The other day, I pulled out Shiny, my electric guitar, and got a little curious about it. So I looked up the serial number and discovered it was made in November 1998 in Epiphone's factory in South Korea. And then I went to Gibson guitars and asked them a few questions. So now I know that it's a Les Paul Standard, flamed maple top, solid ( Read more... )

Blue and Fyoosh

If you haven't been following Sinfest then there's a LOT of backstory, but see this and this. Tl;dr: Blue and Fyoosh came up through the ranks together. Blue is quite possibly the Devil's most trusted servant and Fyoosh left to be with Criminy.


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So this little musing came from a post on a friend's FB page asking to "Name a book that changed your life." Growing up in a house with my parents meant that the house was filled with all kinds of books on all subjects and all genres. And any book that was lying around was likely to be read by me at one point or another ( Read more... )

No real name. This was an instafilk based on a FB post ( Read more... )

Kameron Hurley wrote a piece about the very real anger and fear she feels about the current Republican effort to destroy the ACA.

It's called A Open Letter to All My Bullshit Relatives Cheering on My Impending Death.

I highly recommend that you read it, especially if you're a GOP or Trump voter.


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OK, we need some more beautiful things in the world. This stuff is beautiful. I especially like Space and Waves.


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This one is sweet.


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OK, Claire is up to something in that last panel.


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A cover version I hadn't heard before! I mean, I adore the Siouxsie and the Banshees original version, and I love the covers by School of Seven Bells and Anna Nalick (which I may like even more than the original). There's another I found on YouTube by the Frantic Ballerinas which was...OK, but not great. I like this one though ( Read more... )

The free article of the Month for the March issue of QST, the publication of the American Radio Relay League, is all about a year of National Parks on the Air. It's fun. There's a lot of memories tied up in it, and I'm seeing so many familiar names and callsigns.

The article itself is here in PDF format.


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