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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek

@andrewhd.net
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It is not your business to turn out a funeral. Electrical and classical guitarman. Recovering musicologist. Wrote the boring chapter in the Julius Eastman book. He/him

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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 7h
One of the #Hooptober tasks is to watch the lowest rated movie of the 1980s, and it took me four different services to find the actual Hobgoblins (1988) instead of the corresponding MST3K episode.
Title card of Hobgoblins (1988)
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 11/10/2026
We're not too far into Cellar Dweller (1987) for tonight's #Hooptober, but seems like a waste of a perfectly good Jeffrey Combs thus far.
Title card of Cellar Dweller (1987)
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A digital illustration done in black and white graphite style. Toshiro Mifune as his unnamed ronin character in Yojimbo. With both swords prominently on view in his belt, he has his arms pulled inside of his black kimono with one hand coming up through the collar to stroke his chin as he gives some sharp side eye to the right, scheming. In a text box in the upper right corner is what I sincerely hope is an accurate Japanese translation of ‘maybe it will happen today’.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
However, after years of only playing locking tremolos, I was not prepared for the tuning instability. I dropped the bridge down to dive only mode, but now feel like I really need to crank on it to get anything. Next up are some locking tuners so I can hopefully get the wiggle back.
A Stratocaster bridge dropped to be flush against the body of the guitar rather than float.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
I did screw up and give her a white pickguard to decorate when all the original hardware is clearly cream, but I'll either swap that out or keep telling myself that it gives it a "bone" look.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
The main event is this incredible pickguard from our drummer, Dee. Her skeletons are inarguably the brand of the band, and all that space looked like an obvious canvas. I've probably been too precious with my guitars previously, but this broke the dam for further mods.
Close-up of a white pick guard drawn with black marker of various skeletons, mounted on a black Stratocaster.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
That said, it got relegated to backup duty when I got a Les Paul a few years later and eventually spent a decade in my parents' house before retrieving it to act mostly as a "weird tuning" lab. Seemed obvious to revive it for playing with Skaleton Crew.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
It's a Mexican-made Stratocaster I got sometime in early high school, let's 1997? My understanding is that's kind of a highwater mark for them where QC tolerances were such that you could luck your way into getting a pretty nice guitar.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
Thought I would some level of documentation about how I'm turning the first "real" guitar I ever owned into a dedicated ska machine, let's tentatively call it the Skalecaster I.
Me holding my black Stratocaster with a pick guard decorated with skeletons in front of my face.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/10/2026
In these worrying times of AI, does Deadly Friend (1986) have the #Hooptober answers to guide us? Likely not, and yes I already know about the basketball.
Title card of Deadly Friend (1986)
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 06/10/2026
The new Emma Ruth Rundle is pretty good, but is acting as another reminder that I've never done that Tori Amos deep dive.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 06/10/2026
Going back to the 60s for #Hooptober with Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), which appears to be a double turn with Christopher Lee as the face and Peter Cushing working heel. But I have been fooled before.
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing (in shabby dress), Alan Freeman, Roy Castle, and Neil McCallum in a train car.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 05/10/2026
Tonight for #Hooptober we're revisiting a movie that scared my wife as a child. Let's see if it holds up! (Don't tell her but I haven't seen an Amityville movie before.) Sequels 3/5 Haunted item ✔️
Title card of Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes (1989).
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/10/2026
October's Bandcamp Friday is the MOST APPROPRIATE TIME to buy some music from my spooky #ska band! Or is the GHOST APPROPRIATE, o ho ho!
skaletoncrew666.bandcamp.com
Skaleton Crew
Skaleton Crew is a ska/punk/new tone band that writes songs about the spooky, supernatural, queerness, mental health, and neurodivergence. If you are looking for a spooky fun time, come out and join the crew!
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/10/2026
October's Bandcamp Friday is the MOST APPROPRIATE TIME to buy some music from my spooky #ska band! Or is the GHOST APPROPRIATE, o ho ho!
skaletoncrew666.bandcamp.com
Skaleton Crew
Skaleton Crew is a ska/punk/new tone band that writes songs about the spooky, supernatural, queerness, mental health, and neurodivergence. If you are looking for a spooky fun time, come out and join the crew!
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/10/2026
IN THREE DIMENSIONS!!!
Kristin and I wearing classic red/blue 3-D glasses
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/10/2026
Friday the 13th has never been my favorite of the great slasher franchises, but this #Hooptober let's see if it works… Sequels 2/5 Steve Miner ✔️ Harry Manfredini ✔️▪️
The title card of Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 30/09/2026
Shouldn't have buried the joke in the alt text but I think a lot of people bought them as their first sampler, myself included, and it's especially bad at that. It's easier to learn to use something where the buttons say what they do rather than faux-Saxon jokes.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 30/09/2026
god dammit
A EP-1320 Medieval sitting on my desk, that I’m totally going to use! Really! I didn’t forget how it works or anything! I’ve just been busy!
