The global ham craze just keeps rollin' like a runaway train. Why, does anyone know a kid who isn't absolutely, positively koo-koo for amateur radio?

Dash! does.

In fact, he's related to three little isolated pockets of resistance named Erroll, Merrill and Terrell -- who, subtle family resemblance aside, would no sooner take after Uncle Dash! than snack on Skunk Cabbage Tofutti.

As if you could possibly avoid it, the pilot episode of Funkmeister Grand Dash!'s heart-warming Avuncular Adventures is now playing top of the page. See him star in this neoclassic Elmerable Moment.

P.S. What's a Ghibillene? No, it's not Joey Ghibillene, who left an early iteration of the Duprees and recorded "The Guelphs of Never" with the Raabs.

Next stop, Out There.

Click our new Sketchbook link for up-to-moment imagery from the Maximum Mother of All Boat Anchor Restoration Projects.

It's now in progress at a location so undisclosed the site has been pixel-dusted off the smirking face of Google Earth, thanks to a little help from some naughty Old Crows, nudge-nudge, wink-wink. And that's only the beginning, Bunky.

Oh sure, our Deco Dreamboat of a Land Yacht stuffed like a bratwurst with pre-war Hallicrafters gear is to be found somewhere on the same vast Hudson Valley holdings we've been nattering-on about since we moved here.

But just where, there's the rub.

Like Yangsang, a mystical paradise hidden within Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge, our off-grid Shackgri-La is as much a state of mind(and lackthereof) as an actual set of coordinates, such that mere bushwhacking, squealing metal detectors or even the most sensitive orbiting sensors will get you only so close and most assuredly no cigar.

Luckily, you don't need a Lama to get there from here. No Lamas, no trudging through leech-infested swamps, no shooting Class Six rapids, no dipping your Doritos in rancid yak butter.

That's because the new there is now here, close as your browser and cozy as you please.

Yes, hang on to your Chakras 'cuz we're releasing exclusive sketchy imagery of our remarkable find, as fast as we can scratch 'em out on site, rendered in rough 'n ready style not altogether unevocative of Roy Chapman Andrews' dino bone pastels dispatched by caravan from the Gobi Desert to front pages of the world.

It's so exciting Dash! is on the verge of buying a pre-battered fedora just for the dig. Don't miss a single sketch!

 

 

 

 

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