[Dixielandjazz] Re: Evil Doings

[Dan Augustine]

>From: JimDBB@aol.com
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Evil Doings
>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:44:31 EST
>Music News:
>The evil, white owned, Columbia Records Co. announced yesterday that it was dropping the new Jazz Messiah, Wynton Marsalis, from its roster because his flat record sales didn't match the hefty fees that he was demanding.
>The Rev. Jessie Jackson is reported to have left his Reparations conference and is flying to New York in the Budweiser Corporate Jet. Ken Burns is, reportedly, going through his files for some fitting lynching and KKK Rally photos and will join Marsalis and Jackson in a massive protest to be staged in front of Columbia's offices. Burns will arrive in the PBS bus. Rev. Al Sharpton will furnish appropriate demogoguery and the Woody Allen band will furnish fitting period music.
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    Bravo.  A pen dipped in vitriol wielded by Mr. Beebe dissolves the rosy patina of political correctness coating our vision of this best of all possible worlds.  Ambrose Bierce would approve ("CYNIC, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.").  How about a weekly column?

    Dan
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