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i know that products can make wild claims in advertisements. it’s called puffery. it doesn’t imply any kind of warranty of suitability for a particular purpose, etc etc. One radio station I used to flip through said they played “the most country music allowed BY LAW” as if that’s a thing. There are not really literally 9 dentists recommending Brand X and one lonely guy in the corner who just doesn’t agree. I get it.

But making entire companies to sell drop shipped alibaba bullshit, and coming up with some back story about “the two engineers who invented the incredible
air conditioning technology but refusing to sell the patent to the military because they feel so strongly that all mankind should benefit from their invention …”

Or the mattress company that is “going out of business” for 17 years straight. Or this damn old lady with her “handmade with love” jewelry. She’s the same lady that was just in the ads for the handmade with love lamps (also retiring after 86,000 years crafting every single lamp with her own arthritic hands, uphill both ways in the snow etc etc etc).

Is this enshittification? Kind of. I know it ysualky means established products getting worse for the same or higher cost. But here I am talking about the advertising. Is even advertising getting enshittified? Now it’s all just a template, to provide the appearance of a solution to the need for marketing materials.

there are commercials i remember from when i was little, I still know the lyrics. Now even the ads are enshittified. Is it because nobody believes them anyway?

I don’t know. But is anything real anymore? What is the solution? Laws prohibiting it? I have seen internet claims that packaging in other countries requires that the product be shown at its actual size. So do we require people to really truly be retiring, or the actual inventor/maker if they’re going to be in the ads making the claim?

There are too many people buying for too many reasons - vote with your dollars is just not working. There are people just buying because they need a thing, and they don’t care about this AI old lady and her retirement to the betamax tapes of history, or wherever they retire to.

sorry for the rant.

Went and saw the free Cracker show at the railyard in Santa Fe yesterday. Snagged a setlist and got it signed, as well as getting my CvB box set signed by David Lowery and Johnny Hickman.

Anne Harris and Bryan Allen (violin and bass) signed the cracker setlist as well.

Was a great show and Anne was the star on the violin, but of course they were all wonderful!

got a cd/tape/radio portable player, a sony that i don’t think is particularly old or hard-used. I am running it with whatever AC adapter cord i could find that would fit, if that makes a difference. It aounds great when i play CDs, but the tape has a loud hum that is as loud as the music should be, playing overtop. Do i just need to demagnetize the heads, or clean them? Any ideas what might be causing this?

Found a couple of Shimmy Disc tapes at my local record store a couple days ago. Went back after putting them on home, and bought them a day or two later. Shout out to Longhair Records in Albuquerque for jeeping the best surprise tape stock and the best eclectic mix of new and old cassettes. From Europe 72 by the dead and Anthem of the Sun, to these Shimmy Disc tapes, to the Pussy Galore tape I found there the first time I went in, this store somehow has the best tape selection and I have no idea how they source them all, other than just by being super cool. I even saw the old Fire Records version of spacemen 3ms Sound of Confusion (a little spendy, but a fair price for a collector at $30-40 for one of the earliest space rock bands’ very important early release - with the orange cover.)

What i ended up grabbing for myself, beside the Cd versions of a 90s Mayhem bootleg of De Mysterius Dom Sathanas for a crazy low price, plus the scratch acid early 28 track comp CD on T&G, included:

Bongwater’s The Big Sell-Out (gotta love Ann Magnusson’s ample *talents* on display on this cover). A personal project including Kramer & Ann, etc. back in the late 80s early 90s, Bongwater was best known for their track “The Power of Pussy” and the CD by the same name. Had some early alt-rock/ club crossover with that one.

Also in evidence was the tape version of B.A.L.L.’s Bird/Period (Another American Lie) with the cover photo resembling the “butcher cover” of another famous band. The Velvet Monkeys (a later iteration of Don Fleming’s band, since he performed as The Velvet Monkeys, B.A.L.L., and Gumball, plus on his own and with anyone who he could get to join him, almost as much as Kramer did back then, for a while) would go on to to release Rock the Nation b/w a cover of Why Don’t We Do It In the Road as their contribution to the Sub-Pop single of the Month Club, back sometime around 91.

