I for one am GLAD I don't look like my avatar! And that fish fed us for about a month off the filets. It was 30 pounds and 1 of 5 fish I got that day. I ended up giving a lot of the meat away before it would get freezer burned.

Ok so Xion convinced me to finally submit a pic of myself, figured I held out for 4 years so that's not too bad. So here you go, from a tuna fishing trip a couple of years ago. And one of out flying with a friend of mine, just happened to be over Mike Tyson's old abandoned house at the time. Poobah ...

Poobah is after the Flintstone's Grand Poobah. I was watching one of the cartoons with my youngest when that came up. Lol.

hence the avatar

Congrats! I wish you the best going forward!

Both of these guys play in styles started by a guy named Michael Hedges, part fingerpicking, part percussion, part fingerboard acrobatics. I first saw Michael play many years ago at Kent State and had the same reaction, just blown away. One guy sounds like 2 or 3. Although he died several years ago,...

In all honesty I have been a fan/student of Japanese swords for many years. I don't own one, way too much money for a vintage sword, (think 30k on up) and for the new ones made (6k on up), but I have studied them, and the swordsmiths. I would have no problem believing that a true Japanese sword woul...