Lucky Dog Audio Post

There's lots of amazing photos in the Nasa on the Commons photo stream. This shot of Kennedy touring Blockhouse 34 at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex is awesome. In this photo's comments several people have asked about the possible identity of the man in sunglasses seated behind Kennedy. Is it Dr Evil? When I first saw this shot, like a dork, I wondered, "Who's that microphone above the black telephone?" Perhaps an EV 644 Dynamic Cardiline®? I think we've got one of those around here...

Considering starting a line of postcards starring Lucky. Mock up above. Thoughts?

At long last we've launched Pedal Talk, our new podcast devoted to talking about magic and mischievous guitar effects pedals. In this installment we focus on a quartet of stomp boxes currently residing in the esteemed pedal-board of Chris Michaels. Check it, in this episode we demo:

• MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay

• Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb

• Fulltone Supa-Trem

• Seymour Duncan Twin Tone Classic

These are some wicked boxes. It was a blast talking to Chris about how he uses them and what he likes/dislikes about each one. Which reminds me, if you wanna hear more from Chris, his new album Morning and Night is now available on iTunes and at the Max Recordings Store. Or you can catch him and his band, The Cranks, at 9pm this Saturday 11/14/09 at the Oyster Bar.

So, enough with the shameless plugs. I could go on and on about what a great guitar player Chris is but it's best to let the audio speak for itself. Without further ado, heeeerrrre's...

PEDAL TALK

I found this little photo album at an estate sale. It's someone else's trip to Yellowstone National Park, Craters of the Moon National Monument, and the Trees of Mystery Redwood Highway cicra 1950s(?). I like the photo of the ox the best.

PS here's a link to Scott's vacation pictures circa July 2009.

I'm not allowed to share pictures from my vacation.

Saw these cool, retro-ish, whimsical, weird photos by Hugh Kretschmer in his Feature Shoot Q&A.

This prosthetic ear vocal booth caught my real eye's attention. This shot also kind of gives me the willies.

Back in May, I was lucky enough to be out front when Patriot Lady walked by. I asked her if I could take her picture and she obliged. I then asked her if it would be ok if we were closed on July 3rd since the 4th fell on a Saturday. She paused for a second and then said, "I think that would be just fine." So Scott and I are gonna take the day off tomorrow. We'll be checking email if you really need us otherwise we'll talk to you Monday.

Thank you Patriot Lady.

Summer is here which means it's time to break out my summer wardrobe.

Yeah... my "summer wardrobe." That means T-shirts.

So I was digging through my bureau yesterday and found some old Ts in my bottom drawer. I totally forgot I had these! Two were given to me, two were thrift store finds, and one I bought impulsively without proper inspection. Purchase/acquisition history aside, these are some real doozies. Wow. I really shouldn't wear these in public. What if I ran into another parent from my kids's school?

This one's pretty obvious. You just don't wear a black T during daylight hours in the summer. It's just too hot for that. Great album, btw. I really like the colors in this T. But wait. See the knife the guy on the right is holding? Yeah. I didn't notice that when I bought this. And then when I noticed the knife, I realized it was simply a reference to the OJay's song Back Stabbers. But then I also noticed that the T-shirt manufacturer had misspelled the name of the band. It's supposed to be spelled O-J-A-Y-S not O... And then I realized that this T-shirt is in really bad taste. Unfortunately the I'm-wearing-an-ironic-plush-toy-T-shirt thing hasn't really caught on yet. Discover Kymaerica? I don't want to talk about Kymaerica. Not that there's anything wrong with Kymaerica. It's just... well... what it is... Kymaerica is a land (and some waters) that somewhat co-existent with our linear world... Oh... Let's not go there. This one's too small.

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