (I quit over 10 yrs ago), smoking my mom's (filter-less) Pa...

I heard a while back that John Wayne smoked four packs a day, but I recently read in the wikipedia entry for Patrick Leigh Fermore that he smoked 80 to 100 cigarettes a day. Now that's some serious addiction. Both of these men were tall and very athletic, which I guess is why they lasted longer tha...

The $9.99 has a higher bitrate (goes from 160 kbps to 320 kbps).

I love Spotify but if I have a problem, it is the lack of independent jazz releases and other of the less popular forms of music (I assume because of the lack of pay involved).

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&docid=yWs-yinqT-aQrM&tbnid=2sfJJuc9wNI1DM:&ved=0CAUQjBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftimesofindia.indiatimes.com%2Fphoto%2F16797810.cms&ei=2y3YUY1QjYTyBMS9gZgO&psig=AFQjCNHNjI1T8aGKOhSYIc7D6kUTUi7MwQ&ust=1373208411252044 So...

The wheel technology does go back aways.

http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/t/thepretendersdebutfu0.jpg They got more popular but never came close to equaling this album imo partially due, I'm sure, to drug overdoses of 2 of the 4 members after only 2 records. This is such a kick-ass record and way more edgier than you might think if y...

Btw, did anybody hopefully invite Steve Lake to come over here?

Scott Dolan wrote:I always dug the little mouse one you had a few years ago.

I believe that was a pygmy jerboa. They are little desert hoppers.

I've been having a Red Garland fest on Spotify lately.

http://www.jackmccallum.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/billy-lynns-431x350.jpg I've been hearing about this book as being some kinda of instant comedy classic and after 100 pages or so I tend to agree. It concerns a group of infantry men just off some heroic mission in Iraq and getting the star tre...

Scott Dolan wrote:I'll tell you this much, me wag, you consistently have the oddest and most fascinating avatars.

Yeah, I get bored. I like pictures having to do with feet for some reason. My avatar right now is a Walker Evans photograph which I saw in the recently released book Cotton Tenants by James Agee.

I think it's safe to say that most, if not all of the posters here, like jazz. ;) I've been a jazz fan for over 50 years. What brought you here, and who do you enjoy listening to the most? Ron, I'm just being stupid. Trying to get things started. This is actually the person formerly known as me wag.

I do. How 'bout you?

This is me, the guy who is glad to finally be rid of the nickname me wag. Just letting you know so you can start ignoring me.