Condensed, compressed and condescended

Try to teach a husky that when a human is taking her for a walk, doubly so one who’s been on his ass all winter, there’s a choice between “fast walk” and “long walk” to be made…

Might was well fight the Borg. via Facebook
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I have embraced my inner Rock n’ Roll Ferengi and have created Rules of Guitar Acquistion.

1) Unless all other options have been exhausted, don’t buy new or anything that doesn’t meet the Half + 7 Rule.

1a) Don’t buy online, unless you absolutely gotta. You’re depriving yourself of the joy of the chase, and and a local business of a potential sale. Exceptions for items you just can’t find out in the world. Also, this will prevent you from accidentally hemorrhaging cash

2) It’s gotta be structurally sound. No banana neck, no broken wood, stuff like that. Everything else can be addressed. Lots of good wood with crap hardware is out there, and sometimes putting $200+ worth of hardware and a few weekends work into $100 guitar is the right thing to do. Used Ibanez, Squire and Epiphone instruments are often superior planks with 2nd or 3rd rate hardware.

3) It’s either gotta fill a hole in the collection in terms of function, (or be upgradable to fill a hole) or it has to do something genuinely unique. If it does the same thing as another guitar, then it’s a trade in or sale.

4) Any production guitar that costs more than $500-600 bucks on the shelf probably means you’re paying for shit you can’t hear or feel when playing it.

5) Nearly any working $150 guitar can be upgraded from the discard parts bin, if its not a complete trainwreck. Watch for these. Keep one on hand at all times. I’ve traded a $99 used guitar with $20 in parts in for $250 against a purchase more than once.

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Stupid quarantine games….

Five famous people I’ve met,
but ONE is a lie.
Which one is it??? 🤔

I’ll provide the answer tomorrow!

1. Glenn Danzig
2. Pat DiNizio
3. Evan Dando
4. GG Allin
5. Adrian Smith via Facebook
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