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  • Back to the Grand Canyon and supposed sterling silver earrings that do your ears wrong

    Ok, this is the kind of thing I like about the internet. Every time I think I hate blogging I find another reason to continue. Like posting serial numbers of stolen equipment (prior post). It might be helpful. Probably not. But perhaps. The other day I made a posting on the earrings we picked up…

  • One day an amateur, the next day a pro

    So H.o.p. was down at the studio today. Marty has been recording Heston, a Dominican-born, Philadelphia-raised R&B singer. Heston’s little girl was there. A sweet smooth song and there’s a section in it about grade school teasing. Heston wanted a little background of a boy teasing a girl and had tried adults but it didn’t…

  • Glad that's clarified

    H.o.p.: You’re not so dumb, you’re just kind of confused. Me: Confused. H.o.p.: You know, how people sometimes get confused. Me: What am I confused about? H.o.p.: You know when you thought the T Rex ran wild down the street. I should have made it clear I was just telling a story.

  • Climbing trees

    One of H.o.p.’s cousins has a tree house, as does PBS’ Arthur, and H.o.p. has decided he wants one. He has just done a sketch of a tree house, “It has an art gallery, there, and a play room.” At first I thought it was only intended to be an imaginary tree house but no,…

  • It don’t worry me

    It don’t worry me

    Lance Mannion last week compared Kelly’s Heroes and MASH in a post at American Street, Kelly’s Heroes are my Heroes. Which also got some commentary here. I ended up bringing up Nashville and thus got a pointer over to an Altman Blogfest that was occurring this past weekend. I didn’t participate as it’s difficult for…

  • Yes, but we knew Wymsey when…

    Congratulations to Wymsey! Wymsey made it into the NY Times today, via a cooking article which I’ll publish in full here as it will one day become subscription content. Wymsey is the wonderful absurdist creation of Charles Ivermee, and to find out more about why I’m posting this here, skip to below the article. Take…

  • Who Wal-Mart pays and doesn't pay for its good PR

    The New York Times runs a report on Wal-Mart eliciting bloggers to paraphrase spoonfed canned PR for Wal-Mart. After all, if one pro-Wal-Mart blogger was caught writing exactly what another one was writing, the public would get suspicious, wouldn’t it? Brian Pickrell of the Iowa Voice blog is one such individual, using his blog “to…

  • Entropy Circus, strawberries and popsicles

    Earlier was having a very nice time sitting here eating strawberries and listening to Entropy Circus’ The Goats & The Peacock from Open Source Audio. I came across it through doing a search for Caruso. And there was Entropy Circus, because it incorporates Caruso in one of the tracks. I started listening and pretty much…

  • Idyllopus scans "Roy Smeck’s Modern Method for Hawaiian Guitar"

    Idyllopus scans “Roy Smeck’s Modern Method for Hawaiian Guitar”. Why? Because I can and I’ve a long-abiding love for Hawaiian guitar back to when I was about eight years of age at least, and god only knows where I got the door through which the interested entered, but the interest entered, as best I can…

  • In which I find it has all been written and there is nothing else for me to do in this world but microwave hotdogs

    ANNOUNCER: Other shampoos just work on your hair. But Chambraigne travels down each follicle and bores into your skull, depositing magical knowledge crystals. TV’S AL ROKER: (“Heavy User”): Lather your way to a new intelligence. (CHAMBRAIGNE LOGO OVER VIDEO OF MAN IN TOGA PUTTING ON CROWN OF LEAVES) ANNOUNCER: With Chambraigne. The shampoo of kings.…

  • Werewolf animation!

    Brrr, chills. This time H.o.p. does a werewolf animation. With captions. He had to do two separate files as the rudimentary program only handles 18 frames. Why would a caption require its own file? Because the W grows werewolf ears, that’s why! Anyway, a werewolf and neopet go up onto a cliff to howl in…

  • Lotsa Poppa

    I noted yesterday that Marty played for years with singer Lotsa Poppa. Mostly at Blind Willie’s but also at such clubs as the venerated Royal Peacock, and the Libra Ballroom, on the same bill as people lilke Bobby “Blue” Bland. I used to have the greatest rainbow-colored posters of those dates but one day had…

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