What I bought
One day we were playing in the Mountains and Wesley asks if we could stop at a record store in Kingman AZ. “Of course,” says I. As we walk in, I notice a wall of guitars. I walk down the aisle, “Peavey, no, no name, no name” then I noticed Blondie, I took a good look and asked for the price, “**” he said, I said SOLD! I brought her home, slapped it on Marsha*, and said, Blech! It plays fantastic, even though I don’t like rosewood on Teles, but the sound was horrid, so, YouTube.
Turns out I’m not the only one, so I purchased a complete electronics setup for the guitar, so now I get to install it.
this is really all you need for the install
I may have mentioned my love for Fender Guitars, and Telecasters in particular? That combined with electronics XP makes this a great little project, so let’s get started!
First we gut the old crap, and then I discover that I can’t remove the pickguard/neck pickup without removing the entire neck, Baaaagh! This sets up a dilemma for the future, I have to test the rig before I reinstall the neck, Jeez! Of course the neck pickup fits fine, but the bridge pickup needs some Dremel work, I hate cutting into a guitar, but it must be done….
Monday Morning
I woke up, had coffee and continued on. The Dremel work for the Bridge pickup went well, no mistakes and everything dropped in, Yay! Next was connections, which is the cool/unique part.
EMG has done after market stuff since the ’70s, always high quality stuff, the kit I bought is no different, well……. The whole package is plug and play, they use R/C servo connectors, I saw that and went, OK! The install took some time because I want it done right, and I have time.
After testing, we string it up, and once it settles down, we plug it in. Success! Dead silent on both amps, and on Marsha she sounds big and badass! The only thing left to change is the tuning pegs. Since the intonation is perfect (I’ll take a bow there) they stay, if they don’t keep tune, they are out, otherwise a great, cheap HotRod.
Blondie joins my Telecaster Squad, along with Red, and Blackie, and others that fell off a boat tragically…
Blondie, a Beauty!
*Marsha is my Custom designed Marshall half stack, a monster
** Alt text is your friend
” First we gut the old crap, and then I discover that I can’t remove the pickguard/neck pickup without removing the entire neck”
You couldn’t cut the guard?
Not safely, it was easier to pull the neck, Dremel and guitar finishes to work well together
Huh, I figured that would have been easier. I know electronics. I don’t know anything about wood.
never seen it before
Don’t work well,
That is really nice. Would love to hear it.
Blondie joins my Telecaster Squad, along with Red, and Blackie, and others that fell off a boat tragically…
They fell off boats? That’s sad.
If you turn the volume up to eleven, it makes a good weapon, so definitely a candidate for a boating accident.
I like Spinal Tap.
Marsha Goes to 11, Big resistors are your friend….
No love for Jan?
No, Marsha has a loud, powerful voice, I have many sounds, but She is the biggest….
“Big resistors are your friend”
Either a Q or a STEVE SMITH joke in there somewhere.
My TeleBasses stun small Children at 50 yards, so…..
Excellent.
Blow the balls off a charging rhino at sixty paces?
Here’s Blondie with Red, and my boy Blackie, love that guitar!,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wbe6QJqrRbgTL5H2A
And Marsha, it looks like.
Awesome.
You Americans are protesting and looting and burning over nothing. You are a weak nation. The Urkraine is where it’s at. The Ukraine is not weak.
Hostage siege ends after Ukrainian president endorses Joaquin Phoenix film
Legend.
I thought he was good in Gladiator……………
Good enough to hold a bus hostage?
Ukraine!
Cool! Thanks!
Marshall Ledbetter knew the score.
If Joaquin didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him.
Weirdly sounds like the plot to the Japanese caper flick “Space Travelers”.
You asked for the price and he called you the N word? America really is getting racist.
/Tall can of boss coffee to Y man.
/Caught and saved for the Morning!
Hey Yusef, nice axe. But no photo of tall cans?
My FIl, who passed away in Jan., had given his 1977 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe to my daughter about two years ago. I wish I had the talent to play it. My daughter mostly ignores it. That makes me sad. She is a fine cello player, and is playing electric bass as well. She is only one of the four of us with any talent. I rarely get to hear her play any more. This makes me more sad.
Also, why is there an empty paper bowl on the floor?
