The Online Guitar Lessons Review

By David W. Boles on July 8, 2009 7:45 AM | 4 Comments
Learning to play the guitar 20 years ago was a lonesome and difficult proposition.  Sure, you could buy books and ask friends for teaching and insight, but when it came down to you in the dark moments of the night; you were always completely alone with your wicked chord progressions and your punishing pentatonic scales.  Today, with the advent of the internets, you have a wide selection of outstanding online guitar teachers and this review with take a look at three substantial resources to help you advance your guitar skill at any level.  We begin with free lessons from guitar legend Arlen Roth hosted on the Gibson website.

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Pedaling Bipedals

By David W. Boles on July 7, 2009 7:23 AM | 6 Comments
We can ride in urban chariots, or we can do the right thing and use our own predestined people power to motor us from endpoint to endpoint.  Take a look at the image below to see how moving 72 people can "shrink the road" and prevent city congestion just by getting on two wheels and pressing our legs forward in circles -- and if you will give in to the wiles of public transportation, the savings are even greater:

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Palin Pales

By David W. Boles on July 6, 2009 6:45 AM | 2 Comments
Sarah Palin is no shrinking violet and if she's really a "barracuda" -- her quitting as governor of Alaska last Friday is curious.

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Hello Goodbye

By David W. Boles on July 1, 2009 7:36 AM | 2 Comments
The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: "Hello -- Goodbye!" and no address.
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Procrastination is Repressed Rage

By David W. Boles on June 30, 2009 7:25 AM | 6 Comments
I read something the other day -- I have since lost the link and the exact wording of the argument -- but the notion went a little something like this, "Procrastination is Repressed Rage."

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Mistaken Memes and the Truth that Never Was

By David W. Boles on June 29, 2009 7:45 AM | 6 Comments
We are required to always accept new information because we never know when we'll find out what we thought we always knew was true, never was.  I am still amazed to learn that in Southern pockets of the United States that many people viciously, and wrongly, believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim when he is not and never was.

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The Veneration of Michael Jackson Begins

By David W. Boles on June 26, 2009 8:21 AM | 2 Comments
The veneration of Michael Jackson has started in his death -- and while this undeserved washing away of his public and private sins disgusts me, I'm not surprised by the celebration, either.

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Evolution of the Bloody Neda Semiotic

By David W. Boles on June 24, 2009 8:30 AM | 2 Comments
The killing of Neda Agha-Soltan during the election turmoil in Iran has become an instant semiotic full of rage and mortal memeing.  Neda's bloody death mask is now the face of hope for repressed Iranian citizens looking for a way out of the morass of religious repression.

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2008 Gibson Les Paul Standard Review

By David W. Boles on June 19, 2009 9:14 AM | 18 Comments
There are few things in life that can bring you instant pleasure between your fingertips.  One of those absolutes is writing, the other is playing music.  After a two decade wait, I am now the proud owner of a 2008 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar with the sweet "Iced Tea" finish.

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Li Wei Defies

By David W. Boles on June 18, 2009 6:35 AM | 2 Comments
Artist Li Wei defies gravity in sculpted set ups of inhuman positions in space that redefine the memeing of the craft of the body in situ:

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