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nbmishoid

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  1. I will vouch, or whatever, with JJazz’s recommendation on the Yairi. I bought one in 78 as my first nice guitar, a DY-50. I chose it over a Gibson Hummingbird which was maybe 20% more at the time. 45 years later it sits outside the “guitar room”, but rather in the tv room and gets played daily. But, everyone is different. Get something you have fallen in love with via playing and listening.
  2. Clearly, Cactus. I was flipping off that guy. Cheers!
  3. Those things communicate
  4. nbmishoid

    LBGTQ

    Well, that ‘Take Off!” level Canuck accent is a negative several points. But, yes.
  5. Yes, my time in scouts was blissful and without the abuse issues. One West Point graduate scoutmaster taught several of us slide rule, at about 12 years old. We felt like geniuses. A year later he was dead in Viet Nam. I’m not advocating scouting. I do advocate the aspirational ideas within the scout law.
  6. Way back when, as part of a course, this approach was called active listening. It takes some awareness to not simply parrot, or do it so much in the same conversation that it irritates your interlocutor, but it is fundamentally sound, and fairly life changing when some fluency develops. Also the scout law isn’t about camping. It’s about perspective on life. A scout is: Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. The last two are challenges for me. And listening. ‘I know this looks beyond corny, but I reflect on this list often. Well, sometimes.
  7. ‘Listening” should be the 11th scout law.
  8. It’s a long drive from town, or to town after the obligatory imbibing and inhaling
  9. The peace, love, and rock and roll were always a minority group among boomers. Those folks did not grow into hate. They greatly helped elect Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Folks generally confuse the boomer political demographic. The conservative component has had the majority, but does not represent the whole. As usual, as always.
  10. I’ve been assigned to learn this but not there yet.
  11. Many reviewers have considered Faulkner as McCarthy’s model, or some such. McC’s power to move the story along is a big difference, to me.
  12. Wrong. Re-read it in a year or so. Then listen to an e book version. Then you will have a better idea of what you read, and a better appreciation of what writing can be.
  13. Makes one jealous at others having serious representation. So I will have to take this opportunity to brag on my rep, Ms Jayapal, also serious.
  14. Another vote for team tele neck pickup
  15. About to say, that looks like a lot of white hair, excluding the vocalist. Envious, of course.
  16. Read them all, but was introduced to him via Blood Meridian, a gift from a sister. He and Martin Amis gone in a week. Not that they were comparable. McCarthy was in his own class. McCarthy Updike, Roth, Bellow, Amis. That’s one hella collection to read.
  17. So I’m supposed to lie and say 1+1 = 2?
  18. Well, the 112, though lightly used, is 30 yrs old and is a likely candidate to have a flaw. I’ll consider “replacement”, but I don’t need a stage amp, jus high quality play at home thing. My instructor has a room full of those orange things, a likely direction. Meanwhile, the little 10 amp fits my needs. I appreciate the advice from all.
  19. But not pegged, at least.
  20. And have any of them read “Fear and Loathing…”?
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