Vincent St Veran Les Morats 2010

Pretty much a textbook example of the appellation.

hornplayer - I'm pretty sure I saw them at Union Square. Have you tried Chinatown?

Dr Dave wrote:How about some Pie Franco?

Yes please!

steve(thelil) wrote:The genius guy with Asperger's (author of Born On A Blue Day) who can recite pi to several thousand decimal places would not agree that 3.14159 is very "exact"

Daniel Tammet

I s'pose this will be my first confession on this topic: I'm strict vegetarian. So no pie for me. I've got to get by on cobblers (with fake margarine). But fruit pie, a cherished memory from my youth. I'll take fruit anyway I can get it. Easy on that sugar, though. While we're confessin' I'm a Lact...

Then: Lenny Bruce, with an Honorable Mention to Bill Hicks

Scott Dolan wrote:As for new folks, you know, I'm not sure I have a favorite. I haven't seen a decent stand up comic in a long, long time. Chris Rock, I guess?

This

jazzbluescat wrote:3.14?

3.14159 (to be exact) always gave me indigestion.

hornplayer wrote:It's summer again and fresh fruit is sparkling all over the place. Why can't I find sour cherries? It's cherry season... I want to make a pie for July 4th.

Anyone in New York seen any sour cherries around in the markets?

Whole Foods at Union Square

I saw Joss Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing" last night. Very nice take on Shakespeare's classic.

Scott Dolan wrote:I've always thought that Golden Circle date was under appreciated.

Agreed, but I'm sure why that is.

J. Geils Band in Central Park 1972

Listened to this on my morning commute


Currently listening to this while I paint

The Beach Boys are such an institution that it's very hard to separate any given record from their entire history and the public perception of it. It's hard for me to fathom that someone without a negative bias and/or backlash against the Brian Wilson worship would not think that some of their reco...

Today I've been watching: Wimbledon and The Tour de France

When "Pet Sounds" was released in 1966 I was eleven years old, my older sister had a copy and she played it nonstop. A year later Sgt. Pepper was released (by all accounts hugely influenced by Pet Sounds). If you heard Sgt. Pepper in '67 it was like (for fans of Pop Music at least) nothing...

A must for Jazz fans "The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild" by Hannah Rothschild "In the early 1950s Nica heard “’Round Midnight” by the jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and, as if under a powerful spell, abandoned her marriage and moved to New York to...

"My ego only needs a good rhythm section" - Miles

My name is Harry, I live in Hoboken, NJ. I work in Manhattan as a commercial Artist. I found the Jazz corner earlier this week, but as it was going away I didn't join.