That sounds like a pretty serious guitar, a 1977 les Paul Deluxe. I have a Les Paul Melody Maker. It’s shaped like a Paul, but light and flighty like an SG, with p90s. I’m looking for a a full size Les Paul.
He was a play by ear, don’t need the music sheet kind of guy. I learned a few things about music history from him. He mostly bitter from growing up dirt poor, but I kind of miss him.
True Story about this Les Paul (I may may have told this before, my apologies):
FIL was playing me some stuff, comparing the tempo of blues to rock and roll. My fiery red-haired niece, who was about five, comes in to the living room. During a pause, she tries to bang a toy car on on Pappaw’s guitar. I reach for her to try and stop her, and she hurls the toy car at my face. She missed. Mammaw see this and hauls her off to the bedroom, and wears her little ass out. Niece gets marched out to apologize. I’m so uncomfortable, I don’t know what to do. Niece looks at me, gets scared and runs away. Now MIL (also natural redhead) is REALLY pissed , niece gets a full on ass whoopin’. My wife took this in stride. One thing we have in common, our siblings got way more beatings than we did.
Paper Bowl for Bella Treats, we try to be Civilized Pigs here!
Needz Moar Treets.
Not that anyone who needs to read this will read this, but sometimes a good old “Told ya so” hits the spots.
https://mises.org/power-market/about-those-spooky-federal-cops-portland#.XxdG1XErH1Y.twitter
That was good. “You progressives wanted a weaponized federal government? Well, here’s your weaponized federal government”
Damn, I am glad to read that! Spot on understanding.
Does it bother me to see anon agents of the State snatching people up? Damn right, it does.
I also can’t help but feel the people getting snatched up were pushing for it for years….except not for themselves, of course. Perish the
activiststhought.Militia Act of 1792
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/2nd_Congress/1st_Session/Chapter_28
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheFrancescaF/status/1285735251348729856
I see no steak thief defensive firearms.
Also, I always enjoy pic heavy articles, Yusef. ?
I forgot captions, but not alt text, thanks Sean!
I have no idea what any of that means, but I do enjoy looking at craftsmanship.
I thank you,
I basically ripped out the old sound parts and put in new, clean parts, and it sounds great.
“You ruined the value!”
/Antiques Roadshow
Heh….
/Sorry, but, that got me.
Pro tip: When a guitar player is describing to you what mods he’s making/has made to his latest axe, just nod and smile and throw in the occasional “uh huh” as appropriate. ; )
Great play-by-play, Yusef. I’ve alerted Tom T that the article may be to his interest, so he should be along momentarily.
Uh huh.
fun fact – Police used to wear copper badges. Later, that got shortened to cop and became slang for police.
“Yes. I am a cop.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPElnvb6bI
The word copper comes from the name Cyprus, which had rich copper mines in ancient times.
Yes. I am a Fap.
You are young, aren’t you?
Age is just a number, man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TcDHrkQYg
Someday between now and then, I want to do good and have a good time.
Someday my new hobby will be lying down in a pine box with my eyes closed.
Older means Wiser, if you live long enough………….
*Usually* older is wiser, except for Biden, Warren, Thom Hatmann, Paul Krugman…
There’s no stupid like old stupid.
Dick Jones! I work for Dick Jones! Shut up dumbass!
^Promote this man!
I’d buy *that* for a dollar!
I was happy to drive through Detroit during my big road trip, because I saw they were fixing up that crumbling railroad station.
It was the greatest industrial city on earth for 30 years and I see no reason why it could not be again.
Gee, our old La Salle ran great…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K50UstKfJM
A 40 year slump might have changed the culture there just a tad.
QUIET, YOU!
I see no reason why it could not be again.
What about the UAW? That’s a pretty good reason.
It was actually the copper buttons on the uniform.
Quibble
It must be correct, dammit!!!
It was actually the copper weave in their facemasks to kill the rona.
That’s the way I recall.
I thought it was an acronym of “Constable Of the People.” But who knows?
Snopes says no.
Continuing on:
Instead, the police-specific use of “cop” made its way into the English language in far more languid fashion. “Cop” has long existed as a verb meaning “to take or seize,” but it didn’t begin to make the linguistic shifts necessary to turn it into a casual term for “police officer” until the mid-19th century. The first example of ‘cop’ taking the meaning “to arrest” appeared in print around 1844, and the word then swiftly moved from being solely a verb for “take into police custody” to also encompassing a noun referring to the one doing the detaining. By 1846, policemen were being described as “coppers,” the ‘-er’ ending having been appended to the “arrest” form of the verb, and by 1859 “coppers” were also being called “cops,” the latter word a shortening of the former.
