Posts by Danielle
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Jazz, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sting’s jazz-rock stylings make me feel vaguely homicidal.
Of course when it comes to The Police, the thing is that it’s only tangentially about Sting. It’s *really* about Stewart Copeland.
Speaking of drummers, anyone for some Gene Krupa?
(Edited to note that Harry James, trumpet-player there, married Betty Grable in the same Las Vegas chapel in which I was hitched. I feel almost like Kevin Bacon.)
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Jazz, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And don’t think I’m the only person who will argue that Duke Ellington is one of 20th century America’s great composers, no qualifier required.
And how.
This one kills me. DEAD.
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It's Saturday morning. Have a torch song I have loved for many years.
(Uh, not the one from Heart. Obvs.)
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I have watched all twenty hours of Ken Burns' documentary series, Jazz.
Yep.
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Hard News: The Perfect Drug, in reply to Scott Chris,
Poor Gore.
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Hard News: The Perfect Drug, in reply to Sacha,
I mean, it was *fine*, things were a wee bit fuzzy round the edges and whatnot, but... I expected more. Opiate, schmopiate.
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Hard News: The Perfect Drug, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
I had a little bit of back pain and my doctor gave me diazepam (valium) and tramadol
Hey! How come I only got a bit of tramadol and mostly boring old paracetamol/ibuprofen at home when recovering from a c-section? That's major surgery! *I* wanted to float, dammit! Where was my floating?
Harumph. :)
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to bmk,
Blair
Say that name, and this is who I think of. "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have..."
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to chris,
Ethel and Eunice, naturally.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Emma Hart,
I would like to note that my great-niece, born two years ago, was named 'Camryn', my second cousin-in-law, who is five, was named 'Payton', and my to-be-born-in-a-few-weeks second cousin is named 'Kaeden' (a variant of 'Kayden'). People in rural Louisiana and Texas are apparently the gender-neutral naming zeitgeist.
(I think all these names are fucking horrid, but I unwittingly named both my sons after Kennedys, so who am I to judge?)
