{"id":579,"date":"2005-10-27T20:24:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2005-10-27T20:24:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T20:24:29","slug":"us-air-guitar-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/us-air-guitar-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Guitar Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish I was making this up. I really do.<\/p>\n

I will apologize to Nikki in advance, her Air Guitar allergy (windstrummus moronicus) is well known to our friends, I can only hope it doesn’t flare up too badly.<\/p>\n

Apparently there is a sort of competition<\/a> for these guys, not only for the US, but naturally, inevitably, inexorably culminating in the World Air Guitar Championships<\/a> (The flash on that site made me chuckle). The best part? The organizers are obviously not without a sense of humour because the winner of the World Championships gets a sweet electric guitar and amp (real ones), because just maybe together we can stop the madness.<\/p>\n

I must say that I enjoyed the videos<\/a>, which you must watch.<\/p>\n

Stolen from Metafilter<\/a>, the best source of this crap I have ever found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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