I heard “Constable on Patrol.”
For all the work put in to make that ‘operation’ look high-tech and efficient, those machines were way sloppy putting drugs in vials.
/…What?!
This guy has better eyes than I do.
https://twitter.com/CynnDragon/status/1285739863615123456
One is clearly wearing a bowtie, jeez.
I confused that one with Orville Reddenbacher.
Excellent retort. That African guy sure does post some funny shit.
Nice, Yusef. A buddy of mine has a Tele that he’s looking to re-work
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Huh. Try again, if you would.
Just to continue – my buddy has a Tele with in line pickups. So when I ordered (belated Christmas present in January) him a Bigsby tremolo, it naturally was the one with the tilted bridge pickup. Oops.
IMO, a whammy bar is the last thing a Tele needs, save it for the Strats,
What’s with the Zoom thing?
guitar, and music in general, is a skill I would like to have. But but not something my brain nor my hands can comprehend.
It’s been over 40 years learning, and I’ll never be done, a Labor of love indeed, keeps the Soul alive,
This weekend my niece is having her HS graduation party at my house. Didn’t really hit me until this week, she was born when I was a freshman in college. That doesn’t feel like that long ago, but it feels like forever ago at the same time.
Uh, grandchild number two just graduated.
The time part, while jarring, wasn’t the worst part, it’s how little I’ve done with my life in that time. Back then I was gonna be somebody someday! Now…I just got my first ‘grown-up’ job a month before Wu-Flu stopped the world. My biggest achievement in life is making a cartoon that DOZENS of people watch. Not complaining, just, it’s different, you know?
Life begins at forty.
Thumbs up for this libertarian take on abortion.
Lol
“Life begins when the kids move out and the dog dies.”
Erma Bombeck(?)
So life began last Friday.
Way too close to the truth.
Whenever I feel sad about my life, I take solace from this man’s tale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Issa
His pen name means one cup of tea in Japanese. He endured many hardships, including the deaths of his children.
***
One of Issa’s haiku, as translated by R.H. Blyth, appears in J. D. Salinger’s 1961 novel, Franny and Zooey:
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pE8ReA5cn4
Face the wind and the rain. Be as a wise as a serpent and gentle like a dove.
Is he the one that invented the Kobayashi Maru?
QUIET, YOU!
***
The Kobayashi (formerly Kobiashi) Maru was named after Star Trek II scriptwriter Jack Soward’s next-door neighbours.
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Maru (丸) is a common suffix for Japanese ship names and means “spirit [of]”.
However, according to the linked Japanese ship naming convention article, “maru” literally means “circle.” There are several possible explanations given for why it has become a commmon ship name affix, none of which involve the concept of “spirit of.”
***
The maru in Maruchan ramen means “round” and maruchan means “little roundy” because the Japanese think that when people smile, their faces become round.
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Kobayashi Name Meaning. Japanese: ‘small forest’; one of the ten most common Japanese surnames, found especially in central Japan; the different families bearing this name are not all related. The name is also found in the Ryukyu Islands.
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So just the Issa part means one cup of tea (ichi cha).
Oh, just get the rum and paper parasol…
I know the feeling. Seems like 1998 was last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMX2lPum_pg
Bulletin board systems, dial-up modems, pagers, … I ‘member.
It’s crazy how so many of those pop-punk lead singers sounded so much alike. Was it like a cloning experiment or something?
your answer is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin
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Martin has written or co-written 23 Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, most of which he has also produced or co-produced, including Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” (2008), Maroon 5’s “One More Night” (2012), Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and “Blank Space” (2014), and The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” (2019). Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26).[4] In addition, he is tied for the most Hot 100 number-
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something something there is nothing new under the sun
I was just watching ‘Family Guy’ with Jugsy on Prime. Commercials came on, and I said “cant you skip this shit?”
Then the #BLM commercial came one- “all lives matter once black lives matter”.
I stood up and told her, “turn this shit off” (she had the remotes)
She said, “Its only a commercial…just ignore it”.
