Two millennia later, the corpses are described as "a man and a slave" rather than 'two men, one a slave' or somesuch.

Sweetly arranged cheese music from twenty years ago.

A Vietnamese Karen:

https://mobile.twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1330170527500165121

I was in a Guitar Center on Wednesday. (They're always polite to greyhairs. Was furniture shopping, and it was right next door.) It was lonely. There was one other customer, another older guy, he seemed to be picking something for a nephew.

It was a powerful American brand, but maybe not an especially flavorful one. Radio Shack, with its retail floors and deeply granular parts-&-projects catalogs, probably brought kids a lot of understanding of electronics. GC sold a lot of brightly-painted instruments, but probably didn't do as much to help kids understand what they were dealing with… But that's just a guess.

I'm tempted to whine about the death of rock 'n roll, but it's such a global force in the popular ear that there's no point.

Guitar Center has been toddling for years. It's kind of ironic that it was the loss of floor traffic from Covid which delivered the final blow. Rock and roll is so endemic in musical culture of all kinds that this closure portends no greater expiration.

You might enjoy the humor of Man who Has it All.

Weinstein hits the spot.

Looks like Twitter's A.I. is broken.

https://twitter.com/reallowkeylukey/status/1330144650863185924

Or maybe it knows too much dun-dun-duuuuun.

" It's kind of ironic that it was the loss of floor traffic from Covid which delivered the final blow."

Odd. Maybe a local store is dying? They are advertising on AXS-TV, presented by DIRECTV. I was pleased to see they are featuring a new line of American Fenders in the $1K-plus range.