While we were costume shopping at several halloween stores, my wife and I browsed the adult sized costume areas.

We saw nun costumes, and priest costumes, and even Jesus costumes. No lie.

Even Rabbi and Pope costumes.

Heck, they have Mary and Joseph costumes. Moses and Wise men, too.

Buddha? Check.

Ya know what they didn't have, so we asked?

Muhammad.

So, we went home and Googled looking for Muhammad costumes....and you can try this yourself:

Google Jesus costume and you'll get hundreds of sales sites and pictures.

I'm sure some will protest (for many reasons) that I place this post here but it's in response to a site "feature" dated just yesterday so why not?

I posted a long while ago how much I liked the Centrance DACPort with my AKG 701 headphones.

After reading the follow up review in the latest Stereophile issue, I went to Radioshack and picked up a 1/4" headphone jack to RCA adapter (the gold plated one that is a pure adapter (no audio wire).

The DACPort has a volume control, so I'm going straight into my amplifier from the adapter, as mentioned in the follwup.

Well, I got a couple of surround sound disc that I wanted to comment on. First, I got Mojo by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on Blu-Ray. The two channel is really killer on the higher rez, deep bass, clear mix, wonderful highs. The surround mix is interesting in that it is mostly atmospheric in the surrounds. It sounds like the space opens up, the reverb comes from behind and the sides, only occasional dramatic use of the surrounds, and I like that. I am not a huge fan of Petty, but I am enjoying this and bought it to support the idea of using blu-ray as a high resoloution medium.

I would like to share with you an album which has quickly become one of my favorites. An ensemble from Athens, Greece named Ciccada released their first album this past June, entitled "A Child in the Mirror."

was playing mavis staples and suddenly she sounded like Luther Vandross.

I guess this is just a belt issue, yeah??