*couples fight. if she wasnt here I woulda went Full Elvis on that 55″
Why not just head-butt it?
That’s infuriating. Who sponsored the ad?
Knowing how things operate, “We the People” probably did.
The whole thing, production, broadcast, you name it, was probably donated.
Avril Lavigne’s first husband (I think.) Still don’t know why he hooked up with her.
Grandson will graduate HS 50 years after I did.
Granddaughter #1 will graduate HS 50 years after Mrs. Hobbit did.
I will be lucky to see granddaughter #3 graduate. I need to live to 84 to see that happen.
My only child, my son, graduated HS last month, 42 years after I did. Guess I got a later start than you. I doubt I’ll live to see him have kids, much less one of them graduate from HS.
Thanks for reminding me.
My oldest kid will graduate high school 50 years after I did.
Closer to 70 than I am to 30. And I used to think 30 was old.
Closer to fourscore than thirty.
*does math*
Fuck.
Closer to a hundred than I am to zero. At least just barely, for now.
How old is this guitar?
I gots me a Mexican made (aka MIM) Stratocaster. The burst scheme is known as tobacco, but I prefer to call it caramel. Bird’s eye maple neck. ’02-’03 model that I bought like-new for $600. My first Fender.
My baby is a Paul Reed Smith SE, which is the smoothest guitar I’ve ever played. Made in Indonesia. It’s a work of art.
Put locking tuners on both, because to hell with going out of tune.
Do you also have a 57 Strat,
That you play behind your back,
While you scream out “Louie Lou-aye”?
Dang, no one else remembers that song?
Guess I really am old.
Of course I remember it!
Didn’t know you were wanting input from us in the peanut gallery.
“Louie Louie”? Oh, heck yeah! One of the all time classics!
Geez, does that make me really old too? : (
Hastily-thought-of disclaimer: I don’t remember it from when it first came out but from MUCH later…
(Do you think they bought it?)
::cups hand around one side of mouth; nods vigorously::
But the song those lyrics came from, though they do mention “Louie, Louie”, is “Head Knocker” by Foreigner.
Oh…well, scratch that, then. But, I will cop to knowing the Foreigner Belt.
Here i would have thought that song might have been a Glib favorite, because not only does the title character play a ’57 Strat, but “if that don’t teach you a lesson, he’ll show you his Smith and Wesson”.
Due to the local Red Dog shortage I’ve had to drink High Life for almost the past month. I don’t really enjoy it and it costs more than my beloved Red Dog…So tonight I’m trying something different, Hamm’s! I hadn’t had it in over a decade, but it’s ok, and cheap!
Miller’s High Life… the Champagne of Piss.
That is the worst beer ever made. Tastes like skunk smells.
Just yuck.
Never had Red Dog, but Beer Advocate
nicethings about it.My go-to cheap beer! And available in Jersey and PA!
I discovered this last weekend, and am enjoying it immensely
OMG! Guns! High-Powered Magazines! Say what?
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/tsa-finds-artfully-concealed-assault-rifle-ammunition-arsenal-in-bag-at-newark-airport/2523841/
Two passengers were arrested Monday in Newark Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers caught an assault rifle with a high-powered magazine and an arsenal of ammunition — all illegal in the state — “artfully concealed” behind the lining of a suitcase.
Yeah, found a double stack of these guys.
It’s New York, kinnath…only the police there know shit about guns. Well, and gang-bangers. And, normal people who (therefore) don’t work for the press.
PSA boating lower. ?
Went through a scad of Teles before I found the right one. In the “almost” right one, the one just before the “right” one, I installed an EMG T set. First one in the state, I’m told. They were the old wire ’em up your own damn self ones and I threw in an EMG Phase phlop switch too. Some folks will scream Heresy!! about EMG’s in a Tele, or EMG’s in general, but in this one it was a match made in heaven. I kept that one far longer than I intended to, even longer because a buddy (who had a real-deal Broadcaster) said he wanted this one when I died. He died first. I even threw a Hipshot B-bender on there. The only reason it moved along was the fingerboard radius. I came up on Gibsons with their flat radius fingerboards and Fenders and their ilk just never feel quite right. The “right” one is a Hamer USA T-51, a classic black guard butterscotch Tele with Duncan Broadcaster pickups and a flat 14.5″ radius. It’s the only Teleblaster I need.
