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1984 - the 1953 television version!

Wed 2013 Oct 9

I had thought that I had seen every single screen adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. I was wrong. There was one more. It happens to be the first screen adaptation, and the oldest all the way back from 1953 (yes, that makes it 60 years old at the time I write this). And, wouldn't you know it, it's an American version that originally aired on CBS as part of what was called the Westinghouse Studio One series, available as the Studio One Anthology (which started off as radio-only and then was brought to television later).

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Obsolete guitar gear: Alesis Quadraverb GT
Sun 2013 Oct 6

The Alesis Quadraverb GT effects processor is something I owned myself for a long time. I bought it new originally in the mid-1990s (1994 if I remember correctly) and the price tag was $500 for it. At the time, this was one of the best guitar effects units you could buy. It was also priced right because its nearest competition was the Rocktron Chameleon, which cost more than the Quadraverb GT did.

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Gear update for October 2013
Sat 2013 Oct 5

Some fairly major changes have happened recently concerning the gear I own now.

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How to sell a guitar on eBay
Fri 2013 Oct 4

There has never been a guitar I've parted with where I regretted selling or trading in for something else. I've owned some fairly ritzy axes in the past, both electric and acoustic (one of them was an upper-end Ovation Balladeer with a stereo output). Once I decide it's time to get rid of a guitar, I get rid of it and don't look back.

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Adam-12 television show review
Sun 2013 Sep 29

I finished watching Dragnet a little while back and have been watching episodes of Adam-12 off and on.

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