Son: Dad, want me to show you how I put pine tar all over my baseball gear?
Dad: (looks up from some stupid thing he was doing) Huh?
Son: For example, see how I put it all over my batting helmet?
Dad: What does that do?
Son: It makes the helmet easier to pick up.
Dad: I thought people put pine tar on their bats.
Son: They do. Check out my bat. It's got pine tar all over it.
Dad: I thought pine tar was illegal.
Son: It is. But only if you put it on the barrel. It's ok to put it on the handle. Makes it easier to grip the bat.
Dad: And why do you put it in this middle area of the bat, the part that's neither barrel nor handle? What does that do?
Son: I don't know.
Dad: Isn't that stuff all sticky?
Son: Only if you touch it.
Karl Straub, according to Wikipedia, is a windbag, Telecaster picker, and music archivist who's piled up a quarter of a million tracks. He blogs about politics, music, and idiocy (his own and that of others), using thumb-typed prose to supplement the audible blather & music on his Hot Plate! show. His mission- to entertain while engaging your brain. If you're understandably avoiding politics, why, you're in luck! The show only has a teeny tiny bit. (For audio, use phone web view)
ARTISTS PLAYED ON HOT PLATE INCLUDE
- HOT PLATE! ARTISTS INCLUDE:
- Bryan Ferry, the MC5, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Dolly Parton, Ben Webster, Big Sid Catlett, Bessie Banks, Smokey Wood and the Wood Chips, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, the Harlem Hamfats, Modern Mountaineers, the Prairie Ramblers, Big Bill Broonzy, Bix Beiderbecke, Andre Williams, Jason Stelluto, Poor Righteous Teachers, Johnny Thunders, Eugene Chadbourne, Derek Bailey, J Dilla, Tom T. Hall, Otis Blackwell, The Velvet Underground, Scotty Stoneman, the Alkaholiks, Stan Getz, Johnny Guitar Watson, Evan Parker, Steve Lacy, Dock Boggs, Min Xiao-Fen, Tony Trischka
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