(second block, fourth letter of the prisoners' quadratic tap code...)

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...am here to tap through the walls.


Thu Jul, 27 2006

Commie Du Jour


From MSNBC about an hour ago: Commissar Dennis Kucinich (Peoples' Democratic Republic of Ohio) vs. Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute, on the matter of Kucinich's "Gas Price Spike Act". This is a 10mb .WMV video file.

This is so wrong in so many ways ("It's not your fucking oil, commie-boy") that I would rather just go out and feed the hummingbirds than to waste my time getting started on it. All I can say is that that sonofabitch just needs a good kick in the teeth. I'm not kidding.

Make up your own mind, if you can.

Special Bonus Video: Three Minute Hate --

Do you ever see the viddie FNORDS, ladies & gentlemen? Observe:


In case you don't understand the takeaway, let me try to help you out: you're supposed to break out your picket signs and run down to your local Exxon station, beat the owner to death with them, and then blow up the gas pumps. (Failing that, you could just hire someone to do it for you. This year's One Day Only Sale is November 7 -- ed.)
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"Big light in sky slated to appear in east.

Sonic boom scares minority groups in Sector C.

And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticutt.

Those are the headlines; now for the rumors behind the news ..."
("Hour Of The Wolf News" -- Firesign Theater, "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers", 1970)



Have an ice day.

Jul 27, 06 | 4:30 pm

AxeBites

Various guitars I see floating by, mostly Gibson and mostly eBay.

Early Norlin ES-335 -- 1970, in Walnut ("ES-335TDW"). This is a period-piece look and feel, and arguably the sound as well but that's to cut things very finely. A "classic" 335 would be the original of 1958 in the Sunburst or Natural finish, or the Cherry Red of 1959; the Walnut of 1970 (second year of that finish offering) is not really a "classic" 335. In the history of the Gibson aesthetic, this is analogous to, say, vertically-striped polyester bell-bottoms or Bahama Blue shag carpeting. None of this is to say that they're not cool guitars, and this is a nice one. Excellent photographs.

Chrome hardware, featuring the trapeze tailpiece (like my L-47 and I've always liked it) and ABR-1 bridge with period-typical nylon saddles. Bound rosewood fretboard, with small block markers, and then the crown inlay at the machine head. These would be the T-top Humbuckers. Vintage Nazis would moan that the upper bouts are pointy (the body templates were wearing-out in the factory) and the fourteen-degree machine head with the volute signals a sometimes not-fun era of the line, but these things really do rock or moan or whatever you want a 335-type semi-hollow to do. ...which, of course, is because it really is a 335.


In the months since I've let AxeBites languish all to bleedin' hell, Gibson's Robot Guitar technology has sifted out to other models than the original Les Paul application. I don't know how it's going: I still haven't even seen one of these self-tuners. I don't see piles of them burning on the sides of the highway, nor reverent hangings in display cases over bars, so who knows? This 2008 Robot SG is ready to rock in the Metallic Red. Nickel hardware; it's the stoptail wired for data to send to the tuners, with dual Humbuckers. It's a bound rosewood fretboard, but I really like the single-bound machine head with the crown inlay. That's a real cool old-school look, right there, to set off that crazy-ass color. {nod}