Friday, November 10, 2023
Hello there and congratulations to SAG-AFTRA. Organized labor works.
Newsletter follows:
Item 1: a link
![It's sort of like that t-shirt with multiple wolf heads howling at the moon, but instead it's a bunch of music guys standing on compact discs, performing their little hearts out. The caption says "Transform your entire CD collection into a non-stop 3-dimensional concert as all your favorite artists perform live in your own home."](https://newsletter.wolmania.com/content/images/2023/11/Transform-your-entire-CD.webp)
Have I linked to Cabel Sasser's blog before? I'm not sure. Cabel is one of the founders of Panic, a software company that also makes the Playdate, a Wolmania favorite adorable consumer electronics device. Anyway and not unrelatedly, Cabel just published a pretty amazing post about the DAK catalog, which I'm sorry to say I'm like 6 months too young to have encountered in the wild. DAK was basically a homespun precursor to the Sharper Image catalog, and Cabel has managed to collect and scan every issue, along with a lot of related material. It's a great time capsule and hearkens back to a simpler time in technology when everything was insane, but in a fun way. Go read the post!
Bonus image/album cover:
![](https://newsletter.wolmania.com/content/images/2023/11/IMG_20220704_0014-1.webp)
Item 2: a list
![A bunch of woodwind instruments, looking good](https://www.atozmusicshop.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/Woodwind%20Instruments%20Banner-1_border.jpg)
Woodwind instruments, ranked
- Tenor Saxophone
- Bassoon
- Contra-Alto/E-Flat Clarinet
- Piccolo
- Ocarina
- Bass Clarinet
- Bagpipes
- Oboe
- Contrabassoon
- Flute
- Clarinet
- English Horn
- Baritone Saxophone
- Soprano Saxophone
Item 3: a media recommendation
Patti Smith - Land: Horses- / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)
Item 4: word of the week
Collation
We always used to call it "collation". But I guess "girl dinner" works too.
Item 5: a photograph
![](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0952/3604/files/3.png?v=1667670610)
See ya!
Thanks for reading. Bye bye.
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