For Casey

My girlfriend/partner Casey Scott is in Ashland, Oregon, acting and playing bass in Family Album, the new Stew Stewart play, as a part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and they’re starting their final week of […]

More options for cheap film rigs

After the last photo post I got excited to do more film photography, and what better way to motivate myself to do that than to BUY MORE GEAR. Usually that’s a bad idea; GAS, the […]

Tape for sale, cut up

Need to get rid of that horrible ring in yer snayer drum? Well, these guys are selling a product that may be said to be the answer: As the man said, that drum sounds awesome. […]

Safe to buy Wilcoxon again?

They obviously don’t quite get why people are buying these books, but OK. Here’s some good news: a student of mine brought in a new copy of Charley Wilcoxon’s Rudimental Swing Solos, and it appears […]

A cheap portrait lens for your Nikon digital SLR

Just did a little photo job, and realized something I should’ve figured out years ago— well, it something I knew about, but wasn’t exploiting. If you aren’t conversant in basic camera lingo, you might want […]

Rik Mayall 1958-2014

Very sorry to have lost comic legend Rik Mayall yesterday. He was best known in the US for The Young Ones and small parts on Black Adder, but my favorite thing of his was The […]