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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 01/10/2026

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FlyDubai flight showed extreme altitude fluctuations before landing in Saudi Arabia

[Graph shows exaggerated altitude changes while the plane was being hijacked]

1 Departed Dubai
2 Flight-tracking data showed sharp drop and rise in reported altitude
3) Flight emergency declared
4 Emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia All times are Eastern Time (ET).
Source: FightRadar24

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 25/09/2026

Trump loves to give his mug shot look to the cameras whenever he can.

Trump’s mug shot where he’s leering towards the camera with a scowl on his face.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 25/09/2026

Trump loves his mugshot look.

The infamous Trump mugshot with his angry stare.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 20/09/2026

I have the Ibanez AWD102NT model of this guitar. The AWD is on the right while the guitar on thee left is its cousin the AS103NT. Both guitars are 20 years old.

The AWD102NT is on the right while the guitar on the left is its cousin the AS103NT. Both guitars are 20 years old. They have matching natural (light) finishes and both are semi hollow guitars.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 16/09/2026

I didn’t send any feedback to the feed! What does it think I said?

In my “For You” feed, I see the following notification:

Thank you for your feedback! It has been sent to the feed operator.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 14/09/2026

She now has two pieces of chicken out of her bowl. And after taking this photo she finally ate both pieces and has gone for thirds.

Bennie the white chihuahua mix with tan ears and long hair here and there, arranges two pieces of chicken on a pillow (her pillow). She is eating neither of them.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 14/09/2026

Video: Bennie plays with her food. I got her some of the “human grade” dog food they sell at the store and she’s suspicious of it. In the video, she is sitting on her pillow and taking quick stabs at the piece of chicken with her paws or her mouth, but she’s not eating it (yet).

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 14/09/2026

Robin Trower, front row, right in front of his amp set to 11.

Concert ticket stub for Robin Trower at the Springfield (Mass) Civic Center. Because there were no seats on the floor and because I got there really early, I was able to snag the very front right at thew stage, facing Robin Trower’s amp, set to 11.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 05/09/2026

Wish I still had this Ibanez 2351 Fancy Les Paul Studio copy. Circa late 1978. Everything except the neck and body are upgrades done at the Ibanez factory. The story goes that Ibanez was using up the last of its Les Paul copy parts by combining them with the hardware from its new Performer series.

An Ibanez Les Paul copy, model 2351, with “Fancy” upgrades to the tuners, pickups, bridge, tail, and even knobs. The finish is a tea burst, called “Antique Violin” in the Ibanez catalog.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 04/09/2026

No need to link to this article. I’m just here to say that if you showed this headline to a true Rush fan from 50 years ago they would cringe in horror. Then again, maybe they’d think that THE FUTURE had finally come to pass and that it was a cool and great place to be.

MENS JOURNAL

'70s Rock Legends Named 'The Coolest Band on the Planet' Expand Their U.S. Reunion Tour With New Dates

13h ago • by Rachel Schneider

Photo shows a stock image of the hard rock band, Rush, with Alex Lifeson on double-neck guitar and Geddy Lee on double-neck guitar/bass, circa 1976 or so.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 04/09/2026

Sluggo the punk rocker (of 1946) singing the first punk rock song.

Slugo and Nancy are walking down the street. Slugo is playing a ukulele and singing a song he wrote. The words to the song are “when I’m alone, I want Phone, I wanna grown, I wanna moan.”

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 03/09/2026

From my old bedroom door, circa 1972-76.

Several stickers on a door, including “Old Spit” deodorant and “Stifford’s” glue and “Moobelline Cow Mascara”

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 26/08/2026

The band featured a five-piece horn section playing Jimmy Page’s Stairway to Heaven guitar solo note for note. I also saw the 1988 tour (Zappa’s last) this album is recorded from.

Ticket stub for Frank Zappa’s band at the Beacon Theater in NYC, from 1988.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 24/08/2026

Gotta love a white Strat with a maple neck.

A Fernandes Burny Olds Stratocaster copy, circa 1976, with a white body (aged to cream), white pickguard, and a maple neck. It also has a bullet truss rod and a micro tilt neck, just like the actual Fender guitars had back then.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 24/08/2026

I did skip the South on purpose when I was younger.

A map of the United States showing which states I’ve lived in (three, CT, MA, and WA) and which I have visited, not including flight layovers (41 total).

I have not visited any of the Deep South except for Texas and Florida.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 16/08/2026

This concert ticket stub was from the 1984 tour supporting this album. I remember he played many longer solos that night compared to some other concerts.

Concert ticket stub for Frank Zappa in September of 1984 playing in Saratoga Springs, NY.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 13/08/2026

Just like what I saw in Seattle in August of 2017.

Partial solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. The light through the trees cast shadows on the sidewalk showing the crescent of the eclipse.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 04/08/2026

I got to see ZZ Top front row at the same hockey rink the next Spring. I nearly died from the crush of that crowd. Top had to cancel the Springfield show on their big tour so this was a makeup gig on a Tuesday. We drove their early and were first in line at the door.

General admission ticket to see ZZ Top in Springfield, Mass, in 1977.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 04/08/2026

I had front row (general admission) seats to a Trower concert in 1977. Those stacks were so loud I couldn’t hear the bass, drums, or singing for the entire concert. It was fantastic.

A concert ticket stub to see Robin Trower in 1977 in Springfield, Massachusetts. There were no seats on the floor. I ran as fast as I could and got the very front on Trowers’ side of the stage.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 28/07/2026

#nofilter My camera took this picture all by itself.

