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This weeks image I stumbled upon while reading an article about African fighting squirrels. I know , I know, I must have been really bored or something. But along with pictures of kung fu fighting vermin was this group shot that had me cracking up. The thing that immediately struck me about this photo is that it looks like 187,839 band photos I have seen over the years. The lounging front man, the tall silent drummer standing behind the group. The jovial guitar ace with his hand up on the shoulder of the bass player to let you know they are musical brothers. If these squirrels were dressed up in leather and one was sneering and flashing devil horns while another was giving the pouty face I would swear I had seen this photo before in BAM magazine sometime about 1987. With the exception that I have never seen balls like that on any bass player in my life. But hey, that’s just me.

For those about to rock.

Masto.

Okay, so sue me. I took a little vacation from the site. Now that everyone is back to school and work is not so hectic it’s time to dig back in and get some stuff done. This last week was the beginning of the 5th year at mailhiot.com and a year since I launched version 4.0. It has been a fairly productive year. Version 4.5 is in the works with some tweaks to the old look and feel and some fixes that I have been working on for some of the pages. I finally finished ripping all the cassettes for the rock n’ roll pages so there is plenty to upload. So tomorrow night I will post the new Image of the Week and we will get the ball rolling.

Masto.

“Magic!”, “Thrilling!”, “Amazing!”, would not exactly be my response over a red, white, and blue bucket with a mirrored window in the front. Neither would “Sensational!”, or “Scientific Wonder!”. But hey, I’m picky that way. I also would not call the inability to see your face invisibility. “Hey who’s the guy with the bucket on his head?” “I don’t know I can’t see his face.” “Whoa! dude he’s invisible!” I don’t remember this conversation ever happening in my life so I will have to rule out lack of facial recognition as invisibility. I am kind of curious as to what scientific marvel this was supposed to achieve. What ever it is they rank it up there with the invention of the hydrogen bomb so it has to be pretty big, right?

This week is another 2fer because both versions are classic. I couldn’t decide which one to use.

Off to join the space parade.

Masto.

#38 in the Blurry Photo Series. Courtesy of Jackson.

Masto.