Kit? Thrown.

Dick Heeter walked me through tuning this morning, and I am amazed by the increase in power I get from a performance pipe and upjetting my carb to a 58. Achieve Zen in the art of Tomos kitting with help from Heeter's Performance Center.

Throwing A Kit

My Technigas Next exhaust pipe arrived from Heeters today. I installed it and the engine started on the first kick and purred. I removed the carburetor and upped the main jet to a 58. It started on the first kick again, but now my idle is crazy high; it feels like a wide open throttle as soon as the A55 engine starts. Any help would be appreciated as I'm getting wicked RPMs at idle and this thing will fly once I get it tuned.

MP3 Hollywood Holt - Throw A Kit

Myron Cope, RIP

His was the golden gravel voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers; the only voice I can remember.


Myron's at that big tailgate in the sky now.

Joe Gibbs, RIP

He is, in my opinion, one in the holy trinity of Jamaican reggae producers. Preceded only by Coxsone Dodd, and mentor to Lee Perry, Joe Gibbs died in Kingston last Thursday, February 21, 2008.

MP3 Dennis Brown - Westbound Train

MP3 Culture - I'm Not Ashamed

Most Legislation Is Bad.

Some is good. Here is a list of legislation Ralph Nader is responsible for:

-Clean Air Act

-Clean Water Act

-Consumer credit disclosure law

-Consumer Product Safety Act

-Co-Op Bank Bill

-Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act

-Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

-Freedom of Information Act

-Funeral home cost disclosure law

-Law establishing Environmental Protection Agency

-Medical Devices safety

-Mine Health and Safety Act

-Mobile home safety

-National Automobile and Highway Traffic Safety Act

-National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

-Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act

-Nuclear power safety

-Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

-Pension protection law

-Safe Water Drinking Act

-Tire safety & grading disclosure law

-Whistleblower Protection Act

-Wholesome Meat Act

-Wholesome Poultry Product Act

In other words, you'd probably be dead if it weren't for Ralph.
"A good citizen is not just a person who votes all the time."

Nader Announces New Run for President

Much of Recalled Meat Sent To Schools

20 Million Pounds Eaten, USDA Says
Friday, February 22, 2008; Page A05

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 -- More than a third of the 143 million pounds of California beef recalled this week went to school lunch programs, with at least 20 million pounds consumed, Agriculture Department officials said Thursday.

About 50 million pounds of the meat went to schools, said Eric Steiner, deputy administrator of special nutrition programs for the department's Food and Nutrition Service.

"Sitting here today, I cannot tell you how many locations the product has gone to," said Kenneth Peterson of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service. "Our focus is identifying the locations and making sure the product is under control."

The USDA shut down Chino, Calif.-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. and issued the nation's largest beef recall after the Humane Society of the United States released undercover video of workers kicking and shoving sick and crippled cows and forcing them to stand using electric prods, forklifts and water hoses.

The plant produces about a fifth of all the meat in the federal school lunch programs, said Bill Sessions, associate deputy administrator for livestock and seed programs with USDA's agriculture marketing service.

One of the workers accused of abusing the debilitated cattle in the video, Luis Sanchez, pleaded not guilty Thursday to three misdemeanors involving illegal movement of sick or injured cattle.

Cold.
Dark.
Lonely.
Manhattan.
Brick Alley Views.
Amsterdamned Blues.
Blurry neon drips through taxicab windows,
Sober eyes go drunk and blind,
Then disappear.
Manhattan.
Lonely.
Dark.
Cold.
Dark.
Lonely.
Manhattan.

Awake From Your Slumber

The Golden Voice of Togo

37 year old Togo born King Mensah is one of Africa's leading contemporary artists. His four albums and fifteen years as a creative force in film, music , and dance have earned him attention and success the world over. Here is his profile on National Geographic's World Music Database, and here is the story of Tubman alum and Fed drummer KB's recent encounter with King Mensah in Togo.

Amy Winhouse knocks it out of the park.

Amy Winehouse' performance at last night's Grammy Awards was simply flawless, and possibly the greatest in the 50 year history of the Recording Academy's awards show.

By Request

MP3 The Kooks - Naive












MP3 Lily Allen - Naive

RECOGNIZE!

Since its inception in the late 1970s, hip hop has become hugely influential in America. While images of hip hop performers are as pervasive in our culture as the music itself, some visual artists have created powerful images that both celebrate and explore the complexity of this creative form.



The six artists and one poet whose work is included in RECOGNIZE! have approached hip hop culture through the lens of portraiture, and, in combination, their contributions highlight its vitality and beauty.




RECOGNIZE!
National Portrait Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
February 8 - October 26, 2008

A Supernatural & Glorified Change

Out of Bathtub Hoax' sad demise has risen the pious and compendious D.C. Catholic.


MP3 Sufjan Stevens - Holy Holy Holy
MP3 Sinead O'Connor - ave maria
MP3 Sufjan Stevens - Variation On Commemorative Transfiguration & Communion At Magruder Park

Cannibalistic Human Underground Drummer

Formed in the month of my birth, the Glenn Danzig fronted Misfits, along with Gram Parsons, Big Star, The Grateful Dead, and Bruce & the E Streets, paved the way for all my favorite music to come. And without their paths? One has to wonder. The Misfits' lyrics and guitars are as crude and beautiful as the devilocks from whence they spew.



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'93 Til Infinity

Thank you, DJ OZ. "Loot, Props, Respect..."

MP3 Souls of Mischief - '93 Til Infinity

I headed up to Pittsburgh a few months back for a packed weekend of Steeler football, Pitt basketball, Primanti sandwiches, Sir pizza, and theatre. The drive from DC to PGH isn't bad, and one knows they are close when WDVE tunes in a dozen or so miles out of Breezewood. And, that's when one starts to get excited. One might even call 333-WDVE and ask Michelle Micheals to play the most underated of all classic rock bands, Thin Lizzy. And, The Boys Are Back in Town might come on 'dve just after one passes through the Sewickley Tubes, when one rounds that bend in the turnpike and catches one's first view of the skyline.

MP3 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
MP3 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
MP3 Thin Lizzy - Running Back
MP3 Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song