WFMU: The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from February 2, 2021

Listener comments!
	10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Kris
	10:01pm Matt from New Orleans: Straight into the tunes. No intro this week.
	🥁 10:01pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Matt, Kris. Nice new avatar, Matt
	10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: You starting with the Jazz boxes now?
	10:02pm ifny: Good. 2021 needs no intros.
	10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: I switched it up during Danny’s show last week I think Candy. How are you?
	10:03pm Kris Holmes: Hi everyone. Nah just messing with the start of the show.
	🥁 10:03pm Candy-O'67: I'm doing well. Enjoying the loads of sunshine we've been having every day and working hard
	🥁 10:04pm Candy-O'67: Great Gene Pitney song!!
	10:05pm Kris Holmes: I've been meaning to make new intro track for a while, will get to it one day
	10:06pm Scott67: G'day Kris & Homebound Buddies! 😎✌❤🌏
	🥁 10:07pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Scott! Good to see ya again!
	10:07pm Kris Holmes: G'day Scott
	10:08pm Scott67: Hey Candy of the very good year! 😎🤙
	10:09pm CC: Hi y'all..!.. Happy groundhogs day!!!...:)
	🥁 10:11pm WR: hi all. curious, on the Ivories, male or female lead vocal?
	10:16pm Matt from New Orleans: Ella Lewis WR www.uncamarvy.com...
	10:16pm ifny: @WR Probably Ella Dawson on vocals.
	10:16pm ifny: Damn, NOLA quick on the draw :)
	10:17pm ifny: Don't know where my brain got Dawson from. But Ella FTW
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Kris and all
	10:21pm Peter Mac: Kia ora, Kris. Sounding good. Enjoyed your sets a few weeks back going thru the E and F boxes, that was fun
	10:23pm Scott67: G'day coel! 😎🖖
	10:24pm Kris Holmes: Kia ora Pete! We're still on F
	10:25pm still b/p: I'm gonna confess here right now that the Buckinghams lyrics-added version of Mercy Mercy Mercy and the original instrumental walked separately around the streets of my familiarity but never ran into one another to be recognized together as family until now, as I was looking at song and Zawinul info, with me saying, "Ohhhhh! Yeah." And then I said, "Sheesh," and then I said, "Brains, huh? Go figure 'em."
	10:26pm Peter Mac: Excellent, bring it on!
	🥁 10:26pm WR: thanks tor the link Matt. interesting read.
	10:27pm Kris Holmes: Buckinghams version isn't terrible, I might still have the 45 filed in the rock boxes
	🥁 10:28pm Candy-O'67: Diggin' these Ace Bright gospel tunes. I'm gonna have to look into getting some of his stuff
	🥁 10:29pm WR: thank you for flipping over the Ace Bright & The Silver Stars record.
	10:29pm Matt from New Orleans: No worries WR
	10:29pm Kris Holmes: Candy, I have done extensive googling since I found it on Saturday & can safely say that this is probably all his stuff, two songs, one 45, incredible .
	🥁 10:32pm Candy-O'67: Too bad that's all he probably did. Where did you find it?
	10:33pm ifny: There's no shame in country 45s.
	10:36pm CC: It's probably going to change!!!...:)
	10:36pm ifny: Your partner needs a mic. Intelligence is so often underamplified ;)
	10:38pm Kris Holmes: No, don't give her the mic, her stories are longer than mine.... lol
	10:39pm Matt from New Orleans: She is funnier though 😜
	10:40pm ifny: That's ok. Sometimes quality and quantity actually go together. Where do we have to be tonight? Nowheres!
	10:40pm Kris Holmes: I'm funnier back in NZ I swear!!! America just doesn't get it!!
	10:40pm ifny: @Matt hear hear!
	🥁 10:40pm Candy-O'67: Hahaha, Kris!!
	10:40pm ifny: For the rekkid not all the mutineers in here are USanians.
	10:41pm ifny: Wow, this track is truly shades of awesome madness.
	🥁 10:43pm WR: this section of the "Fs" sure be funky.
	10:45pm Kris Holmes: I know, crazy how that worked out
	10:46pm CC: So high...and low!!!...:)
	10:48pm coelacanth∅: g'day Scott! Happy birthday CC!
