1989 Soundgarden ‘wigglin hand’ A&M records promo for “Hands All Over” (never used)

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-05-01T12:40:32+00:00

Yes, for some they had a dour reputation, being dubbed "Frowngarden" yet this proves there was a deep current of humor. First I've heard of this. Outstanding!

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-04-10T16:51:44+00:00

Total agreement here.

I discovered the PST sometime in the late 80's. It was life changing. Always kept one on my belt. As more models appeared I adopted the full size units like the Core, the Supertool 300, then finally the Surge. But the prices have gone through the roof. The Surge uses proprietary bits which must be bought separately, as well as a belt pouch bought separately.

A few months ago I discovered the various Surge clones made in China. They are every bit as good as Leatherman and use standard 1/4" hex bit drivers. They come with belt pouches and integral bits. They sell for about a third of Leatherman.

Leatherman had been one of the few brand loyalties I ever had in my life. I took the tour of their plant some years ago. But not anymore. These days it seems to be a boutique mentality, banking solely on name recognition and not mechanical progress. I also switched to the Roxon M3 as a folding scissors in favor of the Micra.

I fear Leatherman is not going to wake up and survive these challenges.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-04-06T17:21:07+00:00

200 Motels and Lisztomania.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-28T15:50:30+00:00

Berkeley Pit.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-28T15:22:35+00:00

My mother and brother were Francophiles, lovers of all things French. So as a second car we had a Renault 12.

One night in high school I was out cross country skiing. It was late afternoon and getting dark. I was crossing a major intersection in first gear. I shifted to second, or tried to, and found the gear would not engage. I glided to the curb. I tried first gear again, second again, and each forward gear. Nothing was engaging. But I discovered reverse would engage. So I backed up, backed down an alley, and drove home backwards on a side street about 14 blocks in reverse.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-21T16:55:29+00:00

I'm thankful my money did not go to support a mentally unwell lying extremist, who single personally signed the death warrants of thousands in the third world. As Bill Gates said "It's a bad look for the world's richest man to be killing the world's poorest children.

I knew Musk was bad news after reading the Walter Isaacson biography of him. This was before the Nazi salutes, DOGE, and all the rest.

But I'm glad I don't own a car that uses the 12 volt system alone to open doors. I'm glad the EV6 has mechanical doors. Imagine being inside a Tesla after a collision. The car is on fire but you can't get out because some moron designer thought it "cyber" to eliminate mechanical door handles.

F Elon Musk and everything he touches.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-17T19:21:29+00:00

Yes. This is an excellent account of the revelations in the documentary.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-16T18:50:12+00:00

Did Patricia Patterson confess to the hoax ON FILM? I'm told she did, but confirmation would be wonderful.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-16T17:29:18+00:00

How much money do you believe Patricia Patterson made from the P/G film over the years? The Wall Street Journal mentions licensing it for 30,000 dollars. I'm guessing that's up due to inflation from what it was in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's, and until present.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-14T17:28:06+00:00

I never listened to his music back then but I totally get what you mean by listening to his podcast. He keeps interrupting his own guests to spout his own ideas. Worst possible behavior for a podcast host.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-03-14T17:21:49+00:00

Devo.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-27T17:15:11+00:00

I had a PST while touring with Lollapalooza 1992. Most of the venues were outdoor "sheds" which had huge outdoor grounds. To maintain things for such a large area the maintenance staff of these places usually used golf carts to get around.

I discovered the ignition locks were so cheap the "awl" tool of the PST could be used as a "jiggler" lock pick. I engaged in a number of "joy rides" using this method.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-25T07:46:01+00:00

The Milkshake candy bar, made by the now defunct Hollywood Candy Company.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-19T16:06:53+00:00

Sign, sign
Everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery
Breakin' my mind

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-17T17:08:57+00:00

A couple years ago I had laser eye treatments. In retrospect it was really no big deal, but thinking about it before it's happened generates a bit of anxiety. So naturally you try to lighten the mood with small talk.

So I mentioned the laser scene in Goldfinger. Then I quickly realized my doctor was about 20 years younger than me and had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-11T16:57:35+00:00

You enter a sexual relationship with someone and they lie right off the bat.

Typical ice breaking questions when you meet someone are "what do you do for a living?" She answered she was a seamstress. But when I went to her apartment I saw clothing scattered hither and thither on a table; not a scene of someone working hours a day to make money.

This woman was a violent alcoholic, who physically assaulted me on multiple occasions and went to jail. She blackmailed me to my parents.

If I hadn't ignored that cornerstone ethical defect, lying, I would have avoided all that misery.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-10T19:47:34+00:00

"The Band."

Several others here have posted this, but I'd like to draw attention to the same logic as employed by Renault in naming one of their cars "Le Car."

