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I do, but it's generally because they take much better care of their inventory than the Guitar Center guys do.  I've been in the GC acoustic room and took a guitar off the wall.  The strings were completely corroded, and the neck was warped.  I asked the guy at the counter about it and he said "Oh yeah, we had a humidifier problem in here a couple of weeks back and a bunch of the guitars got really wet...."  Even when that didn't happen, they were poorly tuned and weren't set up at all.

Compare that to the American Music where I usually shop for guitars.  The guy that runs the room is named Johnny.  He's got a son in the Navy, serving on submarines.  Used to be a pretty serious grunge rocker in the 90s'.  I know all of this because he talks to his customers, and he treats every instrument on his wall like it belonged to him, personally.

Yup.  The place has been a financial disaster for a while.  Tons of debt, Bain Capital squeezing it dry...  Honestly, I thought it would be gone by now.  It's too bad, as while I'd never buy a guitar there, I've bought tons of electronics, strings, microphones, and recording gear there.

I'm overtly aggressive.  That way there is no confusion. 

Stanford was their usual machine.  Line up and run between the tackles.  Lot of positives from the Huskies, though.  Their defense looked sharp even as they were getting rolled on, and the offense showed it could move the ball on occasion.  The Dawgs are a year or two away from being a Pac-12 contender again, but it's coming.

Seahawks win against the 49ers was good, but the '9ers aren't a good football team. I give it as much credence as I do the Chicago win.

They *should* win in Dallas, then they bye week.

I am off to find that album. Right now.  EXPRESSO!

Thats.... actually kinda funny. 

I'm going to go drop it on some grieving folks.

Bad weekend overall for Seattle football.  Huskies lost to Oregon (for the 12th consecutive year) sparing me my hangover, and the Seahawks gave up yet another 4th quarter lead to lose to Carolina at home.

That last one tells me that the 'Hawks new defensive coordinator isn't doing his job.   The last play where Carolina's TE, who had been killing them all day, was left undefended in the end zone because Earl Thomas thought he was in one coverage, and Richard Sherman thought he was in a different coverage.  The result is that two 1st team all pros were left looking at each other while the other team spiked the ball.   Same thing happened last week between Thomas and Kam Chancellor.   

That says the coordinator isn't communicating the coverage to the players clearly.

The Michigan - Michigan State game had a spectacular ending.   A bad punt snap gets picked up and run back for a TD, costing the Wolverines the game.  I love it when Harbaugh is on the wrong end of those kinds of plays. 

Yep.  That wasn't the "beaten badly" that I expected, but giving up 17 points in the 4th quarter is still getting beaten.  Badly.  The defense has had problems closing.  They did pretty much the same thing at the end of the Superbowl last year.

Anyway, back to my Huskies.  Steve Sarkasian has been indefinitely suspended as the coach of USC.  He has apparently been showing up for work drunk on a regular basis.  The Chris Peterson upgrade is looking better and better.   I always felt Sarkasian ran an undisciplined operation.  Peterson kicked Marcus Peters off the team when he was the best player on their defense for being a disruptive force in the locker room.   That kid was so good he went 18th in the draft, and now starts for the Chiefs.

Pro Football Weekly just ranked their O-line 30th out of 32 teams.   No offensive line means you can't throw down field and make use of your shiny new All World tight end.  It means you can't run because defenses know they don't have to defend against the deep ball.   You're basically left with screens.   The Bengals can score points and even an average defense can stop the Seahawks offense right now.  I'm not optimistic.

In much, MUCH better news, my Huskies went down to LA last night and beat USC.  Not bad for 17 point underdogs.  It also validates my position that letting Steve Sarkasian (now forever known as "Lane Kiffen Jr.") go and hiring Chris Peterson was a complete upgrade for the UW.   It's the first time a UW Huskies football team has beaten a ranked opponent on the road in something like a decade.

They get an Oregon team that is on it's heals next Saturday.  If they win that game I may have to miss a few days recovering from my hangover.

Holmgren is on the radio up here a lot.  I love listening to him.  The sad thing is that he actually wanted the 49ers job, and actively sought it out.

Your owner is the problem.  That dude is a moran.

The Packers are looking more and more like the team to beat.   Dallas might contend if they can survive until Romo and Dez get back on the roster.