DC Comics History: Get This Book!
A precursor of The Office’s Jim Halpert looks at comics on sale. Oddly enough, not one DC comic on this rack from the late 1940s. As a kid, I would read any comic book I could get my hands on, but my...
View ArticleA great instrument instructs the player . . .
One of my more unusual guitars is a Hallmark Barris Kustom from Bob Shade. This guitar is shaped and painted to replicate custom-hotrod-builder George Barris’ personal crest. Barris, a buddy of Shade,...
View ArticleOh, you Kids!
William H. Bonney (born William Henry McCarty, Jr. c.1859-1861 – July 14, 1881), also known as William Antrim and Kid Antrim, was a 19th-century gunman who participated in the Lincoln County War in...
View ArticleNacho nails it
Anyone who’s read my eclectic blog knows my love and reverence for Leo Fender and his creations. Here’s the story of a gentleman who shares that and uses it to make the world a better place. Tragic but...
View ArticleYard-O-Led goes the extra mile!
Shipping a lovely fountain pen hand-crafted with care by a few skilled English artisans back to the factory became an expensive lesson! How could that happen? As much as I hate to admit it, I should...
View ArticleIt’s ALIVE!!!
Hey, there! Now that I’m mostly retired and resettled in my old stomping grounds of SW Somewhere-or-other, I’ve decided to start drawing again. What prompted this insanity was reading some old...
View ArticleWhy have you gone, Joe Dimaggio, and take this stuff with you!!!
Slip on these anti-static slippers and turn the temp down; these computers run hot! Plug into an orange outlet and let’s welcome the day by saying goodbye to some old friends:Goodbye to QuarkXPress,...
View ArticleHe ain’t heavy; he’s my Les Paul!
This won’t be a full-blown review, but simply a post to show some photos of my 1981 Les Paul Custom I was lucky enough to find on Reverb.com a few years ago. Bracing myself for Patty’s sweet little...
View ArticleYou’re welcome!
So without getting political about it, the attached may soon be of real value. Not crypto-currency; let’s call it comi-currency. If the attempted use of this gets you in a jam, please don’t come...
View ArticleIt could have happened . . .
I often have this little fantasy dream in which, on Saturday, July 6, 1957, when Paul McCartney met John Lennon, there was a little bit where the two of them were alone together. John asked Paul,...
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