	10:49pm ifny: This is the second birthday I've witnessed today, and it's only the second of February! What surprises 2021 has in store for us. Happy birthday II CC!
	10:49pm CC: ...:)O(:...
	10:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Ernie is named Ernst Von Funkenstein on a quality Jimmy Witherspoon album Baby, Baby, Baby. I like Kenny Burrell on a bunch of the tracks.
	10:53pm ifny: Comment board denizens can only carry the deejay so far.
	10:53pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey there
	10:54pm coelacanth∅: greetings Phillippe
	10:54pm ifny: We have to keep the intertubes warm, breathing on them and stomping our teensy 2D feet.
	10:54pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry is a fan of this one. He uses a sample from this for his non-FMU radio show.
	10:54pm ifny: Salut Phillippe!
	10:55pm Kris Holmes: Larry has great taste
	10:57pm Matt from New Orleans: I think Funky DJ was actually recorded in Muscle Shoals
	10:58pm Kris Holmes: says both places on the label
	10:59pm ifny: Labels will say anything these days.
	11:01pm ifny: Always trying to pull one over some poor innocent vinyl.
	11:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Australian group?
	11:05pm ifny: Love that vibrato on Frootful.
	🥁 11:06pm Candy-O'67: Happy birthday, CC!
	11:07pm Matt from New Orleans: Happy Birthday CC
	11:09pm Matt from New Orleans: That’s a London based label but they seem to release a number of Australian bands. They just released a really good album from Menagerie a Melbourne based Spiritual Jazz Ensemble.
	11:11pm ifny: Angeline Morrison lives in Cornwall so perhaps Frootful is UK based too.
	11:13pm ifny: Learn to use GIMP or Inkscape. Same learning curve as Ye Olde Photoshoppe but they are free and open source. Or crayons, I'm a big fan of crayons.
	11:14pm Matt from New Orleans: They have U.K. based acts like Speedometer and used to put out comps by Craig Charles before Greg Boramon left and took Craig with him.
	11:14pm Kris Holmes: I had Inkscape a long time ago & couldn't figure it out. I can't overstate how terrible I am at that stuff!
	11:14pm Matt from New Orleans: Fugi!
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: i have a photoshop cd here somewhere that came with a scanner i bought. i've never installed it, never have used photoshop. just gimp.
	11:17pm ifny: @Kris Yeah I hear that. You might want to give GIMP a try -- it's more dialled down, easier to pick up quickly www.gimp.org
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: ...though when wfmu had that Muuro art contest i decided to do it with scissors and glue.
	11:18pm ifny: Though let me reiterate my love for crayons. They are especially excellent looking when melted.
	11:19pm Matt from New Orleans: Didn’t you play this under a different name on Hit?
	11:20pm ifny: I used to have an album that was made completely from paper, except for the actual plastic of the CD. The CD had a plain white paper circle affixed to it. All the sounds on it were made using paper. It was amazing. I lost it. I don't think I will ever find it again. My kanji is pisspoor :(
	11:20pm Kris Holmes: Yeah. I was trying to remember the other versions, this is one.
	11:21pm ifny: @coel nice! Just scissors and glue? That must have been a striking sculpture!
	11:21pm ifny: It may surprise you to know that I am a huge fan of scissors.
	11:22pm Matt from New Orleans: 😯
	11:23pm coelacanth∅: there used to be a real dollar store here that sold actually good scissors. i have scissors everywhere. just in case
	11:25pm ifny: I discovered I have a lovely old pair of Olfas kicking around my house. They're compact and fabulous kitchen shears, slightly serrated. Great ergonomics.
	11:27pm ifny: I have scissors everywhere too but I've taken to keeping the Olfas in my knife block.
	11:30pm Matt from New Orleans: Do the blades snap off when they wear out?
	🥁 11:30pm WR: good F'delic tune which reminds me, i need tp go back and listen to Grogan's G. Clinton show from last Friday. work made me miss a lot of it.
	11:33pm ifny: @Matt Snap off the crappy scissors in my house or the Olafs? I have some crappy house inherited scissors with snapped off tips. But the Olafs are staying nice and sharp what with their serration, and I don't try to pry cans open with them so the blade tips are fine. Also the way they've shaped the tips looks like it is more resistant to snapping.
