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

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...am here to tap through the walls.


Wed Apr, 15 2009

Never.

"So, when you get Neil [Cavuto] on, and the rest of these guys from Fox News,wish them a happy Patriots' Day. It is the only day of the year that guys like me, or I suspect guys like Neil -- I don't really know Neil -- that our government asks anything of us. It's the only day. This is the proudest, most patriotic day, for ninety-nine percent of Americans, that we have all year. You know, half of our tax budget goes to Medicare, Social Security, and national defense. Which of those three are we going to do away with? You know? I mean my Dad is on Social Security now, he earned it. Raised five kids, put us all through college. Because of Medicare now he's kicked cancer's ass, three times. Maybe even a fourth."

"People don't mind paying taxes."

"Right. So, why are they out there whining with this 'tea party' thing? It's because they're a bunch of wimpy, whining, weasels."
This goes out to Paul Begala, who ran his snake mouth this morning on The Imus Show:

Fuck your father, Begala. I don't care about him, and if I had my way, he would dry up and blow away on this morning's breeze, before he ever saw the benefit of one dime of my money extracted at force. Don't even try to hand me that "the government asks" line, liar.

Today marks the thirty-second year in a row that I have never accounted to it for my existence, because I am an American: I'm not like you, and I never will be. And if you ever once thought you had the nerve to step up to my door and claim what's mine, at gunpoint, for your father or anything else, there would be a fight and one of us would end up dead.

I know who the "wimpy, whining, weasel" is. You will never have what it takes to look me in the eye, you greasy dog.

Go to hell. And take your father with you.

Apr 15, 09 | 7:01 am

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}