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This is a playlist from my GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel, just a bunch of old blues tunes I ran through at various points. These are some select ones I like, but…
Here’s a page collecting some of my musical guest appearances documented on the web. Currently there ain’t much that’s been documented, and less of that that’s posted, but as I…
Over the past few years I accumulated a range of inexpensive but beautiful-sounding equipment: a ’94 Standard Stratocaster, both Xtomp and Ampero modeling effects pedals from Hotone, and a Fender…
This digital 0″, originally hosted on my Bandcamp page, contains a track that sat unfinished on my hard drive for far too long, now finally having had the burrs filed…
May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume’s parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the…
These are probably my favorites of the various video performances I posted on the GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel over the years I was active there. There’s a little variety here — both…
Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years…
This one is finished except for the final production and mastering… it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created…
Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I’d met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited…
I’ve been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here’s one I’m still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called “The Strutbutter…
Imagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score.
Add tagCLass parameter to all necessary downstream functions from get_site_changes_log_shortcode to add .blacktext to category links in site change log so proper link hover styles are observed
Set so site title is H1 on front page, h2 on all other pages so article titles are main h1
2025jan9
Change sinatra_entry_meta_category so doesn’t display span.heroclassicon at all if $showicon is off. Before was just omitting $iconclass string.
update default K thumbnail to red
2025jan7
update mk caching functions to use wp_cache_set and wp_cache_get instead of transients and remove $is_running transient performance kludges from mk sinatra additions since its now faster
2025jan1
Update caching to store last updated date and data in one transient instead of making two calls
2024dec26
testing
Updated mk dev log not to use admin_init, just ajax, to prevent dupe entries
Make fromblog shortcode links nofollow
Mike Kupietz, your humble proprietor, serving these electrons to you steaming hot from a server in the heart of San Francisco, right where the American dream rises out of the Pacific as a moist, gray fog and ascends to Heaven in a cacophony of poetry, acid rock and sarcasm.
This site brought to you by four months flat on my back in summer 2023 due to long covid, plus a whole lot of additional lovin' sweat & frustration since then. Per aspera, ad astra.