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 30/09/2026
Took me until now to realize all these spam calls I'm getting from Wisconsin area codes *might* be related to the election.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's crazy to have witnessed, in real time, over the span of about 10 years, Knowing Ball fully shifting from right wing-coded to left wing-coded.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 29/09/2026
"But what if the rich also benefit" really is the last bastion for these kinds of dipshits.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 29/09/2026
Day of the Dead (1985) has thus far been the best movie this #Hooptoberr by two orders of magnitude. Romero at his best of you have, you know, the stomach for it. Sequels 1/5 George Romero ✔️ Tom Savini ✔️
My living room with the title card to Day of the Dead (1985) on the TV.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 27/09/2026
Just got a call that apparently my Iowa degree has been revoked for getting busy making dinner and missing the last drive of the Michigan game.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 25/09/2026
Ayy wtf I was going to post about the new Pink Slip being real good and they dropped a whole dang album. #ska
pinkslip666.bandcamp.com
Bathtub Madonna, by PINK SLIP
9 track album
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 25/09/2026
I need to get over my anti-poster's mindset of "oh, it's nine in the morning" or "better check the timelines to make sure there isn't a new war before posting some tunes or something".
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 25/09/2026
Want to celebrate the life of Richard Harrison but the only movie of his I could jam into Hooptober is one of the great Worst Movies Ever Made. The time and amount of wine I've consumed doesn't make that super likely.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 22/09/2026
It took three movies for this year's #Hooptober to get to the 80s with Hide and Go Shriek (1988). A movie with the reputation of being passable, but checks off the work of Screaming Mad George! Decades 3/7 Screaming Mad George 😱▪️
The title card for Hide and Go Shriek (1988).
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 21/09/2026
hell yeah youtu.be/jS0iv-9hRNc?is=8X4fP...
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 21/09/2026
Not sure whether today's shenanigans strengthen or weaken my "Tom Brady is an alien pretending to be human" case.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 21/09/2026
It is my refusal to leave the Following tab that I’m seeing nothing about the one Cowboy stepping on the other Cowboy’s nuts.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 17/09/2026
Early signs point to no!
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 17/09/2026
We'll see #Hooptober can be less problematic tonight with "Enter the Devil" (1974). Decades 2/7 Countries 🇺🇸🇮🇹 "Devil" in title ✔️
Title card showing “The Eerie Midnight Horror Show”, an alternate title for “Enter the Devil”
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 17/09/2026
Started #Hooptober last night with Skinner (1993). We've already watched this one so I'll say that it's buoyed by a fun Ted Raimi performance for a little while anyway.
Television showing the title card reading “Skinner”
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 09/09/2026
foldy boi waddup
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 09/09/2026
No one's going to say anything about the Ventura train delayed thing? #AppleEvent
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 08/09/2026
One funny thing about being involved in the big Reddit fantasy football league is the unexpected number of teams with anime logos, which feels incongruous even if it shouldn't.
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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Gilmore. Lincoln, Carl Weathers and an alligator floating above a house waving happily
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 07/09/2026
A real bummer about Andy Williams. Never heard a bad word of him for either hardcore or wrestling crews. Rest easy, Butcher.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/09/2026
That's true, the mountain ultimately doesn't distinguish too much between Uninformed and Confidently Wrong. When I was going up Falling Waters to the ridge last year, I came across a couple a mile in wearing sandals who didn't know how far it was, despite the fact they were there at 6:30 AM!
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/09/2026
AI inventing new ways to kill people
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 02/09/2026
That said, Massachusetts politics really do be "I hate Congress but love my congressperson."
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 12/11/2024
seth moulton retire bitch
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 28/08/2026
Maybe not my best work, but sometimes you should go with your gut instinct. gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario/
Map of newly controversial Lake Ontario, except labeled “Lake Wait, Isn’t This Huron? Oh Shit Oh Fuck”
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8Bit’s👾 @8bittanookisuit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Our king died this morning. A good man. A man of the people. He brought people together during hard, celebrated with people during good times. He was called Norway’s grandfather in his later years, and it fitted him perfectly. I just wanted to get that out there. May he rest in peace.
static.klipy.com
Solitude
ALT: Solitude
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Andy Hanson-Dvoracek @andrewhd.net · 16/08/2026
Gotta be Tampopo boxd.it/1SZe
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Tampopo (1985)
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment...
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Ernesto Montoya 🟦 🇨🇦🇮🇱🇿🇦 @benkalman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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