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everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it

This weekend felt, finally, like the first days of winter: a good foot of snow and that stinging crispness on your face. Saturday morning Oona and C helped me shovel the yard (not really). Later, I had a hot bath and a nap, and pretended to be a Finnish millionaire. Walking to the studio early Sunday and it was cold enough, despite longjohns and heavy pants, to make my legs stiff.

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Will someone pleasepleaseplease phone the head honcho at CBC radio and let him know that jazz is dead. I mean, maybe he honestly doesn't know. Maybe nobody told him. Maybe he thinks that jazz is being played all over the country, right now, and people are calling into radio stations and requesting their favourite jazz songs, and that many of these radio stations are entirely dedicated to the jazz format, and that people are lining up outside jazz clubs, and buying jazz albums, and reading jazz magazines, and thinking serious thoughts about the nature and future of jazz. Jazz! Maybe he thinks that all the kids these days have posters of Miles Davis on their walls. Or maybe its worse than that. Maybe the head of the CBC is a jazz terrorist? Or maybe he's being victimized by jazz terrorists! Maybe his psyche has been telepathically kidnapped and is currently trapped in a sort of cerebral time machine set at 1958. Jazz!

Anyway, somebody should call him. Seriously.

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Had to go to the Metro late Saturday afternoon (complicated story: because she was so late getting home from her Monday-night manicure -- too late for me to get groceries -- C had to get the groceries on Tuesday (her day off) but neglected to notice that I had specified *two* cans of cream of celery soup on the grocery list, and now, on Saturday, I needed the second can for my salmon-pasta 'catch of the day' casserole, yum!) and the place was mental. I mean, seriously mental, like lined up ten-deep. I know I always say "worse than the track" but I have no memory of said track (read: the horse races) ever being *that* bad, even on Chinese Lucky Dollar Day.

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And now today it's mild again. Hovering around zero. The sidewalks like moats.

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Also this morning they were talking more shit on the radio: people suddenly afraid/anxious about going on a cruise (because of this). How many people die on cruises every year? I bet more people die ballooning. What's next on the things-we're-afraid-of list? Toxic oil paintings? Fresh water crocodiles? Staple guns?

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The quotation in the title is from a fellow named Charles Dudley Warner, apparently.

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  1. Staple guns are a little scary. ;)

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  3. I agree, it's time to kill it (CBC jazz) and move on.

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  4. took a jazz appreciation class once ..learned how to hate jazz

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