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Jay's Blog
Saturday, October 28th
RIP Marijohn Wilkin, who I never met or spoke to ...
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Marijohn Wilkin died this morning (Oct. 28). One of the first successful female songwriters in Nashville.
Among other great songs, she co-wrote "Long Black Veil". I reckon some of all y'all have heard me sing that song.
Jay on 10.28.06 @ 09:17 PM EST [link]
Sunday, October 1st
Hoo-haw, it's been a while
Well, I bet y'awrl're sayin', "Man oh man, I thought he'd never leave!"
Seriously, have been dealing with some dizziness, the result of what I bet is an inner ear infection. Or maybe it's karma for a lifetime of making everybody else dizzy. Back to normal, which is just moderately dizzy.
I'm in what I hope is the final stage of what's been a longer-running and more frustrating exercise than I'd hoped, or recollected from the past ... booking some dates. I have a couple booked, need one or two more confirmed and a final confirmation on one of the booked dates, and then I can rent a venue or two to complete what surely must be billed as the Long Overdue Badly Belated Satchel Launch Tour ™.
Meanwhile, I get to play some songs in a public place this coming Tuesday (October 3, as everyone seems to keep oopsing on) in Toronto at the Tranzac, and I have a couple of really wonderful showcases upcoming in Ottawa at the OCFF conference in the Walnut Suite, sponsored by Walnut Street Music in Winnipeg, where I'm assured the music is a dry folk. (Sorry, very obscure weather joke there.) The other players in the room are uniformly wonderful and I'd pay to be in that room even if I didn't get to play!
Unaccustomary act of brevity, signing off ...
Jay, king of ellipses ...
Jay on 10.01.06 @ 01:28 PM EST [link]
Sunday, July 9th
Baby Giant Steps
OK, the nasty deed is done.
I have taken the plunge and declared the CD to be released. I have transitioned, for both practical and emotional purposes, from a Guy With A Kitchen Full Of CDs to an Independent Recording Artist.
I feel neither older nor younger, but this sometimes really is exciting. For those of you who are recording artists, remember how this felt. Others can get a comparable buzz by remembering the first time they did any particularly exciting thing.
CD Baby has my CD (and this morning I discovered the first one has sold through!) http://cdbaby.com/cd/linden if you want to check it out (and there is a 2-minute sample of each song on the album, so you might.)
PayPal is set up, bless their evil and moronic little heads, to let me receive payments for people who want to buy online. http://jaylinden.com/buy_the_cd/ -- even accepts credit and debit card payments if you have a PayPal account.
I'm up and running on MySpace -- check me out at http://myspace.com/jaylinden -- c'mon be ma friend (and you can hear four full songs from the CD).
Some of the key radio stations and newspapers/magazines have received review copies, and I've made the announcement to my mailing list, a stack of discussion lists I participate in, everyone I know.
The Toronto Star has given me a legit rave review ("legit" means no ambiguity, and you don't have to sort through a long document to find something favourable). The full text, plus the text of the friendly but more descriptive than critical Kitchener-Waterloo Record review, are in my SonicBids EPK at http://sonicbids.com/jaylinden -- click the "press" tab to see it.
First Canadian radio play came from Jan Vanderhorst at CKPC-FM in nearby Brantford, ON. Bless that nice little city, I also sold my first few CDs there, the day I got them home from the manufacturers, at the Brantford Folk Club. My limited ability to track airplay shows I've also gotten played in Montreal and Regina, and this weekend on Sirius satellite radio.
Also my first US airplay: Susan Forbes Hanson, who hosts folk/acoustic type radio shows at stations in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Now I'm in the process of trying to book a small number of shows, probably in Sept/Oct, so that we can all have a little launch party or three. I'll keep the mailing list posted, of course, so if you're interested and aren't already getting my (occasional) messages, sign up at http://jaylinden.com/mailing_list/ and click "Join" at the top of the page.)
Now back to the less exciting and more pragmatic chores of dishes and floors and laundry. They never tell you about this part in the Dream Of Being A Folkie Hero manuals.
Jay on 07.09.06 @ 01:39 PM EST [link]
Sunday, June 4th
And finally -- music and CD marketing!
Shortly before the voice started coming back, I'd decided I had better release the CD,whether I was going to be able to sing or not.
