THE DANA PERINO BARBIE

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Heidi Dana

Co-host “Little Heidi” who resembles Dana Perino

I have a production I’m working on called Red Ace.  It features a 12″ version of myself as the talk show host. (one of my inner most desires, AND the little Ace looks just like me) My co-host as you can see looks a LOT like Tiny “D”, and the show wouldn’t be a true talk show without a sidekick who laughed at all of my stupid jokes so I have an 8″ tall Greg Gutfeld.  I’ve got 12″ guests lined up from Ronald Reagan to Ironman.  From Jackie Chan to Jack Bauer.  From Michael Jackson to Elvis.

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We’re still working on trying to make the Greg Gutfeld figure look more like Greg and less like Anakin Skywalker.  At this point he looks more like the 6th grade version of Greg, but I ask: “Could anyone really tell the difference”?

Lil n Big Ace 004 Aces

Little Ace on Big Ace’s lap wearing matching attire.  Little Ace likes Twinkies, Big Ace likes Guitars

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SINATRA IN THE GREEN ROOM.  CHRISTOPHER REEVES AS SUPERMAN AND PRESIDENT REAGAN ON THE GUEST COUCH.

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KEANU AS NEO, JACK BAUER, PIERCE AS BOND AND OF COURSE CAREY AS TRINITY.  THE HAPPY COUPLE ON THE GUEST COUCH.

Heidi  Lil n Big Ace 001 Desk set Notice, Heidi is “Seamless”.  This isn’t your Mom’s Barbie.  Little Ace Straddles Big Ace’s boots and a shot of the Host’s Desk with his “CO-HOST, HEIDI”  to the right.

Little Greg

This will be the perfect Greg once we color his hair and put reading glasses on him.

FAITH IS TRULY THE VICTORY

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Job

You can pretty much tell what’s on a person’s mind by what they’re reading.  I find this one of the most profound readings ever written.  Talk about the ultimate “Quagmire” How do you plead your case in no win forum?  His Wife is of no help, she says: “Why don’t you just curse God and die”.  But instead, he “Vents”.  This is the ultimate Rant of Rants.

“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Let me know why You contend with me.

‘Is it right for You indeed to oppress, To reject the labor of Your hands, And to look favorably on the schemes of the wicked?

‘Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?

  ‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man’s years,

That You should seek for my guilt And search after my sin?

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

‘Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, And would You destroy me?

  ‘Remember now, that You have made me as clay; And would You turn me into dust again?

  ‘Did You not pour me out like milk And curdle me like cheese;

  Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?

‘You have granted me life and loving kindness; And Your care has preserved my spirit.

‘Yet these things You have concealed in Your heart; I know that this is within You:

If I sin, then You would take note of me, And would not acquit me of my guilt.

‘If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

  ‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.

‘You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

‘I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.’

“Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer   Before I go—and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

  The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness.”  ~ Job Chapter 10

Even in his time of pain and despair; Job refuses to curse God.  For Job knows that unlike those who will not respond to you, He knows God is silent for a reason. He knows God is Omnipresent and hears his pleas.  I am far from the righteous man Job was and will always consider myself the worst sinner on earth. Yet I seek to as righteous as Job, yet deep inside, “I know me” and “God knows me”.  In this case, Faith Truly is the Victory.

2 years and 60 pounds lighter – How?

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My Secret

60 pounds over 2 years

On February 15th 2012, I visited my doctor and she made me get on the scale.  Much to my surprise, I found out why I had high blood pressure.  Some things you can’t blame totally on Obama.  But I was consederably overweight.  Not obese but overweight.

I was starting to suffer all of the symptoms of an obese person, (borderline type II diabetes, my glucose stayed on the high parameters of normal and the most painful thing, gout),  but I looked proportional.  I looked large but not fat.  I use to lift weights in highschool so I’m use to having large shoulders and pecks.  That’s not a good thing.  It enables you to exist in denial.  Now I swim in my old jackets that I couldn’t zip up.

To make a very ugly and long story short, I went home and said I’m not touching another beer and all I’m going to consume are protien shakes. I was embarrassed and had hit rock bottom.