	11:34pm ifny: olfa-olfa.com if you want to see what I mean
	11:34pm Matt from New Orleans: It was a stupid joke about the Olaf’s as they created the snap off utility blade
	11:35pm Matt from New Orleans: Olfa’s stupid autocorrect
	11:35pm ifny: ohhh sorry
	11:35pm ifny: According to their website their name means 'break a blade' in Japanese so that makes sense!
	11:37pm ifny: I think I must have the SCS-2 olfa-olfa.com...
	11:38pm Matt from New Orleans: Otis Funkmeyer reminded of the cookie man Otis Spunkmeyer. I don’t think I’ve had one of their cookies in years.
	11:42pm ifny: I've been nerding out about handsaws this week. I've decided to buy a Silky, so excited! Beautiful design; 3D serration and blade tapers in three directions so it doesn't stick as you cut. They saw on the backstroke, smooth and less tiring. The teeth are tempered harder than the blade itself, meaning that the teeth stay sharp longer while the softness of the blade allows it to flex so it is less brittle and more resistant to snapping.
	🥁 11:45pm WR: with the foccacia she is...
	11:45pm ifny: What the focaccia is going on!
	11:48pm Kris Holmes: ha, i don't know, a regular crazy Tuesday in the Holmes house
	11:48pm coelacanth∅: i'd like to have a saw like that, but i don't need more stuff. it's either big enough to need the circular saw, table saw or sabre saw; or small enough that i can deal with using my shitty saw for a minute.
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: (although it's true i'd use the handsaw for slightly larger jobs if i had a good one)
	11:51pm ifny: I'm buying the Silky Ultra Accel. It's foldable and small enough that I can take it bicycle camping, but still respectably resize the log wafers that are annoying to chop with my axe. (I have some aged cherry that is a notorious axe-killer.) I have some carpentry project in mind as well.
	11:53pm Matt from New Orleans: Curved or straight?
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: i'm thinking a pruning saw would be better for firewood, no? - not as smooth but faster
	11:53pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Kris. One more letter down.
	11:54pm ifny: Curved for my pleasure. This is the one I'm buying www.silkysaws.com... but if portability isn't important to you, you'd probably want a curved Silky Bigboy www.silkysaws.com... My arborist buddy swears by them.
	🥁 11:55pm Candy-O'67: Thanks for another great night, Kris!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: they look like pruning saws to me! i want to zoom in on those teeth but it's not an option.
	11:57pm ifny: Silkys are great for pruning, that's what she uses it for. I don't need to dovetail anything, else I would have gotten a straight blade. Silkys have two lock positions, most people think the second is for sawing something near the ground but it's actually for sawing overhead or at difficult angles. The Silky Ultra Accel has been called the Goldilocks of folding handsaws and I am stoked :)
	11:59pm ifny: The curved blade is nice because it pulls the wood in toward you on the backstroke, plus the curve gives you greater strength length. There are some good in-depth reviews/demos on YT, with teeth closeups.
	11:59pm ifny: Just remember that almost no one knows what the second position is for :P
	🥁 11:59pm WR: thank you Kris for the tunes. youse other folks be careful with those pointy tools.
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: i have a nameless folding pruner, wooden handle. locks into place, no complaints. forbigger jobs, most jobs though i use the blade off a pole pruner that somehow got left at my sister's house by save-a-tree. aluminum everything. need to use gloves to hold onto it but it's pretty amazing.
	12:00am ifny: Thank you! Safety third! :D
	12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Kris!
	12:01am ifny: @coel There's gorgeous rubber on the handles of the Silkys. Just sayin' if you ever have to replace what you have ;)
	12:02am coelacanth∅: one day, ifny... one day!
	12:02am ifny: Oh, and the handle of the Ultra Accel is aluminium, which is bonkers, but made very strong w/ no flex.
	12:02am ifny: Haha, indeed.