Now that the voice is coming back, I'm working feverishly towards an official release. Here's what I've done so far:
Within the next few days (but it's not there yet), my CDBaby page will be up and running, and people can buy the CD there -- the URL will be http://www.cdbaby.com/jaylinden (I'm pretty certain.) That page will also have 2-minute clips of the entire CD, for them of you as don't already have one.
(Do note that CDBaby is probably not a great place to buy the CD if you're from Canada, because they work in US dollars. If you want to buy a CD in Canada, get in touch with me directly. I'll be updating the "Buy The CD" page on this website, but in any case, you can always email me!)
For those who didn't already know, I have an EPK up at Sonicbids (there's been a link from this site since I built this site, but if you weren't aware, there are three complete songs there in the "audio" section). The URL is http://sonicbids.com/jaylinden.
And finally, I've opened up a MySpace space, at http://www.myspace.com/jaylinden. There are four songs posted and available for either streaming or download (I'll be changing those songs from time to time; right now two are also available at Sonicbids and the other two are different ones.) If you aren't already on MySpace and want to be, and are a musician, you should go to the home page, click "music" at the top right, and from that page, click "artist signup" from near the top right. By registering as an artist, you can upload/post your own music; otherwise you can't. If you are not an artist and sign up, be sure to edit your preferences so that only "friends" can send you messages, and so that you have to approve any requests to be "friends". That way you won't receive any spam messages.
In the next week or so (as soon as possible after the CDBaby page goes up), I'll be sending out CD to radio and print media in Canada and the US.
I'm also in behind-the-scene conversations with some friends about where and when and how to do one or more official launch events. I'll do at least one in the tri-cities, for sure, but would also like to see what the options are in Guelph, Brantford, Toronto, and other places where maybe enough people know me to make such an event viable. I'll keep everyone posted!
Later!
Jay on 06.04.06 @ 11:40 AM EST [link]
How do you cure a broken voice? Gratitude to Acu-guy #2!
Well, this entry is mainly a shout-out to David Schroevalier, who runs the College of Acupuncture & Therapeutics in Kitchener. By my best count (and I'm not quite as bad at counting as I sometimes joke), David was Health Care Professional #7.
The first was a clueless idiot of an Ear/Nose/Throat "specialist" in Cambridge who looked at the vocal cords, saw there was no tumour or nodules growing there, but couldn't even notice that one of the cords didn't move. The second was a very good "Speech/Language Pathologist" in Waterloo who couldn't do much with the wrong diagnosis.
The third was Dr. Brian Hands, an ENT specialist who works almost exclusively with voice problems and has pictures of Mick and Celine and about 100 others on his walls -- professional code of ethics doesn't let him discuss who his patients are, but all of their pictures are autographed to Dr. Hands with gratitude for patching up their voices in time for concerts, etc. Fourth is Aaron Low, the Speech/Language Pathologist who works with Dr. Hands, and who gave me exercises I will do every day forever to keep my voice healthy and limber -- they were originally planned to make the live cord force the dead one to vibrate so it wouldn't atrophy, which is also a good idea.
The fifth was Acupuncturist #1, in Toronto's Chinatown, who is probably very good at what he does but couldn't get over the fact that we were not treating laryngitis, and in spite of spending 10 minutes before the session describing what paralysis of a vocal cord is, still kept telling me not to speak when I didn't have to, and gave me a strong expectorant to relieve congestion I didn't have. (The needles didn't hurt, but somewhere in the world, there's a doll that looks just like me, and it was in enormous pain.)
The sixth was Dr. Jamie Koufman in North Carolina, who pioneered most of the surgical procedures that I would have been a candidate for if the vocal cord hadn't come back, and who would have performed the surgery on me if it had come to that. She gave me good advice, and I cannot recommend anyone more highly. And if anyone knows someone who has a severe, non-common voice disorder, let me know and I'll point them to Dr. Koufman in a hurry.
The seventh was David Schroevalier. Our first session was a consultation. We spent an hour discussing what I had, what I didn't have, what my experiences had been with the other health care professionals, his background and philosophy, etc. We booked two appointments for starters for the following week.