I played sports in highschool and American Legion Baseball before I went into the military so I know what it’s like to be in great shape.  This was that “aha” moment that I needed.  I found that when I quit having 2 Heinikens a night I started sleeping better.

The protien shakes were becoming a pain in the ass though.  But one night I was watching “Undercover CEO”.  It was a cute show while it lasted.  It was a show about the CEO of a corporation dressing up like a stranger and working as a janitor or entry level customer service worker.  They would fly to a remote part of the country on their G4 and show up in their Taco Bell uniform.

One night I was watching this episode of a CEO that was trying his hardest to lose weight and he was eating nothing but Peanut Butter on a slice of bread.  I tried it and it did a great job of ridding my body of the hunger.  As for the peanut ; Talk it over with your doctor, but I use Laura Scudder’s “All Natural” crunchy.  I avoid “organic” because Peanuts need to be sprayed to keep aflatoxins from growing.  Aflatoxins are very bad for your liver.  Now people will say: “But isn’t peanut butter really fattening”?  It doesn’t have a high fat content but the great part is that it’s mono-saturated.  It has “Good Cholesterol”/ “Good Fat”.  This is the stuff that lowers your low density lipids or LDL Cholesterol aka “BAD CHOLESTEROL”  It also lowers your triglycerides.  (I save a lot of money on statins and beta blockers) But again, it works for me, check with your doctor before you try it.  As for my one meal of the day, some nights it’s Chinese food, other nights it’s ground sirloin burgers in a myriad of ways.

I still eat one good meal a day and about 3 slices of bread with Laura Scudder’s natural Peanut Butter (approx. 2 table spoonfulls per slice.  Since February 15th 2012, I’ve lost almost 60 pounds. I don’t miss the alcohol.  In fact I think we have an extra 150.00 bucks a month we use to spend on Heineken.  (Not to mention the 20 bucks a day we use to spend on lunch).

It works for me.  I take vitamin supplements and try and get a serious amount of green vegetables in that one meal a day that I eat.  All together I probably consume 1200 calories a day.  The Ideal weight loss program is to lose 2.5 pounds a month.  If I did my math right, that’s 30 pounds a year which is what I’ve done.  If you crash diet, your body will more than likely put the pounds back on plus a few more.  If you diet in an unhealthy way, you could die like Terri Schiavo.  (Enzyme imbalance).

If the peanut butter doesn’t do it for you, just try cutting every thing you eat in half.  Get rid of the drinks, (Alcohol or sodas) both are useless calories.

By the way,  with Obamacare being in our future, I no longer need Lipitor or BP lowering medicine, which is a great thing.

THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST?

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Cat rod-stewart

Cat Stevens wrote: “The First Cut is the Deepest”.  The First Cut is the Deepest?  Naw the last cut is the deepest and the most painful.

With social media and the ability to find that girl that sat in the 1st row, 3rd seat in your sophomore algebra class, or the ability to just say hi on your smart phone, I’ve discovered something; a phenomena if I may, that I find quite disturbing.

I have a list of people that I “THOUGHT” I was close to.  People that “I KNOW” can get in touch with me, yet prefer to let things lay in the past.  And what I hate the most is wondering if I was the A$$ hole, or they’re being an A$$ hole.

Let’s put cyber technology aside.  Are some things best left as history?  Or will you, in the long run, regret not being able to say one last good-bye?  Steve Martin writes a very important line in the Movie L.A. story that is incredibly profound for a comedian.  He says why is it you never know when exactly you fell in love; but you always remember the exact moment it’s over?

Thus I say: “The last cut is the deepest”.  Being turned down is part of life.  Being turned down after being accepted is painful. (If it meant anything to you).  But worse than being turned down after being accepted is being turned down without knowing why.  It does not allow closure.

Sometimes people are just busy.  Sometimes people have short memories and sometimes people are just selfish.  Life goes on and some things just need to be filed under E for enigmatic.  If not, you will hurt yourself trying to take blame for something that you have nothing to do with.

Unless someone comes out and tells you that they want nothing further to do with you, then they fall under one of the above categories.  Oh wait, there is one more: “They’re too thoughtless to let you know why they can’t/won’t/or haven’t replied to your outreach”.

