Consumer Notes From All Over

So last weekend we were at a very cool record store in Worcester, MA...

...and what did our wondering eyes behold but the following. (In case you're visually impaired, they're rubber duckies for the bathtub and you can click on the images to enlarge).

Anyway, they tototally cracked me up. Particularly Aviary Grande. 😎

They're the work of a company aptly called Celebriducks; they cost approximately 20 bucks each, and they are now my official go-to gag gifts for every occasion.

You can order them over at Amazon, and you can see more of them at the official company page OVER HERE.

And no, the above has nothing to do with the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Essay Question. 😎 😎

Play This One Loud. REALLY Loud.

Preferrably under the headphones, if you live in a thin-walled NYC apartment.

As you have gathered by now, that's The Ventures with special guest twangster Duane Eddy and the most totally rockin' take on the Bobby Fuller/Sonny Curtis classic "I Fought the Law" ever beheard by sentient mammalian ears.

When I originally posted about that (which derives from a 1998 Ventures album) back in 2014, I opined that it has guitar textures that wouldn't have been out of place on albums by Television, and upon relistening to it again for the first time since then I see no reason to deviate from that assessment. In any case, it totally kicks ass and some of the instrumental interplay actually gave me chills this time around.

Now please excuse me -- I'm gonna go do the research (as today's kids say) on that aforementioned Ventures CD, which I suspect will be a fruitful subject for further exploration. 😎