The following picture of my ‘62 Fender Strat and Vox AC-30 was taken with a Canon EOS Rebel and edited at www.picnik.com by my favorite photographer, Leslie Brooke, using the theme “1960’s”.

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This year’s tax rebate allowed me to justify two purchases that I wouldn’t have made otherwise.  Meet my two new friends, the Incase Dub Bag and my wife’s Blackberry Curve.  Both products have a massive cult following and both inspire their competitors to refresh their design concepts.  

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I recently used the bag on a trip to Washington D.C. with Fred McKinnon and had no trouble at all carrying it through the airport using its nifty shoulder straps.  On the trip up, I stowed it in the coat closet at the front of the plane and put it above my seat on the way home.  In fact, this bag, though it is larger than a standard carry on, apparently qualified for special treatment since it was a piece of music gear.   

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Brooke is now an official Crackberry fiend. It’s enabling her Twitter and Twitpic habit. She’s able to surf the net at lightening speed. I can’t make up random facts now without her trying to confirm them using Google. If she could just figure out how to run every facet of our business from the passenger seat in the car, she probably would. What I do know for sure is that she’s never going back to a phone without a full qwerty keyboard. Thank God for opposable thumbs.

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