MoodyTunes

…I’d had my camera phone with me when I was in the gas station that had “Lady Bubba” walking sticks for sale. You can build one yourself online, but you should definitely try one out in the aisles of a mini-mart first.
I’ll be rambling around a bit for spring break week so such musings might [...]

Hello, inhabitants of planet Earth.
You never imagined alien life would arrive via snowflakes, did you? Well, the joke is on you. Ha ha ha.
Already we have appropriated one of your primary news sources and we will begin broadcasting out our demands as soon as our Limb Acquisition Engineers find implements more useful than these [...]

A random site update — comments on yesterday’s post reminded me to back up all the files related to this site. As a former IT professional I should know better than to go long periods of time without backing stuff up.
Thesis Time also means Procrastinating Time so I upgraded WordPress, too. That’s the software [...]

Check out an essay of mine called “Shiny Happy Pirate” at FRESH YARN.
…and prepare to lose a day, or more, as you read the many, many wonderful personal essays on the site. They’re hilarious and heartbreaking and everywhere in between. Your boss will be weeping, for sure, because you won’t be doing any work.

Starting today, the FTC says I have to inform you if a company is compensating me for mentioning their products on my blog. Well, I’m going to do this a little differently. Here is a list of organizations or entities who aren’t paying me anything, but who probably should:

Whoever makes marshmallow Peeps.
Vitamin Water.
The Washington Wizards.
Saturn [...]

Fall break dumped me right into the two busiest days of my week so I have no interesting tidbits or bad jokes or horrible food concoctions to post today. Rest assured, I have a few ideas saved up. As much as I’d like to turn this into a week-long vacation I suppose I better go [...]

So it’s been three months since the official/unofficial end of MoodyTunes. What can I say? Any boxing fans out there? If so, you know that retirements are never permanent until a fighter has suffered so much brain damage that he’s putting Apple Jacks in his driveway and eating gravel for breakfast.
I’m not quite there yet. [...]

April 7, 2007 to April 7, 2008.
387 posts.
118,000 words.
I enjoyed posting, discussing, playing, and sharing with all of you.
I started this project to help generate story ideas and to provide a convenient journal for myself. MoodyTunes became a place where, when all other creative endeavors stalled or refused to come out of hiding, I [...]