Stephen Mejias

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Madison Avenue at 39th Street can be an ocean of hardhearted buses. Normally, these buses all look and sound the same: Black and white orca whales, screeching and honking, and spewing stinking fumes into my already stinking air. I hate them. No offense to any real orcas out there.

Anyway, this morning, a special bus-monster stank up my air. This one was dressed entirely in black and covered in a JBL speaker; a whole whale of an ad shouting and stinking up my morning commute, claiming something like, "Take them anywhere," or "Listen to them spin," or "Get out of my way before I run you over." Something like that. I can't remember.

Yes, so, JBL's new flowery Spyro speakers are now available. Absolutely everywhere. Which is alright. It's kind of nice to see a loudspeaker on a bus.

As the light turned green and I lost sight of the JBLs, I imagined what it would be like to live in a world where other loudspeakers were plastered to the sides of buses.

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The Giants officially suck, it seems. The good news is: I can stop watching.

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Thanksgiving was good. Holidays have become the time of year when I tell distant relations and new acquaintances that I work for a magazine called Stereophile.

Stereo what? they say. Phile, I say. We review high-end audio.

And they ask me to tell them about Bose.

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