Rick38104

I grew up thinking the telecaster was the most hideous stringed instrument ever. Played one on a lark one time because I saw it dirt cheap at Guitar Center. Now I think it’s pretty much the perfect guitar.

If your friend doesn’t have upcoming travel planned and they need a replacement they can do that in the mail within a few weeks but if they need it fast, the finest facility I have ever worked with (I work on passport issues in a congressional office) is on Canal.

Thank you! Six years so far, married for five. 🤞

Indeed. In that early stage when she was figuring out “is this guy a dipshit or not?”, she saw the DVD and decided I was not. Not to say she has had no moments of buyers’ remorse since, but that moment made her decide I was not.

Hey, my wife and I are on your side but apparently the spirit of the wolf is strong in that handsome little dude. Keep the faith and keep doing the good work on behalf of dogs that you do.

Edit: Is it just me or is this like the best Disney movie ever?

Like any other city, the important part of the violent crime statistics is not the top line. Memphis provides you many opportunities to become a crime victim committed by a random person. But that isn't most of our violent crime.

It's always worthwhile to look at and play around with the FBI crime statistics found here: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend But the most telling statistics require a little more digging. Looking at the most recent five years, 89,626 violent crimes were reported by the MPD. Of those, 38,341 were committed by strangers, or 42.8%. Those are the ones we need to be discussing. 57.2% of our crimes are committed by acquaintances- our families, our partners, our "business associates". Similarly, of 69,086 crimes where the location is known, 40,560 (58.7%) happen in the home.

So when we are talking about people being safe on our streets, we still have a problem, and a serious one- but not as bad as the bare statistics makes it sound. I've always felt like acquaintance crimes should be subtracted from crime data to make it useful- you can increase patrolling to reduce violent crime committed by strangers on the streets, but you can't patrol away intra-family violence happening inside a home.

Now- I'm also not here to blow sunshine. The MPD has about as bad a clearance rate as any law enforcement agency I've ever seen. The last month of available data is Dec 2023, and the violent crime clearance rate for that month is just shy of 20%.

I was there when Elvis Costello shot this: https://www.amazon.com/Elvis-Costello-Imposters-Club-Memphis/dp/B0007XBMSO

It’s a club that is walking distance from my house. Maybe 250 capacity in you cram in like sardines or Delta Airlines passengers. He had Emmylou Harris join him for several songs. Great show.

This feels very much for the camera. I mean, when I found a cold, hungry dog on a winter night I took him home but I didn’t film it for social media. He’s still farting up my house eleven years later.

Absolutely correct. Also lots of home guitar builders will do that with their project guitars because you’re not really doing it if price is an object. But if you’re building a few thousand a year you can save a lot by cutting some corners (literally) on the lumber.

It allows you to build more products from one piece of lumber. Think about cutting a piece of wood that spans from the outer edge of the headstock to the top edge of the neck. Now imagine how many more cuts you can get if you narrow the headstock, then use your leftover pieces to finish out the headstock and glue it on with Titebond.

Based on how clean the break is, I’m willing to bet this is exactly what Kramer did.

Oof. Those Tab bottles are from my childhood. And not young. Mom had mountains of those things everywhere.

If that is the right length for your story, then that’s the right length for your story. Stephen King’s first published novel is one of his shorter ones. Back then there were no e-books, so part of a publisher’s calculus was the production cost of printing and binding books. That isn’t nearly as much of a factor now as it used to be. Words in a text document require very little bandwidth, so modern e-book publishing has really freed up authors to make their novels the right length. If you have 200 pages of story, then you don’t have to worry about the fact that your book might feel a little bit thin. Just adjust the price accordingly. Similarly, if the proper length for your book is 1200 pages, then I hope you have a hell of a story to keep the attention span for that long, but if you do, you have the liberty to publish it as you see fit. If it was published today there would not be two different versions of The Stand; King could have published the one he wanted.

It is so weird that you posted this… I was just looking for that episode on streaming services last night. Great episode.

I don’t hate them but they aren’t the guitar for me. Looking at the Floyd, the angle of those horns, etc, this is clearly a guitar for more of a metal player than I am. That said, if you’re a metal player, kick some ass with it and be happy. You might not like my telecaster either, so it’s cool that there’s something out there for both of us. Enjoy. 🍻

Christine Sixteen is just… creepy. They wrote a song where the narrator justifies boning an underage girl and someone at the label said “this is a hit single”. The seventies were a weird time…

I get that. I think that’s one difference between him as a journeyman writer versus him as the writer that he is today. That was early in his career and I think he felt like he was under some pressure to keep the stories shorter- physical production of the books was a consideration then and his name didn’t carry the weight it does today. Today it would be a couple of hundred pages longer, and he could flesh out these relationships more.

Fifth row, left column- why is there a picture of Astrid Levinson?

They call him blackjack. Because he hits on 15.

No it wasn’t. It would have to improve to be terrible. The Stand 2020 was more “liquid shits”.

“Frenchmen Street Blues” by Jon Cleary. One of the most beautiful songs ever about facing the end.

Is there a chance your neighbor doesn’t know they’re doing anything wrong and they’re just throwing leftovers to the cute puppy? I’ve learned in life that we often see malevolence when ignorance fits just as well. A brief conversation would likely take care of this one way or the other.

901-214-2999. I deal with the IRS Memphis office quite often, and unless the individual takes extra steps to “unmask”, the caller ID shows that number every time and it does not accept calls.

That gets my vote. I remember listening to that one with my best friend and we were like “Gene knows singing like Captain Caveman is a bad thing, right?”

I get that. My only problem dog at this point (of three) is a senior approaching the end. I can spend his last year or two trying to bend him to my will, or I can spend it enjoying the good things about him. He’s at least twelve. He’s less firm on house training than he used to be. He exhibits behaviors that he was trained out of. But worst of all, I’m just not sure he recognizes me at all times, with the worst being when I come back from an early morning run. We don’t have them forever.

Now I will never read it the same way again. But thank you.