Posts from May 2024

I've been sick all week. Caught a bug. Is it flu? No idea. Maybe. I don't get sick often. Maybe once or twice yearly. But when I do, it hits hard and there is a routine I go through to allow my body to heal itself. I'll try my best not to make what I'm […]

It's not the Strat-style pickup configuration and electronics that really make this great but rather the bridge. What you're looking at here is a from the late 1990s. It does not load strings from the rear but is rather a top loader, and things get better from there.

The main reason people buy 9V batteries are for . This has been the way of things for what, 40 years now? In guitar and bass player circles, the 9 volt is used for pedal effects (a lot of use a 9V directly under the footswitch), with a preamp and . Regardless of where you […]

This is an absolutely outstanding way to get into a very proper Fender Stratocaster HSS, no question about it. And yeah, I had to post this one because it's too good of a deal to pass up. This guitar did cost 4 figures to get it, but at the moment, .

Above is the , which is still a popular model at the time I write this. I use a personally, but the 65 is still really nice. People like the 7" screen (technically 6.95"), love the legibility as it's really easy to read, love the screen brightness, the voice control, the traffic reporting, and so […]

Nobody my age should be drinking this stuff. My energy drink of choice was . I liked the taste, and it is truly low on Calories at under 50 per can. I started drinking Lo-Carb years ago in my 30s and didn't stop until recently because I finally found a substitute that actually works for […]

Oh, do you have to pay a pretty penny just to get this. Above is the . It's expensive, and it only comes in one color. That color is called Amethyst. is quartz with a violet color to it. And yeah, I think Fender did translate that to a finish fairly well. The color does […]

I think pearloid a.k.a. "mother of toilet seat" has come around to the point where it's cool again. It's still dopey due to it being an obvious fake fancy. But when I look at it now, I think yeah, not bad and I like it again. As you see on the (only on the black […]

A while ago (possibly about a year?), I bought a pair of because they offer a wide size and have a nice unassuming appearance to them. The sneakers arrive in the mail, I put them on, and they fit but at the same time they didn't. I figured these things are new so they have […]

I rarely buy Oreos or cookies in general, but when I saw the , yeah I had to get them. It was actually the appearance that sold me on them because it looks like an '80s arcade. You've got the packaging with the big 3-D SPACE DUNK letters on it, starry night in the background, […]