4, 5:

Exactly. Charles Kuralt, Charles Osgood were treasures.

Revelations of Kuralt's double life are bizarre, but whatever. . . .

Christ, they already don't have room for $2 bills in the cash drawer.

I'm envious of you.

And it's here.

Check out Jeff Parker, a fantastic atmospheric guitarist. Popular among the younger crowd who is discovering jazz. Played with Tortoise.

I've found a YT channel that livestreams free jazz from a spot in Brooklyn -- a variety of instruments each time, and most of the players look like they're in their 20s.

Going to see Ron Carter et al. at Detroit Jazz Festival Labor Day. I am pumped. Young crowd there last year from my son's report. World's biggest free jazz festival.

AI: The 2026 Detroit Jazz Festival takes place from September 4-7, 2026, in downtown Detroit. The free, outdoor event features headliners and performances from jazz luminaries, including Artist-in-Residence Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Bob James, Ravi Coltrane, Artemis, and Kurt Elling & Yellowjackets.

Headliners & Key Performers
Artist-in-Residence: Joe Lovano (spearheading the "Coltrane 100" celebration and performing in multiple configurations like Sound Prints with Dave Douglas and his Paramount Quartet).Legendary Acts: Ron Carter & Foursight, Bob James, and the Ravi Coltrane Quartet (Centennial Celebration).

Ensembles & Groups: Kurt Elling & Yellowjackets (celebrating Weather Report), Artemis, Take 6, and the Miles Electric Band.

Special Guests & Features: Cindy Blackman Santana, the Vijay Iyer Trio, and the Django Festival Allstars.

It's all those years of deep, deep breathing.

#8 | Posted by Danforth

My wife was in ICU years ago for hypoxia. They gave her a spirometer to practice deep breathing.

I was able to max that thing out at will.

I am stunned every time I go to the doctor and they say my lungs sound perfect (Xrays for other reasons confirm) -- after a half-century-plus of cannabis use.

My esophagus may occasionally beg to differ, but that's just life.

I figured one of them was Trump.

You liked me better when I was more detached. Fine.
#93 | Posted by BillJohnson

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

22. Yes, and what people remember after NDEs from culture to culture often plays into preconceived religious frames of reference.

Jews ain't seeing The Big Guy at the end of the tunnel.

When you close your eyes and see spots, what are you seeing? Can you describe it?

And is that what it is?

What about what you see when you open your eyes? Is that any more real? Do different people see or describe it in the same way?

What about radio waves, which have us all bathed in light? Do we consider crazy the people who can tap into it?

Things get a little iffy now, other than 2+2 = 4.

Snoofy,
I actually didn't realize until today just how dense you really are.
#82 | Posted by BillJohnson
We know you've thrown in the towel when you resort to the ad hominems.
We're pretty sure you know it too.

#84 | Posted by snoofy

Agreed. I always had a sneaking admiration for BillJ to deal with everything thrown at him with a bit of twisted serenity, control, and equanimity, all the content and excuses and religion and Trumpianism and mail-in ballots aside.

More recently, he seems to have become a bit of -------. Which just throws him into general population around here. Myself included.

Well, at least he is possible of change.

Like it or not, America has been the stabilizing force behind much of the modern world for decades.

#67 | Posted by BillJohnson

SE Asians and Central and Latin Americans and Africans any many others who lived through history and didn't have it fed to them as American exceptionalism history and propaganda feel quite differently.

You don't have to like it at all.

Because of personal events in my life, I'm trying to be a practicing Taoist. Takes a lot of the pressure off.

It took until now for them to approve a plan?

2. That is a horrifying photo of four particularly scummy human beings at their proudest scumminess.

Straight from the Igster: "I'm Bored."

So it is possible to torture someone after death. Interesting.

Bring it up with the religions.

I don't believe for a minute he's a germophobic, at least not anymore.

The man surrounds himself with $#!+, puts more of it into his body, and literally has it pouring out of him.

Doesn't sound like someone for whom cleanliness is paramount.

Then again, his brain ain't right.

Update on incumbency to 2024:

Dems always ignore lessons. The best assumption one could go into the midterms with is that the Democrats will screw it up yet again -- and hope that's terribly wrong.

For everyone who hates Congress, it's quite rare to turn out an incumbent congress-shill.

Overview of the study: "In the House, the percentage of incumbents winning reelection has hovered between 85 and 100 percent for the last half century. In the Senate, there is only slightly more variation, given the statewide nature of the race, but it is still a very high majority of incumbents who win reelection."

Every few months they let him in to chew on an adrenal gland from a Chinese organ salesman.

2. Just responded at the thread.

#25 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

From my readings I understood remote viewing, more simply, to be a function where the mind could go to other places and see what was there without actually being there. And that the CIA thought this was something they could teach.

Somewhat akin to a lucid dreaming state, where a person can control their movements within that space.

Yup, definitely Zorak, lone mantis of the apocalypse.

#37 | Posted by sentinel

My thirty-something sons see it now and look back and can't believe how twisted early Space Ghost was.

Brak was incomparable.

NYT, but not paywalled for me. Don't know why.

The Virgin Mary was 12 and pregnant.
The Bible encourages pedophilia.

#88 | Posted by ClownShack

An ill-informed and way too simplistic statement.