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Three Things to Remember About Guitar
Posted 11:52 AM, Aug 26, 2008 |
This post is more for me than you.
1) Use the ring finger for the high e-string.
2) Use the thumb, when necessary, to fret the low e-string.
3) Seriously, I forgot the third thing. I came up with this list yesterday and now don’t remember. |
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Guitar
Posted 11:49 AM, Aug 26, 2008 |
Warm skulls
and spidering fingers
linger over the six-string,
nails pluck rosewood notes
like pulling chicken feathers,
each one singular and connected
to the roadmapped flesh of melody.
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Two Jokes
Posted 11:38 AM, Aug 26, 2008 |
Q) Where do the Russians keep their armies?
A) In their sleevies.
Q) What did Saddam Hussein and Little Miss Muffet have in common?
A) They both had curds in their whey.
See you later. |
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Two Unrelated Topics
Posted 2:00 PM, Aug 19, 2008 |
Here’s two things, totally unrelated to one another (apart from the fact that both came from Jason Kottke’s website, in some form or another).
1) I know lots of doctors, joy joy, and so this list of 10 people with unbelievable medical conditions caught my eye. It tells me just the right amount - it tells me what their condition is, and, where appropriate, gives me an explanation in layman’s terms of what might be causing it, and then it tells me what the effect is on their normal lives. It is a perfect medical list for me.
2) I generally avoid politics because people on the Internet (and everywhere) get kind of insane when you mention John McCain or Barack Obama. So I generally stand clear. So let’s pretend that this story isn’t so much about politics (which it isn’t, really, so not much pretending required). Let’s say that the reason I’m most interested in this story is simply because of the investigative power of the Internet, the same Internet that first broke the John Edwards affair story, before the National Enquirer and then the mainstream media.
So John McCain tells this great story, repeatedly, about someone in a prison camp he was in drawing a cross in the sand in front of him and how he was all inspired. Only problem, as it turns out, is that the story is actually plagiarized from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. Also, it turns out that McCain is a big fan of Solzhenitsyn’s, as evidenced by this piece from the New York Sun written by McCain. (At least we think it was written by McCain.) |
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No Time for Proper Spelling
Posted 12:04 PM, Aug 18, 2008 |
Ken Smith, a senior lecturer in criminology at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire, England says we should just allow people to spell things wrong, and instead of saying that their spelling is incorrect, we should say it is a “variant spelling.”
Of course, Ken Smith is a fool.
He notes some commonly misspelled words like February and twelfth, noting that they are often misspelled as Febuary and twelth and that the confusion is due to silent letters.
Of course, February should be pronounced with both rs intact, and I don’t know how you pronounce twelfth in England, but here in the US, the f certainly isn’t silent.
Now, one could say, well, Ken Smith, in addition to being foolish, is just some random guy. Of course, the story where I learned about Ken Smith was in Time magazine. Awesome.
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