It's useful in the current U.S. context in that it signals something more about the speaker's character than the speaker can comprehend. On this topic, I think "based" takes first prize for neologisms that are meaningless without the context of the speaker's alignment. It can be used to r...

I wasn't sold on her records but she's a fantastic performer and the Tiny Desk Concert was great. I feel like she's on the verge of figuring out her aesthetic. Big things imminent.

I do not give a shit that he pardoned his kid, who definitely was targeted unfairly, but his taking that step while failing to act on the thousands of pardon applications on his desk or to remedy the crack/powder disparity or to commute federal death sentences just makes it fucking disgusting. He's ...

Dr Tony Balls wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 10:33 am First of the old school enclosures has been nabbed....one still available.

that is sexy as hell, doctor

Dumb guitar wiring question

SSS with a 5 way switch and parallel n-m and m-b wiring

Can I easily make it so that the neck and middle pickups are in series and the middle and bridge are still parallel

Somewhere City by Origami Angel has this fun and very theatrical structure where in the last song they start playing all the choruses from the rest of the album and then end with the same guitar figure that started the album so you could hypothetically just loop it

https://reverendguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/reverend_mike-watt-wattplower-mark-ii_signature-bass_watt-yellow_front.webp https://reverendguitars.com/basses/mike-watt-wattplower-mark-ii/ Please, somebody say that Mike Watt's Wattplower Mark II bass sucks. Like, say it looks bad, or it's no...

Where’s Clocker Bob when you need him. I know this isn't a popular opinion, but I would like to see him back. He was overboard and too deep in the rabbithole sometimes, but always entertaining. You must have not seen the blog he kept after he left here. Dude went pretty much full Nazi even before t...

We could debate the value of "bearing witness", but for me it's not really a choice; I would feel even worse looking away. That concept is something that I've kind of abandoned in my own life. As a lawyer, I gotta look at bad shit in order to know the specifics without any moral valence; ...

This obviously needs to exist. The dark part is that the overlap between people who need to watch it and people who are going to watch it is like, what, ten people? Documentary filmmaking in general struggles with crossing that divide.

I'm not sure what the answer is.