List: The rules of combat

By Jack Brummet, List Ed.


This is a list combining several other lists of the rules of combat.  These various lists appear in several places, and it's impossible to determine who authored the originals.  At least one of them has been kicking around the internet since the BBS days. . .

The Rules of Combat

• The easy way is always mined.
• Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
• The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
• If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
• Mines are equal opportunity weapons.
• A Purple Heart just proves that you were smart enough to think of a plan,
• stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
• Don't ever be the first; don't ever be the last; and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
• Five second fuses only last three seconds.
• It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
• Recoil-less rifles aren't.
• Suppressive fire won't.
• Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.
• When in doubt empty the magazine.
• Never share a foxhole with someone braver then you are.
• Your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
• If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed toward you.
• If you are forward of your position, the artillery will be short.
• The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.
• The important things are always simple.
• The simple things are always hard.
• If you're short of everything except the enemy, you're in combat.
• Incoming fire has the right of way.
• No combat-ready unit was ever passed inspection.
• No inspection-ready unit has ever passed combat.
• Teamwork is essential. It gives them other people to shoot at.
• If the enemy is in range, so are you.
• Tracers work both ways.
• The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
• Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support.
• When both sides are convinced that they are about to lose ... they are both right.
• The bursting radius of a grenade is always one foot greater than your jumping range.
• The only terrain that is truly controlled is the terrain upon which you are standing.
• The law of the bayonet says the man with the bullet wins.
• REMF's (Rear Echelon Mother Fraggers) are everywhere.
• The best tank killer is another tank. Therefore tanks are always fighting each other ...& have no time to help the infantry.
• Precision bombing is normally accurate to within +/- one mile (...or so).
• Don't look conspicuous, it draws fire.
• Cluster bombing from B-52s and C130s is very very accurate. The bombs always hit the ground.
• Perfect plans aren't.
• The side with the fanciest uniforms loses.
• Professionals are predictable--it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
• Armored vehicles are bullet magnets; a moving foxhole that attracts attention.
• No plan survives the first few seconds of combat.
• Expending material in combat is easier than filling out Graves Registration forms -- Ammo is cheap; your life isn't.
• Just because you can't see the enemy; don't for a minute believe they can't see you.
• The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions: When you're ready for them. When you're not.
• If your attack is going well, you've just walked into an ambush.
• Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.
• Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won't be able to get out.

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ATTI Reheated (from 2004): Disclaimers

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor

From ATIT in November 2004. . .this is one of our favorite lists. We collected various disclaimers for years and published this during the first month of All This Is That's existence.

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Some things we learned at the movies

By Jack Brummet, Film Editor

This is a concatenation of different "internet" files back from usenet days, with a few of our own lines and random anonymous quotes we've snagged along the way. [ed's note: it is now more than 20 years ago that I first got on the Internet].  Authorship of the original quotes is impossible to track down.  We found several people claiming authorship of parts of it, but then there were other people...so who really knows?  Obviously a lot of the quotes refer to movies we don't really see anymore...films of a bygone era.   But it's pretty sweet anyhow.

During all police investigations it is necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

Dogs can survive natural and man-made disasters that wipe out entire human populations.

If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing Chinese New Year parade -- at any time of the year.

All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French Bread (and celery!)

It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

Once applied, lipstick will never rub off -- even while scuba diving.

The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. Nobody will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty.

If you need to reload your gun, more ammo will always appear...even if you haven't been carrying any before now.

You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it is not necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.

If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade.

The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

The Chief of Police is always black.

When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill -- just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare.

Interbreeding is genetically possible with any creature from elsewhere in the universe.

Kitchens don't have light switches at night -- when entering a kitchen at night, you should open the refrigerator door and use that light instead.

If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.

Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning.

Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.

A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of a stadium.

Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.

Although in the 20th century it is possible to fire weapons at an object out of our visual range, people of the 23rd century will have lost this technology.

Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant.

It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations.

Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting, especially in New York and L.A.

A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone around you will know all the steps.

Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization.

It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts -- your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one-by-one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.

When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.

Nobody involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock -- if they do, they will die within five minutes.

Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other.

You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.

Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.

Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment.

