Monk scared me.

It wasn't until later when i listened/collected to his offsprings: (or maybe not) Sun Ra, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Roswell Rudd that i appreciated the roots of growing outside the box.

My fav cover of Round Midnight is by a solo t-bone player named Ron Wilson


My fav cover of "straight no chaser" is by Buddy Rich and another Leon Thomas (a jazz vocalist who sort of yodels)

Let's see..."reluctant member"...admires those who have been banned...obviously a disgruntled customer.

I assume you also eat at restaurants you hate and watch TV shows that repulse you? Married to someone you despise as well?

Those things would seem logical if you're posting on a board that you find offensive. So...how long have you been into self abuse, Mij? :lol:

Bill Nye, the science guy.

Did you say Bill Nye the science guy? I love Bill Nye the science guy.

(But not in that way)

Wow, sm, that was a awesome post.

I'll fess up to being an idiot and admit not knowing anything about Thelonious Monk. Please recommend a CD and I'll buy it and see what I've been missing.

And Stevonez, that was a nice tribute to your mother. Now that I think about it, my mother is one of my heros also. She raised three kids while married to a paranoid, sociopathic, career Army Command Sargent Major (like a Drill Sargent but worse) while moving around the globe every 18 months. She spent 33 years married to him for our benefit only to have to endure the humiliation of a divorce so he could take all the money they saved (a considerable sum) and marry a black widow (her prior 3 husbands met untimely demises) leaving her penniless. He joined the dead husband club two years later leaving everything to the black widow.

Since then, she has beaten not one, not two but three different cancers (breast, melanoma and some other one) and a hip replacement. And at 75, she can still whoop my butt. :)

*agrees with Beestie/Dev they both are on it*

Unless the woman is a bad person, mothers are always taken for granted... as are the grandmothers (although rumor has it, grandparents "spoil" the youngns more)

Yeah - me too... they all came home, thank God - but I am now 42, and when others bring it up in their presence- they look at me and say "not in front of the Baby"... it was an F'd up war and our Vets never get enough recognition.

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I think of people of means who work for the common good.

Princess Di
Bono
Ophra
The Gates

Probably not the greatest?? in the eyes of history but contemporary.

ooh
and Willie Nelson for research into alternate fuels. I think that is so cool and earth responsible. ( although I am not)

Did you know the Diesel engine was introduced at a World's Fair over 100 years ago, as an engine designed to run on vegetable oil that farmer's could produce themselves, from their own crops? Shortly thereafter the inventor, Diesel, was found floating face down in a river, and the new & imporved "Diesel Engine" was introduced, which ran on so-called "Diesel Fuel".

@ Flint
or at techies

... why didn't they kill Kesslar? (mispelled probly) Edison was known to be an asshole meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a..... he had the handle on New Yorks DC light/electric powers

(just curious)

Omigod, the passengers of Flight 93.

the person who finally terminates OBL.