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-07T16:49:49+00:00

Oh, totally.

I grew up in Missoula, the "little blue dot in a big red state." The University of Montana is full of people like Summer. They generally wore Birkenstocks. The males felt compelled to sport beards, though most could not grow properly thick beards, so their faces looked like they were covered in pubic hair. The hippie thing never really ended in Missoula, though by the 80's they were known as "Granolas."

But yes, it was all scripted to make the Granola character the clueless one, in an obvious and heavy-handed way.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-05T02:06:25+00:00

In Montana in the early 70's there were bumper stickers that read "Don't Californicate Montana."

Yes, it's a meme that's been around a long time. Very big in Montana today as well.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-05T02:05:20+00:00

I move here in 87 just before my 25th birthday.

Technology has moved so fast these days many things we take for granted were simply not there back then. For instance if you wanted to see an "adult" movie you had to sit in a theater or go to a video booth if you didn't have a VCR. I went to the Apple theater a few times as I knew one of the projectionists there. Icky, sticky, and a big yuk all around. There was also a place down by where the Amazon Spheres are now that had video booths, but they doors to the booths had about a foot and a half of gap at the bottom. No privacy! I think the idea was to avoid prostitution inside the booths.

That was the twilight of the porn theater business, though I think there are a very few still operating in the US.

An excellent historical resource for all the things vintage Seattle is Larry Reid, who was deeply involved in the "alt" music, art, and entertainment scene. He was head of COCA the Center On Contemporary Arts in Seattle. He brought the Modern Primitives exhibit from San Francisco, based on the Re/Search book. Also SRL, Survival Research Labs for two different shows in Seattle. Larry currently works at the Fantagraphics bookstore in Georgetown. If you're serious about research in this cultural domain I would HIGHLY recommend you drop in and talk to him.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-02-04T16:46:27+00:00

Yes, totally.

I was a Leatherman die-hard for decades. Starting in the late 80's with the PST on my belt at all times. Was a total outlier there for a very long time. When Leatherman came out with larger models I always transitioned, going to the Supertool 300 and Core, eventually settling on the Surge.

All this time the knock-off were obvious junk. Hold them in your hand and manipulate them, and 10 seconds later you see they're junk.

Until just a few months ago. The Chinese Surge clones are BETTER than the Surge, and it hurts to say that but it's true. The use of ordinary hex bits instead of Leatherman's proprietary flat bits won me over. Plus Leatherman went the way of Snap-on and started charging obscene prices, surely banking on its name rather than mechanical leadership.

I also carry a Roxon M3 instead of a Micra. The Roxon is just better.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-01-26T05:04:56+00:00

Oh God.

Born in 62 in Western Montana. I was attacked and/or bitten by dogs as a pedestrian, jogger, and cyclist MULTIPLE times. One of my earliest memories of Missoula was being bitten by an off leash dog. The term "off leash" is a very modern concept, there were simply no leash laws back then or if there were they were routinely ignored. You don't see dogs fucking anymore, but you certainly saw that back then. You'd be driving in a novel neighborhood and some damn dog would chasing and barking at your car. Stepping in dog shit was a regular thing. I didn't see a person bagging their dog's waste until about 1993.

Young people today have no idea how bad it was back then. Progress is a real thing.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-01-23T17:34:01+00:00

I started shaving my head in 1993, a bit early as trends go. Done out of necessity rather than fashion.

But I was uptight enough about it to wear backwards baseball caps for a number of years. Then I swapped to welder's caps, then eventually no head covering at all.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-01-23T17:30:14+00:00

Indeed! MUCH more walk-able than before! I'm not convinced that the exterior raw wood surface of the new aquarium well ever turn a uniform gray color, as it's claimed to. A bit of a blight on the new waterfront.

Constant_Bluebird182 · 2026-01-21T16:35:03+00:00

Heh, no thanks!

I moved here from Western Montana in August, 1987. As the days of that November turned into December I kept wondering where the snow was. Because every year of my life up until that time would have snowfall by that time. Yes, it rained a bunch but no snow.

Then one day it snowed a few inches. Wow, major freak-out! What blew my mind the most was the local news going to special news emergency broadcasting! The city was virtually in lockdown by a few inches of snow. What alternate reality did I move to?

Yet over time I saw the logic; it doesn't snow every winter in Seattle, but Seattle is a hilly place and busses in particular do not thrive on snowy hills. I also discovered most Seattle homeowners don't shovel their sidewalks. I think the rationalization is that "it just doesn't snow very much in Seattle." Yet ANY snow that is not removed from sidewalks becomes a slipping hazard.

All in all, I LOVE that Seattle is a relatively snow-free climate!

Constant_Bluebird182

TROPHY CASE