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Preston Sturges's eleven rules for box office appeal

Preston Sturges, director, screenwriter and the father of screwball comedy put down these 11 rules for box office appeal:

(Source: The Cinema of Preston Sturges: A Critical Study; Image: Preston Sturges, via PBS.)

1. A pretty girl is better than an ugly one.
2. A leg is better than an arm.
3. A bedroom is better than a living room.
4. An arrival is better than a departure.
5. A birth is better than a death.
6. A chase is better than a chat.
7. A dog is better than a landscape.
8. A kitten is better than a dog.
9. A baby is better than a kitten.
10. A kiss is better than a baby.
11. A pratfall is better than anything.

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Drivers describe their accidents for an insurance company

By Jack Brummet, Folklore Editor

The following excerpts come from a Toronto insurance company's records of drivers' descriptions of their accidents. Allegedly.  Snopes.com calls this list's authenticity "undertermined." I've had this list for about ten years.  Snopes researched and wrote about the list last in March, 2011.  No. 20 is almost poetry.  .  .

1. The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him.
2. The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions.
3. I thought my window was down, but I found it was up when I put my hand through it.
4. I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way.
5. A truck backed through my windshield into my wife's face.
6. A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.
7. The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.
8. I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.
9. In my attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole.
10. I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home. As I reached an intersection, a hedge sprang up obscuring my vision. I did not see the other car.
11. I had been driving my car for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had the accident.
12. I was on my way to the doctor's with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way, causing me to have an accident.
13. As I approached the intersection, a stop sign suddenly appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before. I was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident.
14. To avoid hitting the front bumper of the car in front, I struck the pedestrian.
15. My car was legally parked as it backed into the other vehicle.
16. An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
17. I told the police that I was not injured, but on removing my hat, I found that I had a fractured skull.
18. I was sure that the old fellow would never make it to the other side of the roadway when I struck him.
19. Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have.
20. I saw the slow moving, sad-faced old gentleman as he bounced off the hood of my car.

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Twisted Employee Evaluations: The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

These quotes are from "actual" U.S. government employee performance evaluations, or so says techsupt.winbatch.com.  I have my doubts, but some of them are pretty amusing.

• Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
• I would not allow this employee to breed.
• This employee is really not so much of a has-been but more of a definite won't-be.
• Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.
• When she opens her mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet.
• He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle.
• This young lady has delusions of adequacy.
• He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
• This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
• This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better.
• Got a full six-pack but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
• A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
• He does not have ulcers, but he is a carrier.
• I would like to go hunting with him sometime.
• He has been working with glue too much.
• He would argue with a signpost.
• He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room.
• When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.
• If you see two people talking, and one looks bored, he is the other one.
• A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on.
• A prime candidate for natural de-selection.
• Donated his brain to science before he was done using it.
• Gates are down, the lights are flashing but the train is not coming.
• Has two brains: one is lost and the other is out looking for it.
• If he were any more stupid, he would have to be watered twice a week.
• If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you would get change.
• If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.
• It is hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
• One neuron short of a synapse.
• Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.
• Takes him two hours to watch 60 Minutes.
• The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.

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11 Stupid Questions From Yahoo Answers That Have Changed My Life from 11points.com

11points.com (or, Sam Greenspan, who also runs the SmashPanda.com site) comes up with some fascinating lists. Sometimes his commentary can be a little snarky...but, he does come up with some pretty fine lists. One from January, 11 Stupid Questions From Yahoo Answers That Have Changed My Life, is pretty fascinating, and spooky, and creepy. But good.

Some of his recent posts include:

11 Ways Ice Cube and I Differ On Assessing What Constitutes a Good Day
11 Questions With Jennifer Widerstrom, Phoenix from American Gladiators
11 Totally Different, and Mostly Crazy, Systems for Calculating Your Age
11 Weakest Official State Items
11 Businesses Selling Two Hilariously Unconnected Items
11 State Laws About Marrying Your Cousins, From Strictest to Loosest
11 Most Profound Quotes in Simpsons History
11 Old School Nintendo Tricks Permanently Burned Into Our Brains
11 Women the Kama Sutra Says You Shouldn't Have Sex With
11 Predictions That Back to the Future Part II Got Wrong
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Two years on the road slows to a trickle

