There it was.

The big square box from Touch And Go.

The boxed set had arrived.

Left on his driveway by the lazy postman.

The rain waited until he could bring it inside.

But no longer.

Inside, he cut the paper tape.

With scissors from the drawer.

With scissors from the junk drawer.

And inside the box.

Was the foam. The dry, brittle foam.

So white. So squeaky.

So arrangeable.

Signed. Remastered. With DVD. Three LPs. Two CDs.

104 page photo book.

Replica 1989 tour shirt made from the original silk screen.

Collector bait.

Collected. Hooked.

I have you.

I have you.

I Have You!

A feghoot is a brief story, usually in a science-fiction setting, whose punchline is an elaborate pun.

I should read some.

...in 2012 more American parents named their daughters after characters on Game Of Thrones than “Betsy” or “Nadine”—both super boring names that have never appeared on any TV shows about dragons

via The A.V. Club

Yes, Lenny the black and white domestic shorthair stray was rescued from a Rochester park in February, nursed back to health at Scottsville, adopted out last month, and within two days, returned to the shelter because "he farts all the time," according to the intake papers filled out by his two-day owner.

... back in 2008, the tut-tutting sensitive wingnuts got all sad and brokenhearted when a gun maker fired their CEO for supporting Obama?

The company posted a statement Wednesday night on its website that said:

"The employees, shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper. Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms. The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President."

Yeah, me neither.

Some gun bloggers, such as one who blogs on snowflakesinhell.com, had posted the company's e-mail address and telephone number, encouraging gun owners to boycott Cooper Firearms the company and contact its top executives.

"This needs to get around," wrote the blogger who identifies himself only as "Sebastian, a thirty something, self professed 'gun nut' living somewhere in Pennsylvania." He added: "Gun owners need to know which companies sell their interests down the river. Here's contact info for Cooper Firearms. I would talk to them, and be sure they know Obama's record, why you're not voting for him, and why you'll never buy one of their products."

Tolerance!

At least the SnowflakesInHell crowd had the good sense to recognize their own history. Though they seem to insist that the Eich situation is totally different. Of course they do.

And it's gone. Chopped, chipped and trucked away.

Just think of all the guitar necks that could have been made from that maple tree! But now it's a giant pile of wood chips.

And what a joy it was to have a contractor return my phone call, take the job, get to work on it, and have the job finished - all in just three days! Seems like every other person we call to do something take weeks and weeks.

The less people know about where Ukraine is located on a map, the more they want the U.S. to intervene militarily.

Universal is preparing to start work on a Battlestar Galactica movie. Variety says the studio is planning to completely reimagine the sci-fi story — in which space-bound humans fend off the attacks of nefarious cybernetic Cylons as they try to find a new home — just five years after the four-season Syfy TV show drew to a close. The planned film would mark the second time Battlestar Galactica has been rebooted after the original show aired in 1978.

My skepticism is fighting my anticipation!

Remember the plotline in the Sopranos when Tony gets his hooks into his friend's sporting goods store, liquidates the inventory, runs out the credit then leaves the husk bankrupt ?

That's what came to mind while reading what Bain Capitol is doing to the Guitar Center chain.

Make 6-9% with the chance that the company could finally go tits-up? Why not! If it pays out, then great, and if it doesn’t – tax write off!

You know who else thought like that? The people who set the mortgage market on fire just a few years ago. They made a fortune by structuring finance in such a way that investments produced income irrespective of their true value. They could not have cared less about whether the end result was old people thrown out of their homes or eight million unemployed – that was someone else’s risk. Their risk got hedged by the taxpayer who would bail out the industry so long as the collapse was big enough, so building a decent, functional economy was besides the point.

This is the logic at play with Guitar Center. Financial parasites have taken over the host company and could not care less about the industry itself. They install some CEO who used to be selling DVD players. They swap private equity firms in and out. It doesn’t matter – it’s just another place for loose capital to suck out a few extra dollars or a tax break. After all, the entire value of the company is less than what JPMorgan paid in fines last year without breaking a sweat.