When I got back there, David had actually taken the time to study the physiology of the vocal cords, which nerves do what, where they're located, what they wrap around that might be a problem spot. He showed me pictures, including of the nerves. I corrected one of his thoughts (whether it was the nerve that regulates pitch or the one that causes movement that was failing). And he suggested that rather than causing risk by poking needles in my throat, we'd use a laser instead, which treats soft tissues, goes through skin painlessly, and *might* stimulate the nerve back into action. Because it was experimental, he would charge me less than he would for the treatments he does all the time, and we'd stop right away if there were any problems.
He used two lasers; one was no stronger than the pointers people use making presentations; the other was stronger, but still not strong enough to melt ice, much less risk any damage. We did, I think, a bit less than an hour, and other than feeling chilled afterwards, no harm came. I stopped for some groceries on the way home, and sang to myself in the store, and noticed what *seemed* to be a significant, if temporary, improvement in my ability to sing, though certainly nothing that seemed like a fixed vocal cord. I chalked it down to a combination of rest plus the fact that by physically placing the laser on the part of the throat that contains the dead cord, it might have adjusted slightly into a better position against the live one. But it was from that point on that I started singing for people again, albeit without a real voice yet.
The next session was a few days later. Again, no pain or discomfort; this time, instead of feeling cold, I felt somewhat dizzy afterwards for a few minutes. Didn't notice any particular improvement this time other than a slight skew towards more good points during the day. My next appointment was scheduled for the following Friday. The Wednesday prior to that, for the first time since the beginning of February, I was talking without any sense of breathiness and carrying notes 2-3 times longer than I'd been able to. And able to sometimes sing with my full range. Which I celebrated by doing a concert of Tim Buckley songs in the shower!
David is not a presumptuous person, and would never be so unprofessional as to claim credit for something neither of us could verify. As Dr. Hands told me in April, this was caused by "God or a virus", and neither David nor I is prepared to say it didn't recover by the same means. But if I have a vote, it says the laser treatments were instrumental in stimulating the nerve back to life.
David has enough work on his plate to keep him desperately overbooked all the time, so he probably doesn't need this plug. But I cannot speak highly enough about him, and the fact that I can speak is testimony in itself. Here are his particulars:
David Schroevalier
College of Acupuncture and Therapeutics Inc.
301 Frederick St.
Kitchener, ON N2H 2N6
(519)885-6401 or 1-866-615-2787
http://collegeofacupuncture.com/
(Yes, they are also a college, and you can study acupuncture and other therapies, both traditional Chinese and otherwise.)
Jay on 06.04.06 @ 11:16 AM EST [link]
The Cord Awakens!
(Or is awakening, slowly but surely).
Sorry it's been so long since I've been here.
How long was it?
It was so long I had to scourge my PC to find instructions for logging back in. OK, it doesn't help that I have a memory like one of those things you strain flour through.
The good news is that a few weeks ago, the one working vocal cord started compensating for the absence of a partner, and my ability to talk improved considerably, and then I became able to sing, a little, with very limited range and not much volume.
But then, maybe 10 days ago, I suddenly started making sounds that I believe can only be made with two working vocal cords. During morning exercises, instead of being able to hold a note for 8-12 seconds only (which is apparently very good for having a paralyzed vocal cord), that number suddenly started to increase parabolically -- 20 seconds, 25, 30. I've held a note for 36-38 seconds in the past, which is very good for an untrained voice. Of course, at the best of times, it has sounded like a folkie holding a note, not like an opera singer doing it. Which I am not complaining about! I don't need Pavarotti or Demento Placebo in there, just me.
Since then, there's been continuous and very real improvement. The first few days, I had as many bad moments as good, and it's often frustrating, because sometimes I have my full 3 octaves, sometimes I don't, and sometimes I can even hit the top and low notes but some of the ones that should be non-challenging simply aren't there.
Today, there are still times when I for sure do not have full use of the voice. For instance, I can't sing harmonies yet unless I really belt, which is not how I like to sing harmonies. I can't sing softly except in the low end of my range -- fortunately, some of my songs are there.
But between Friday night (open mic in London, ON) and yesterday afternoon (Saturday, at Jack Cole's very enjoyable Chequegnat Festival in Kitchener, I managed to sing 6 of my own songs without breaking any notes too badly.
Here's something that I found ironic (and hilarious). During the two weeks before the actual vocal cord recovery, while I was doing a little croaking of very safe songs, I made it to a couple of open stages. At two of them, I was approached afterwards by people I didn't know who were saying very nice things about my voice. I couldn't help wondering, "what voice"?
