After a painful absence:
The blog is back.
Once again, Mark proves that ANYTHING can be grilled or smoked to perfection. Pork and Chicken-palooza! Dining at Mark’s, when the grill(s) and smoker are cranked, is what Summer is all about, baby!
I ate my face off this memorial day weekend! Thanks Mark (and John for excellent sack o salad and chips n dips)! You’s guysiz da bestist!

My GOD! I HOPE HE WEARS THAT SWEATER! HILARIOUS!!
(Heart attack..) Ok! I’m so going to see this some how some way!!!
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Here’s to another 81 years Shatner!
(I love posts where I can use the “old people rocking out badly” tag)
My Crapitals came back from a 4-1 deficit to beat the NY Islanders last night 5-4 via a shootout.
My team will not win the Stanley Cup, and will be lucky if they finish 2nd place in their division, but it is nice on occasion to see a win that like one.
It’s the red version of the Korg Kaossilator. What is different, other than the color, is it’s primary function. The Kaossilator is a Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer (or sound MAKER). The Kaoss Pad (also known as the MiniKP) is a Dynamic Effect Processor (or sound mutilator). So basically, I can make sounds now and then torture them with effects! This provides hours of entertainment and makes what would normally be a repetitive loop a little more exciting with trippy spaced out effects.
Here’s a 5 minute sample song I created. I went through countless different effects tricks on this track so you may have to listen to all of it to hear some of the possibilities. This is only a small fraction of what the combination of these devices can do for someone completely devoid of music performance talent such as myself.
Check it out!