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What does monophonic sound have to do with the moral turpitude of electric shavers? Let's find out.
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James Lileks
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That Jackie Gleason music...is that depressing is it just me? And will Sensor be the new TracII?
Wait a minute, TracII is available on the web!
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No Victrola, but the medicine cabinet description made me smile. My grandfather's cabinet, exactly.
My grandparents, born in 1908, were mid and had a stereo, in a cabinet with speakers and a deep shelf for vinyl records.
Their vinyl of Isaac Stern plying violin concertos influenced me to become a musician.
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I'm pretty sure that the razor blade slot in the back of the medicine cabinet really was supposed to let the blades drop behind the wall, in the space between the studs. Perhaps the drywall (or plaster) had been removed in the room behind the mirror.
And I'm pretty sure this was done so that small razor-sharp things wouldn't be mixed in the with the normal bathroom trash.
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