Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
The Quake in China. I remember when it happened, I was on a plane going to Beijing, I landed, got in front of a TV, there was a bit of news that it was a 7.8, but now days later, people still being found alive, the death toll is up to 55,000 with a another 20,000+ not found, and hundreds of thousands injured. The question is how the heck were so many new agencies so content in reporting 5,000 were killed fairly early on. It went up every day to being 10 times+ wrong. I understand the news needs to report what they know, but it’s so far off, it’s a wonder why they bother reporting anything at all? I’d guess news doesn’t get out too well from the smaller and poorer towns who are completely cut off and devastated to the big agencies who then report what they feel fit. Yet imagine… “that car is $10,000. Oops, my “expert guess” was wrong it’s $55,000.” “Your sister had her baby. Oops, I was wrong, it’s quintuplets.” All so far off, and this is about deaths, not money or life. I don’t think we’ve ever been that wrong at GR, and it seems hard to be that wrong. But in our need to know numbers about everything, as in How much is this? How many are there? etc etc, we’re forcing the news to feed us crap as well. It goes both ways. No one is right, but I’m sitting shaking my head as to how it went from 5k to 55k in a week. That’s my tiny rant and it helps nothing, except hopefully making people a little more thoughtful about figures. Meanwhile, check out the wedding photos before and after the quake, it’s a trip from one photo to the next. The buildings seem like they’re made out of sand.
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Being gone for a bit means mail piles up. Mail is usually good, and tons of cool things come through. Books, zines, comics, cd's, art, gifts, snacks, PR, payments, and more. One of the boxes was heavy and larger. At first, even though the sides said it was bowling related, I didn't believe it. I figured it was catalogs or books or something. But it really was a bowling ball. This one is from our...
Being gone for a bit means mail piles up. Mail is usually good, and tons of cool things come through. Books, zines, comics, cd’s, art, gifts, snacks, PR, payments, and more. One of the boxes was heavy and larger. At first, even though the sides said it was bowling related, I didn’t believe it. I figured it was catalogs or books or something. But it really was a bowling ball. This one is from our friend Tim Hugh in Chicago, who’s a heck of a bowler. He let me play a couple of games, and I scored a 133 which is my record. I’ve bowled maybe 10 times in my life, and I tried it again recently and got a 115. Not great, but not bad considering. So now I have a ball with no holes in it. Tim said to start with your own ball so you won’t use the crappy balls with the odd sized finger holes in them which will ultimately make you suck. I don’t know about that, but now that I have one, I have no excuse. I’ll tell you how it goes. Also: on a side note, Blogger has been not allowing people to put images through ftp for two days. That’s really awful and it’s hard to believe it’s still a problem. I’m sure a lot will suggest to use WordPress, which is what we should be doing.
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This is a band I was friends with through the end of high school and some of early college. I'm not sure if getting back together is a great thing, since sometimes, the memories are better, but this band was together from 1984 or earlier to 1996, which is a long reign for sure, and I guess why not play a few more gigs. Reunion shows are in, right? Miles Tackett is also known as The Kid Named...
This is a band I was friends with through the end of high school and some of early college. I’m not sure if getting back together is a great thing, since sometimes, the memories are better, but this band was together from 1984 or earlier to 1996, which is a long reign for sure, and I guess why not play a few more gigs. Reunion shows are in, right? Miles Tackett is also known as The Kid Named Miles, who is a big part of The Breakestra. Eugene Perry, the nice guy, is the bass player who’s now a web developer. The drummer prodigy, Steve Smart lives in Pittsburgh. Each are insane quality musicians. Each could have and probably worked as studio musicians, which means, they are great. They’re getting back for a few shows, it’s coming up this weekend. I miss them when it was about dirty Led Zep and Aerosmith rock n roll, before the hip hop and funk hit them. Here’s a link to an article in the Palisadian Post newspaper. I worked there as a photographer once I think in 1989. I was their chief photographer. See the Inclined myspace for info about their shows.
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