Wait a second. You’re real? I thought Gender Traitor made you up.
If he wasn’t real, Gt would have to…oh, never mind.
…blame Canada?
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
http://archive.li/EAdyL
Weird. Not a single picture of Faye Reagan or Dave Mustaine.
It should be illegal to present yourself as a ginger when you are not.
Also, carpet, rug, or throw pillow, must must match drapes.
Can I get a ruling on bare floorboard?
#45. Her chive gallery is almost intimidating.
Good on ya Yufus. I took guitar lessons when I was a kid but the only instructor in town moved to Hawaii. Then I tried to lernmeself when I hit 40 just because I wanted to play a telecaster. Coolest looking guitar out there. I still can’t play guitar.
That started off as a Rodney Dangerfield joke.
Nobody respects me so it still could be.
I vaguely think it might be nice to learn how to play bass, but “vaguely” and “it might be nice” aren’t gonna light a fire under my ass.
Hmmm–ass-fire….
“play like your ass is on fire”
MOJO playing bass.
https://youtu.be/rx1EYfT2iIs
People (ahem) have give Axl a lot of shit for not staying heroine-thin…but, Vince looks like he’s dance with Mr. Coldstone a few times, himself.
We’ve been dancin’ with/Paula Poundstone/She’s not funny/She won’t leave me alooone!
That’s great SD. Did you come up with that?
Vince Neil may be the one man whose life was saved by Covid 19. I’ve seen a recent photo of him. If he had to perform for over an hour he would have a heart attack.
The Paula Poundstone lyrics?? Yeah, I’ve been singing that in the car for 30 years. Paula was/is as much a comedian as Dahmer was a ‘relationship specialist’.
I like Cats, Cops, and Stuff; don’t know about the 30 years since besides Wait, Wait.
This is a big day for me: The first time I’ve ever heard someone claim to like anything PP did. Of all the stuff I’ve seen her–and I learned to limit it pretty quickly–I have never once laughed at any of her sets.
I always compared her to Paul Rodriguez–he was juuuust barely a comedian. Still, he was kinda funny in Born in East LA. Kinda.
That better be Dr. Feelgood.
Scratch that. THAT was awesome!
Thank you, Chafed. You know me well.
?. If only MikeS was here to share the joy.
So, that’s how it is in their family….
Chances of that happening are 0. Chances kid will develop the freakiest fetish imaginable if it does = 99%.
She was kind of a smoke show back in the day. So…yeah, that could very well happen.
His wife? I have no idea who she is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2VR6bn69FM
About the only thing I am sure she’s been in
*Jeff’s fiance
Think she was also Peter’s girlfriend in Office Space. Only had the one scene with the hypnotherapist.
The excessively verbally affectionate girlfriend Schmoopy from Seinfeld.
No kidding. He’s screwed.
Matt Taibbi is on fire.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-left-is-now-the-right
The parties switched again?
*checks todays Glibs content
Does anyone else read one of Ozzy’s articles and think they have wasted their life?
Just Ozy’s posts?…
Good point.
Well, yeah. So?
Yeah, pretty much.
yes
Wait…..I don’t think I’ve wasted my life due to reading an Ozy article.
I think I’ve wasted my life, and read on Ozy article for confirmation of such.
I love this article and topic.
My daughter went crazy for getting a guitar last summer, so I dove down this rabbit hole. I don’t play myself, so I had to get educated in order to help guide her. I found out that I probably should have gotten into guitars back when I was a kid. I had no idea at the time that a major chunk of playing the electric guitar is about the electronics and how to get a particular sound you are interested in. Over the last year I’ve watched a bunch of youtube videos about projects like this one. It is a fascinating topic.
I took her shopping at a local guitar shop while we were on vacation and she fell in love with this LTD EC-50 by ESP with a sunburst finish. A quick google suggested that they were pretty good quality for a cheap guitar, and the price was fair.
Playing with it, I think the pickup switch needs replacing – it doesn’t reliably engage only the bridge pickup. I have not really dug in on it yet, because she’s decided that she’s not going to practice today… for quite a number of days in a row. But you’ve gotten me motivated.
So I’m thinking that as long as I’m opening things up and taking things apart, I should probably go ahead and swap out the pots as well. What do you think? Everything on this is original, so it all has a lot of years on it, and those parts are probably the cheaper version. Any recommendations on parts, resources for howto, equipment I might need?