Now I hope people don't expect me to sound like that anymore!
I suspect this blog is going to soon revert to its original intent -- to chat about stuff that happens when I release and try to promote the CD. I'm back to planning full-tilt for that.
Jay on 06.04.06 @ 10:50 AM EST [link]
Friday, April 14th
Postscript to the previous
I am thoroughly un-delighted with the work of the original specialist here in Cambridge (Ontario, Canada, for you outta towners). He was pompous, immediately assumed that I was mis-using the voice, because when I came to him without a voice, I had to strain to be heard. He completely botched the diagnosis. He refused after 8 or 9 pleading requests to tell me what was actually happening in my throat, instead repeating the same mantras over and over -- "You're pushing (when you talk)..." "You should see a vocal coach..." "Professional singers see vocal coaches."
And he sent me away with a 2002 vintage list of local speech-language pathologists, most of whom deal with children only (eg. speech impediments etc.), and of the others, half of whom are out of town, several have moved and one is dead. It was a wonder I found one at all, though the one I found was excellent, even though I am now going to work with Aaron Low in Dr. Hands' office in Toronto.
Dr. Hands, while wishing desperately that he'd been able to start me on medication a month sooner (which may/may not have helped anyway), did allow that the Cambridge doctor may not have seen a case of vocal cord paralysis, even over a long career, because it is very rare. I'm still pretty angry, because his report to my regular doctor probably prompted her not to place any urgency on my request for the referral to Dr. Hands.
Parenthetically, when I called the specialist's office to make sure any further information was sent to Dr. Hands, the specialist's receptionist basically treated me like an idiot. I complained that the doctor hadn't even looked into the various potential causes of chronic laryngitis (can be allergies, reflux, etc. aside from just abuse). The assumption was that I must have been abusing my voice. Period.
The receptionist asked where I'd heard about all of those things. I told her as an interested party, I had done some research online. She immediately downplayed the value of the Internet, as though I was some kid in a chat room rather than a 15-year veteran and former professional Internet consultant to large corporations. "You can't believe what you read on the Internet," she said, and if I'd had enough of a voice to talk over her interruptions, I'd have carefully explained that as a non-idiot, I had the presence to find my information at sites such as the Mayo Clinic and the Berkeley Wellness Center, and not some kids' chat room. But you can't explain anything to people who are so full of themselves they are unwilling to accept that other people can have intelligence and some knowledge too.
I'd also asked whether there were pictures of my exam. She said no, only the teaching hospitals have that kind of equipment (called a videostroboscopy). The specialist just wrote down what he saw. Which clearly wasn't what was actually happening in my throat.
Yesterday (Apr. 13), I went back into Dr. Hands' office for a 2-hour session that included the videostroboscopy (yes, in his office). It was an extraordinary experience, and I was able to actually see the pictures and video of one side not moving when I spoke. I also (first) did a long intro session with Aaron Low, who is both highly knowledgeable and also a very good listener. We did some audio samples to measure how much voice is still there. And we had a good chuckle about the first specialist's office being so supercilious as to assume a mere patient cannot be capable of finding reliable sources of research even though he is a middle-aged professional with a *very* pressing vested interest.
At the end of the session, sitting with Dr. Hands and Aaron together, I mentioned that Dr. Hands had never heard me speak before my vocal cord became paralyzed, and that I strongly suspected he'd have discovered that even without formal vocal training, I was not an abuser of my voice. And that that was why I was so angry at the previous specialist's patronizing presumptuousness. We all allowed that as a reasonably articulate and intelligent person, I should be able to be taken seriously, and that this was quite probably true. I expect to have a very full partnership in my treatment.
Two postscripts. 1) I will be doing a series of four sessions with Aaron in which I'll learn some warmups, exercises, best practices, and start working on creating new "muscle memory" for the way I'll speak from here on in, unless the paralysis goes away. And 2) with Dr. Hands' blessing (but without expectation of anything miraculous), I'm going to try acupuncture with a practitioner who is held in similar esteem in his field to what Dr. Hands is in his.
I'll stop writing now and let you guys stop reading now!
Jay on 04.14.06 @ 08:34 PM EST [link]
Vocal Cord Paralysis -- Didn't even know there was such a thing
This is long; sorry for all the reading time.