BIrd and Period, as well as a coupe of other albums are available as B.A.L.L.’s 4 album oeuvre - all released on Shimmy Disc. While a lot of bands were coming and going at that time, some becoming more or else famous than others, getting big label contracts, etc. Gumball would finally be Don Fleming’s shot at the big-time. Wisconsin Hayride was probably their biggest release. They also showed up alongside Sonic Youth (as well as tons of others) in the documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke - an excellent look at the real-time reactions of many bands faced with the decision to nirvanify their own bands, sign with a major, and rake in the cash, vs. what they saw as remaining true to their artistic vision and fear of “selling out”. This was a very real concern for everyone from Mudhoney, Teenage Fanclub, the Meat Puppets, the Melvins, etc. For many bands, their first major label release ended up being a death knell - a cruel outcome indeed when they were just teying to live out their dreams, while their fans ended up turning on them in some cases, branding their former favorite bands as sell-outs and posers.

As an added bonus, rather than cheap type I cassettes with no nose reduction, Shimmy-Disc put their own tapes out on Type II CrO2 cassettes, running 90-100min total play time, a full album on each side of the cassette, and with Dolby B noise reduction proudly and prominently featured. Kramer wasn’t just fucking around taking Ween to Jamaica and releasing The Pod. He was literally a member of almost every alt band that ended up being somebody, for a while, and over a sustained period. His own music may not be especially remembered as the breakout hits of the period, but Galaxie 500, Daniel Johnston, the Butthole Surfers, Bongwater, Ween, BALL, King Missile, and a zillion. other bands owed their big break to Kramer’s prescient judgment, his production values, and his willingness to jump behind a drum set or the steering wheel of a van, or the mixing board in a recording studio (his was Noise NY) and launch some of the biggest alt bands to ever almost achieve stardom.

It’s fitting that his tapes would be high quality cassettes, since his taste and abilities were so important to one of the most critical periods in pumk/alt music history.

Cheers Kramer! Cheers Don Fleming. And Cheers Shimmy Disc!! Glad y’all were part of the scene and thank you for your contributions. Things wouldn’t be the same without you!

found this in a drawer and it’s not in great shape, but it appears to be a 1941 mercury dime. what does no mint mark mean? also, i can’t stand the “did i win the lottery?!?” posts, but looking up this dime I can’t tell if it’s just a curiosity or potentially worth something.

is this just worth the silver(?) it’s made of?

Tons of mix tapes I inherited from an acquaintance (RIP). Still in the process of cleaning them up - they were pretty dusty and all of them are recorded on, mostly with mixtapes from the 90s to 2010. Decent stuff but I have most of it already, although our tastes did overlap considerable.

Anyway, by my count I got:
5 Maxell XL II 90
1 Maxell UD II 90
1 Maxell UD II 110
1 Maxell XL II S 90
1 Maxell XL II S 100
1 Maxell MX 110
1 Maxell capsule 110 high bias (?? pretty heavy, is this metal?)

2 Sony UX 90 type II high bias
3 Sony CD IT “slide case” 90
1 Sony CD IT type II 94 min

2 TDK MA110 Type IV Metal
3 TDK High Bias RC III high bias 90
2 TDK SA90 Type II High Bias

24 tapes in all, mostly Type II with a few metal type IV mixed in.

I left the type I and any 60 min tapes behind, there was about 100 tapes in all but i have some otger blanks already and didn’t want to have to clean up and erase a hundred tapes @.@

Anyway, not a bad haul for freebies.

i volunteer in a few capacities for my local wildlife rehab in Albuquerque, NM. On Sunday, a caller called in saying they had “a crane” which I almost immediately realized was much more likely to be some kind of egret or heron, since we have sandhill cranes here, and what we was describing was not a sandhill crane (aka flying ribeye, as they are sometimes called here).

