80s! Living in the 80s! PUSH PUSH STRUGGLE!

The guy who does the excellent Vinyl Mine mp3blog has a similarly named flickr page with some great photos from the 1980s.

Gotta love this combo: Molly Ringwald on the guitar, Smiths T-shirt, and Dag Nasty shorts. That has to be around 1985-6.

Measure once, cut twice

The Naval Safety Center has been a favorite site of mine for years, but I keep forgetting to go back for their latest gems. mendel pointed to a very good Photo of the Week this time, which I have cropped for the essential detail below. How did the Yuman Race get this far? Also, GO MOTHER RUSSIA!

Wile E Coyotesk

It was very windy at the beach today.

The rest of the shots, including the newlyweds and the street lamps, are in this Flickr set.

bow before the HMP-288

changeng brought us the debut this weekend of this device. It’s a lot of things. A split keyboard. A dual-neck flying-V keytar. A “Sound Mixer”. A light show. $9.95 at “Big Lots!”. A really big mistake. An aleatory composition device that produces unpredictable sound patterns RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX! Ladies and gentlemen, the device Stuart affectionately calls “THE HUMP”: THE HMP-288!