Digikey and/or Mouser for parts. Bourns has a good rep for high-quality pots, but you’ll pay for them. Other places for good parts would be any high-end audio parts supplier. As for specialized parts like pickups, no idea. Google/DuckDuckGo are your friends.
Oh, great… now you’ve set me off down this road!
“couple good rule of thumb to remember:
The higher the capacitance value is, the bassier your tone will be.
The higher the potentiometer resistance value, the more high end will pass through.
There’s certainly no rules against trying out different pots and experimenting with tone, but here are some guidelines that are useful in determining the best choice for upgrading or replacing your existing pots.
Fender: 250K
Gibson: 300K
”
I assumed you just find a quality replacement part with identical specifications. Now I know there’s options?
And now I have to figure out if my humbucker pickups can be rewired to a push-pull pot to get more flexibility in sounds….
Yeah… she’d better stop me from screwing around with her guitar before I end up rebuilding the thing 20 times over….
Be happy it’s a guitar, everything is electric. If she had a bass with a preamp you’d have electronics to deal with as well, and then things get really fun.
The stock pickups are inhouse by ESP, you could try to get replacements from them, but you’d have an easier time replacing them with new ones; good brands for humbucker pickups are Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio. Buy a set, they’ll be packaged with a wiring diagram and they will have more instructions on their websites. You shouldn’t need anything more than a screwdriver, some electrical tape, and a soldering iron to install everything. Maybe a dremel or file if things don’t fit exactly right.
Be prepared to fall down a rabbit hole when looking at pickups; save yourself the headache and decide on a price point first.
Straff–did you ever learn how to get ball sweat out of your masks?
asking for a few friends….
soap, soak, swish, rinse, heat?
The ‘swish’ is problematic, but….probably necessary.
or go an alternate route…$20
Ehh…don’t want to take my laundry downtown.
Good news, everyone!
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/07/19/national/japan-china-fighters-senkakus/
Maybe WWIII won’t be over Taiwan after all.
Whew!
Crisis averted.
Didn’t Bruce Lee get his ass kicked, and, kick some ass just so black students could learn Irish dancing?
She’s right but undercuts her own argument telling how she identifies. I don’t care if she identifies as a tuna sandwich. You like to dance? Then go dance.
True. However, she’s young enough that, given the horseshit going on now, it’s kind of inevitable at this point that someone in her position would do so. I’m sure it’s weighed heavy on her mind that she might get the same treatment and/or get the “Aunt Tom” treatment from some.
Then again, she could be a real POS–dancing well, itself, doesn’t preclude it.
She seems likable and has the right idea. She hasn’t thought through how she is saying it.
She’s completely right.
The problem is, the criticism is not of her. It is indirect criticism of the entire concept of “cultural appropriation.” The very notion of “cultural appropriation” is racist at its very foundation. The notion that one is imbued with rights to certain attire, musical genres or artforms by virtue of one’s race is inescapably racist.
Correct–no one is in charge of any culture. In the end, no one cares if you don’t like what a person is wearing, eating, singing, dancing, or speaking.
Well, that last bit isn’t true. Lots of people seem to care about it these days. They’ll even run you out of a job if you happen to do any of the above in a way that the woke don’t approve of.
Which is, of course, the point of calling out this excellent young lady for cultural appropriation. Pointing out the hypocrisy of the woke is a method of exposing their lunacy. Not that anyone seems to be noticing these days.
The woke cheered Lil Nas X for culturally appropriating country music forms and themes and even attire. IT makes it really hard not to point out their ludicrous philosophy for the sham it is.
Oh, yes–people do claim to care about the cultural trespass. I’m saying no one (with a modicum of sanity) cares that these people are bent out of shape.
More work for the chiropractors.
Another scumbag fed judge making up rules and invalidating laws willy nilly.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/07/judge-denies-move-oregons-border-petition-to-ease-signature-requirement-to-qualify-for-ballot-measure.html
While I support the cause, it looks like the judge wouldn’t modify the existing rules. From what’s reported, it sounds like a reasonable decision.
