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Adrift Upon A Sea Of Futile Speech

Led Zeppelin, Carouselambra, 1979.

Pass The Douchey On The Left Hand Side

...Born in Jamaica, seen?

You're fried.

;>)

Sunday Overnight

Cecil Taylor, Things Ain't What They Used To Be, 1961.



Geri Allen, Charlie Haden, and Paul Motian, Lonely Woman, 1988.



Sarah Vaughan, Lush Life, 1980.



Roy Eldridge, Tommy Turk, Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, Lester Young, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich, Embraceable You, 1949.



Michael Brecker, Monk's Mood / Hot House, 2003.

If I Can't Be My Own

Alice In Chains, Nutshell, 1996.

From A Pimp To A Ho

...What a shame that Sugar Daddy left town with 'no forwarding', hmmm?

;>)

Wish I Was Ten Feet Tall

John Entwistle, My Size, 1970.

All We Have Is That Day

Beck, Bogert & Appice, Lady, 1973.

Sunday Overnight

Bill Frisell, Han Bennink, and Ernst Reijseger, WOW, 1997.



Paul Horn & Haida, Tunin' In, 1972.



The Gene Ammons quintet (Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor, and Ray Barretto), Canadian Sunset, 1960.



The Nat 'King' Cole trio, The Frim-Fram Sauce, 1945.



Lennie Tristano, Spontaneous Combustion, 1947.

And I Heard Every Word You Said

SRV & Double Trouble, Leave My Little Girl Alone, 1986.

Radiation is good food

...when one is a creature like Ann Coulter.

Yummy

;>)

Music Is My Food And Life

Peter Frampton, I Want To Go To The Sun, 1976.

Or A Corpse That Can't Be Bought

Utopia, Swing To The Right, 1982.

If Dollar Bills Was Worries

Albert Collins, If Trouble Was Money, 1990.

Surrender, earthlings

Shall We Go You And I While We Can

The Grateful Dead, Dark Star, 1969.

R.I.P., Bear.

Sunday Overnight

The Tubby Hayes big band, Killers Of W1, 1965.



Astor Piazzolla, Fuga y Misterio, 1998.



Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous, and Roy Haynes, Groovin' High, 1982.



The Quincy Jones big band with Clark Terry, Moanin', 1960.



The Charles Lloyd quartet, Dreamweaver, 1966.

Open For Business

But I've Never Seen The Sky

Lee Michaels and Bartholomew 'Frosty' Smith-Frost, Tell Me How Do You Feel / Don't Want No Woman / My Friends / Frosty's / Think I'll Go Back, 1969.

Bach Child Escapes!

Cry out to legions of the brave

Black Sabbath, Neon Knights, 1980.

Still On The Line

Buddy Emmons, Wichita Lineman, 1970.

Just Put A Band-Aid On It

John Lennon, I'm Losing You, 1980.

It Hurts All Of Us

Sunday Overnight

Ray Charles, You Don't Know Me, 1963.



Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Skillet, 1958.



Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Sunny Murray - Number one (take 2), 1960.



The Elvin Jones / Jimmy Garrison sextet (Sonny Simmons, Prince Lasha, Charles Davis and McCoy Tyner), Half and Half, 1963.



The Lyman Woodard Organization with Norma Jean Bell, Joy Ride, 1975.

With the answers but no clue

Rush, Digital Man, 1982.

Time Capsule: Washington, D.C.

'A weeping Republican laments as triumphant progressives march past into the city' (date unknown).

;>)

Your wig in one hand and your teeth in the other

King Biscuit Boy (Richard Newell), You Done Tore Your Playhouse Down Again, 1971.

F*ck FOX, redux

The Globe & Mail:

Canada's broadcasting regulator has abandoned its attempt to change a regulation that prohibits the dissemination of false or misleading news.

The decision from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission followed a meeting last week of Parliament’s joint committee for the scrutiny of regulations, which ended its 10-year bid to get the regulation to comply with the law.
...
But the CRTC's call for public input on the proposal resulted in a tidal wave of angry responses from Canadians who said they feared such a move would open the door to Fox TV-style news and reduce their ability to determine what is true and what is false.

...which was preceded by this story:

Then, on Jan. 10, the commission announced it was seeking comments on a proposal to change the wording of the regulation to say that it applied only in cases in which broadcasters knew the information was false or misleading and that reporting it was likely to endanger the lives, health or safety of the public. The cut-off date for public input was set at Feb. 9.

NDP MP Charlie Angus noted that the proposed change precedes the start of Sun TV, a network that has been shepherded in large part by Kory Teneycke, the former director of communication to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

“We all know our Prime Minister well enough to say we don’t have to be in the realm of conspiracy theory here,” Mr. Angus said at a news conference on Monday. “We can draw our conclusions and they are pretty clear."

Now, in the service of remaining clear, '...Although there is no corporate connection between Fox and Sun, there is a visceral one. In March 2009, CP has reported, Prime Minister Stephen Harper lunched in New York City with Murdoch, accompanied by Fox news president Roger Ailes and then- Harper communications director Tenycke.'

So, to sum up - Our Canucklestanikazh© Conservative minority overlords (the nice polite version of the GOP), hankering to git that sweet, sweet corporate spooge all over their mugs and earn those electo-bucks the oldest-professional way, wanted to make it legal for TV talking heads to spout right-wing lies in our faces all day long - just like they do for you down U.S.A. way, my dear American readers.

And they failed.

'Ha ha'

Oh, and f*ck you again, FOX.

;>)

Moving through the shadows at night

Iron Maiden, Murders In The Rue Morgue, 1981.

Hidden behind my comedian face

Russ Ballard, Voices, 1984.