I have retired the list I kept in the sidebar "Where is Jack," which was helpful the last couple of years as I flew around the country, and other countires, every week. But it seems unnecessary now that I travel far less. I did want to keep a copy of the now retired list and make it a link. Here are most of the places I've been over the last two years:

Eugene, Oregon 1/21 - 1/23/2009
Berkeley/Emeryville, CA 12/9-12/10 2008
Vancouver/Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Nov 7, 8, 9, 2008
Berkeley/Emeryville, VA 9/11-9/12 2008
Eugene, Oregon August 6th, 2008
Athens-->London-->Vancouver, B.C., Canada-->Seattle, July 18th, 2008
Athenai, Hellas July 14-17th 2008
Naxos, Greece July 11th-13th:2008
Santorini (Thira) Greece July 10-11th 2008
Sitia, Crete, Greece July 6th-9th 2008
Rhodes, Greece, July 4th-6th 2008
Datca, Turkey July 1-4,2008
Selcuk Turkey July 29-July 1, 2008
Ankara, Turkey June 28-29th 2008
Gorem, Cappadocia, Turkey June 25-28th,2008
Istanbul, Turkey June 19-June 25th 2008
Seattle-->Calgary, Alberta-->London-->Istanbul, June 18th
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada June 3-4: 2008
London, England May 2-May 4, 2008
Sheffield, England April 29-May 2, 2008
London, England Apri 29th, 2008
Irvine, Orange County, California Apr. 22-23 2008
Irvine, California Apr. 15-18th 2008
Oakland 3/11 - 3/13/2008
Puerta Vallarta 1/22 - 1/29 2008
Oakland 3/11 - 3/13
Los Angeles 1/22 - 1/23 /2008
Austin Jan 14th-16th, 2008
Irvine, California Jan 7-Jan 7th, 2008
Eugene 11/1-2/2007
Los Angeles 10/30/2007
LA/Irvine 9/18-19 /2007
LA/Irvine 8/7/2007
Eugene 8/1/2007
Austin 7/19-21/2007
Boston, Massachusetts 7/-18-19/2007
Eugene, Oregon 6/21/2007
Oakland 6/20/2007
NYC 6/5 - 6/11, 2007
Boston, Massachusetts 6/4-6/5, 2007
Newport Beach, California 5/29 -5/30/2007
eugene, oregon 5/9/2007
Oakland, California 5/7 - 5/8/2007
Newport Beach, California 5/6/2007
Eugene, Oregon 4/5/2007
Newport Beach, California 4/4/2007
Oakland, California 2/28 - 3/1/2007
Eugene, Oregon 2/21 - 2/22/2007
Newport Beach, California 1/15/2007
Newport Beach, California 12/3 - 12/4/2006
Oakland, California 10/3 - 10/4/2006
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A new list: My favorite Criterion movies.

These are my favorite (not the best. . .necessarily) movies from The Criterion Collection. Of course, they have hundreds of other great films too; I just haven't seen them (yet).

Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (one of the great great movies...one notch under [or over] Citizen Kane)
Seven Samurai - Kurosawa (a three hour long epic film)
The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut
This Is Spinal Tap - Rob Reiner (one of my top five knucklehead movies)
The Long Good Friday - John McKenzie
M - Fritz Lang - an awesome thriller
Nanook of the North - killer early documentary. Sorry, Frank Zappa didn't invent Nanook.
Time Bandits - Terry Gilliam (esp. if you're a Gilliam fan)
Henry V - Laurence Olivier (one of the best Shakespeare movies ever)
Fishing with John - John Lurie (a very funny and strange sort of travelogue, with Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits, and Willem DaFoe)
Brazil - Terry Gilliam (This movie is one of a kind)
The Harder They Come - Perry Henzell (and dark, and very cool plunge into Shantytown, Reggae, and Rasta, with a great soundtrack)
The Blob - The classic spooky movie
Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (his best movie, I think)
Playtime - Jacque Tati (I wonder if I would still like Tati movies?)
8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
Monterey Pop Festival (Hendrix, Joplin, Otis Redding and others broke out)
3 Women - Robert Altman
Slacker - Richard Linklater (an Austin movie--people seem to love it or hate it; the second time I saw it, everyone in the room fell asleep)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Wes Anderson (my favorite Wes movie)
Murmur of the heart - Louis Malle
Dazes and Confused - Richard Linklater
Stranger than paradise - jim jarmusch
Traffic - Jacques Tati
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel
Spartacus- Stanley Kubrick
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[see, also, A List of Lists on All This Is That]

