Author: RottingMofo

The Harmony Stratotone

Jan van Cappelle (Javaca)'s avatarThe Dutch Luthier

StratotonesA few years ago I drew a set of plans for the Harmony Stratotone guitars. Because I couldn’t make up my mind which one of these iconic guitars to do first, it became one plan with all the information you need to make three guitars:

H42 “Newport”

H44

H88

With their small body and simple but powerful DeArmond/Rowe “Hershey Bar” pickups these are great blues guitars.

Last week Belgians luthier, blues musician and guitar designer Karel Phlix of Guttlin Guitars made this movie about his built. Literally involving blood, sweat and tears…

You can purchase these plans trough my plans page

I also MAKE these guitars to order…

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Crappy New Year

Legs are tight, rock solid & in agony.  Swelling pain concentrated in my thighs and whole lower half of my body. Also strain & discomfort in neck, which felt extraordinarily tight, delicate & as if somebody had been riding around on my shoulders for a few hours. Unable to walk the dog today & felt ashamed. Felt useless to the household. 

 I don’t feel like it’s a macho thing at all. I just want to be able to help my wife out & sometimes I can’t; and that’s debilitating emotionally. There’s only so much sympathy you can have for yourself. It’s one thing that unfortunately comes in limited supply. 

I feel like I’m carrying around a lot of hatred too. I felt huge waves of deep depression setting in about 9pm tonight. I suppose everyone’s routine is thrown out by f***ing NYE. What have I failed to accomplish this year? A big plan for me tonight was to host an increasingly impromptu virtual meeting of friends. That failed to happen when I took a nap just after 9 that lasted til about 11:45.

Tired all the time now. An extremely stressful day. Sorry to be (on) such a downer.

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The Symmetry of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Robert Lockard, the Deja Reviewer's avatarDeja Reviewer

It’s been more than a year since my last Cinematic Chiasmus. But you know what? Christmas is coming early this year because I am offering another amazing example of Cinematic Chiasmus right now.

If you’re unfamiliar with this concept, a chiasmus is a storytelling technique that reveals parts of a story in one order in the first half and then reverses the order in the second half. So everything that happens in the first half gets repeated, just in the opposite order, in the second half. It’s quite beautiful to behold once you realize it’s happening, and it deepens the meaning of already-great films.

And this brings me to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. It’s unique among Star Trek films because it shows the aftermath of the previous film and sets the stage for its sequel, so it has quite a few dangling plot threads at…

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Awesome Toy Collection: Babylon 5 MicroMachines

Tommy Lin's avatarTommy Lin's Blog of Rants

Hi world! Today I’d like to showcase my awesome Babylon 5 MicroMachines collection.

P1120848Yeah, it’s always cool to see a complete collection.

Babylon 5 is a science fiction TV series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, it ran for five seasons from 1993 to 1998. The Babylon 5 series also included several TV movies, a spin-off TV series (“Crusade”), and a direct-to-DVD movie (“Babylon 5: The Lost Tales”).

P1120858Front row: Babylon 5 Space Station, Star Fury, Babylon 5 Crew Shuttle
Back row: Earth Alliance Atmospheric Shuttle, Earth Force One

The blue colours on Babylon 5 had faded with age. I wonder whatever happened to NASA’s plans to build an actual Star Fury vehicle.

P1120859Centauri Transport (Berezebel), Centauri Passenger Ship

The name “Berezebel” is given on the cardback, it seems to refer to the name of the vessel.

P1120861Front row: Narn Fighter, Narn Transport (G’toth N’bah), Narn Heavy Dreadnought
Back row: Narn Heavy…

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