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3.Madison Avenue at 39th Street can be an ocean of hardhearted buses. Normally, these buses all look and sound the same: Black and white orca whales, screeching and honking, and spewing stinking fumes into my already stinking air. I hate them. No offense to any real orcas out there. Anyway, this morning, a special bus-monster stank up my air. This one was dressed entirely in black and covered in a JBL speaker; a whole whale of an ad shouting and stinking up my morning commute, claiming something like, "Take them anywhere," or "Listen to them spin," or "Get out of my way before I run you over." Something like that. I can't remember. Yes, so, JBL's new flowery Spyro speakers are now available. Absolutely everywhere. Which is alright. It's kind of nice to see a loudspeaker on a bus.
The Giants officially suck, it seems. The good news is: I can stop watching. *** 1.
Thanksgiving was good. Holidays have become the time of year when I tell distant relations and new acquaintances that I work for a magazine called Stereophile. Stereo what? they say. Phile, I say. We review high-end audio. And they ask me to tell them about Bose. ***