So I got to Dr. Hands' office on April third. He'd been duly sent the report from my doctor that she'd received from the first specialist, which said I was hoarse and had laryngitis and should go to a voice coach. After waiting not very long at all, and admiring the pictures of mostly familiar people, some of whom I've known and worked with in a different life, I met Dr. Hands. Went into his office. Him telling me that he thought I was misusing the voice, same as the previous specialist had -- I'm sure he expected to validate the previous diagnosis and send me on my way with some appointments to work with his voice therapist (Aaron Low, more about whom soon).
Went in. He took the same kind of tube, stuck it down the very same (left) nostril, looked at the very same "vocal folds" (I'm becoming medically conversant), got me to say the same "eeee's" and "aaaahs", as the other specialist had, and removed the tube. Looked at me. "The left vocal cord didn't move," he said.
How could the other specialist have missed a trivial little thing like that? I could see it. So could you. My cat could, and she's 18 1/2 years old. The other specialist missed it, sent me to a voice coach with a mis-diagnosis and cost me over a month of precious time we could have spent trying desperately to fix a very difficult and long-term or permanent ailment.
We are now in a very different place. Unlike plain laryngitis, even long-term, which can usually be traced to a cause that can be removed or treated, vocal cord paralysis is not curable, though we are trying with a potent anti-inflammatory called prednisone to jolt the thing back to life. It hasn't responded thus far, though I am having some interesting times trying to sleep under its influence.
I suppose it could be worse; prednisone has lots of nasty potential side-effects I haven't gotten. I'm also on a short-term regimen of zinc, niacin (Vitamin B3) and Vitamin C, courtesy Dr. Hands, plus a life-long prescription to drink at least 2 litres of water (ugh) every day. At least coffee is perfectly OK after I've used up the prednisone.
Vocal cord paralysis can be caused by injury or accident (damage to the nerve that tells the vocal cord to move when I try to talk or sing). It can be caused by something like a tumor pressing against the nerve. Or, more regularly, its cause is completely unknown, but usually is the side-effect/after-effect of a virus. I had one in November and another in January, so I'm a prime candidate there. I am going to get a CAT scan of the neck to make sure there isn't anything growing there that wasn't detected by prodding manually, but it's more likely just something put there, as Dr. Hands says, by "God or a virus".
Sometimes it goes away, partly or in whole, all by itself, sometimes even after 6-12 months. At least as often, it never goes away.
Almost always, only one vocal cord is paralyzed (good thing, because paralysis of both is often or usually accompanied by an inability to breathe or swallow and requires a tracheotomy). The reason I can talk at all is that the right cord (the working one) moves all the way across to where the other one sits dormant, and can get just enough of a seal to get low-pitched, low-volume conversation out that sounds more or less like me unless my voice is tired from overuse. Trying to speak loudly or at a higher pitch sounds more like filtering a voice through a whoopie cushion. Other than a few bass notes, singing just doesn't happen. The air just goes through the channel so fast that I couldn't get more than 2-3 notes out, in a soft, near-falsetto sound, before I ran out of air and had to breathe again.
After a long enough period of time (18 months in Dr. Hands' case), there are some surgical things that can be done to treat the condition. The non-functioning cord can be increased in size, usually with something like a botox or collagen injection (that must be repeated every few months), to shorten the space between the vocal folds and let the working one get a better fit with the non-working one: thereby improving the voice, sometimes vastly but likely not completely. More permanently, the non-functioning vocal fold can physically be moved a little closer to the working one, with the same result -- in the latter case, the non-functioning one can also be positioned more straightly beside the working one to improve range as well as volume and ease of use.
Not all hope is lost, though this is certainly the worst diagnosis I could have had other than cancer. There is a chance of some spontaneous recovery, whole or partial, and failing same, we have some things we can look into. In the meantime, I'll be working with Dr. Hands' "speech-language pathologist" Aaron Low, who is tops in his field. We'll try to train me to get the best I can with what's there in the meantime. Singing anything beyond an occasional bass line for fun is highly unlikely, but I should be able to optimize everything from breathing to enunciation to speak pretty normally; sometimes I already can.
I've discovered that Nana Mouskouri was born and has lived all her life with one non-functioning vocal cord. She's done OK for herself as a singer, not that I'd particularly want to sound like her. But not all hope is lost even if this doesn't reverse itself.
