I love my stompboxes.

Thank you, Z. Vex!

2:34:06 PM     leave/read comments []

If it's good enough for sb Watermark, it's good enough for us here at WTHAIDH!

My two Fuzz Factories:

Bob, watching birds:

Click the photo, make it BiG.

2:48:22 PM     leave/read comments []

Note yesterday's numbers.

--- Visits this Week ---                  
       Day
Hour  4/22   4/23   4/24   4/25   4/26   4/27   4/28   Total
---- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
 1       1      4      6      1      6      1      2      21
 2       0      0      2     11      1      3      2      19
 3       0      2      2      1      3      1      1      10
 4       2      1      3      1      1      1      1      10
 5       1      1      2      1      3      2      4      14
 6       3      1      1      2      0      2      4      13
 7       2      2      0      3      1      0      2      10
 8       2      2      0      3      1      1      3      12
 9       5      5      1      5      8      3      5      32
10       3      2      1      2      2      6      4      20
11       3      2      3      1      6      4      3      22
12       4      5      2      6      3      3      6      29
13       3      2      2      4      2      5      5      23
14       6      3      1      4      5      4      3      26
15       4      2      0      6      7      7      3      29
16       3      2      1      5      8      5      5      29
17       3      1      2      4     13      2     14      39
18       3      3      7     13     13      2     10      51
19       5      0      3     10      4      5      6      33
20       2      1      4      4      0      3      7      21
21       3      6      1      8      5      5      9      37
22       3      3      2      2      4      3      3      20
23       7      6      4      6      3      0      5      31
24       5      5      6      3      3      2      6      30
    ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
        73     61     56    106    102     70    113     581



                --- Page Views this Week ---                
       Day
Hour  4/22   4/23   4/24   4/25   4/26   4/27   4/28   Total
---- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
 1       1      4      8      1     11      1      2      28
 2       0      0      2     18      1      3      3      27
 3       0      2      2      1      6      1      1      13
 4       3      1      5      1      1      1      1      13
 5       1      1      2      1      3      2      4      14
 6       7      4      1      2      0      3      4      21
 7       2      2      0      5      1      0      3      13
 8       2      2      0      4      2      1      3      14
 9       7      5      1      5     12      3      6      39
10       3      3      1      3      5      6      6      27
11       5      2      3      1      7      4      5      27
12       4      6      3     26      3      3      6      51
13       3      2      3      5      3      5      5      26
14       8      3      1      5      5      5      3      30
15       4      2      0      9     11     14      8      48
16       7      2      1      5      9      6      5      35
17       5      1      2      6     17      3     16      50
18       3      5     11     18     35      2     10      84
19       8      0      4     15      7      7      6      47
20       2      1      6      4      0      4      9      26
21       4      9      2      9      7     12     10      53
22       3      3      2      2      5      3      3      21
23       9      6      5      9      8      0      5      42
24      11      7      8      5      5      2      7      45
    ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
       102     73     73    160    164     91    131     794

113-131- whoa! It's an anagram, no, a numo-gram, no, a love letter tied up in digits of binary delight from the greatest readers in the wold, all of whom are smart, good-looking, have excellent taste in the finer things in life and who all appear to floss regularly, but in reality are so cool that tooth-decay causing bacteria just stays away from their mouths, because they don't want to spoil all the fun. Maybe it's all the French Kissing y'all do?

9:58:29 AM     leave/read comments []

From my files:

New York City in April was my wonderland. It was my first time in the city, Spring break of my sophomore year in college and I was captivated by the dirty freshness of the city in Springtime. Compared to Kearney, Nebraska, where I was going to college, New York was like another planet, a place where a geeky, ungainly, underfed girl could actually amount to something.

I was a an aspiring radio journalist and this trip to the city was a telecommunications department travel-for-credit class. We would visit various parthenons to mass media around Manhattan and upon return to Kearney, write a paper explaining what we learned. For example, this bit of timeless prose and insight:

The Role of Hairstyling in a Broadcasting Career
by Delynn Sempecker

The importance of a suitably professional hairstyle for the female television journalist cannot be overstressed, tragedy will surely strike any young woman who fails to learn this lesson. After viewing a complete archive of Jane Pauley's work on the "Today" show, while at the Museum of Broadcasting in New York, I have developed the following thesisies:

*Sometimes Jane's hair looks good.
*Sometimes Jane's hair is flat and lifeless.
*Sometimes Jane's hair is overshadowed by what she is wearing.
*Sometimes Jane's hair is not even noticeable due to her hideous makeup.