I guess, just as the enemy often considers kindness a weakness, the self centered consider kindness a gratuity.  Or even worse, we (The Seeker) mistake kindness for friendship.

Life is short.  Sometimes we need to: “Let it be”.

SEX WITH GHOSTS

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Ghost

It was the 21st annual Stanford University Paranormal Investigators conference at the Hoover Pavilion.  A group of about 250 were in attendance.  The premise was the documentation and verification of Apparitions or “Ghosts”.

Present were the usual television speakers and mediums who you might see on the SyFy channel or even H2.  In attendance was Zak Bagans, Jason Hawthorn,  Amy Allan, Char, Chip Coffee, Theresa Caputo and Kim Russo just to name a few.  The host was professor Erick Von Daniken.

After the cordial greetings and the introduction of the panel, the Host started out by asking if he could see a show of hands of those who have had a paranormal experience.  Approximately 220 participants raised their hands.

The speakers next question was: “Has anyone seen and been touched by a spirit or ghost”.  Only about 75 raised their hands.  Out of the 75; the host asked how many had been in what they would consider an intimate encounter with a ghost.  Only three people raised their hands.  The Professor asked the three to stand up.  With great anticipation he asked: “Out of the three of you; did you actually have sex with a ghost (An Incubus or Succubus) two of the three sat down just leaving one old fellow dressed in a flannel shirt and overalls.

This was fantastic.  With jubilant excitement, Dr. Von Daniken asked once again, REALLY; You’ve had sex with an actual Ghost?  The audience member asked if he could repeat the question.  Once again: “Did you actually have sex with a Ghost”?

The gentleman replied: “Oh Ghosts.  Hell no.  I thought you said goats”.

TEARS FOR DRESDEN

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Dresden statue

Dresden was the capital city of Saxon in Germany.  It was of no military significance to anyone.  Not even the Third Reich.  Dresden was as much of a military threat as Couer d’ Alene , Idaho is today.  It was one of those places where you park the car, walk down main street and feel safe.  Not on February 13th 1945.

This will be a short article as writing about 2/13/1945 makes my stomach hurt, my eyes tear up and it makes me angry for the rest of the day.  The memory robs me of my “Freedom”.  There are two things that my country (The same one I fought for) did that make me less than proud to be an American.  (And please don’t take this like a stupid Michelle Obama statement) The first is the genocide of the indigenous people of North America, The Native Americans.  The 2nd was the attempted Genocide of the German people which was the Idea of Winston Churchill in cooperation with F.D.R.  I’ve provided links above if want to read the details.

In a nut shell, because I can feel my stomach knotting up already, the Red Army (Russia) had crossed into Berlin.  This Army was a lawless band of killers hell bent on revenge and immorality.  They destroyed and raped anything that moved on their way to Berlin.

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Mass rapes

From The Article on Wikipedia: “Russian War Crimes” Sub category- “Mass Rapes”

Following the Red Army’s capture of Berlin in 1945, Soviet troops raped German women and girls as young as eight years old.[73] Estimates of the total number of victims range from tens of thousands to two million.[74]

After the summer of 1945, Soviet soldiers caught raping civilians were usually punished to some degree, ranging from arrest to execution.[75] The rapes continued, however, until the winter of 1947–48, when Soviet occupation authorities finally confined troops to strictly guarded posts and camps.[76]

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When word that the Red Army was approaching Berlin in January of 1945; many of the German Women and Children left Berlin for the supposed safer confines of Dresden.

The Head of R.A.F. Bomber Command Arthur “Bomber” Harris is known for his sadistical war crime statement just prior to the Bombing of Dresden. “We’ll show the Russians we can win this war with our Bombers“.

But it wasn’t that simple.  They didn’t just massacre the people of Dresden.  Prior to the night of the 13th of February 1945, British fighters strafed the “German Trail of tears” from Berlin to Dresden, killing not only Women, Children and the Elderly, but even their pets.  What they couldn’t hit with their .30 caliber machine guns they hit with Bombs.

