If there is anything the Chinese are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food. – Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1935)

The Chinese do not draw a distinction between food and medicine. – Lin Yutang , The Importance of Living (1937)

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. – Mohandas Gandhi

ELV note: We received some good news yesterday in the form of this letter from Jason. Apparently he made a ruckus, ELV made a ruckus, and lots of people made a ruckus over The Cosmos’ dunderhead move to route diners through a couple of rows of slot machines.  As of this week, the elevators now go directly back to the second and third floor restaurants, and order has been restored to the universe. ELV will now officially end his unofficial one month boycott of The Cosmo, and shall be lunching there today. Please alert the media. (Hey! We ARE the media.)

Here is Jason’s Q & A to the R-J:

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Just about the boppin-est big band tune of all time. Benny Goodman, pre-marijuana-addiction* Gene Krupa pounding the skins, and a preternaturally-thin Harry James on the trumpet…plus bonus solos by the great Teddy Wilson (tickling the ivories) and Lionel Hampton (on the vibes)!

It don’t get much more swingin’ than this folks. Happy Friday and take it away boys:

SING SING SING! Benny Goodman by NilbogLAND

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* According to Wikipedia, whenever Krupa would drop a stick or miss a beat (in the 50s), the audience would start whispering “he’s on the stuff again.”

The man who isn’t jolly after drinking

Is just a driveling idiot

To my way of thinking

Euripides

We apologize for any inconvenience, but it appears that many, but not all, of our recent links are not working. ELV assures you that his staff:

is hard at work on the problem, and it will be corrected soon.

ELV is hard of herring so he overslept this morning.

Or maybe it’s because he was out last night with a cute little yellowtail who drank like a….she drank a lot.

Anyways…he thought he’d post this again….just for the halibut:

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans. – Fran Lebowitz

ELV note: We didn’t arrive in this humble burg until January, 1981, but being a fan of all things nostalgic (especially when it comes to mid-century Las Vegas), we couldn’t resist these giant photos now on display in the food court at the Boulevard Mall. They serve as a reminder of our simpler past, but also of a history that Las Vegas should embrace — instead of imploding it for whatever grandiose corporate scheme tickles the fancy of some carpetbagging robber-baron.

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