October 2011
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September 2011
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Ron Artest is now Metta World Peace.
I love Ron Artest, and I mean that sincerely. More on this when I get time to write, either here or elsewhere.
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Forget →
And that’s the last time I’ll speak of it. Probably.
A somewhat more melancholy rant is available at the same site: simply click on the “9/11” tag at the bottom of the post to see it. I like it too.
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ghostfm:
Girls - “Die”
Can you imagine...
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“Those who claim that the human animal is wicked simply want to tame it and turn...”
– Alain Badiou, from the “Overture” to the Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy.
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Day Off
Not my day off yet, but I’ve had good chocolate and decent bourbon, and it’s usually my day off …
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Happy Labor Day
Except, technically speaking, I’m posting this the day after Labor Day.
A twelve-hour shift on Labor Day. And I’m not anything important, like a doctor, nurse, policeman, firefighter, or EMT. I’m a retail jockey.
I don’t think it’s an accident that my employer chose this holiday to dispense with shorter holiday hours. They’ve been cheating them out an hour...
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Thaddeus Russell's Dead Horse
Finished Thaddeus Russell’s A Renegade History of the United States. It is an interesting book … not good, but interesting, which is sometimes better. I will comment on it in more detail soon, probably in longer form at this site.
In the meantime, think about this: trace a line from Booker T. Washington up through Martin Luther King all the way to President Obama. Can we see this...
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In Rotation: Guitar Stompboxes and Noisemakers
In order, from guitar to amp:
Maxon 808 OD (clean boost) : Boss DS-1 (nasty distortion, with a little more character than a Rat) : Morley volume pedal : Hardwire DL-8 digital delay and looper.
Also in the arsenal
ProCo Rat (late American model) : MXR Distortion + : Digicomp AIM HM-2000 Harmonic Modifier (an amazingly flexible distortion box, allows you to chose between...
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In Rotation: the Booze Edition
Valentine Vodka (Detroit, MI, currently my favorite vodka, though I don’t drink much vodka) : Wild Turkey 101 (one of the old standbys) : Early Times 354 (highly drinkable under $15 [!] bourbon - if you’re going cheap, this is one way to go, just don’t forget the ice) : Michael Collins Irish whiskey (one of my brothers was ranting about this, but I’m just not...
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