Monthly Archives: May 2010

Douchebaggery Is Bipartisan

State Representative Peter Palumbo (D-Dist. 16, Cranston) has introduced a new bill in the General Assembly that aims to crack down on illegal immigration in Rhode Island.

The "In Support of Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" borrows heavily from the recently-enacted immigration laws in Arizona which have prompted some national outcry.

One provision of the bill states that if "reasonable suspicion exists" that a person is an illegal alien, the involved law enforcement agency must make a "reasonable attempt" to verify the person's immigration status with the federal government. Representative Palumbo tells ABC6 that immigration violations would still be considered a secondary offense, meaning that a person could not be stopped by law enforcement solely on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant.

Yay!

Get My Rocks Off

Was snooping around YouTube, looking for vids of the Stones doing "Rocks Off", cause it's Exile On Main Street month, or something... anyway, I found some good stuff, including covers of that song by Spoon and Yo La Tengo. Very cool.

And then I found this...

Dr Hook just blew my mind ... and not in a nice way.

Something odd happens around 3:20. And then... the bass solo. OMG. Crazy hippy freakout action.

I'm glad I missed that scene.

It's A Series Of Tubes!

Taking this idea, and 11 feet of 3/4" PVC tubing, 8 elbows, 6 T's, a can of red spray paint (left over from The Red Menace), and a bottle of Red Oak, I made this:

... to hold my new amp. Like so:

.. because, as they say: you don't hear with your knees.

Not bad for $15 and 20 minutes of assembly!

I did make one modification on the original design: I put a bar across the front bottom, to hold the bottom of the amp. It looks like the original uses the ends of the two front elbows to hold the bottom. But that design doesn't really work with an amp the size of my little Champ - it needs a bottom support, too.

I also ended up sticking some little felt furniture pads on the bottom, to keep it from rubbing red paint onto the floor.

Start Your iPods

Rain! Haven't seen rain in a month. Love the rain.

  1. Led Zeppelin - Going To California
  2. Department Of Eagles - Phantom Other
  3. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain
  4. Big Star - O, Dana
  5. Replacements - Shootin Dirty Pool
  6. Robyn Hitchcock - My Favorite Buildings
  7. Cowboy Junkies - Hold On To Me
  8. The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time
  9. Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
  10. Talking Heads - Houses In Motion

I kick myself every time I remember that I missed David Byrne when he came around here last year.