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Why I never got into Les Paul guitars

Sun 2012 Jul 1

When I was a kid just starting out on guitar in the very-early 1990s, the Strat was the guitar. None of the guitar stores ever featured the Les Paul at the time. You never saw them in the glass case that some guitar stores had. Most of the time, all you ever saw there were premium American Stratocaster guitars.

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moon over parador
Sun 2012 Jul 1

Moon Over Parador (1988) is one of those movies where I seriously cannot remember whether I saw it in the theater, rented it or saw it on TV. Part of my brain thinks I actually saw this in the theater; another says no, I must have rented this (I did sometimes rent movies I ordinarily never would just because I was in the video store and had to rent something so I wouldn't leave empty-handed); and yet another part says I must have seen this on TV as one of those filler movies during the summer. I just don't remember.

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Things guitar players should buy in bulk
Fri 2012 Jun 29

There are things you should buy in bulk and other things you shouldn't. What I'm going to concentrate on here is stuff you should buy in bulk as a guitar player.

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Why I use nickel-plated strings
Fri 2012 Jun 22

Fender electric guitars do typically work best with .009 to .042 gauge string. Both Squier and Fender do ship electric guitars from the factory with that size string installed on the Stratocaster and Telecaster. In addition, the string is always nickel-plated, commonly abbreviated as NPS (nickel-plated steel).

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Star Trek: The Animated Series review
Fri 2012 Jun 22

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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