The Berlin refugees that made it to Dresden thought they were safe.  But that night 3 waves of 722 British and 527 American heavy Bombers made a ruthless Bombing raid on Dresden.  The Ordnance they were dropping were not conventional bombs, rather thermite “Fire Bombs”. The Bombs were not designed to explode a factory of building, but designed to start a “Fire Storm” which it did successfully.  It was the WWII equivalent to Napalm.

Dresden

I am at the point where this article is about to turn into a hateful rant.

So I will just post the speeches given by F.D.R. and Winston Churchill in regards to the Mass Murders (War Crimes) that took place in 13 cities at the close of the war in Germany.  Then I will make my statement in closing.

“We have got to be tough with Germany and I mean the German people, not just the Nazis. You either have to castrate the German people or you have got to treat them in such a manner so they can’t just go on reproducing people who want to continue the way they have in the past.” ~ Roosevelt

Dredeaths

No these are not Jews.  They are Germans.

FDR’s Justification for the genocidal bombing of Germany.

Operation Thunderclap was designed to kill civilians (NOT SOLDIERS) fleeing from the Red Army for their own safety because both FDR and Churchill were afraid of the so called German Race. The targeted cities of operation Clarion were nothing more than state sponsored murders. No better than Hitler’s war on the Jew. (Nuremburg was targeted because it was an “Ideological city”) Britain killed 3 times as many German civilians as U.S. Bombers. Britain hit Germany with 20 times the payload Germany hit Britain with.

“You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism,  but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and  for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest.” ~Winston Churchill

Yes, War is Hell and Hitler and his cronies committed the worst war crimes imaginable.  But That was Hitler, not the German people.  It brings shame to me to know that America had a part in this atrocity.  The same F.D.R. that allowed America to participate in these lawless executions, also incarcerated 110,000 Americans of Asian ethnicity on the West Coast of The United States.

All I can say to the German people is: Ich bin sehr traurig.

DON’T LET THEM VOTE

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My first response to Eric Holder, Bob Beckel and Greg Gutfeld who believe that once you’ve paid your time for the crime you’ve committed, you should retain your privileges;  Let me just ask, if the slate is clean, should felons be able to legally own hand guns?

PUT UP OR SHUT UP!

In 1996 I was set up by a wretched ex-spouse who pre-planned a divorce by starting her own private bank account and instead of paying my car payment, she was stashing the money until they repossessed my car.  She forged my name on our tax refund check, THEN went to a women’s abuse group and had them draft an affidavit full of lies for a kick out restraining order.  (supposed verbal abuse).  I could not go home and see my kids that night and couldn’t see them for a couple of weeks.

When the judge said I could go and get my belongings, the ex badgered me until I said “Why don’t you shut up”?  She quickly yelled I’m calling the police.

I had to either engage in a costly court battle or plead out and pay a small fine which at the time seemed the pragmatic solution.  Little did I know that EVEN THOUGH IT WAS A MISDAMEANOR LIKE J-WALKING, It was a family court offense.  I lost my 2nd Amendment right for 10 years.  JUST FOR SAYING “WHY DON’T YOU SHUT UP”.  If I had to forfeit a constitutional right for a non violent offense, why should FELONS get to vote?

 

Spirtitual/Psychic Mumbo-Jumbo

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I’m not afraid to say that I’ve studied the Bible for many years.  I’m by far not a Bible scholar, nor do I have Book, Chapter and Verse memorized for every conversation.  I guess the computer has made me lazy.  But I began to see the Bible as the “What” and “Why” but not the “How”.

The young kid Elihu in Job 37:5 “God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend. (I cheated, I started a text sheet with my most commonly used Bible verses).  But if you look at Psychic Mediums, they are not afraid to do a blessing or say a prayer before trying to connect with the ethereal realm.  They ARE aware that they can attract demonic entities and become possessed.  The Catholic church teaches demonic possessions and the paranormal.  In fact, the Catholic church has great respect for demons and the paranormal.

