Just found a stripped of hardware but otherwise brand new Dean acoustic bass in a dumpster.

Weirdly it had the shipping invoice with it: $1700.00. I mean WTF.

Even more weirdly I can find what appears to be the same product, with hardware, online at $149. Bizarre.

@ob1quixote @ardaniel a closer look at the invoice reveals the $1700 instrument is not the same as the $149 one.

.@ob1quixote @ardaniel so the logical explanation is: order cheap acoustic-electric. Decide you like it, want to upgrade. Do so online.

.@ob1quixote @ardaniel Strip hardware off cheap bass (pegs, EQ & piezo bridge I guess, grover machines on head) & stash or resell for ~$125

.@ob1quixote @ardaniel pegs, $5 each if lucky, EQ / bridge list on CL @ $90 and drop at $40, machines, list @ $25 & drop @ $12.50 ea.

@LeVostreGC spent hirn Saturday tweet-translating Don MacLean’s opus “American Pie” into middle English, and it works w/ the tune. HEROIC.

@johnpstrohm @levostregc get sportin’ jack to cover this on the youtubes

RT: @LeVostreGC: And yn the streetes the childer yowled, the lovers cryed, and the poetes howled, yet nat a worde was spoken – the vernacular was broken.

I STAND AMAZED. uh STAUND A MAZEN (@levostregc)

@LookoutLanding Iwakuma 13k

@LeVostreGC and please share back to us. A FEAT SIR OF LEGEND. My wife is less amused due to my singing it to her.

“@njj4: @LeVostreGC storify.com/njj4/bye-bye-e…” American Pie in Middle English.

@hell0jed SNOWMAN. draw the superhero.

@esinclai izzat Studs?

@esinclai confirmed. from here: wfmt.com/main.taf?p=1,1… dated 1960. Studs, Corso, Ginsberg, Orlovsky. note hair. pic.twitter.com/Fn92zVl99b

@BitterOldPunk DK’s song, spoken intro. possibly “I Kill Children.” Lordy, the lighthearted fun of our yewt.

@BitterOldPunk correct. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kill_Ch…

Little bitty longhaired poopybutt dingleberry ratcat bathed and bedraggled, woebegone! But clean and now acceptable for cuddling.