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

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...am here to tap through the walls.


Mon Feb, 18 2008

Zero Tolerance

Here is another video of that Salvatori Rivieri asshole of a cop in Baltimore. Okay; any sentient person can look at him and see what he is. Rotten as it is, that's not the big deal. The thing in all this is that any police department would put up with someone like him, which must be the very least of it in order for him to keep his job. And if they want to say that they don't or didn't know what a septic wanker he really is, then let it be duly noted that they're pleading incompetence to manage their internal affairs, and make the most of that.

While I'm at this: all objections to any sort of recording of any "law enforcement" person or operation or anything else are transparent horseshit. I'm not concerned with their "security" or anything else. I'm concerned with mine, first. They're the ones who've undertaken this sort of work, and if they don't like the premises that necessarily come with it (like: everyone watching everything they do at all times on the premise that they work for us), then let 'em go dig ditches or shovel donuts for a living.

Feb 18, 08 | 1:41 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}