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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...
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A 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,...
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Oh, 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...
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Nacho 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...
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Yard-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...
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It’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...
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Why 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,...
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He 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...
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You’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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