The 100 most-often used verbs in English

I compiled this from several sources (most of which agreed). I Do believe, however, that among those 100 words should be several related to bodily and procreative functions that are not, as they say, "used in polite company."


accept
allow
ask
believe
borrow
break
bring
buy
can/be able
cancel
change
clean
comb
complain
cough
count
cut
dance
draw
drink
drive
eat
explain
fall
fill
find
finish
fit
fix
fly
forget
give
go
have
hear
hurt
know
learn
leave
listen
live
look
lose
make/do
need
open
close/shut
organise
pay
play
put
rain
read
reply
run
say
see
sell
send
sign
sing
sit
sleep
smoke
speak
spell
spend
stand
start/begin
study
succeed
swim
take
talk
teach
tell
think
translate
travel
try
turn off
turn on
type
understand
use
wait
wake up
want
watch
work
worry
write
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List of some of my favorite poets and their books

I know I've left out some key poets and poems, but that is the problem with lists!

William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience; America, A Prophecy; Jerusalem; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

James Dickey - Falling and other poems; Selected Poems; Buckdancer's Choice

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Poetry is the shadow
cast by our streetlight
imagination
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Christopher Smart - Jubilate Agno

Lord Byron - Don Juan

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Coney Island of the Mind; Populist Manifesto; The secret meaning of things; Northwest ecolog; Starting from San Francisco

Mark Strand - Darker, Reasons for Moving, Stories of our Lives

Charles Bukowski - Screams from the Balcony; Crucifix in a deathhand; Burning in water, drowning in flame; The days run away like wild horses

Pablo Neruda - Selected poems; 20 love poems; Book of questions; Residence on earth

John Ashberry - Collected poems (1956-87); Note from the air

Elizabeth Bishop - The Collected Poems; Geography III

William Shakespeare - The Sonnets

William Butler Yeats - Collected Poems. I am partial to his later poems, but he didn't write many bad ones.

Allen Ginsberg -Howl; Kaddish; The Fall of America; Reality Sandwiches

John Berryman - The Dream Songs

Anne Sexton - The Awful Rowing Toward God; Transformations; To Bedlam And Partway Back; Collected Poems

William Wordsworth - Lyrical Ballads; Recollections of Early Childhood; The Prelude

Frank O'Hara - Selected Poems; Meditations in an emergency; Lunch Poems

Ted Berrigan - The Sonnets; Selected Poems; Many Happy Returns

Sylvia Plath - Ariel; The Colossus; Crossing The Water; Collected Poems

James Wright - The Branch Will Not Break; Shall we gather at the river; Collected poems; Saint Judas

Carl Sandburg - The people, yes; Chicago Poems; Slabs of the sunburnt west;

T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems (as long as they include The Waste Land, J. Alfred Prufrock, Four Quartets, and Burnt Norton)

Robert Lowell - Life studies; For the union dead; The Notebook; Lord Weary's Castle; Collected Poems

Ezra Pound - The Cantos

Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations; A season in hell

Garcia Federico Lorca - Poet in New York; Selected poems

Nikos Kazantzakis - The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. I'd always liked this work, but renewed by acquaintance after last summer, when I was in Greece, and had a poetry reading in a bookstore and they had me read several long passages from this book--because they wanted to hear what it sounded like in English. They liked it.

Emily Dickinson - Collected Poems. In my booklet, she was the first great American poet, and right at the top of the rockpile for all time.

e.e. cummings - Selected or Collected Poems.

Wallace Stevens - Collected Poems; The Emperor of Ice Cream; Harmonium. Who'd have thought an insurance executive could write such beautiful, moving, dense, lyrical poems?

William Carlos Williams - Collected Shorter Poems; Paterson; Imaginations; Pictures from Breughel and other poems; Asphodel: That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems

Theodore Roethke - Collected Poems.

