My little tiny-violin, poor-me post about CD Baby clearing its shelves of my old 2004 album has become something of a roller coaster. After I posted the piece, I then went to follow CD Baby’s instructions and told them to go ahead and recycle the three copies of the four they had, and they’d keep …
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Dec 19 2012
CD Baby Declares Me a Waste of Space
In 2004, I had a couple of months off between theatre gigs, and I took that rare opportunity to pour my heart and soul into the recording of my first full-length album. This was a decidedly low-rent affair (though a huge deal for me), produced on a middle-of-the-line Dell desktop using Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, …
Dec 10 2012
After the Attack, the Work
I’m not sure if this was a “secret,” if I intentionally haven’t written about this because it was too personal, or what. Well. The thing is, since I was beaten to a bloody pulp by a couple of thugs outside my home Metro stop back in DC over two years ago, I’d been in therapy …
Dec 05 2012
Drink Me
Though I am going to be very deliberate about keeping my work and FtB activities separate, I would be remiss if I did not plug the fact that you can buy coffee mugs emblazoned with the logo of my CFI blog, The Morning Heresy, for the somewhat-reasonable price of $16. I don’t make anything off …
Dec 03 2012
Snowballing into Twits
Are you into news and blogs about gadgets? Lord knows I am. My wife often wonders at why this is so. I mean, there’s not really much real-world relevance to my day to day life in understanding what the latest gripes about Android are, or what Apple might be rumored to be working on for …
Dec 01 2012
A Song for Eustreptospondylus
You know what dinosaur has a musical sounding name? Eustreptospondylus. Just say it out loud. I mean, if you can. It's pronounced “you strepped a SPON dull us,” which, coincidentally, is also how you say “My hovercraft is full of eels” in Hungarian. My boy Toby, who just turned 3 last week, is obsessed with …
Nov 06 2012
Voting is Apparently All the Rage in Small-Town Maine
Jessica and I voted first thing in the morning today, and I decided to bring Toby along. He’s not even three, of course, and he was bored and a little cranky most of the time (I had forbidden him Munchkins from Dunkin Donuts, and that about severed our familial bonds), but I thought it was …
Nov 05 2012
What if it All Goes Horribly Pear-Shaped?
In 2004, though I had high hopes, it was not really a surprise that George W. Bush was “re”-elected. Oh, there was despair. I remember the sharp feeling of disappointment at the majority of the electorate — how could they be fooled by this numbnut? — but I knew we’d all kind of muddle on. …
Nov 02 2012
The Attack, Ctd?
Last year, the anniversary of my assault carried great weight with me. I dreaded the coming of the date October 27, and worried that I would relapse into a spiral of terror and despair all over again. (I didn’t.) This year, I completely forgot about it. The day came and went, and I didn’t notice. …
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