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In light of the fact that I am both on call this week and also trying to move apartments, I won’t be posting here until sometime (probably late) next week. I leave you in the capable hands of Mr. Tom Waits:
“Black Market Baby” from the incredible Mule Variations album.
A few items to tide you over while I, Frankenstein-like, resurrect the blogs from a week of death.
1.) I’m back in the States. My trip to the UK was amazing. We stayed in London, with a few day-trips. There will be a full write-up, with pictures, in the near future. In the meantime, just trust that it was awesome.
2.) There’s nothing quite like meeting up with old friends. I saw my friend Lauren for the first time in 6 years. In the meantime she’s both gotten married and become Dr. Lauren. But we still related just as easily as we did back in our college days. We also met up with one of Annie’s friends from her travels and had a grand time drinking in a tapas bar near King’s Cross. Good times.
3.) This song is so good it hurts. I love John Darnielle so much.
4.) When I got back to work this morning, my email inbox contained over 3800 items. And thats with things heavily filtered to discard a lot of the kruft. So that was pretty much my entire Monday.
More later. For now, I play an epic game of Catch Up.
Via my wonderful friend Heather comes the following list of rules:
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Magic Blue Smoke is hearby adopting Rules #2 and #7 from the above. Please refer to the sidebar for the updated list of house rules.
Thank you for your consideration and patronage.
UPDATE: After much consideration by the management, both rules #2 and #7 shall be adopted.
I think everyone who does any kind of creative work, even something so banal as this blog, needs someone to act as a “hey, is this any good?” filter. Mine, quite rightly, pointed out that the post I had drafted for tonight needs more work.
So in the meantime, here’s an awesome Essential Mix from Drum and Bass mastermind Danny Byrd:
Sorry for the no blogging the past few days. I’ve had a few college friends in town, and have spent my time catching up with them as well as doing my fair share of drinking, carousing, etc.
Content volume should pick up tomorrow. In the meantime, this song wrecks me. Ethereally beautiful, heartbreaking, lush, perfect:
EDIT: Looks like the embedding widget is broke. Grooveshark link.
Upgrading WordPress shortly. It will either go entirely smoothly or completely wreck the blog. On the off-chance that it works, enjoy this awesome tune by The Mountain Goats:
Okay, so it became pretty apparent that the multiple, topic-specific blog thing flat wasn’t working. There wasn’t enough time nor energy in my day to keep all of them alive at once. As a result, I am henceforth merging my music and general blogs into my code blog.
Why merge them into the code blog?
Honestly: because I like the URL the best.
And no, I’m not kidding.
As a result, this blog with now contain my Internet writings on, well, everything. A short, but woefully incompletely topic list:
So please stick around. Update your feed readers and book marks. And settle in for what may be a wild ride, but will probably just be an exceedingly odd one.
