{"id":531,"date":"2004-01-27T02:02:35","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T10:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/01\/plucking_strings_and_talking_d\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T02:02:35","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T10:02:35","slug":"plucking_strings_and_talking_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/01\/plucking_strings_and_talking_d.html","title":{"rendered":"PLUCKING STRINGS AND TALKING DOLLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The staff thought you’d be interested in this darling<\/EM> guitar tidbit from Jim
\nWashburn’s Lost in OC column, The Music Industry Descends on Anaheim and Gives it a
\nHickey<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>: “The 171-year-old Martin company unveiled its one-millionth
\nguitar, a commemorative model so ornately resplendent with mother of pearl and jewels that it
\ncould double as a lighthouse reflector. One million, by the way, is a lot of guitars: Dave Matthews
\nplays the same brand Mark Twain and Hank Williams did; Martins were played during the Civil
\nWar and soldiers today have taken them to Iraq; Dylan and others protested the Vietnam War
\nwith a Martin, and Willie Nelson is opposing the current one with his.”<\/P>
\n

And how about this darling <\/EM>toy tidbit from Paul Krassner’s Zen Bastard column,
\nRat Pack of One<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>? “Talking Presidents, the toy
\ncompany that manufactures talking action figures at $30 each, is now marketing a Dennis Miller doll<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, to go along with the George W. Bush doll<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (‘You’re working hard to put
\nfood on your family’), the Bill Clinton doll<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (‘It depends upon what the meaning
\nof the word is is’), the Donald Rumsfeld doll (‘I believe what I said yesterday — I don’t know what
\nI said, but I know what I think and I assume it’s what I said’) and the Ann Coulter doll<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (‘Swing voters are more
\nappropriately known as the idiot voters because they have no set of philosophical principles — by
\nthe age of 14, you’re either a conservative or a liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster’).<\/P>
\n

Here’s a bonus: the George W.H. Bush doll<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (‘I’m President of the
\nUnited States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli’). But the Rummy doll<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> gets my vote.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The staff thought you’d be interested in this darling guitar tidbit from Jim Washburn’s Lost in OC column, The Music Industry Descends on Anaheim and Gives it a Hickey: “The 171-year-old Martin company unveiled its one-millionth guitar, a commemorative model so ornately resplendent with mother of pearl and jewels that it could double as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-8z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}