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Star Trek: The Animated Series review

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I said before that I've watched every single Star Trek show there is in its entirety. I lied. Unintentionally. There's also Star Trek: The Animated Series, a.k.a. the Star Trek Cartoon.

I have a confession to make about TAS.

It's actually pretty frickin' good.

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Star Trek TOS review

star trek the original series

For those not familiar with common Star Trek abbreviations, TOS means The Original Series, TNG is The Next Generation, DS9 is Deep Space Nine, VOY is Voyager, and I believe Enterprise is either ENT or STE (for "Star Trek: Enterprise").

TOS was the absolute last Star Trek I ever watched in its near-entirety. And I'll explain what I mean by near-entirety in a moment.

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the gif is 25 years old

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The GIF (which I will always pronounce with a hard G, thank you very much), is 25 years old today.

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The stigma of an HH Strat

As most who read this are aware, I recently purchased a Squier Bullet HH. Technically it's not a Stratocaster or even a "Strat" because that name is stated nowhere on the guitar. However since it looks and feels almost identical to a Strat, people think it is and that's fine, so I'm calling it a Strat.

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fix for facebook pages that won't let you "unlike" them

Follow-up to yesterday's post.

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Rich's big list of Squiers

I only own 3 Squier guitars. However in less than a year I've gone through 6 of them, chasing tone left and right until I finally ended up with what I have now.

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2012 Squier Bullet HH FSR demo and review

It's NGD (New Guitar Day) at the Menga stronghold. Gone is the Surf Strat and has been replaced with the Squier Bullet HH:

squier bullet hh stratocaster

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8 V-style guitars for under 500 bucks

V-shaped electric guitars are just cool. I owned one in the past and may again in the future. Do I really need one for anything? Nope. I just like the way they look. My preferred V shape is what's known as a Rhoads V where the bottom fin is shorter than the top.

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Top 5 things musicians and bands do on the internet that are wrong

I'm going to say up front that I am not a master of knowledge when it comes to how musicians and bands conduct themselves on the internet. However I don't think anyone will disagree with my list below of things musicians and bands do on the internet that are flat out wrong.

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Rich's 10 recording tips to get songs done fast

Next week I plan on releasing another song. The rough draft is already online, and the finalized version of that should be done before the tail of next week. The only reason it hasn't been done sooner is because I've been dealing with some computer issues (stupid power supply crap), but I'll have that all taken care of next week.

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