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19 August 2009
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Blues Infection

Blow The Blues Harp T-Shirt   Bend The Blues Harp T-Shirt

The other day I checked out Skreened, a relatively new POD company based in Ohio and I must say, really liked what I saw! Decent ethics, a good choice of tees..

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14 July 2008
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The Grand Kazoo

Last month I decided that I really needed to get into playing the kazoo. From what was on the web it seemed that these where a bit overpriced here in swissland so I ordered two from Kazoobie Kazoos which came this week. In the meantime however it turned out that the local music store had them and that they weren’t overpriced, so I picked up one and have been playing with it ever since.

All that to point out that I now have three kazoos!

And…

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5 October 2007
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Design Screwups & Crawfish Blues Band Paraphernalia

A few weeks ago a friend received a t-shirt she had ordered and was not that impressed with it. Uh-oh….

I checked it out and had to agree. When they print on dark t-shirts Cafepress prints a coat of white first, which means – among other things – that transparencies will show white instead of the shirt’s color. Earlier this year I though I could use this to my advantage when I made my first skeleton designs. Since the slight blurring of the black edges would give the design a small white outline I figured that was all that was needed for the fine details to show up…

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