Now, I consider the whole reformed rock star become prostelitizing anti-drug crusader thing to be fairly pitiful and Cooper is no exception. I'm not saying keep getting loaded. Just stop talking about when you did. And when you didn't.…
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So there I am, sitting eating my lunch, watching the news on TV, waiting like the slavering dog that I am for more Mel goes Mad, when none other than Alice Cooper a.k.a. Vince Furnier, he of the large pearly whites and the exquisitely died hair, comes on CNN and begins batting his bright eyes and cheerfully expounding on his new youth center in Phoenix.
VMAX Services' Richard Kohlruss followed-up with some information on Tangent Audio. Here's how the CD-100 looks on the inside.
You see those little bits highlighted in red? Any hardware that can become loose during transit has been dabbed with Loctite Red.
If you're like me, you don't know what Loctite Red is. If you're like me, you would have spent your college summers at a chemical plant in Port Newark, NJ, painting curbs and handrails Emergency Yellow to keep your coworkers from crashing their forklifts and from plummeting down the slippery stairs. If you're like…
One misplaced comma can cost you $2.13 million. Granted, those are Canadian dollars, but that still makes my hourly rates pretty fargin' cheap.
If you're like me, it might seem in retrospect that you spent longer laboring over Thucydides than it took Athens and Sparta to fight the dang thing.
Yes, it was time well-spent, but I never thought I'd look forward to reading another book on the subject—after all, it seemed like he'd said everything that needed to be said on the subject. Victor Davis Hanson's A War Like No Other just might be my next "big" read.
Hilarious send-up of Internet advice columns: An "expert" advises great photographers on how to improve their iconic images.
Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.
In her final blog entry, Kristina asks for your expert opinion. The girl needs a new pair of speakers. I think she's looking for something "wicked cute," as they say in Boston.
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Over the past few days, I've thought about what I'd like to say in my last blog entry. I wanted to lend some words of wisdom to audiophiles, but all of you already know more than I ever will about audio components. And so, it seemed, a daunting task lay ahead, until I finally realized that I could make my lack of expertise work to my advantage...for once.
In my time at…
As a fan of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin romances and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Rifles novels, I'm a sucker for this type of collection.