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Wow- so far it looks like this is going to be a super fruit year. All our trees are looking good. Even the plum, which hasn’t had fruit for three years looks like its going to have a great year.
Plums!
Golden Delicious apples
MacIntosh apples
Peaches!
With all the trees looking so great, some strawberry plants that a friend passed on, and the raspberry bushes, it should be an amazing pie season in the fall!
Henry Rollins, formerly of Black Flag, and therefore cemented in my adolescence, continues to be on of the coolest, most interesting and insightful artistic people out there. In a country that has no tradition of public intellectuals (and seems to be lacking much of any intellectual tradition at this moment), Rollins continues to present a voice that is both passionate and thoughtful, compassionate and fiery. I just stumbled across this in YouTube. I may make all my students watch it.
From The Big Think
Typical internettery. The link is a quick post from Science Blogs Select, where I follow a bunch of blogs, including Casaubon’s Book. The main story, that some nutcase thinks our big problem is that women have the right to vote, isn’t what caught my attention. There are crazies, they say crazy stuff, and in this day and age the rest of us comment on that. Nuff said.
It was the use of the term ‘peak stupid’ that really caught my eye. I assume it’s a riff on the idea of ‘peak oil’- the idea that we will (or have) passed the point of peak petroleum production, and will then face adapting to significantly and rapidly dwindling supplies.
Peak stupidity, however, works in the opposite direction (I am assuming). If we achieve peak stupidity, then after that point the total amount of stupidity would have to decline, or at least stay stable. This assumes, quite hopefully, that human stupidity is a finite resource, like petroleum. My personal sense, supported by many observers much more erudite than I, is that human stupidity is regenerated at a very high rate, and is unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future.
I love the use of language however, and hereby resolve to use the phrase ‘peak stupid’ at any and all opportunity.
Finally, Weve Discovered the Cause of All Our Problems…. : Casaubons Book.
If you listen to Lucinda Williams, then you listen to Doug Pettibone. I heard her live Fillmore album about five years ago, and the guitar playing really blew me away. I started running the line up down and discovered Pettibone. Like a lot of non-marquee names, he’s not someone you have heard of, but you’ve heard him because he has played with everyone you like (other players in this category include Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fame).
The link at the bottom is to a Guitar International interview. The video of him playing with Williams in Germany is in the interview, but I’m posting it here because it’s, well, awesome.
Oh the anxiety! The trick in this state is not to let it rule you. Last year I got all worked up, planted the starts too early, and everything was killed in that last blizzard.
This year the starts are safely in their trays. I did plant some seed in the ground this week, knowing that it wouldn’t be up for at least 10 days. The low last night was 40, so warmth is coming.
The beds are ready, and the apple trees are flowering.
Spring is almost here!
Jim Marshall, 1923-2012 | Fender Front Row Blog.
Passing of an icon. I owned a Marshall Artist series 3203 head with a 4×10 bottom back in the ’80s when I thought rock stardom was on its way (I was 16, we ALL thought rock stardom was on the way). At that time most Eddie VanHalen fans were getting the big JCM heads, which made massive power and screaming tube distortion available to the masses. I was running slightly off the beaten track with the Artist head- which had amazing clean tones and some very tuneful crunch- less screamy than the JCMs- I was a George Thorogood/ZZTop (before they went to crap) fan, so was looking less for the scream than for the really tasty crunch.
Loved that amp. I sold it in a pawn shop in the 90s when I was tired of hauling it around without really using it (buying it was an act of pure ego- I din’t really need something that big. But I loooooved that tone). I occasionally look on ebay. Last time I saw a 3203 head for sale it was going for almost $2000. I promise you I did not get that for it in the pawn shop.
Marshall is one of a handful of technician/musicians who made the music we play today possible. Fender, Les Paul. They made it possible to do what we do. Sad to see one go.
We just spent four days in the Bahamas, at a place called Green Turtle Cay in the Abacos. The dive center we went with is called Brendal’s. I’m including a highlights reel for your enjoyment. I picked up a GoPro video camera just in time for this trip. So our diving was unusually well documented. Worked pretty well. I’m sure I will get better. The visibility was not optimal, so the underwater footage is a bit blurry that isn’t the camera, viz was about 50-75 feet at best.
Hope you like the highlights reel- it was done at high-speed on an old laptop that nearly had a heart attack dealing with so much video. Or you can curse me. Whichever is fine. I was diving.
Of course, now we are home in a place that most people see on vacation. Lucky us.
Here’s the video.
By the way, the video plug-in is called SublimeVideo- if you are in WordPress it is pretty great.
This break in our regularly scheduled
Programming is brought to you by the island nation of The Bahamas.
Nice beach.
Sting ray hanging around the back of the boat. Crew is cleaning fish for our lunch.
Beached starfish.
Its all clear to me now. Must get a run in this afternoon.
It hurts so good: the runner’s high | The Scicurious Brain, Scientific American Blog Network.
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