The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from February 2, 2021

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February 2, 2021

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Artist	Track	Label	Format	Approx. start time
Cannonball Adderley	Mercy Mercy Mercy	Capitol	7"	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gene Pitney	She's A Heartbreaker "She's A Heartbreaker" by "Gene Pitney"	Musicor	7"	0:03:08 (Pop-up)
The Ivories	I'm In Love "I'm In Love" by "The Ivories"	Mercury	7"	0:06:13 (Pop-up)
Ronnie Pearson	Hot Shot "Hot Shot" by "Ronnie Pearson"	Herald	7"	0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Bobby Freeman	Betty Lou Got A New Pair Of Shoes	Josie	7"	0:11:28 (Pop-up)
Ace Bright & The Silver Stars	I'm Going On To The End	Silver Star	7"	0:17:16 (Pop-up)
Marie Franklin	You Ain't Changed "You Ain't Changed" by "Marie Franklin"	Maverick	7"	0:19:53 (Pop-up)
Johnny Allen	That's Not Nice "That's Not Nice" by "Johnny Allen"	Chris	7"	0:22:12 (Pop-up)
Franky & The Spindles	(My Girl Is Made Of) Candy	Roc-Ker	7"	0:24:55 (Pop-up)
Ace Bright & The Silver Stars	It Will All Be Over After A While	Silver Star	7"	0:27:06 (Pop-up)
Ray Frazier & the Shades of Madness	I Who Have Nothing (Am Somebody)	Stanson	7"	0:36:12 (Pop-up)
Freddie & The Kinfolk	Mashed Potato Popcorn	Dade	7"	0:41:13 (Pop-up)
Free Form Experience	Reach Higher	Free Form	7"	0:42:11 (Pop-up)
Bobby Freeman	Everybody's Got A Hang Up	Double Shot	7"	0:44:56 (Pop-up)
Ernie Freeman	Rockin' Around "Rockin' Around" by "Ernie Freeman"	Imperial	7"	0:47:46 (Pop-up)
Fried Chicken	Funky DJ "Funky DJ" by "Fried Chicken"	Stone	7"	0:53:14 (Pop-up)
Los Frontera	Lala Lala "Lala Lala" by "Los Frontera"	Musart	7"	0:56:12 (Pop-up)
Domenic Frontiere	On Any Sunday "On Any Sunday" by "Domenic Frontiere"	Bell	7"	0:58:34 (Pop-up)
Frootful	Fish In The Sea "Fish In The Sea" by "Frootful"	Freestyle	7"	1:00:36 (Pop-up)
Frank Frost	Ride With Your Daddy Tonight	Jewel	7"	1:03:53 (Pop-up)
Fugi	Mary Don't Take Me On No Bad Trip	Cadet	7"	1:11:59 (Pop-up)
Johnnie Fuller	All Night Long "All Night Long" by "Johnnie Fuller"	Checker	7"	1:14:49 (Pop-up)
Tommy Fuller	What'd I Say "What'd I Say" by "Tommy Fuller"	Giant	7"	1:17:42 (Pop-up)
The Fuller Bros	Don't Knock Me "Don't Knock Me" by "The Fuller Bros"	Soul Clock	7"	1:20:43 (Pop-up)
Lowell Fulson	Can She "Can She" by "Lowell Fulson"	Checker	7"	1:22:38 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On	Westbound	7"	1:25:59 (Pop-up)
Funka Fize	Because You're Funky "Because You're Funky" by "Funka Fize"	Royce	7"	1:29:20 (Pop-up)
Otis Funkmeyer Band	Why Are You Refusing My Love	All City	7"	1:32:49 (Pop-up)
Future Shock	Riding High "Riding High" by "Future Shock"	Mainstream	7"	1:36:55 (Pop-up)
The Fuzz	Leave It All Behind Me "Leave It All Behind Me" by "The Fuzz"	Calla	7"	1:39:17 (Pop-up)
James Gadson	Got To Find My Baby "Got To Find My Baby" by "James Gadson"	Cream	7"	1:45:09 (Pop-up)
Earl Gaines	24 Hours A Day "24 Hours A Day" by "Earl Gaines"	DeLuxe	7"	1:49:02 (Pop-up)
Jodi Gales	You Gotta Push "You Gotta Push" by "Jodi Gales"	Thomas	7"	1:50:37 (Pop-up)
Galleta Trio	We Got More Soul "We Got More Soul" by "Galleta Trio"	Parnaso	7"	1:53:21 (Pop-up)
Mamie Galore	Don't Think I Could Stand It	St Lawrence	7"	1:56:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hey Kris
	10:01pm Matt from New Orleans: Straight into the tunes. No intro this week.