Robert Hershon - The German Lunatic; Into a punchline; The Public Hug: New and Selected Poems

Gregory Corso - The Vestal Lady on Brattle; Gasoline; Elegiac Feelings American

Kenneth Koch - Collected Poems

Jack Kerouac - Scattered Poems; Book of Blues; Mexico City Blues

Richard Hugo - Collected Poems; The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir
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See also, A List Of Lists On All This Is that
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A List of Lists from All This Is That

A List of my favorite poets
A list of favorite Bob Dylan songs
Complete list of Jack Brummet poems published on All This Is That
Another list: Blues-men and women
A new music list: My favorite Grateful Dead tunes
The People At Your Office (Jack List Number 1-A)
Some favorite songs about dancing
The 300 Most Common Words (List Number 3)
Another list: my favorite Kinks tracks
A list of movies that always make me laugh
Another All This Is That List: A few things you didn't know about the President of the United States
Wikipedia's list of counterculture films
Some stock characters (Jack List Number 2)
The Phonetic Cop Alphabet.(List Number 5)
Give Yourself More Space In The Elevator (List Number 7)
Jack Brummet: Growing Up Hillbilly:::An index of growing up tales
Jackulation — a list of Jacks
Google Information Search of recent articles on George Bush appearing in All This Is That.
Five Greatest Cities In The United States
What The Movies Teach Us (List Number 8)
My Favorite Rock and Jazz Shows
More Shows I've seen over the years
Are you a psychopath? Take the psychopathy test. 9)
An Index of Jack's 50 Heroes & Villains Paintings
Index to the Paintings And Thumbnail Biographies of The Presidents Of The United States Disclaimers (Jack List Number 1)
The finger, the wanker, the cuckoo sign, the shocker, rock horns, the shaka sign, and many more ---o0o---

A new music list: My favorite Grateful Dead tunes

Attics of my Life
Bertha
Bird Song
Black Muddy River
Black Throated Wind
Box of Rain
Brokedown Palace
Brown Eyed Women
Built To Last
Cassidy
China Cat Sunflower
Cold Rain and Snow
Dark Star
Dire Wolf
Eyes of the World
Fire On The Mountain
Foolish Heart
Franklin's Tower
Friend of the Devil
From the Heart of Me
Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
Help on the Way
Here Comes Sunshine
He's Gone
I Know You Rider
Infrared Roses
Jack Straw
Liberty
Looks Like rain
Lost Sailor
Magnesium Night Light
Mexicali Blues
Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodle-oo
Ripple
Riverside Rhapsody
Saint of Circumstance
Scarlet Begonias
Shakedown Street
Silver Apples Of The Moon
Slipknot
St. Stephen
Stagger Lee
Standing On The Moon
Stella Blue
Tennessee Jed
Terrapin Station
The Eleven
The Golden Road To Unlimited Devotion
The Monkey and the Engineer
The Promised Land
The Wheel
Throwin' Stones
Tons of Steel
Touch of Grey
Unbroken Chain
Uncle John's Band
Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew
Wharf Rat
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Another list: Blues-men and women

This is a list of my favorite blues performers in no particular order. Disclosure: I lean pretty heavily toward the solo finger-pickin' style of blues, and not so much toward, say, Bonnie Raitt or even the Chicago school of the blues. Right now, however, I am deep into listening to Muddy Waters' 3-CD Chess Box Set.


Skip James
Leadbelly (aka Huddie Ledbetter)
John Mayall
Peg Leg Sam (aka Arthur Jackson)
Mississippi John Hurt
Taj Mahal
Bessie Smith
Koko Taylor
Jimmy Ray Vaughn
Etta James
Henry "Rufe" Johnson
Jesse Fuller
Willie Dixon
Buddy Guy
Paul Butterfield
Ray Charles
Bo Diddley
Billie Holiday
Elmore James
Ray Charles
Jimmy Reed
Son Seals
Big Joe Turner
Jimmy Witherspoon

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The To-do List Blog

Sasha Cagen’s To-Do List blog has been released as a book. The to-do lists she compiles are interesting, bizarre, mundane, obsessive, and sometimes flat-out spooky. Her blog and book come from people who have emailed them to Sasha, opening up their underwear drawers, so to speak.

She has a cool video on YouTube, explaining the blog and list collection:


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