Meet the latest in our Guitar Family 2009/01/17

Close Up of Bartleby

Originally uploaded by pablomagnifico

Check out Old Black Bartleby. Or Bart for short. He is the latest member of our family. I got him for a very good price at the Trading Musician today. I’ve been wanting an acoustic bass guitar for a while so, when I saw what a good price he was I just couldn’t resist.

It’s an Ibanez acoutic electric bass guitar. I haven’t looked up the details yet. He has been repaired for a badly cracked head stock, and a pick guard glued on with an Epiphone logo on it. I hate to think what might be under that. So I had to cover up the Epiphone logo with a Skullcandy sticker I had laying around.

All and all, I’m pretty pleased.

[Edit 7:28PM]

Here are the details.

Quote of the day 2009/01/14

“But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field…” Ulysses Everett McGill

Brought to my attention by Language Log, but a fitting sentiment for these troubled times.

Quick Howdy 2009/01/12

Hey, mumbojumbo is now on wordpress.com. Version 3.0 will hopefully offer better spam filtering and therefore a higher completion rate for legitimate comment approvals. That means you bitterkat.