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there's a blog piece about how dumb and sexist the names of music forums are. it made a big splash years ago and there were some MW users asking about changing the name. never got any traction because reasons. then Mike, who started the forum, died a couple years ago and now it's attached to his memory so very doubtful it'll ever be changed. if anyone is wondering he named it after looking around at his guitar pedals. he had a big muff and a Wiggler pedal on the floor. he also said "if i knew this was going to become a thing i'd have thought of a better name". the blog post is some pearl clutching cherry picking shit. and there's a billion page long thread about it and like 3 other epic threads about sexism that were locked. i'm sorry i know all this but at the time i was deep in some health problems and spending time on the internet was pretty much it for a while. so it goes. https://bluestockingsmag.com/2014/04/17/muff-wiggler-sexism-in-audio-cultures/ so, if you are really really bored and haven't had enough news and culture during your pandemic then i still don't recommend it. btw.. when the muff wiggler synth shop opened in portland i was pretty much the only guy working there for a long time. once or twice a week someone would stick their head in the door and exclaim how much they loved the name even though they had no idea what it was. usually it would be two women together. the bar on the corner was a gay bar that all kinds of events with drag queens and beefcakes etc. we had regular customers gay/straight/trans/non binary and sometimes the same person would fluidly change between all those over the months. i don't think i ever heard a complaint about the name other than confusion. i'm sure though, if the store opened today it'd have a different name. especially in portland where people protest breakfast restaurants that have 'colonial breakfast' on the menu. for better or worse.

they should turn it into an autoplay file of dudley moore's drunk screech from Arthur

at least for the brits and aussies.. for america if could be called: Gear________ they could change the name to HitlerRkellyCosbyTrump

the site would probably grow a little if they changed the name. not that it needs more people arguing about the "intangible differences" between moogs/micpres/converters etc. if their advertisers chime in i'm sure it'll get the ball rolling.

FLOL

i get it. i do. the word slut is so outdated though. isn't it? i'm old and i don't at all equate the word slut with women. is that the thing here? that women see the word slut and think it's about them since i guess historically that's the case? simplest thing to do is change the name. in the 90s i was at a rave in ft lauderdale and some wasted british guy wearing a shirt that said SLUT in block letters asked me if I knew where to get heroin. [fascinating tales of the 90s] is this any more welcoming to women?

should be GearWhores obviously is a dumb name though but whatevs. just put an umlaut over the ü and call it a day. or put umlauts over every letter.

i'm sure nancy pelosi will usher the fringe impeachment articles on biden to the floor of the house. ? srsly, that shit is going nowhere for at least 2 years and only if the dems lose the house.

stay classy yall!

had some Broadcast moments last week. soooo missed.

the good lord bird. it's based on the novel of the same name. good story telling about madness, wickedness and some lols. i haven't read anything about john brown and apparently the character in the novel is controversial for some people.. the series doesn't make him an anti-hero but embraces the idea of his behavior as a reponse to the insanity of slavery.

i read more than one story during the muller investigation about trump 'itching' to answer questions and testify and having to be talked out of it. it'd be hilarious if he got his way now.

hoping trump represents himself

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fun? aack. i think the original is a bad horror show of a song but opinions vary obviously. edit: ok "horror show" is a bit harsh. i just don't dig it. i like the lyrics though. it's lifting.

hoping we get an instrumental version.. youtube leak perhaps..

it's so much better than the original imo. i like the beat/bass and groove of it. it may appear simple but does it sound like ae? yes it does. also, 606 hihats ftw

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