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  1. RIP Ken Parker https://kenparkerarchtops.com

    Ken Parker Archtops - Finest Archtop Guitars Ken Parker, known for the Parker Fly, has turned his attention to making the archtop guitar an instrument that plays to the strengths of all genres. His designs use space age and traditional materials, with unique and as time honored techniques, to produce instruments that are sweeter, louder, more Ken Parker Archtops
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://kenparkerarchtops.com, "Ken Parker Archtops - Finest Archtop Guitars ".

    Reeves Gabrels playing a Fly w/ Bowie and on his own The Sacred Squall of Now solo record was my north star of cool in high school in the mid-90s to such an extent that I just learned he passed when a high school friend heard and thought of me to pass along the news.

    Ken’s Youtube is also great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDuWp2Bg7MQ

    Ken Parker_The History and Evolution of the Archtop GuitarKen's lecture about the History and Evolution of the archtop guitar at the Rocky Mountain Archtop festival in 2019.Ken may be gone, but because of his illnes...YouTube
    Figure 2. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDuWp2Bg7MQ, "Ken Parker_The History and Evolution of the Archtop Guitar".

    I thought I wanted to do 3D stuff when I grew up and so I taught myself 3D Studio (R2, for dos. Layers, lofts, and tweening.) in ‘94 or ‘95 by, among other things, mocking up a Fly by eyeballing an ad for them in Guitar Player Magazine of Gabrels holding one.

    As soon as I was making any money, about ten years later, I bought one https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/parker-fly-classic/.

    a wireframe rendering of what I thought a parker fly looked like based on a single magazine ad photo, which, now that I actually own one, I now know is wrong in many ways beyond simply being very amateurish. This fly was the first thing I made to teach myself Autodesk’s 3D Studio R2.The body wireframe is blue, the neck brown, and the rest black, over a white background.
    Figure 3. a wireframe rendering of what I thought a parker fly looked like based on a single magazine ad photo, which, now that I actually own one, I now know is wrong in many ways beyond simply being very amateurish. This fly was the first thing I made to teach myself Autodesk’s 3D Studio R2.The body wireframe is blue, the neck brown, and the rest black, over a white background.

    kinda neat engineering (I have no idea what I’m talking about and am pretty credulous, but, neat to me for sure), the entire thing is an archtop with no sides or back ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBzabnNJhk), ultimately compromised to move units / be a little more practical built with a bunch of 90s stunts like carbon fiber and stainless steel and lasers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBzabnNJhk

    Parker Fly Prototype - Ken Parker - Luthier Stories S2 E5Ken Parker is a true visionary in the world of the modern electric and arch top guitars. His revolutionary “Parker Fly” design was a paradigm shift when it f...YouTube
    Figure 4. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBzabnNJhk, "Parker Fly Prototype - Ken Parker - Luthier Stories S2 E5".
    Parker Fly Prototype - Ken Parker - Luthier Stories S2 E5Ken Parker is a true visionary in the world of the modern electric and arch top guitars. His revolutionary “Parker Fly” design was a paradigm shift when it f...YouTube
    Figure 5. Link preview of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbBzabnNJhk, "Parker Fly Prototype - Ken Parker - Luthier Stories S2 E5".
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 07, 2025 - 2:27 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/10/07/115330519699876003/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/10/07/115330519699876003/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. Just got back from three days in Manhattan [NPR foley sample of the white noise of car traffic and honking, and of scaffolding being put up or town down] and had pizza for lunch all three days; Patsy’s in Harlem, Prince Street, and Sofia.

    Each was incredible in its own way. Sofia’s slices are so, so thin, but still have that perfect crunchy/soft "wow” that it practically melts in your mouth.

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 06, 2025 - 1:54 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/10/06/115327557332167082/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/10/06/115327557332167082/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. Valley-poster, a “broadly”-to-“like, “ browser extension. Now with "broadly speaking”-to-“like, totally, “

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 06, 2025 - 12:52 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/10/06/115327313068736588/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/10/06/115327313068736588/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. Dualism is the evolutionary crab of philosophy

    an up-scaled lego minifig, itself made of legos, about 50 bricks tall, wearing a hat which is tilted back to reveal an identical normal sized minifig who is operating the larger version of itself using levers and gears
    Figure 1. an up-scaled lego minifig, itself made of legos, about 50 bricks tall, wearing a hat which is tilted back to reveal an identical normal sized minifig who is operating the larger version of itself using levers and gears.
    ecu, the legunculus
    Figure 2. ecu, the legunculus.
    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 04, 2025 - 9:05 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/10/04/115317925890626863/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/10/04/115317925890626863/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. Kinda funny in a non-ha-ha way that wearing a mask indoors now says “I have covid" in addition to saying “I’m a debbie downer” but I’ll keep wearing these damned things

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon October 02, 2025 - 2:39 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/10/02/115305086454166989/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/10/02/115305086454166989/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. We gave our now-refurbished stand mixer to a friend who bakes very well, very regularly.

    While I carried it from our condo to her car, the glass bowl tipped off of the pins it rests on and smashed onto the ground into a million pieces. The mixer still works but now I need to find her a bowl.

    What a move, sheesh.

    I tried to find the last time I posted about something a lot like this happening to me before on mastodon but it predated social media, 😆: https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/sellhhhh-drop-a-tv/

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 29, 2025 - 3:53 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/09/29/115285557949415910/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/09/29/115285557949415910/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Often Repeated in the Same Conversation, Sometimes Immediately

    The grandfather said to their grandson, “….” The grandson, unable to context switch when spoken to casually, said “What?”

    The grandson said to their grandfather, “….” The grandfather, unable to hear when spoken to casually, said “What?”

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 28, 2025 - 4:08 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/09/28/115279953946542005/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/09/28/115279953946542005/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. Lo Pan

    Little China Before Burtonism

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 27, 2025 - 6:59 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/09/27/115277797722843751/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/09/27/115277797722843751/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Junior (seven next weekend!) is up in his room playing legos and singing “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” which he knows on account of how often I have https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/pink-elephants-on-parade on, he’s got not other association with it at all.

    Pink Elephants on Parade, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra13 track albumSun Ra
    Figure 1. Link preview of https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/pink-elephants-on-parade, "Pink Elephants on Parade, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra".

    tempting to look for bootlegs that this hints exist. it sure would be nice if they were already collected into a volume 2 re: “there are countless ad hoc recordings of Ra performing Disney tunes”

    (this post is completely unrelated to television shows)

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 21, 2025 - 2:39 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/09/21/115242800318803497/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/09/21/115242800318803497/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Let muni trick out a low-rider '94 New Flyer articulated trolley coach

    Posted on Mastodon about a year agoon September 20, 2025 - 5:08 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2025/09/20/115237724167176572/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2025/09/20/115237724167176572/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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