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The Three-Boro Bike Tour

I rode in the Five Boro Bike Tour for the second (and last) time today. The 5BBT is the bicycling equivalent of St. Patrick’s Day, but it does have one unique feature: you can ride over the Verrazano Bridge. The … Continue reading

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Happy Valley, Hell

‎”Some days, I want to renounce my atheism, so that I may watch people burn in hell.” So said one of the commenters on John Scalzi’s “Omelas State University” post, hands-down the best article I’ve read about the horror show … Continue reading

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Music at Moogfest: Chroomatic Harmoogica

I couldn’t spend a whole weekend at Moogfest listening to music without making some, could I? Especially not since I’ve acquired two new Moog toys recently — the fantastic Animoog app for the iPad, and Moog’s Freq Box. I used … Continue reading

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The Dirty Blue Box and the Bucket Brigade

A few days ago, a dirty little blue box of death showed up in the mail — a DOD 680 analog delay pedal, made almost exactly 30 years ago (the sticker inside dates it to January 15, 1981; I was … Continue reading

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Nite Flights Finally Land

It doesn’t matter how much music you listen to or how knowledgeable you think you are. At some point, you’ll stumble across someone and wonder how you could possibly have not known about them. Better yet, you’ll listen to this … Continue reading

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Zipcar: Beware!

A friend recently signed up for a Zipcar account recently so I joined her account, since that way I can have a car when I’m in the city without having to drive mine back from Ithaca and worry about parking … Continue reading

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Balloon-Slide Banjo and the Electric Rake

Eugene Chadbourne Originally uploaded by kenficara Eugene Chadbourne is to country music what Monthy Python was to situation comedies. He played a show in Ithaca last night with improvisational percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, covering Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hoyt Axton and … Continue reading

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Harmonitronica, Tradition and Musicianship

Many people, myself included sometimes, do not understand the connection between the acoustic old-time and blues and bluegrass that I love to play, and the harmonitronica I’ve been spending so much time on lately. For the last few weeks I’ve … Continue reading

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Nine Sticks

OK, so you’re all used to the binary jokes by now — and there will be more of them come October. But this is a special moment for everyone that hasn’t happened before in my lifetime and will not happen … Continue reading

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Fever Dreams

I celebrated the New Year in bed with a nasty fever, the kind where you sometimes feel well enough to watch TV (or streaming Netflix, in my case), and sometimes just lie there dozing and having bizarre dreams. The soundtrack … Continue reading

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