TV shows today about UFOs and Psychic Mediums are very popular.  It’s my belief that these practices of Mediums are somewhat legit.  I know the FBI and CIA can teach courses that can teach someone to be a fake Psychic, “convincingly” but as the Bible says, their will be prophets.  I just don’t think that prophets are here for us to “Traffic” in.  Leviticus 19:31 That’s an unusual admonishment: “Don’t dabble in the occult or traffic with mediums; you’ll pollute your souls. I am God, your God“.  Dabble means to experiment or “Test the water”.  Traffic with Mediums means to travel with or perhaps more profound, be “guided” by mediums.  God is saying (I’m really paraphrasing) “Don’t run you life based on mediums.  I am your God.  Trust in Me”.

Psychic Mediums, Spirits, Ghosts, Demons, Angels, Spirit Guides all exist.  But it’s important to understand that we’re here to learn a lesson.  We’re ourselves are spirits in Human Bodies.  Someday we’ll shed these bodies and truth by faith will become truth fulfilled.  With that in mind, next time we’ll talk about manifestation.

Hearing from God

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Sometimes you get to the point in life when you just cry out to God and expect to hear a response.  Why do modern day believers have to rely on their own intuition to decide if a thought is a “word from God”?
In Genesis, God spoke to almost everyone in an auditory voice.  Adam and Eve recieved instructions in the garden of Eden.  Noah was given instructions on how to build the ark.  Abraham was told his name was no longer Abrahm and that he would recieve a child that would be called Isaac.
In Exodus, Moses went up on Mt.Zion and heard the voice of God.  He instructed Moses to lead His people out of the bondage of Egypt and into the promise land.  This too was an auditory voice.
Jonah spoke directly to God and is listed as one of the few survivors to disagree with God and get away with it.   Although it took being swallowed by a fish ala pinnochio for 3 days.

Joseph got his words from God thru dreams.  Not only was he blessed with a dream of greatness, but he was given the gift of interpreting dreams.

Joshua and Caleb had a direct line to God via audio contact.  In fact, Joshua was punished for not checking with God before attacking AI the first time and 36 warriors were lost.  In those days, you had to listen for the words of God.
Then the prophets became the beacons for God’s word.  Nathan spoke for God in King David’s reign.
The prophets Elijah and Elisha both had verbal interchange with God. Elijah known mostly for his showdown on Mt.Carmel.
Then in the new testament; we find God himself walking the earth in the form of Christ Jesus.  God made himself available to his apostles, the Pharisees, the Sadusees and even the gentiles.  After his death burial and resurrection, he made himself available through visions to Saul, later to become Paul the apostle while on the road to Demascus.
We have various examples of God using “Angels” to speak to Simon also known as Cephus which means Peter.

And finally we have God giving a revalation to John on the Island of Patmos.

But what about today????? Does God speak verbally anymore to anyone?
Here’s my experience.  Take it for what it’s worth.
1. At the end of a 3 day fast; God spoke to me telepathically.  Part of the message was leading me to focus on James 4:6. The second part of the message was an Idea planted in my head as an extra “tag”.  It’s interesting because the first two days yielded nothing.  Then on the third day; it seemed like the weaker I felt, the more in God’s hands I was delivered.  10 years ago, I had 2 telepathic messages while sitting in church.  I was in tremendous emotional pain then and God spoke to my soul saying, “Stay within yourself”.  (which I translated “now is not the time to be dating or trying new things”, and ” I will be with you through the pain”.  Those 2 messages got me through some very hard times.  I also remember the first time I got a really big income tax refund.  I asked myself the question, can I really afford to give 10 percent of this back to God?  A telepathic voice said to my soul; “Can you afford NOT to give it back”?  My best advice on that subject is “Never short change the Lord”.  Also, at times when you get the “feeling” to call someone, that’s often God using you to help that person.  So don’t fight your own intuition.  Most of the time, it’s not yours.

2. The word of God in the Bible.  Many times I have prayed ferociously about an issue.  After doing so, I would casually go to my computer and click on a podcast sermon from someone like Paul Shepheard or John McArthur, only to here the exact information from the versus that I needed to know.  Out of my computer speakers would come soothing versus that would quinch my needs or sooth my pain.  Mostly in the form of an explanation to a question WHY?  Yet when you here a repetitive theme coming at you, you might want to consider God wants you to think about how that theme is affecting your behavior; lifestyle or walk.

3. Actions. The most common communication from God usually comes in an action.  Let’s say you really are struggling to survive financially, then you recieve an unexpected windfall in the mail.  Things like that are common in God’s world.