The issue is that the bird has black legs and a mostly black bill, so I was thinking snowy egret. But it does not have the characteristic yellow feet. The size isn’t easy to tell from the photo, but it seems to be in the size range of a smaller egret (so, not a great egret). The bird was also described as a juvenile, which I believe the caller got correct.

While researching what bird it is, I found out something I didn’t already know: the cattle egret was reclassified as two separate species fairly recently, in 2023.

So, that leads me to believe this is a juvenile western cattle egret. It does not have the characteristic buff colored tinge on its head and body like an adult, and it definitely does not have adult breeding plumage. I am a little unclear on the differences between Western and Eastern Cattle Egret (other than by range - Eastern is found in Australia and the east in this case, not simply the eastern US as I first thought).

So, my question here is what kind of egret is this? Analyzing the picture with regular old iphone “look up” feature from the photo returns cattle egret, but that feature is not infallible.

Any help?

Also, here is a link to Sibley on eastern vs western cattle egret. In NA, it would almost have to be a Western Cattle Egret. But juveniles (and adults) of some other egrets seem to have changing leg and bill colors.

https://www.sibleyguides.com/wp-content/uploads/CAEG\_subspp.pdf

This unmarked grave is in San Albino cemetery in Mesilla, New Mexico. The local lore is that it marks the resting place of a witch who was buried under a large stone to prevent her return. No historical evidence to support this but it's a fun local legend.

My bf came over to my place after work, we were just having a chill day. I didn’t feel like cooking so we decided to order some food. I wanted a chicken sandwich with mayonnaise on it. He told me put honey mustard on it instead and I told him I don’t want honey mustard on my sandwich.

He threw a tantrum and said “You never do anything I tell you to do!” He went on ranting saying I never listen to him and how I always want things to be my way. I walked away and went into my bedroom to give him space to cool off. He put his clothes on and stormed out. He got upset because I didn’t fight for him to stay. I honestly don’t know what triggered this, but I know this can’t be because I didn’t want honey mustard on my sandwich

The previous breakup occurred because I did tell him that I’ll be picking up a bartending job. He didn’t like the idea of me becoming a bartender because according to him, the idea of me dressing sexy puts me on display to constantly get hit on and he thinks that me taking a job like that would be disrespectful to him

Came across this CD from a band called Malediction, and am having trouble identifying it. Seems to be a self release, but they thank some good bands (like Dead Horse). It’s a 6-song EP but I have not listened to it yet (the genre is pretty obvious though).

I went all through Discogs and there are something like 9 bands called Malediction. Only a couple of them were active back through 1989 when this appears to have come out.

I can’t even figure out what town they’re from. Is the Dead Horse thing a giveaway they might be from Houston, or Texas? Cheryl’s Garage Studios was a dead end for me as well, as was searching DuckDuckGo for the band name, member names, song names, year, liner note sections, runout number from the CD (6123GE17005304LAD1) and anything else I could think to search by.

I am not a metal specialist, but I loved Deadhorse, Mayhem, Burzum (sorry) and some other stuff. Just never got super into it, but like some stuff here and there.

Can anyone help me figure out what’s the deal with this CD? Found in a private collection in Abq, NM.

ACL live at the Moody Theater Monday 6/1 and Tuesday 6/2, Belle and Sebastian played for the 30th anniversaries of their albums Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister.

B&S played through the album tracks and then played another set after, each n ight. The recently re-formed Voxtrot opened up both nights, and really rocked it.

Couldn’t get the setlist for the second night of B&S, but got both of Voxtrot’s.

The job posting was already silly, asking that applicants be proficient in speaking in tongues. But they also want you to go piss off a drug cartel, and it turns out that this job posting is for an “opportunity” to work for the company FOR FREE.

The job market right now is fundamentally unserious.

his horse must not have come in. he’s grumpy at the horse track. parents waiting in the wings.