	🥁 10:01pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Matt, Kris. Nice new avatar, Matt
	10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: You starting with the Jazz boxes now?
	10:02pm ifny: Good. 2021 needs no intros.
	10:02pm Matt from New Orleans: I switched it up during Danny’s show last week I think Candy. How are you?
	10:03pm Kris Holmes: Hi everyone. Nah just messing with the start of the show.
	🥁 10:03pm Candy-O'67: I'm doing well. Enjoying the loads of sunshine we've been having every day and working hard
	🥁 10:04pm Candy-O'67: Great Gene Pitney song!!
	10:05pm Kris Holmes: I've been meaning to make new intro track for a while, will get to it one day
	10:06pm Scott67: G'day Kris & Homebound Buddies! 😎✌❤🌏
	🥁 10:07pm Candy-O'67: Hey, Scott! Good to see ya again!
	10:07pm Kris Holmes: G'day Scott
	10:08pm Scott67: Hey Candy of the very good year! 😎🤙
	10:09pm CC: Hi y'all..!.. Happy groundhogs day!!!...:)
	🥁 10:11pm WR: hi all. curious, on the Ivories, male or female lead vocal?
	10:16pm Matt from New Orleans: Ella Lewis WR www.uncamarvy.com...
	10:16pm ifny: @WR Probably Ella Dawson on vocals.
	10:16pm ifny: Damn, NOLA quick on the draw :)
	10:17pm ifny: Don't know where my brain got Dawson from. But Ella FTW
	10:18pm coelacanth∅: 'evening Kris and all
	10:21pm Peter Mac: Kia ora, Kris. Sounding good. Enjoyed your sets a few weeks back going thru the E and F boxes, that was fun
	10:23pm Scott67: G'day coel! 😎🖖
	10:24pm Kris Holmes: Kia ora Pete! We're still on F
	10:25pm still b/p: I'm gonna confess here right now that the Buckinghams lyrics-added version of Mercy Mercy Mercy and the original instrumental walked separately around the streets of my familiarity but never ran into one another to be recognized together as family until now, as I was looking at song and Zawinul info, with me saying, "Ohhhhh! Yeah." And then I said, "Sheesh," and then I said, "Brains, huh? Go figure 'em."
	10:26pm Peter Mac: Excellent, bring it on!
	🥁 10:26pm WR: thanks tor the link Matt. interesting read.
	10:27pm Kris Holmes: Buckinghams version isn't terrible, I might still have the 45 filed in the rock boxes
	🥁 10:28pm Candy-O'67: Diggin' these Ace Bright gospel tunes. I'm gonna have to look into getting some of his stuff
	🥁 10:29pm WR: thank you for flipping over the Ace Bright & The Silver Stars record.
	10:29pm Matt from New Orleans: No worries WR
	10:29pm Kris Holmes: Candy, I have done extensive googling since I found it on Saturday & can safely say that this is probably all his stuff, two songs, one 45, incredible .
	🥁 10:32pm Candy-O'67: Too bad that's all he probably did. Where did you find it?
	10:33pm ifny: There's no shame in country 45s.
	10:36pm CC: It's probably going to change!!!...:)
	10:36pm ifny: Your partner needs a mic. Intelligence is so often underamplified ;)
	10:38pm Kris Holmes: No, don't give her the mic, her stories are longer than mine.... lol
	10:39pm Matt from New Orleans: She is funnier though 😜
	10:40pm ifny: That's ok. Sometimes quality and quantity actually go together. Where do we have to be tonight? Nowheres!
	10:40pm Kris Holmes: I'm funnier back in NZ I swear!!! America just doesn't get it!!
	10:40pm ifny: @Matt hear hear!
	🥁 10:40pm Candy-O'67: Hahaha, Kris!!
	10:40pm ifny: For the rekkid not all the mutineers in here are USanians.
	10:41pm ifny: Wow, this track is truly shades of awesome madness.
	🥁 10:43pm WR: this section of the "Fs" sure be funky.
	10:45pm Kris Holmes: I know, crazy how that worked out
	10:46pm CC: So high...and low!!!...:)
	10:48pm coelacanth∅: g'day Scott! Happy birthday CC!
