by Scott Feldstein | Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | politics
Remember back in July when I wrote that America will solve its gun violence problem when David Hogg is speaker of the House? I wasn’t kidding. And this is how it begins. Congratulations to Maxwell Frost, 25, and the people of central Florida who just elected him...
by Scott Feldstein | Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | music, rants
I once heard a very thought-provoking definition of genius. The idea is simple and to me quite compelling. I don’t imagine it’s a complete picture of what we consider genius, but I think it’s a very neglected component. The idea is, genius is love....
by Scott Feldstein | Monday, September 5, 2022 | music, rants
The other day I was watching a video clip of Geddy Lee and Alex LIfeson of Rush play one of their prog rock instrumentals, “YYZ,” with drummer Omar Hakim. The trio appeared on stage as part of a tribute concert honoring recently deceased Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor...
by Scott Feldstein | Saturday, August 20, 2022 | music
Well, the bass lineup change has now been fully executed. I sold the Warwick on Facebook to a guy from Chicago. (No shipping!) Now I’m left with my Ibanez BTB and the new Sire V5 – a killer active 35″ scale five string, and a killer passive four string 70s...
by Scott Feldstein | Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | rants, tech
Something I do roughly 2-3 times a day, every day: open a photo in Preview on my MacBook Air, reduce the size by 20-25%, then save it. I do this because I took the photo on my iPhone which has a 12 megapixel camera on it that produces images approximately 3,000 by...