Being a jazz man, I couldn’t help but to smile at this one:

Five out of the top twenty party schools in the United States belong to the Southeastern Conference. What does this tell us? Lotta parties, great football, hot chicks. Besides the racism, conservative dilwads, assbackward sexists and twangy elocution, what’s not to love about the southern system of higher learning? (I kid, I kid). Perhaps I am still suffering some residual angst from my southern college days. My apologies.

1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
2. University of Mississippi, University, Miss.
3. Penn State University, University Park, Pa.
4. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
6. Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va.
7. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
8. University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
9. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
10. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
11. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H.
12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
13. University of Colorado, Boulder, Co.
14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
15. Tulane University, New Orleans, La.
16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill.
17. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
18. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
19. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
20. Loyola University-New Orleans, New Orleans, La.

There are a million things I wish to say about Jo Stafford. A million things all jumbled in my head. I’ve started this blog entry over and over again, but I can’t seem to find the words. So, I will just say that you can keep all of your tepid, screechy, run-of-the-mill American Idol divas. Give me just 30 seconds of any Jo Stafford tune and I’m done for.

This voice, forever silenced, can never be duplicated. Yet, its resonance will last for ages.