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I was finally able to read the QR code below, but it led to a broken link. Request re-transmission. I will occasionally give a tape to someone I think might have Tape Pal tendencies, just to tease out if they have a tape deck. Bingo on this one – target acquired! :D Currently in the […]

One from Correspondent Gunier K, relating yet another adventure in Paradise. One from Correspondent Kristy T, who teases a mysterious letter arriving soon. And, while I recently told Tape Pal Mitchell F. that I had no ideas for the next Tape Pals 3-Way Round 5, I have since come up with one. Here’s a test […]

Just keep watchin’ the wheels turn…

So I sampled another 3 cassettes from the 4-Track box & used bits of these two shown below to make a fun 16-minute cut that might end up as part of an Episode, a section of a Tape Pals tape or even one side of a “30 Minutes on Microcassette“, who knows? I mix it, […]

So I found yet another box full of old cassette tapes in storage – this time mostly 4-Track masters recorded on my old Ross 4×4 Portastudio. I sure got a lot of use out of that machine between around 1986 through the early 90’s, if the contents of this box are any indication. As with […]

So I was playing around with a couple of scrap Rolodex cards and I discovered a few useful things: You can stick a Rolodex card into a Franklin Covey Classic hole puncher, punch it, then flip it over and punch it again, and you’ll find that the middle two Rolodex card holes line up perfectly […]

Three Fiddy! :D Un-used with original card inserts! Woodgrain and Smoked Plexi, just like it was 1979! Got a nice stack of DVDs at the thrift as well – did you know that Goodwill is now charging 10 cents per plastic bag to bag your purchases? /: I typed each Correspondent’s contact info on the […]

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Daniel’s getting the very first Episode since I ran out of the regular mini-CD sleeves I was using and had to design and make my own. Much more time-consuming, but I designed the envelope template so I can attach the CD/DVD to the letter and have it open from the front. I also needed to […]

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The Tape Pals cassette has arrived! That’s a good hour and a half of listening and letter-reading. Time to SAVOR! (: Oops!, the theme of this round is actually “Interesting Stories“, as per Joe’s side of the tape. Maxell XLII High-Bias 90 #E061A6B4 USA-Made, May 06, 2001 Still recording fine with no dropouts or fade […]

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Oh hey – the 90’s called… and now you’re dead! Jeebus Crispy, the world is a weird place. Over the weekend another assassination attempt on a current presidential candidate, and again nobody seems to be especially surprised or concerned – at least not as much as they care about a fabricated story about people eating […]

In the 1990’s there was a place you might remember called a “Video Rental Store” where you’d go every Friday after work and browse the racks of “videotapes” so you could select a few to rent over the weekend. On these videotapes were movies, and if you frequented just the right sort of video rental […]

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Even more Special Episodes hot off the griddle!

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So what do you get when you hire a bunch of the ugliest actors you can find, then give them lines to memorize that depress them so much that they commit mass suicide – but, surprise! The director knows a witch doctor, so they re-animate the actors as zombies, cover them in chalky, white makeup […]

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These last tapes cover interviews with the Brother between 2011 and 2013 plus some 2018 tapes. I’ve had luls in the recording sessions, times when I didn’t have a good recorder or periods like when Covid started and then the restrictions were largely lifted. This, however is the whole enchilada of the Brother Project (so […]

Rest in peace, Alain Delon – It was a real dick move to request that your *still alive* dog be buried with you, but thankfully your family didn’t do that, and now all you’ve got is a stain on your legacy. That said, I still like Le Samouraï, and watched it again tor the typewriter […]

Better than I remember, maybe because I watched the Theatrical Cut before, not the Director’s Cut. I felt compelled to put it on after a review by a Typospherian (can’t find it now or remember who) on his blog and also one on Ty and That Guy in the same month. Too much of a […]

Last night’s Movie In The Eyeholes: Altman’s “The Long Goodbye“. Like every other Altman film, it’s muddled and somewhat incoherent on first watch because of often ad-libbed and overlapping dialogue, but worth a second watch to really get what’s going on. Weird choice of having all the in-universe music just be different renditions of the […]

Currently in the eyeholes: (restored 1977 version – Han shot first! Also have the 2004 Special Edition from the DVD set on here, but prolly won’t ever watch that “CGI slapstick in the streets of Mos Eisley” version again. I think the last time I saw this version was 1978 at the Cine Capri downtown. […]

WoC: “Mothra” 1972 IBM Selectric Composer #5016537 Reminder for me how the ribbon winds onto the spools and which way is “top”. Trust me, I did it wrong *TWICE* :D Way back in 2015, I picked up a working Selectric Composer which I named “Mothra”, and at the time I think it was probably the […]