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Dang. Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys suffered a stroke

Jello Biafra, the iconic former singer of punk legends Dead Kennedys, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.

A statement on Biafra’s Facebook pages reads, “On Saturday, March 7th Jello Biafra suffered a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure. ”

Biafra himself stated, “I hopped out of my bed because I needed to pee, and my left leg just collapsed under me and I fell to the floor. I couldn’t even break the fall with my left arm because it wasn’t working either. I tried to hop back up again, and I couldn’t. I realized I had “fallen and I can’t get up! It was this point I thought, ‘Oh ****, I’m having a stroke! I still have a lot of great stuff in me, but right now I gotta lotta of rehabbing to do.'”

His record label added, “Jello Biafra is currently hospitalized but stable. Speaking for the Alternative Tentacles family, we are all just very thankful he is okay and getting the care that he needs. We will update you all as we are able.”
 
c'mon, c'mon - Sheryl Crow
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She likes the art museum
She don't like Pavlov's dog
She's fun at the mind museum
She likes it in a London fog
She don't like other women
She likes whips and chains
She likes cocaine and flippin' out with Great Danes
She's about all I can handle
It's too much for my brain
It's got me under pressure
It's got me under pressure
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@jobrewer1983 So it's been a little over a month and the tube amp still seems to be going from strength to strength. I think the repair guy really knew his **** from his Shineola. Plus he said my buddy and I bypassed that corroded speaker switch nicely!

It's just putting out massive, massive sound with the C-70 driving it tonight. I posted a bit earlier, but the much finer bass and treble controls than the super basic pots on the Maggie unit itself seem to be making a massive difference, much moreso than I could achieve with the WiiM digital EQ.

Pretty neat that I'm choosing music on a TV from 2024, with a PC from 2020, into a modern streamer, into a 1980s control amp, into a 1959 tube amp and cabinets. With connection cable styles invented in 1937(RCA) and 1983(TOSlink AKA digital optical). Audio engineering is amazing. I wish I had gotten into this stuff much earlier in life!
 
Walked into the basement, to do a load of laundry, to find the floor wet, the gas fired water heater was leaking. At 11 am, made 2 phone calls, at noon picked up new water heater, by 2:30 pm, the heater was in and running. Damn, the last water heater I bought was about $400, this one was about $700 with tax, it’s wreaking havoc with my cd/lp budget.

The neighbor had one replaced between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that was a $3100 job. When I put mine in originally, I used my boiler serviceman mentality, shut off valves and unions. It was, shut off the water and gas, broke all the unions, removed the vent piping, slid the old unit out of the way. slid new unit in, reconnected the piping, filled the water heater, reinstalled the stack, turned the gas on, lit the pilot, set the out put temp and we off and running.

Not how I wanted to start the day, but I also did get the laundry done
 
Platypus20 said:
Walked into the basement, to do a load of laundry, to find the floor wet, the gas fired water heater was leaking. At 11 am, made 2 phone calls, at noon picked up new water heater, by 2:30 pm, the heater was in and running. Damn, the last water heater I bought was about $400, this one was about $700 with tax, it’s wreaking havoc with my cd/lp budget.

The neighbor had one replaced between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that was a $3100 job. When I put mine in originally, I used my boiler serviceman mentality, shut off valves and unions. It was, shut off the water and gas, broke all the unions, removed the vent piping, slid the old unit out of the way. slid new unit in, reconnected the piping, filled the water heater, reinstalled the stack, turned the gas on, lit the pilot, set the out put temp and we off and running.

Not how I wanted to start the day, but I also did get the laundry done
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At least yours is in the basement

Our neighborhood doesn't have any because the water table is too high - right on Rock Creek - anyway, the takeaway is that last time that happened to us, I came home to that mess coming through the ceiling near my 1980s setup!!! Utility room (gas furnace and gas water heater) are upstairs (the chimney for the fireplace I sometimes post with the 80s setup runs through there as well, if that helps imagine the layout).

Makes all the jobs more expensive because the poor guys have to lug it up a flight of 1947 sized stairs. Needless to say I prioritize maintenance checks on that now! It didn't rust through tho, it was a backed up line...still...what a mess.

These houses have incredibly solid bones as they were built for the returning GI/DC population explosion after WW2, but there's always SOMETHING going on. Still, I know people with much newer houses that always have issues too, so I guess that's just life.
 
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