New England CD retailers are hurting!!

He's not in the stove...

I'm everywhere that I'm not.

I thought you were

a) Sitting on a Fence
b) spening a lonley night at the Memory Motel
c) Waiting on a Friend
d) sicking around st. petersburg
or
e) standing on the corner of
West 8th Street and 6th Avenue

What am I doing standing here on the corner of West 8th Street and 6th Avenue?

I'm on my way to Discorama, which is now just down the block!

Jimbo has been to paradise but he's never been to he.

I guess that new all-Rolling Stones CD shop will have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!!

I hope this won't be The Year Without A Jimbo Claus...

But don't do it this weekend or next or the weekend of Oct 24th.

Who is this 'Jimbo' you speak of?

Jimbo is a man who single-handedly keeps the NYC CD stores hoppin' with business and once a year, he graces the New England CD shops with his presence and more importantly, his $$.

So far this year, however, no Jimbo.

But we still have three months left.

Please Jimbo -- come down before the cold weather!!!!

"DEAR LINDA: I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Jimbo.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE IMWAN it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth; is there a JIMBO?

"DR. CHRIS EVIL.
"UNDISCLOSED."

DR. CHRIS EVIL, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Dr. Chris Evil, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Dr. Chris Evil, there is a Jimbo. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Jimbo. It would be as dreary as if there were no DR. CHRIS EVILS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Jimbo! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the record stores on Tuesday to catch Jimbo, but even if they did not see Jimbo coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Jimbo, but that is no sign that there is no Jimbo. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, DR. CHRIS EVIL, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Jimbo! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Dr. Chris Evil, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

I believe, I believe!

LOL, Gary! Great post!

I concur. Hopefully, Herr Jimbo will touch down upon New England shores before long!

He must be planning his trip because he PM'd me to see when you'd be out of town.

That's funny -- when we talked the other night, he said "Please don't invite that Smiff character!"

He was very afraid after the stories I told him about you, Herr Smiff!

There you go then.

I found Jimbo on the corner of First and Amistad.

I was behind a car the other day that had a bumper sticker that asked "Where's Jimbo"?

I thought I would share the web site it promoted.

http://www.whereisjimbo.com/

Meanwhile, the New England ICE Contingent continues to wait and wonder -- will our intrepid CD buying guru Jimbo make it down here before the first snowfall and freezing temperatures hit??