Graham Bratzel

What I’m reading: Mistborn by Brando Sando, finally.

What I just read: The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. → Read more

What I’m doing:

  • Editing photos from Iceland.

  • Planning a trip to Dallas for the eclipse.

  • Waiting for the X100VI to ship.

    • Trying out my new X100VI!

  • Pining for the fjords.

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I can also tell you about the time I played …

  • A headless electric bass in a sci-fi jukebox musical to sold out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

It was my high school’s performance of Return to the Forbidden Planet, and I sewed my own costume as a Space Rodeo Clown.

  • Smoke on the Water on a giant harp that used the Space Needle as the soundboard.

Too long for pizzicato, of course, so you bow with gloves covered in rosin.

  • Tic-tac-toe against a chicken and lost every time.

If tic-tac-toe weren’t a solved game, I’d have concerns.

And the time I won …

  • A bike competition with a trike we finished in the parking lot the night before.

Lucky for us, the design report awarded more points than the actual race.

  • A jazz combo competition while wearing a utilikilt and protecting my upright bass from my sporran’s buckle.

The bass was school property, but it’s never right to hurt a bass.

  • A remote controlled airplane competition after building it using only a given box of limited supplies.

It had yardstick wing spars, a gutter fuselage and Spitfire wings, and we soaked the engine manual’s pages in superglue to blend the wing roots.

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