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Huh. I guess the vertical supports weren't long enough and they had to do something. I confess it took me a while to figure out what...

John Denver's Country Roads on a lap steel Too bad he didn't go to the bridge. I guess key changes are beyond what it can do.

I never overloaded an operator or any of that fancy stuff. If you don't use it then it's harmless.

By gum, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that. I had no idea. That's all there is to it. Whoops, I wrote over my post! It was about...

The ebass player I like most is MISA of Bandmaid. For a pro she has ordinary skill but that doesn't matter to me. I say that the role...

The Beatles certainly popularized fancy multitracking arrangements with all kinds of instruments. Karlheinz Stockhausen started that...

Today I learned that Harvard is putting on a play about 1970s feminism. In the second act everyone is naked...

Daria Zaritskaya covers Pat Benatar. I would not mess with her.

Can't beat Daria Zaritskaya. It's almost scary.

Huh, early Jon Anderson is one of the very few lyricists that I like. I go for abstraction. Nowadays his stuff is too literal for me...

The North-South thing is because of property lines. Property tends to be square. Let's say square miles. As one goes north in the...

It's because the Earth is a sphere. An truly East-West road would be a portion of a circle, not a straight line. Roads are made as...

Today I learned that James Joyce married Nora Barnacle.

To drag myself back on topic, another thing I've seen in real life but don't have good photos of: This is on the north coast of Arran...

In these days of high tuition, students are a valuable asset. Teddy Kennedy was expelled from Harvard for cheating on an exam. Henry...