I spent most of last weekend at the Monterey Fairgrounds attending the 52^nd annual Monterey Jazz Festival. There was a fantastic musical line up and we had great weather. I love the convenient, new (as of last year) park-and-shuttle arrangement, the increased quantity of sawdust in the arena was most welcome to those of us prone to dust-borne asthma attacks, and there were some great new vendors. One downside, for the third year in a row, was the annoying “thumpa-thumpa-thumpa” beat from the Disco in Lyons’ Lane being heard all the way inside the arena. And most unusual sightings - lots of little dogs being carried around in tote bags (a first, so far as I am aware), and a gentleman hawking subscriptions to the New York Times.