	10:49pm ifny: This is the second birthday I've witnessed today, and it's only the second of February! What surprises 2021 has in store for us. Happy birthday II CC!
	10:49pm CC: ...:)O(:...
	10:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Ernie is named Ernst Von Funkenstein on a quality Jimmy Witherspoon album Baby, Baby, Baby. I like Kenny Burrell on a bunch of the tracks.
	10:53pm ifny: Comment board denizens can only carry the deejay so far.
	10:53pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey there
	10:54pm coelacanth∅: greetings Phillippe
	10:54pm ifny: We have to keep the intertubes warm, breathing on them and stomping our teensy 2D feet.
	10:54pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry is a fan of this one. He uses a sample from this for his non-FMU radio show.
	10:54pm ifny: Salut Phillippe!
	10:55pm Kris Holmes: Larry has great taste
	10:57pm Matt from New Orleans: I think Funky DJ was actually recorded in Muscle Shoals
	10:58pm Kris Holmes: says both places on the label
	10:59pm ifny: Labels will say anything these days.
	11:01pm ifny: Always trying to pull one over some poor innocent vinyl.
	11:04pm Matt from New Orleans: Australian group?
	11:05pm ifny: Love that vibrato on Frootful.
	🥁 11:06pm Candy-O'67: Happy birthday, CC!
	11:07pm Matt from New Orleans: Happy Birthday CC
	11:09pm Matt from New Orleans: That’s a London based label but they seem to release a number of Australian bands. They just released a really good album from Menagerie a Melbourne based Spiritual Jazz Ensemble.
	11:11pm ifny: Angeline Morrison lives in Cornwall so perhaps Frootful is UK based too.
	11:13pm ifny: Learn to use GIMP or Inkscape. Same learning curve as Ye Olde Photoshoppe but they are free and open source. Or crayons, I'm a big fan of crayons.
	11:14pm Matt from New Orleans: They have U.K. based acts like Speedometer and used to put out comps by Craig Charles before Greg Boramon left and took Craig with him.
	11:14pm Kris Holmes: I had Inkscape a long time ago & couldn't figure it out. I can't overstate how terrible I am at that stuff!
	11:14pm Matt from New Orleans: Fugi!
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: i have a photoshop cd here somewhere that came with a scanner i bought. i've never installed it, never have used photoshop. just gimp.
	11:17pm ifny: @Kris Yeah I hear that. You might want to give GIMP a try -- it's more dialled down, easier to pick up quickly www.gimp.org
	11:17pm coelacanth∅: ...though when wfmu had that Muuro art contest i decided to do it with scissors and glue.
	11:18pm ifny: Though let me reiterate my love for crayons. They are especially excellent looking when melted.
	11:19pm Matt from New Orleans: Didn’t you play this under a different name on Hit?
	11:20pm ifny: I used to have an album that was made completely from paper, except for the actual plastic of the CD. The CD had a plain white paper circle affixed to it. All the sounds on it were made using paper. It was amazing. I lost it. I don't think I will ever find it again. My kanji is pisspoor :(
	11:20pm Kris Holmes: Yeah. I was trying to remember the other versions, this is one.
	11:21pm ifny: @coel nice! Just scissors and glue? That must have been a striking sculpture!
	11:21pm ifny: It may surprise you to know that I am a huge fan of scissors.
	11:22pm Matt from New Orleans: 😯
	11:23pm coelacanth∅: there used to be a real dollar store here that sold actually good scissors. i have scissors everywhere. just in case
	11:25pm ifny: I discovered I have a lovely old pair of Olfas kicking around my house. They're compact and fabulous kitchen shears, slightly serrated. Great ergonomics.
	11:27pm ifny: I have scissors everywhere too but I've taken to keeping the Olfas in my knife block.
	11:30pm Matt from New Orleans: Do the blades snap off when they wear out?
	🥁 11:30pm WR: good F'delic tune which reminds me, i need tp go back and listen to Grogan's G. Clinton show from last Friday. work made me miss a lot of it.
