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yes, still around. Need to work out migrating our Forums and its features--as much as possible e-- to a new (forced) system change on the platform. All while Life Events continue apace. BTW the reason we ask for no new posts until we're done is because it's just another "port-over" of Forum content -- to sweep up the new posts -- as we work on and test the new system. But we'll work it out...eventually Thanks for your patience

yes, still around. Need to work out migrating our Forums and its features--as much as possible e-- to a new (forced) system change on the platform. All while Life Events continue apace. BTW the reason we ask for no new posts until we're done is because it's just another "port-over" of Forum content -- to sweep up the new posts -- as we work on and test the new system. But we'll work it out...eventually Thanks for your patience

yes, still around. Need to work out migrating our Forums and its features--as much as possible e-- to a new (forced) system change on the platform. All while Life Events continue apace. BTW the reason we ask for no new posts until we're done is because it's just another "port-over" of Forum content -- to sweep up the new posts -- as we work on and test the new system. But we'll work it out...eventually Thanks for your patience

FORUMS CLOSED WHILE UNDER REVISION: (forced migration) Any posts after Aug 1 may be lost. Thanks for your patience

FORUMS CLOSED WHILE UNDER REVISION: (forced migration) Any posts after Aug 1 may be lost. Thanks for your patience

FORUMS CLOSED WHILE UNDER REVISION: (forced migration) Any posts after Aug 1 may be lost. Thanks for your patience

FORUMS CLOSED WHILE UNDER REVISION: (forced migration) Any posts after Aug 1 may be lost. Thanks for your patience

Thx Dan. The AI upscaling thing a valuable skill these days I guess. For eg, I’d pay good money for an upscale of “Larry Bird Greatest Passer”. 😏 The eyes just aren’t able to parse like 12 pixel vid any more

They didn't make you read The Plague in high school? I thought that went right along side The Great Gatsby or Of Mice and Men...

Wow…this just triggered about a dozen alt-name ideas…🤫😎

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Actually, sidewalks of NYC, including those around Central Park, have (licensed) food cart vendors still, some featuring open vats of boiling somethings — for hot dogs or roasted nuts (yum!) or, yes, pretzels. But none perhaps as charming and idiosyncratic (with misspelling) as our freelance PL fellow here from another era in the city’s life. Hmmmm… maybe recreating “him” in particular would be an excellent conceptual art project or alt-art CD photo shoot… as long as they acted fast, before a cop asked to see their vendor license…

Just try to keep toes far from ledges, and razor blades locked away 🫂

Feb 23, 2025 I would like to note a kind of cosmic irony about this entry. You can see that Walter wrote this c. 2010, and we posted it here in 2020 — so it commonly lives buried low among all post threads in this Forum category (analogous, in terms of eyeballs, to being on the 6th page of a Google search) A few days ago (Feb 20, 2025) it was bumped up to the top of the Forum category, due to its having “recent activity” And what was that recent activity? Reply posts by spam bots— posts we immediately deleted — that tend to show up whenever we send out a Newsletter, spraying themselves quasi-randomly onto threads like the drunk at a party who spews all over the canapé trays. So here now is this little cork — bobbing up to the surface of the position-attention water; an impressionistic dystopian dispatch from a man long dead, who knew and could imagine nothing about our current moment… just as the tsunami racing across the ocean will soon crash over us all…. …. because of a random spambot touting herbal dick meds. Calling Dr. Jung…

right? can't say if I'm happy or sad he didn't live to see this .....

Sorry! Fixed now (-who knew a trailing white space could be so mighty?)

well then -- odds are I miss you too :-)

DaKine Dave Russell in da house! MAHALO for the great history and knowledge! And your meticulous dedicated record keeping/notation is the ONLY reason we (or anybody) could possibly aspire to a legacy site. 🙏 Soon after Walter’s death (too soon, probably), when I began to contemplate W’s mess/pile of scattered DATS, many separated from their original case — this was in NYC — it was ONLY your master book of DAT#s and contents that allowed me to make a start! Just a for-instance. 🙏🌈 Oh, and on those studio jams — hearing those during my months of listening through 100s of DATs was both wonderful and almost too painful. But yeah I think we’ve put bits of jams on this site: Here's "Black Dog", for example (and that post contains links to a couple others) :-)

Hey, PhD dissertations have been built on flimsier analyses 🤓. Any smart future musicology candidate would be wise to borrow yours (and a far sight better than yet another OZ/Floyd joint)