Out of focus dots of light on a dark background. It almost looks like a street scene at night through a rainsoaked window.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 24/07/2026

Not quite time to get up, Dad.

Bennie the white chihuahua mix pokes her head out from under the covers of my bed, not ready to face the day.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 22/07/2026

He might as well add, “on Mars.”

Elon Xitter post:

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

My suggestion is to add “on Mars.” to that statement.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 21/07/2026

We were in the car and I used the selfie camera, hence the odd angle. I like it.

Another shot of Bennie the white chihuahua mix as she gazes off stage left (or maybe she’s looking at me).

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 20/07/2026

I saw them a couple times back in the day.

Concert ticket stub for THIN LIZZY on October 27, 1977. Right mezzanine (balcony), row J, seat 27. The cost was $8.50 and the venue was the Palladium in New York City.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 18/07/2026

Ernie never let a good strip idea go to waste.

Nancy: HMM A NEW GIRL IN TOWN

OH MISS WHAT’S YOUR NAME?

Girl: SLUGGO

Signs on wall:

FOOTBALL

LADIES ADMITTED FREE TODAY

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 18/07/2026

Sluggo had dreams. (Damn doing alt text for a comic is time consuming.)

Four little boys are walking along the road. Sluggo is one of them. They first three speak in turn:

• I WISH I WAS A BANKER
• I WISH I WAS AN ENGINEER
• I WISH I WAS AN AVIATOR

As the boys come upon a baseball diamond with the advertisement, “LADIESS ADMITTED FREE” Sluggo offers his wish:

• I WISH I WAS A GIRL

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 15/07/2026

In solidarity, MOP logo and pearloid buttons. 🎸😉

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 10/07/2026

My Greco EG500 dressed up to look like Frank Zappa’s “Shut Up n Play” Les Paul:

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 04/07/2026

Takamine’s commitment to looking good goes along with their commitment to sounding good. At least back when their instruments came exclusively from Japan, they did.

A headstock for an acoustic guitar made by Takamine & Co. in the 1970s. The company is Japanese and it sold acoustic guitars that looked almost exactly like various American models (like CF Martin or Guild) except with logos that matched the style but not the name of the American company. Hence the Takamine headstock above looks at first as if it is from a CF Martin guitar.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 02/07/2026

The Whidbey/Oak Harbor earthquake from last night now appears to have had one pre-shock and three aftershocks along with the main quake. Very cool.

A QuakeFeed map of last night’s earthquakes in Oak Harbor, about ten miles from me as the crow flies (20 by road). The map shows five total quakes: A precursor? of 2.4 followed by the big quake of 3.8 and three smaller aftershocks.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 30/06/2026

Dis-gusting. It’s supposed to make a cool whip style topping, but I was trying it straight into my coffee instead of heavy cream. Ugh. They have a shit ton of it at Safeway. No one seems to be buying it. Now I know why.

A carton uof imitation heavy whipping cream made from non-dairy ingredients. Yum!

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 27/06/2026

Just filmed this baby bunny up on our back porch. #nature

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 26/06/2026

Something I had to come to grips with as an older guitar collector is that my children simply do not want to inherit an entire collection of guitars they will only have to sell. Right now, just one of my guitars has dibbs called on it by one of my kids, and it’s not worth anything to collectors.

A Kent (made in Japan) bass that has been entirely redone in terms of electronics and pickups. It also features a painted body (done by me) of an amalgam of iconic Western desert scenes with cactus and buttes in the distance. There is also a tiny plastic lizard visible underneath the clear pickguard.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 26/06/2026

I resurrected my website just a few days ago and it's already indexed by Google. They are still super fast. If I search my real name and my domain, my site comes up first in the listings. I just wanted to confirm I'm in there. Nice to not have to scroll too far to find it.

A Google Search results page showing a search for "[REDACTED] chucke.com". The website for chucke.com is the first in the rankings.

The header for the search result reads:

Welcome to Chucke.com
Here are a few liinks to track me down these days...

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 25/06/2026

I don’t understand why the hawks and eagles around here don’t take out more of them? Or maybe they do but of course rabbits breed for that.

And another rabbit, this time staring right at the camera.

Close up crop of one bunny in a classic bunny pose.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 24/06/2026

Any excuse to show off my Vegas 66:

Me playing my Vegas 66 hollowbody electric guitar.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 17/06/2026

A perfect symbol for Trump’s America.

The Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial, now choked with algae and giving off a green slime glow.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 15/06/2026

In 1978 I really wanted an Alembic or BC Rich, and this Musician fit the bill (and I could afford it with a trade in).

A closeup of the body to an Ibanez Musician model MC400NT. The body has a natural finish over many layers of wood (mahogany in the core and birch on the surface), two humbucker pickups, and a bunch of knobs that add up to an onboard EQ and boost.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 10/06/2026

Mamma show up to keep an eye on baby.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 08/06/2026

I’m glad to see them out and killing it. And anyone complaining about Geddy’s voice should just stop. I saw them back in the day and his voice was always strained live.

A Rush concert ticket from November of 1977, at thee Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie New York. Ticket value was $6.00.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 03/06/2026

#TicketStubWed This is from 1978, September 3rd, so most likely the same tour?

A concert ticket stub for Yes at the New Haven (CT) Coliseum, on September 3, 1978, section 13, row 7, seat 7. Price: $8.50.

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Chuck E and Bennie @chucke.com · 02/06/2026

This is as close as bananas get to being juice, I think. You have to blend them with something else.

A bottle of V8 Strawberry Banana juice (100% juice, though definitely not JUST strawberry and banana). The juice is colored red.

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