	11:33pm ifny: @Matt Snap off the crappy scissors in my house or the Olafs? I have some crappy house inherited scissors with snapped off tips. But the Olafs are staying nice and sharp what with their serration, and I don't try to pry cans open with them so the blade tips are fine. Also the way they've shaped the tips looks like it is more resistant to snapping.
	11:34pm ifny: olfa-olfa.com if you want to see what I mean
	11:34pm Matt from New Orleans: It was a stupid joke about the Olaf’s as they created the snap off utility blade
	11:35pm Matt from New Orleans: Olfa’s stupid autocorrect
	11:35pm ifny: ohhh sorry
	11:35pm ifny: According to their website their name means 'break a blade' in Japanese so that makes sense!
	11:37pm ifny: I think I must have the SCS-2 olfa-olfa.com...
	11:38pm Matt from New Orleans: Otis Funkmeyer reminded of the cookie man Otis Spunkmeyer. I don’t think I’ve had one of their cookies in years.
	11:42pm ifny: I've been nerding out about handsaws this week. I've decided to buy a Silky, so excited! Beautiful design; 3D serration and blade tapers in three directions so it doesn't stick as you cut. They saw on the backstroke, smooth and less tiring. The teeth are tempered harder than the blade itself, meaning that the teeth stay sharp longer while the softness of the blade allows it to flex so it is less brittle and more resistant to snapping.
	🥁 11:45pm WR: with the foccacia she is...
	11:45pm ifny: What the focaccia is going on!
	11:48pm Kris Holmes: ha, i don't know, a regular crazy Tuesday in the Holmes house
	11:48pm coelacanth∅: i'd like to have a saw like that, but i don't need more stuff. it's either big enough to need the circular saw, table saw or sabre saw; or small enough that i can deal with using my shitty saw for a minute.
	11:49pm coelacanth∅: (although it's true i'd use the handsaw for slightly larger jobs if i had a good one)
	11:51pm ifny: I'm buying the Silky Ultra Accel. It's foldable and small enough that I can take it bicycle camping, but still respectably resize the log wafers that are annoying to chop with my axe. (I have some aged cherry that is a notorious axe-killer.) I have some carpentry project in mind as well.
	11:53pm Matt from New Orleans: Curved or straight?
	11:53pm coelacanth∅: i'm thinking a pruning saw would be better for firewood, no? - not as smooth but faster
	11:53pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Kris. One more letter down.
	11:54pm ifny: Curved for my pleasure. This is the one I'm buying www.silkysaws.com... but if portability isn't important to you, you'd probably want a curved Silky Bigboy www.silkysaws.com... My arborist buddy swears by them.
	🥁 11:55pm Candy-O'67: Thanks for another great night, Kris!
	11:57pm coelacanth∅: they look like pruning saws to me! i want to zoom in on those teeth but it's not an option.
	11:57pm ifny: Silkys are great for pruning, that's what she uses it for. I don't need to dovetail anything, else I would have gotten a straight blade. Silkys have two lock positions, most people think the second is for sawing something near the ground but it's actually for sawing overhead or at difficult angles. The Silky Ultra Accel has been called the Goldilocks of folding handsaws and I am stoked :)
	11:59pm ifny: The curved blade is nice because it pulls the wood in toward you on the backstroke, plus the curve gives you greater strength length. There are some good in-depth reviews/demos on YT, with teeth closeups.
	11:59pm ifny: Just remember that almost no one knows what the second position is for :P
	🥁 11:59pm WR: thank you Kris for the tunes. youse other folks be careful with those pointy tools.
	11:59pm coelacanth∅: i have a nameless folding pruner, wooden handle. locks into place, no complaints. forbigger jobs, most jobs though i use the blade off a pole pruner that somehow got left at my sister's house by save-a-tree. aluminum everything. need to use gloves to hold onto it but it's pretty amazing.
	12:00am ifny: Thank you! Safety third! :D
	12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Kris!
	12:01am ifny: @coel There's gorgeous rubber on the handles of the Silkys. Just sayin' if you ever have to replace what you have ;)
	12:02am coelacanth∅: one day, ifny... one day!
	12:02am ifny: Oh, and the handle of the Ultra Accel is aluminium, which is bonkers, but made very strong w/ no flex.
	12:02am ifny: Haha, indeed.

The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes: Playlist from February 2, 2021

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