Now, in the meantime, to figure out what to do with songs I've written, and any I may write, now that I can't sing. If anyone knows a good surrogate voice -- heck, may even wish for someone who's a better singer than I am even before I lost my voice -- who doesn't mind sitting down, learning how to sing some of these songs of mine and sticking them on at least a rough home demo tape with me, please get in touch. Preferably someone willing to work for coffee and pizza.
If you're still reading this far down the page, thanks for hanging in with me.
Jay on 04.14.06 @ 07:44 PM EST [link]
Saturday, April 1st
Goin' to see the man on Monday
"The man" being Dr. Brian Hands. Voice specialist to the stars. I'm told reliably that his walls are covered with pictures of Mick and Joni and others who are his patients.
Not that I want to ever be able to sing like Joni. But it would be really really nice to have a voice.
Some days I think there's a bit of improvement. Other days I'm not sure. Maybe I'm just getting used to working with what's there, which isn't anything you'd call a voice, but I can hold a conversation on the phone sometimes without having to apologize for being unable to talk.
So I'm really hoping we can diagnose the actual cause and impact of what's happening in the larynx. And hoping even more that it's something that can be fixed or will go away.
-- J.
Jay on 04.01.06 @ 04:58 PM EST [link]
Monday, March 13th
A Song So Sweet ...
... that if anyone were to create a song more beautiful than it, the universe would collapse upon itself and expire in joy and in sorrow.
The song is (now) called "Mother I Climbed", written by Dave Carter, and is on Tracy Grammer's "Flower Of Avalon" album, recorded after Dave's sudden and untimely passing and released last year.
There are at least three or four other songs on this album that I'm going to like just as much. Buy this album!
Hi Linda (-:
Jay on 03.13.06 @ 07:26 AM EST [link]
Friday, March 10th
Second appointment -- Pathologist they say
Today was a weird day. Sandwiched into a day job day, a dental appointment that took too long -- something that happens when the filling is bigger than the tooth ... next door to get my haircut ... I'd have been out of the dentist's earlier if I'd just asked for a trim ... and then the voice therapist, who told me she thinks I'm sounding a little better but I sure can't hear it. Certainly nothing there you'd describe as a voice.
After some consternation and the hoarse, pained whisper version of hollering, I finally got my doctor's office to book me an appointment with Dr. Brian Hands in Toronto -- Voice Specialist to the Stars. I'm told his office walls are covered with pictures of Mick and Joni and others -- his patients, apparently.
Dr. Hands has a voice therapist he works with, but if I can stay with the one I'm working with, I'd prefer to do that. She's perfectly fine, and she's local to me (Toronto's an hour and a half, and Dr. Hands is in an almost unreachable part of town for me.)
The actual title of a licensed voice therapist is "speech-language pathologist". I'd always thought pathologists worked with dead guys. Go figure. Mostly it's just a matter of good advice, listening, catching things I do badly -- so far there's no voice to work with, so it's a question of when and how much I shouldn't use the voice, what I should do to keep the throat moist, what to drink and not to drink. Coffee's bad, club soda's bad, water's good. I don't do water -- you know what fish do in water.
Dentist in one week, pathologist in two, voice doc in three. Something in this universe is delivering the cards in the wrong order.
Jay on 03.10.06 @ 08:29 PM EST [link]
Friday, March 3rd
New weblog, no voice
Hi All.
When I initially planned a blog, I thought it would be filled with mainly happy news of gigs, songs written, etc. But a month ago (Feb 3/4, 2006, overnight), I managed to blow out my voice. Completely. I cannot speak, much less sing. Trips to a GP and an ear/nose/throat doctor have not provided me with either a full diagnosis nor any prognosis that it will ever come back, much less when.
So until something more conclusive happens, I guess this is going to be my journal of trying to recover a voice -- at least enough to speak, hopefully enough to someday sing again.
I do have a new debut CD that I have not yet launched, pending hopefully again being able to sing the songs on it. If this looks to be a long-term or fruitless goal, the site will stand and I will hopefully write songs, even if someone else has to sing them.
Wishing these were gladder tidings. Meanwhile, welcome to my blog.
Jay
Jay on 03.03.06 @ 02:08 PM EST [link]
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