Knuckledragger

One of the lesser known routines by the late, great Bill Hicks is his homage to Charlie Hodge. The Hodge routine appears on at least one Hicks CD, and in numerous live recordings shared via mp3 on the internets in the last ~25 years. Bill Hicks has always been a cult figure, and his fans were early to adopt to the ways of p2p to share his material. In the early days of YouTube a bunch of his stuff got uploaded there fairly quickly. As YT works, a lot of that stuff is now gone because of copyright claims by parties that have no right to Bill's work. Over 11 years ago I wrote a couple comments on a video of Bill doing an extended, unhinged, absolutely brilliant version of the Charlie Hodge bit. Then years after I returned to the video and commented on it again. I know all this because the uploader just "hearted" my comments and I got email notifications for each one. I rewatched it tonight. This performance is legendary. NSWF obviously, as it contains Bill Hicks. The complete realm of sanity and reason, indeed.

Welp, last two weeks have been a headache with regard to showreels. Two weeks ago, while attempting to connect the mic to my mixer, I jostled the Thunderbolt cable enough to cause a momentary disconnect. Traktor freezes playback but resumes immediately when it gets disconnected from the DAC. The Mixlr app, OTOH, throws a complete fit and won't work right until it's restarts. The end result is that the record of that show got ruined. This past friday I used the tiny micro PC I have to run the Mixlr app, thus avoiding the possibility of the same problem cropping up two weeks in a row. Unfortunately, the UI on the Windows version of the Mixlr app is considerably different and the record function appears at a different stage in the launch process. There's also no way to enable recordings after going live. That meant there's no recording my most recent show, either.

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Russia Accidentally Shoots Down Their Own $36M Su-34 Bomber, Ukraine Claims. To be fair, it looked like civilian airliner.

Exhibit A: Exhibit B:

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Clickbaity article: Nikon will reportedly join Canon in ending development on high-end DSLR cameras. Everyone is going mirrorless. I will miss optical viewfinders.

Q: What would happen if Mikail from Single Power re-emerged as a boutique gaming PC builder? A: This.

Last night's show is up.

Reality is coming apart at the seams.

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Good grief. RIP former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, who succumbed to the injuries he sustained after being shot while giving a speech. This is a major historical event in the history of Japan, and I scarcely have the words.

Crikey. Exhibit D.

Exhibit A. Exhibit B. Exhibit C.

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Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918. Oopsie-doopski.

Last night's show is up:

This post made while doing my radio show, because lol.

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I don't know a thing about it, but its FakeSpot rating is quite good.

Steam Summer Sale is live. The site loads ...sometimes. I wouldn't try to do anything on it for an hour or so. Painting by John McNaughton, who is totally in his right mind and definitely not completely off his trolley.

Russian colonel who carried Putin's nuclear codes briefcase found shot.

Vangelis in his Nemo studio.