That would be, if that was all there was. He just did for another ballot measure but declined to do so for this one, not because of existing law, but because they didn’t expend enough effort for his newly created arbitrary and personal standard that has no basis in law. The right decision, in my view, would have been to dismiss both ballot measures lawsuits because they didn’t meet the legal requirements for such measures.
That makes sense.
My wife was at a small, social- distancing business cocktail party this evening and got in an argument with a colleague. The colleague was insisting that “covid is really hard to catch, but if you get it, you die”. My wife said “it’s the complete opposite, it’s very contagious, but very low lethality”.
Colleague became enraged and insisted she knows best because she listens to NPR. That apparently trumped the fact that my wife is married to a physician.
Example 567,452 why we are all doomed, folks. Colleague is also very happy to be mostly safely sheltering at home for full pay, so thinks everything should stay closed for “as long as necessary”.
CWAA. Just give me an address and I’ll show her the error of her ways.
Err, you mean the colleague, not Chafed’s wife, right?
I think Chafed has Chafed’s wife’s address….;)~
I’m flexible. Just give an address.
And there was much rejoicing by the women-folk. ????
Find out her address, then tell local Antifa chapters it’s a cops house.
/I keed…..maybe
Well… she hasn’t proven a cop doesn’t live there.
Oooh….Chafed is a-lawyerin’ now!
Today was a very good day in court. I’m on fire.
Well….give yourself a crisp High 5, from me.
New avatar
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(Or maybe a return to a past one?)
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Ummm…..linkage fail, bruh.
OK–that one would be kinda cool…er, hot. Whatever.
Chafed, you might want to do a temp change to that.
Linky no work. I’ll take a blind guess. It was Foghorn Leghorn.
insisting that “covid is really hard to catch, but if you get it, you die”.
At that point I’d turn on the southern accent and reply “Well, bless your soul”
“Heart”…”bless your heart“.
Soul implies a mind, as soul comes from the Greek ‘Psyche’.
Uhh, paging Derpy!!
I plead afternoon beer.
Heh. Cheers!
@baked ans others, my phone burned up,
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/feds-object-to-exempting-journalists-legal-observers-from-crowd-dispersal-orders.html
I have mixed feelings. Good for attempting to limit the bullshit special privileges for only approved journalists, but the freedom of the press should be robust and not at the convenience of the government.
I hate the lawyers on both sides. Bombastic argument isn’t helpful. This is an important issue.
Yeah, this really needs to go in favor of journalism…regardless of how the info will get out.
Yeah, this really introduces difficult questions to the mix.
the folks over at PNAC (Photography is Not a Crime) took this on a few years ago, covering protests in Atlanta. The Atlanta police were happy to work with media from local TV stations and the Journal Constitution, but some alt-media guy from PNAC? They didn’t all agree that he was “press”. So even though he worked with a liason that told him where to stand, they still busted him. He was plenty pissed.
The end result of that is, of course, everyone from Antifa claiming to be press. Hold up your Go-Pro on a stick and tout your youtube livestream. Magic exemption from dispersal orders.
I think disperse means disperse. If you work with police in advance, the press office might let you cover their side of things from behind the lines. But if you want to cover things from the rioter’s point of view, you kind of have to move with and be subject to the rules of the general public. In the middle of a riot, it is really a bit much to expect police to discern press from non-press and allow the press to freely pass back and forth across police lines that are under assault by rioters.
Well, if they just dressed like journalists, it probably wouldn’t be a problem.
K-rist Snopes has gone to shit.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2020/07/20/adorbs-snopes-rates-convicted-terrorist-sitting-on-blm-board-as-half-false-because-definition-for-terrorist-is-like-subjective-man/
Saw that. Speaking Truth to Power (Zod, I hate that phrase) seems to be more difficult when you’re a bending over backwards. Or, just bending over.
What was the one they had the other day that was equally absurd? Something literally true was labeled false because they didn’t like the implication.. I can’t remember exactly…
I believe there’s a list to choose from. Can you narrow it down a bit?
Rosenberg is still a piece of shit. She refers to herself as a political prisoner when she was caught transporting 740 lbs of explosives and weapons to their storage unit, an admirer of Che Guevara who got caught before she managed to kill dozens of people.
I’m not excusing the treatment she received at the hands of the federal prison system, but I have little sympathy and zero respect for bloodthirsty communists.
