Update Update

[windshieldbug]

Found out on Friday that I now get to consider myself a former cancer patient. That feels awfully damn good. Six year journey.

Damn good news. Just keep gettin' checked!

[Chuck Jackson]

One of the most interesting things was his strong thoughts on the traditions of using BBb and F tubas.

Please share what he offered up.

[sousaphone68]

Have my first game on Wednesday, and will hopefully have the bell on my sousaphone fixed , also received all the apparel for the games (although I think I need to purchase a scarf).

One of these games I'm going to see if I can hook up a camera into my sousaphone to get some video...

Congratulations on winning the audition is one of your sousaphones that is damaged or the bands?

[tofu]

http://web.mac.com/moristano/WW2VPP/Gab ... -_USA.html

I've been fortunate to play several concerts under Colonel Gabriel's baton - the last being a couple years back at the MidWest band clinic. I always walk away shaking my head at how much I learn and how much my playing benefits. I always forget how old he really is as he seems to have not lost any mental sharpness or passion for the music.

[bort]

One of the most interesting things was his strong thoughts on the traditions of using BBb and F tubas.

Please share what he offered up.

Sure, I'll write up a post when I get a chance!

[MartyNeilan]

UPDATE:

C is my favorite pitch.

You have been updated.

Mine's a knuckle-ball!

I love pitch. Bits of it are stuck all around my kitchen from bending leadpipes.
Unfortunately, my wife does not.

[Dan Schultz]

UPDATE:

C is my favorite pitch.

You have been updated.

Mine's a knuckle-ball!

I love pitch. Bits of it are stuck all around my kitchen from bending leadpipes.
Unfortunately, my wife does not.

I was wondering just the other day how all of that worked out! If you use pitch much... go to Goodwill and purchase an old crock-pot. You'll have to plug it in several hours before you need it but there won't be much risk of overheating it.

[Dan Schultz]

A tornado moved through about 1 mile south of here at about 6am. Some roofs were blown off in Downtown Newburgh and a couple of houses immediately northeast of Downtown damaged. No injuries have been reported.

Welcome to the Mid-West and an early start of tornado season!

[bearphonium]

We got about an inch of slushy snow and had cars spinning out and driving off the highway and crashing into each other all morning yesterday. More of the same today... Good thing there's no real snow, and that the temps aren't freezing.

[Dan Schultz]

We got about an inch of slushy snow and had cars spinning out and driving off the highway and crashing into each other all morning yesterday. More of the same today... Good thing there's no real snow, and that the temps aren't freezing.

Although we get some pretty rough weather here... we don't get very much snow. When we do get an inch or so of snow/ice.... the locals have contests to see how much stuff they can tear up! The mere mention of snow by a weathercaster causes all of the milk and bread to 'fly off the shelf' at the markets.

[The Jackson]

UPDATE:

Just so everyone knows - I am not Rufus Wainwright, Niels Bohr, Allen Hatcher, or Robert Hanssen.

[k001k47]

UPDATE:

Just so everyone knows - I am not Rufus Wainwright, Niels Bohr, Allen Hatcher, or Robert Hanssen.

UPDATE

Just so everyone knows - I am not Batman.

[sousaphone68]

Up date I'm Spartacus

[MartyNeilan]

I'm Sportacus!

[TubaRay]

UPDATE:

I really don't care WHO Spartacus is!

[Dan Schultz]

UPDATE:

I really don't care WHO Spartacus is!

Never heard of him. Was he an electrician?

[bort]

I've started to take an interest in the "Comments" sections at the bottom of news stories on the internet (like CNN and sites like that).

A single story can get hundreds or thousands of comments really quickly. Some people try to respond to other people's comments. Some people write a LOT. Some people actually have good points, but most are idiots. What an enormous amount of time people are wasting on this.

I just don't get it!

[bort]

A life the Bortster must get.

HA! What, I'm supposed to post about *real* stuff here?

[bort]

What, I'm supposed to do work at work now too?

[Biggs]

Roger Bobo is giving a masterclass in LA this week. I'm going. Be jealous. I'm not playing. Be thankful.