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Paul Wesley

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  1. If the rule that you followed brought you to this - ...of what use was the rule?
  2. There's a line in "Raising Arizona" about H I trying to walk the narrow path after getting married, but "finding myself driving past convenience stores that*ain't* on the way home." Things I drive past on Reverb that ain't on the way home: 000-28, one particular 1990's Custom Shop Thinline Tele. mind blown .gif
  3. Right? A church-going, fellow Southerner, a hunter and good old boy who served capably in law enforcement, including the successful prosecution of terrorists who murdered children. ...who lost to this objectively stupid moron who praises Putin and willfully sabotages our own military despite numerous pleas from the Secretary of Defense to please knock it off Party over country, party over faith, party over democracy, party over competency and decency...
  4. If the trajectory of Muhammad Ali's career would have mirrored that of U2, he would have defeated Liston, defended his title admirably roughly four times, and then Trevor Berbick would have relentlessly beaten the absolute shit out of him for 37 years.
  5. My first electric guitar was an 83 LP Custom...
  6. Mr Fuck wants to rock. If he makes an average of $25 per lawn mowed, and if he convinces his friend to buy a bass, how many anti-Reagan anthems will he have to write to get the attention of the pretty girl in Algebra II if each song achieves a mean average decibel level of 128? For the purposes of this word problem, remember that he is still wearing tube socks and he is several years from being old enough to get a tattoo.
  7. This state already had law enforcement who was willing to look the other way when dozens of trucks with Trump flags surrounded and harassed a bus carrying Democratic campaign staffers. We also have counties where Republican election officials have resigned purely for fear of being assassinated by these yahoos in their own party. Now we’re signing off on *murder*!!!!! How crazy is that? I mean, we had an impartial jury of TEXANS and witnesses and a trial…. And it’s not like there’s some new DNA evidence or a whistleblower reporting prosecutorial misconduct… it’s just, “we’re gonna let the convicted murderer out because we like his politics.” … And he’s free to go to Cabelas tomorrow and buy a fucking assault rifle. Lunacy.
  8. I think this thread illustrates our idiocracy as well as any other. Every time I see it bumped, I know there’s gonna be a story or video that’s facepalm-worthy. For example: a god damn ball coach that doesn’t know anything about anything- expressing concern to the secretary of defense that we might be offending the sensibilities of the country that targets its neighbors’ civilians with missiles on pretty much a daily basis.
  9. The self-described idiot/asshole understands nuance way more than the self-professed intellectual.
  10. I was wearing a CBGB shirt in the grocery store yesterday, and an older woman exclaimed, "Oh, I loved going there!" She then asked me if I'd ever heard of the Fugs (I hadn't) and told me, "I was Tuli's girlfriend then." So I've been listening to some Fugs.
  11. Ha. I had an insurance policy on an SSL console that was about to make a cross-country trip, and I called the insurers just before it left - just to make sure everything was locked in. No response. I then fired off an email that definitely had a “tone” and probably dropped some “totally unprofessional” comments. A couple days later, a woman replied “terribly sorry for how you were inconvenienced” or something like that, and then explained that the office was like ten feet underwater. Turns out they were in New Jersey and this was a few days after Sandy. ——— “Dear Reddit: Am I the asshole…”
  12. Yeah, they make it seem like it’s some deep-in-the-jungle tropical disease, but it’s just a consequence of eating undercooked pork. You could hop on a discount flight to Cancun and get a tapeworm and a toe by 3 o’clock, dude.
  13. Man, I'm impressed and happy for you. Obviously, our stressed-out and isolated modern societies need to get back to having these shared, communal experiences. I've thought of starting something similar in the vein of storytelling - like a "Moth" radio-hour kind of thing, maybe with a musician doing 2 or 3 songs as an icebreaker opening act. Anyway, kudos to you.
  14. Apparently the laws regarding acting as an unregistered foreign agent either need much more aggressive prosecution or much longer prison sentences or both… and yes, I understand that he’s a legislator and not a lobbyist, but I’m fucking tired of seeing these stories affecting both chambers of Congress, in lobbying firms, and in the executive branch (Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, many others). There doesn’t seem to be enough deterrence from doing treasonous things. I also think presidential pardon powers need a serious overhaul - like if your friends are getting fabulously wealthy from treasonous acts, you don’t get to pardon them.
  15. Yes Yes
  16. Trivial things that make you surly.
  17. Wait a second. Are we talking about *practice?* We talking about PRACTICE, man. We're talking about practice. What are we doing? I'm supposed to be the franchise player, but we talking about PRACTICE?
  18. I have two Strymon pedals and they are especially thirsty for current.
  19. I really like it. To my ears, it sounds like a *slightly* more modern-sounding Vox... i.e. a little more saturation as it breaks up more and more. It breaks up in a way that doesn't feel genre-specific to me. Depending on the settings, I think it could be perfectly at home in an alt-country band (Stapleton/Isbell/etc) or as a heavy Brian May thing. If I had one complaint with it, it's that the EQ often feels a bit light on low mids, although that could also be an accurate reflection of the guitars that I'm using. I haven't recorded with it much, but it occurs to me that the same low mids that I want to bump up with an EQ pedal might be exactly what's carved out by the mix engineer. I could get down to three amps for the rest of my days on earth and be perfectly content: A Laurel Canyon, a Two Rock Studio Pro 35 (which is the ultimate Swiss army amp, IMO), and a Marshall flavor (either a 65Amps Empire or one of those Marshall 20-watt Plexi-voiced heads).
  20. I'm a Vox guy. I have a couple different Vox-style heads including a Matchless Laurel Canyon and a 65Amps London. I also have a China-made AC30 - the 1-speaker version - that has just been gathering dust for the past decade. So I just sold it online, and before the guy came to pick it up, I plugged it in the other night and ran through it just to make sure it was fully functional. It sounded better than I remembered.
  21. I think the head on the right is the bass player's Thunderman.
  22. I just got a targeted ad on social media for a “mini cajon.” And it kind of made me happy, in the sense of “Well, obviously you data-sucking corporate bitches don’t know *everything* about me, now do you?”
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