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...yours truly, the Couch Potato...
...good" HDL (high-density lipoprotein, which helps clear cholesterol), which is 54. Moore assures me I can lower my cholesterol without medication and asks about my diet. While I generally stay away from red meat and eat mostly fish, chicken, vegetables and salads, I confess a weakness for cheese, potato chips and butter on all sorts of things. Moore wonders if I am ready to "commit"--as she says--to eliminating cheese and chips and cutting down on butter. Reluctantly...
...improvisations set the city on its head. The stiff rhythms of the time were slashed away by his combination of the percussive and the soaring. He soon returned to Chicago, perfected what he was doing and made one record after another that reordered American music, such as Potato Head Blues and I'm a Ding Dong Daddy. Needing more space for his improvised line, Armstrong rejected the contrapuntal New Orleans front line of clarinet, trumpet and trombone in favor of the single, featured horn, which soon became the convention. His combination of virtuosity, strength and passion was unprecedented...
...just watching...that's s-o-o Bi-Millennial, don't you think? We're about to close a century in which two of the biggest advancements in entertainment--movies and television--defined the passive, couch-potato experience. The future promises to liberate us from the tyranny of artists who would suck us into the swirling maw of their moving pictures, music and books. If we can extrapolate from cybercave-wall stuff like Cyberswine, the next thousand years of storytelling will put us in the director's seat. The descendants of video games, interactive TV, online environments like MUDs...
Sadness strikes at the heart of Potato Country once again: Frank Sinatra has passed from our stage. We hadn't seen or heard him for years. And that perhaps was better; entertainers -- and Frankie was arguably the greatest of this century -- are best remembered in action. If you've been clicking or flipping around since you heard the news, you've probably heard it all already. CP has written it already. So let us not croon overlong in this space, and deliver what is CP's raison d'etre...