Those are my experiences.  I’ve never had a lucid dream instructing me to do something.  Or if I have, I’m to stupid to understand what it was.  I’ve on occasion spoken to Mediums or prophets, but if God wants you to wait, you’re not going to get a quick answer from Char.  I’ve not challenged God with a fleece yet and don’t think that I’m very fond of the Idea.  If you’ve gotten results, please email me and share with the class.

I MISS THE STEREO NEEDLE

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Stereo

One thing the Vietnam war brought America was great stereo systems from the “Tokyo Exchange”. Guys coming back from “Nam” usually came back with these gigantic Akai stereo systems that they bought through the military PX/exchange. In the late 60’s and early 70’s when Rock was good, the baby boomers started working on their “tinitus” (pronounced ten-it-us, not ten- eye- tus) It’s ringing of the ears. Contrary to what the new commercial over the counter products say; tinnitus is the result of killing off the cells in your Cochlea or hearing organ in the inner ear. When you hear that ringing in your ear after you hear a gun shot, that’s tinnitus. For us musicians it’s that ringing in our ears that comes from standing in front of Marshall cabs for 3 hours.

But I digress. Back in the day (1970’s) We had really cool speakers. My personal favorites were Bose 501s. (not to big, not to small) you had to have a receiver, preferably 50 watts per channel. A Techniques turn table. A Sony cassette to cassette recorder, and of course a 12 to 24 band eq (graphic equalizer). Then on a Friday night when the new Pink Floyd album came out, you told your neighbors to shut their windows if they didn’t want to hear DSOTM at 90 decibels.

The speakers and eq really made the system. (and a good cartridge or “Needle”) OH and don’t forget the bean bag.

All we had back then was vinyl. But it was great if you recorded it on your cassette tape before your LP “record” got scratched. (damn cats) Then began the quest to improve the media. They did a great job, but in doing so, they screwed up the sound ! IT’s the SOUND DAMN IT.

I don’t give a damn about MP3 players. I don’t want to listen to music through ear plugs. Plus MP3’s rob you of 90 percent of your sound.

But I’ve jumped ahead.

Next came cassettes and really cool high end cassette players that had titanium play heads and a bitchin’ thing called “SOUND SEARCH”. A really good cassette player would fast forward and stop in between tracks. A mega/uber cool player would have a belt driven carriage. (Like a VCR if you’re familiar with those antiques) It took the cassette and gently lined up the tape so the heads played the tape at a perfect perpendicular angle.

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Then somewhere in the 70’s someone really really high invented the 8 track. lol…… Oh the jokes you can tell about 8 tracks. If you had an 8 track player in your car, and you wanted to hear a certain song again; you had to keep driving. You also had to make sure you had a book of matches to wedge under the tape and the player opening to line up a worn tape. lol how awful.

Then in 1979, every FM Radio station in the free world bragged about having the “digitally re-mixed” version of the White Album, or Houses of the Holy, or Elvis Costello’s My aim is True.

It’s safe to say that Consumer music sounded the best in the early 80’s. We still had the bad ass speakers and graphic EQ’s.

Fast forward 20 years. 8″ sub woofers with tweeters gave way to 2.5″ boom box speakers. Of course the price of the new CD system was only about 300 bucks. (complete with 5 spot CD carousel) The stereo system as we knew it morphed into the glorified boom box. Even the quality of the CDs went to hell. Originally CD’s would take a lickin and keep on tickin. Now they’re pieces of crap that are only good for burning wave files on to archive.

In 1998 when the personal computer became as popular as the Television; they came with MP3 players.  An Mp3 is a degraded sound file that has 1/10th of the information the full wave (.wav) file.  You could still here the song but when you do an A/B comparison, there’s no question that MP3s strip the original song of many important frequencies.

I predicted someone would invent an MP3 device. “SHAZAM” the IPOD. They even came out with IPOD sunglasses for skiing. Ya you could hear something, but you never heard DSOTM or Close to the Edge unless you’ve heard it on vinyl or early 80’s CDs through huge fricken Bose speakers.

Oh how I miss the drop of the needle.