Allow me to take a break from our regularly scheduled blogging to present the “Keep the Joint Running Podcast” from Bob Lewis of IS Survivor Publishing with yours truly. It is available by searching the iTunes store or directly via RSS with this link: [Podcast No Longer Available] We’ve been working on this cast now for several months,...

Ordinarily, I try to keep this blog about tech stuff, but well, I have to break from the norm for just a minute! Forgive the self-indulgence.  This kind of stuff doesn’t happen every day.  Ok, not to me anyway . He’s pretty great, isn’t he?  Unfortunately he has my hair–in fact after he received his first bath, he looked like he...

Well…we’ve come to the end of our little revisit to my misspent youth. Only one little track left, and we can get back to more important things. Whatever those may be. Like some of those DOSBox articles I promised so long ago… I actually went on this little journey for a number of reasons. First, as I think I already stated, a blog is something...

Welcome back! Today I have an unmitigated pile of steaming silliness for your consumption. Wait. Maybe that should be a steaming pile of unmitigated silliness. There’s another of those pesky “flaming herring juggler” problems. (You’re free to do a site search on that one.) In any event, “Phone Bill” is the fourth entry of the five...

There’s just no good way to classify some things: Duckbilled Platypus Plasma and “My Buddy Eddie” For the purposes of honesty, maybe I should add Richard Simmons to that list. Maybe not. Anyway, heretofore with these recordings I could always offer a general target at which the mockery aimed. This one…well…not so much. From the very...

OK, so you’ve suffered through the pain that is “Thursday Morning”. Now, let’s move on to some really bad guitar. My apologies to Thomas Joseph Murray IV for maligning his technique, but in this case the kettle is in fact on the darker side of the monochromatic spectrum. To be clear: I was worse on bass than he was on guitar…but...