numberthirty wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:28 pm Anne Marie Griffin as a backing vocalist.

Verbena.

This right here.

Libraries, especially checking out music from the library. Good answer! Amen. Every time I walk out of my local library with books for my kids, a novel for myself and a DVD of a film I wanted to see and the cool ass, friendly security guard guy gives me a wave. The people at the desk are these awes...

jfv wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:44 pm

enframed wrote: Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:05 pm *weird orange shit on the roof of a car above the windshield*

WTF is that? Cheetos? Someone trying to attract seagulls or pigeons?

My guess is cat vomit. The ambergris of urban feral cat colonies.

Long shot for y'all who don't live anywhere near Athens, GA, but there's a dev position open in my org: Location This position's primary work location is our Atlanta office located at 270 Washington Street, SW Atlanta, GA 30334. Please visit this link for information on the official USG Teleworking ...

My sweet wife means no harm. I'm just blowing off because it's hard to type with my finger all bandaged up. She definitely has not worked in a restaurant kitchen and means well. When I go away for two weeks, the falcon abandons the falconer in our kitchen. Things fall apart. The centre does not hold...

This morning I was trying to whip the kitchen into some kind of order and discovered that someone left a Very Sharp Knife submerged in dishwater. My "expression finger" on my right hand has bled and bled and bled. That's awful. One of the many reasons it ought to be a law that everyone sh...

I have just returned from roadying for the B-52s in Las Vegas for two weeks. I am back at my desk at the Day Job. I feel like my brain was surreptitiously replaced with damp cotton wool. This morning I was trying to whip the kitchen into some kind of order and discovered that someone left a Very Sha...

Heather Stine is another micro-cymbalsmith. I don't know if she's still doing cymbals or not, but her shit was cool.

https://www.facebook.com/37Cymbals/

How about the hammering part, or is that just something intuitive you dive into? This is great stuff! I didn't even know about the whole refurbished/modded cymbal community until the last year or two. Lauritsen has some really detailed descriptions of the tools and techniques here: https://www.cymb...