In my paper, I will show how Jane has successfully used her hair to become a tip-top broadcaster.

Mostly though, this was an excuse for a bunch of kids from Nebraska to go to the big city.

"I can't believe that we've been in New York for a whole fuckin' week," I gushed, in my best imitation of the natives.

"Margaret, this is so intense. How far are we from MoMA?" asked Lisa Hawkins, my best friend and near-constant companion on this trip.

"It's another two blocks down and then a half block to the left," I explained. "This Pollock show is going to be so excellent, I'm going to get myself a "Jack the Dripper" T-shirt at the gift shop".

"You are so...so...NPR," Lisa exclaimed.

6:52:05 PM     leave/read comments []

So, let's say you're Belgian and let's say you're a Velvet Underground fan and let's say you decide to Google the phrase, "You're Lou Reed.God, you are cool."

What do you get if you're feeling lucky?

That's right, mofo, you get my blog.

Because I'm Lou Reed and God, am I cool or what?

12:29:52 AM     leave/read comments []

Yes, you've got a million more reasons to hate junk mail!

Millions of acres of life-giving forest, that is!

GREEN / Lingerie, Chain Saws And The Onslaught In Your Mailbox. In an ad that ran this January in a number of newspapers, including The New York Times, a sultry model in a satin bodice and frilly feathered wings stared poutingly from the page. At first glance, it appeared to be an ad for Victoria's Secret -- except, that... By Gregory Dicum, Special to SF Gate. [SFGate: Top News Stories]

Each year, nearly 100 billion pieces of bulk mail are sent around the United States, and it's junk from start to finish.

Victoria's Secret is a case in point. "They're one of the largest sources of catalogs," says ForestEthics' Ortman. "They send out 395 million catalogs a year using paper from the most critical areas of the boreal forest in Canada."

A wide swath of subarctic evergreen woodland that circles the globe in Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, the boreal forest accounts for about one-third of all the forestland left on Earth. Sparsely populated and still very wild, the region is threatened by vast clear-cuts that provide fiber for the world's seemingly unquenchable thirst for paper.

Something about that ad looks familiar.

5:16:04 PM     leave/read comments []

The Stamen Island Ferry (Besht Mates ver) REMASTERED

sp3ccylad did all the cool stuff and I played the acoustic guitar and sang the lead vocal. Subtly remixed and remastered from sp3ccylad's original version.

Cheers! Sköl! Down the hatch!

Download MP3

9:36:47 PM     leave/read comments []

Yo. The Doctor is in da hizzouse:

Click = BiG

1:39:00 AM     leave/read comments []

Well, what do you know? Turns out the new Pope and American Catholics DO have something in common!

Benedict prayed 'not to be Pope'. Pope Benedict XVI reveals he asked God to spare him the "destiny" of becoming Pope during conclave. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

God, of course, didn't listen. Bastard never does.

3:35:52 PM     leave/read comments []

On my sidewalk, a few minutes ago, after the rain:

Clicking makes the photo BiGger.

3:04:28 PM     leave/read comments []

I made a short piece of new music to accompany a slideshow.

Music For Slideshows (Quicktime stream)

Download the MP3

Says what it does, does what it says. Electric and acoustic guitars by me. Drums and percussion are Apple JamPack 2 or 3 loops.

1:32:14 AM     leave/read comments []

Your Taste in Music:

80's Alternative: Highest Influence

Punk: Highest Influence

80's Pop: High Influence

90's Alternative: High Influence

Progressive Rock: High Influence

80's Rock: Medium Influence

Alternative Rock: Medium Influence

80's R&B: Low Influence

90's Rock: Low Influence

Adult Alternative: Low Influence

Classic Rock: Low Influence

Dance: Low Influence

Ska: Low Influence

Guilty as charged.

10:24:56 PM     leave/read comments []

And Fate. What the hell, one more time:

Clicking makes photo BiG.

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