Smell the glove

I was talking to this guy Derek Smalls, and he had a friend's custom amplifier for sale. This one was supposed to be special so you could turn it up more than usual. It didn't seem to actually be any louder than a regular amp, but he insisted there was something custom about it. I don't really believe him anyway. This dude had something like a cucumber in his pocket the whole time I was talking to him. It creeped me out. I mean, why? Then, if that weren't enough, he tells me this story about being stuck inside a giant peapod during a concert. It reminded me of my latest trip to the Quad Cities Sci-fiathan (the bi-monthly science fiction convention/Thomas Hobbes philosophy roundtable).