White Wedding on the Hammered Dulcimer

Farmer’s market in San Luis Obispo nets amazingly fresh produce, delicious barbecue and hilariously bad keyboard players. Yesterday however, a breath of fresh air blew through when I happened upon a man named Scott Williams. He was rocking out on the hammered dulcimer playing Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” Backed by an instrumental track and wearing [...]

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The Things We Find When Thriftin’

My car hasn’t started in two weeks, which isn’t a bad thing actually. I’ve been forced to ride my bike everywhere, even to the grocery store. On my way back from one such trip today I caught a sign that promised wine tasting and a car show. I hit up some friends, only two of [...]

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The Eleven Most Ridiculous Things in Sky Mall Right Now

I never miss my chance to snag a Sky Mall catalog from one of my flights; they read like an absurdity-lover’s Mad Magazine: pure comedy. Full of things impossible to imagine having an actual demand, Sky Mall somehow has eeked-out its existence selling 8-foot-tall Anubis, Egyptian god of the afterlife statues to wealthy flyers – [...]

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