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

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...am here to tap through the walls.


Sat Jan, 10 2004

Idiot Premises For Pandering To Animals

(Posted to Ray Heizer's CAS list in discussion of this news floating up like a straw before drowners)

> I don't think "buried ten years" is going to cut it
> with the anti war crowd. They're a damn near
> impossible bunch of lunatics to satisfy.

Okay, here's a picture of Beck being a heretic, as usual:

I say that those morons in the White House deserve all the gas that they're getting from every two-bit shit-heeled commie on the block. That's because it was quite stupid and craven to premise the Iraqi
action on the matter of WMD's.

The correct justification would have stood on the nature of the larger cultural fight, which everyone with a brain in their head knows is an actual fact, and an explicit statement that Iraq was going to be utterly destroyed as an enclave from which terrorists could work against the West.

The fight is not about "weapons of mass destruction". It's about dealing with people who hate us more than they fear death. And everybody here knows it. I believe that the above-cited morons know this, too. However, in the same way that they simply don't have the nerve to confront Amsoc on its fundamental premises, they were afraid of the screeching that would have come from the animals on the left if the thing had been properly argued in the first place.

They've made their bed, and it wouldn't matter to me if they didn't wake up, lying there on the morning after election day.

Jan 10, 04 | 8:50 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}