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2004-04-28 - 9:46 a.m.

The Slipper Room show was fun. It's a nice space, comfortably kitschy with Edwardian frillery and Verner Panton-esque furniture.

Jim and his band played a lively, rootsy set. His drummer (and missus) Barbara also, coincidentally, plays in a jazz ensemble with my brother Mike. This is the very first time our musical worlds have ever collided.


"...Larry Ching, 82, was a flat-out crooner..."


New Loretta Lynn album out, produced by Jack White. Neat-o. I've loved LL since watching her sing "Red White & Blue" on the Merv Griffin show as a young'un, which inspired me to get her book from the library, which started me on my way to my still-raging addiction for entertainment bio's.


Let's stop obsessing about our weight, shall we? The following paragraph, which ranks as the best thing I've read anywhere, anytime, is from a Guardian book review:

If one were forced to come up with a six-word explanation for the otherwise inexplicable ferocity of America's war on fat, it would be this: Americans think being fat is disgusting. Fifty years ago, America was full of people that the social elites could look upon with something approaching open disgust: blacks in particular, of course, but also other ethnic minorities, the poor, women, Jews, homosexuals, and so on. Nowadays, a new target is required.

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