Unless you are the least bit religious. Or own guns. Or an American flag. Or follow the law, or think that other people should follow the law. Or have any hard-earned money. Or support the free market, or even freedom itself. In the campaign, he spouted smug BS like, “To those Americans whose support...
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Billy had this over at his place and if it doesn’t make you nauseated, you must have a cast iron glottis. The short version is that Michael Yon, one of my favorite bloggers, was going through SeaTac when he was questioned about his income (which has nothing to do with national security, airport security,...
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I was making the rounds of the usual suspects not long ago, when I came across a little blurb that Billy Beck had posted. Now, some people think that Billy is an acquired taste and I could agree with that to a point. He does subscribe to a very ‘trench warfare’ style and no-holds-barred...
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It sounds like Billy got hit pretty hard with the misery-stick while doing a show with Peabo in Kuala Lumpur. I certainly feel his pain. I wrapped up a thing with a Cirque-like show in Nevada not long ago, where I spent the whole run grinding my teeth over the diminutive in-house rig and...
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Welly-well, it’s nothing new, but it looks like Billy has a few people wound up on Das UnterWebz these days. Read this. And this. And this, too. It’s bound to happen. You get enough people with strong opinions around a campfire and someone is certain to get singed eventually....
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Billy Beck is over in Japan hammering out dates with Peabo and wrote a very nice piece on the technical and artistic subtleties of concert lighting. He is one of maybe three people in the world that I’ve ever trusted to handle one of my clients when I had a schedule conflict. He’s got...
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I was talking to Billy Beck just now, who is calling around to make sure that none of his pals who fly a lot were on that flight. Right nice of him to think of me, really. Anyway, Billy, who happens to be an actual pilot, was saying the same thing that I’ve...
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The UK and the EU are trying to ban large plasma TV’s because they cause global warming. They’ve apparently outlawed 100-watt light bulbs and I’m waiting for them to start simply shutting off all the power at night since Big Brother thinks that everyone should be asleep anyway. It’ll look like those satellite photos...
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