As sure as eggs is eggs

"Both the pro-chicken and the anti-chicken forces make some good points."

...According to local lore, the chickens may first have come to town with the monks who built its centerpiece mission in 1797. But whether or not the fryers were the friars', they have become San Juan Bautista's dominant symbol.


FMFM: Oliver Nelson's The Blues And The Abstract Truth: not quite a big-band record but a well-orchestrated four-horn date, full of memorable compositions and mindblowing harmonic work from Eric Dolphy. A killer.