Knuckledragger

As predicted by multiple sources, bad news for Nikon shooters, and photographers in general.

Mr. Sheen is back on the Coke.

I just placed a large-ish order with Juno's download site. I got two albums that were utterly unobtanium any other whay. One Tnt Recordings, which I know little about. The other is the most recent (as in last fall) album from Chris Zippel, a German downtempo producer I have been a fan of since the late 90s. He now lives in Ibiza (the lucky bum) but still managed to put out a new release every few years. I've got several record orders pending on Discogs, and then I will have officially shot through my paypal balance.

QFMFT. The anti-nuclear spin in the media (ALL of it, I swear) has made me want to harm baby animals. I'm a dirty tree-hugging hippie, and the bad rap nuclear energy gets is mind boggling to me. It's all the fault of the coal and oil lobbies. </tinfoil_hat>

Walt Disney & Salvador Dalí at Dalí’s home in Port Lligat, Spain - 1957

The Nashua House hotel where I'm staying, located in scenic Oak Bluffs (which I habitually refer to as "Oak's Bluff.") Better than I get on the mainland.

Pew! Pew! Pew!

It's Up Too Early Theater:

I dunno about the status of Stax, but Nikon is most likely proper fucked. Even champion fruit loop Ken Rockwell noticed (scroll down for relevant crackpottedness.) Nikon is perpetually back-ordered on most of their premium products in the best of circumstances. I can only imagine how bad the situation will be now. Disclaimer: Yes, the availability of high faltuin' camera equipment over here is completely trivial compared to the devastation in Japan.

I am in fact on a boat.

I just coughed up $43 for this CD single. Out of my mind? Probably. I now have a bunch of the earliest tracks by The Mackenzie (an artist I've ) in clean digital form. The 24/96 vinyl rips I have sound nice enough but I'm never overly trusting of other people's attempts and A/D conversion. I previously paid $SHIT_TON for this comp, but I was disappointed by the fact that many of the tracks a truncated 7" mixes. "Freak Out" suffers especially badly. The above CD single has none of these problems.