United Press International: Jazz Notes: Goings on in the jazz world

Lots of news about things like birthdates of jazz luminaries as well as comings and goings

I'm in Vermont right now for Thanksgiving. Most of the other folks are out walking off all the extra calories they gained. I'm doing what I can instead: surfing the Internet.

CNN.com - Beauty queens flee as toll rises - Nov. 24, 2002.

It seems that religious zealot furvor won out again.

We are offended by the idea of this pageant. Let's kill people to show our displeasure! Yeesh...

In a world where the Muslim faith is trying to separate from the stigma brought by the terrorist bombers, crap like this won't help.

Sometimes, really crappy things happen:

I was thinking of setting up CDNow links from my affiliate links to the jazz records I review here from time to time... problem is, the company sent out an e-mail to all affiliates that due to their merger with Amazon, we all have to remove our links before December 3rd of this year. So much for that idea...

Much More Music is right now airing a film of Queen's concert in Bucharest. I'm taping it to watch tomorrow.

I did see the opening number though: my favorite power tune from the band: One World.

CNN.com - Pee Wee Herman actor charged - Nov. 16, 2002. First actor Jeffrey Jones, now Paul Reubens?

This is the second bout of legal troubles for Paul too... scary.

I've been slowly trying to solve my CSS woes on this blog... I notice in Phoenix that the post text is not only shrinking down the page, but the entries also get more narrow.

I will get this problem fixed - somehow.

Jazz Online

A site to promote a newsletter, but also offering links to some great music downloads, as well as paths to streaming preview clips. This makes me really eager for the day I have broadband, just to hear the clips well.

Time for the Friday Five!:

1. Did you vote in your last elections?

Yes. In the last three at least - both federal and municipal.

2. Do you know who your elected representatives are?

I paid extra care to learning who mine were, especially as they were the candidate that helped to oust a hated mayor from Montreal. Too bad he's a bigger hemorhoid as opposition leader.

3. Have you ever contacted an elected representative? If so, what was it about?

Haven't contacted them yet.

4. Have you ever participated in a demonstration? More in my younger days. I was part of a protest many years ago to keep my high school open. We didn't succeed, but I got on TV for it.

5. Have you ever volunteered in an election? What was the result?

No. I haven't been that civic minded.

City housing policies can be moronic at times:

I first called them about problems with my toilet Friday.

Sunday now, and they still haven't sent a plumber. In fact, I called them for the 6th time now, to be told it's city policy not to call plumbers on weekends. So, I now have to go 7 floors down to the community bathroom whenever I need one.

Good thing that I'm more mobile than most disabled people in this building, otherwise I'd be looking at a mess in this place.