Hillary Part 2
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/21/andrew-gillum-wife-love-gay-escort/
I mean, he didn’t say she was going to stay married to him……
Power, man–what a turn-on!
“continues to be an ally”
I hate 2020.
Defund it.
When fighting a war….
/who said the Dems were anti-war?
Fuck covid. Rip Ken Shimura
https://youtu.be/4uEGcUlIocU
The single comment is exactly right.
Unchiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!! kekekekeke
RIP, Ken.
Morning, world.
Check your trouser leg for a pharmaceutical delivery. Shimura’s been dead for months.
Yep, I know. Since Benny Hill is long gone, I’ve enjoyed his wholesome dirty old man skits. Fuck the Chinese also.
“Let’s see what happens when we add a Chad to their riot”
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1285868182087987201
That’s just one dude taking initiative. I don’t love the idea of Feds on the beat but this was delightful! What a bunch of limber-dicked cocksuckers!
That scattered them pretty good, didn’t it? I don’t like to see the feds getting involved either but they’ve shown a surprising amount of restraint so far. If the locals refuse to do their job and the average citizens get thrown in the clink for doing what the local government won’t do then the feds are going to step in.
I don’t have any quibble with the busting heads part in this particular circumstance but the precedent is worrisome. You today, me tomorrow. Kinda like Harry Reid and the filibuster. Unforeseen consequences are what stupid people excel at.
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/07/21/law-firms-seeing-rise-in-teachers-preparing-wills-as-schools-prepare-to-reopen-in-fall/
Uh huh.
This just in: Teachers do what responsible adults have been doing for decades.
…whith the attitude of petulant children being forced to brush their teeth.
Go Bob! A desiccated Man of many talents.
I suppose one good thing about our statehouse Speaker getting busted by the Feds is that it forced Gauleiter DeRINO to postpone his latest edict until today. Not looking forward to whatever it’s going to be.
Oh – and, good morning, Glibbies.
Mornin’ to you Red!
Thanks, Fes! My favorite uncle – the career Navy sub skipper – was the only person who always called me “Red.” : )
You want to be called a commie on account of your hair color?
Now you’ve done it – you’ve inspired me to burst into song. This song may need an update for These Times.
Our “humour” was less political but more scatalogical -https://youtu.be/w_m3vU6P68U
Well Snit https://youtu.be/w_m3vU6P68U
Don’t mind me. It’s a minor failing on my part. I come from a long line of red heads so my ingrained greeting when running across the “soul-deficient” has always been that. Good thing I’m old and non-threatening now because that probably wouldn’t fly in these trying times. Used to use “Freckles” a bunch. Even worse.
For better or for worse, I missed out on the excessive freckles. My oldest sister, whose hair is reddish-brown, got them something fierce whenever she went out in the sun.
When I was a young Festus I would tan “as brown as a berry” but now I become more freckle than man. I avoid the Sun if possible. One of my Aunts is a walking freckle.
I neither tan nor freckle, I just burn.
Ah. Nightwalker.
So that fellow is Marshall Ledbetter and ordered the 666 jelly doughnuts for himself rather that the Police. If you are going to graft either do in unobtrusively or go big. Clintons have this chiseled in marble.
With few exceptions, they’re literally all crooked, it’s just a matter of how brazen they are and whether or not they get targeted and caught. Even the ones that follow the rules engage in legalized bribery and graft.
Hyperbole. Maybe not.
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/09/colorado-bill-would-require-re-education-classes-for-parents-who-refuse-coronavirus-vaccine/?fbclid=IwAR275n0w1R65UZwHZ9XRpe5K54o4MAjg675o0W8SGM9S8ZXAP1KqoUS1yNU
Forced vaccinations is the camel’s nose under the tent that will eventually lead to the The Great Enchippening. Not good, and if ten or twenty percent refuse it what do they care as long as enough people have resistance to build up herd immunity?
Ron Bailey just got a little stiffie.
Hyperbole just added another push pin to his cork board and is meteing out the yarn…
More Covid-1984 fallout.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2020/07/chicago-shooting-at-least-14-injured-as-gunfire-erupts-outside-funeral-home-police-say.html
Chicago – third world country.
Beetlejuice wants Federal help but only under the auspices of her hand-picked underling. She wants to be seen as doing something but requires the Feds to walk about with their collective dicks hanging out of their trousers. We’re fucked.