Monday, December 01, 2003
DUDE, WHERE'S MY BLOG?
Well, it was a great party for a while, and for the half dozen folks that I estimate dialed into this dishrag, I salute you and I will now reveal why I have seemingly dropped off the face of cyber-earth here ------ I BEEN BUSY!
To that extent (my favorite, along with "nominal", phrase to sneak into my writing) I will now direct you to the sites that I have been busy at, if you didn't already know, all of them band related:
The Official Desperation Squad Web Site
Panda Man Gig Report
Mr. P Email Archive
Pasadena Weekly
If you'll notice none of these links and blogs really provide space for what this blog tries to do - chronicle the twists and turns of my addled mind as I dash from one hot-button rant to another, although if you are dogged enough to find one of my PW pieces on the web site, kudos to you my friend! But, still, those are assignments, for which I am, gulp, paid for - sometimes.
But all this takes a lot of time, especially the D-Squad site, which I have high hopes for in the long run, just for the site's ultimate ability to showcase the band's long and colorful history. For instance, if you go to the flyer pages there are over 70 posted now, spreading across 25 years, and that only scratches the surface of what I have available to chronicle. There are over 200 more ready to scan, and that's just the art work. Ideally, a large percentage of the flyers will have stories attached to them so that you can click on say, the 1985 Spatz flyer, the show where we played with the Minutemen, and then read an account of how that show came about and what happened there (incredibly, an audio cassette still survives of that show!). That sort of thing.
So all of that is taking precedence over how I feel about the war in Iraq, and the supermarket strike, and the Lakers, et cetera. And, really, that's no great loss. Cyberspace is glutted with opinion-meisters such as myself, even though I feel that I, of course, offer a unique and vital perspective on all subjects. Even still, who really cares? What the blog has really done for me is allow me the chance to write on a regular basis, keep my chops up so to speak, until something else rolls around, and that something else has indeed arrived. Blogs are plentiful; virtual band histories are not. Talk is cheap; newspaper articles make you (a little) money.
So there you go. This blog will likely be cannibalized by the D-Squad web site, as my friend and mentor Mark Givens has provided me with a blog program that gets me out of the Blogger world - although, to be honest, other than some start up problems, Blogger is a wonderful tool for anybody wanting to do this sort of thing.
And so on and so on ---- or as I say in my emails -----
CHOW
Well, it was a great party for a while, and for the half dozen folks that I estimate dialed into this dishrag, I salute you and I will now reveal why I have seemingly dropped off the face of cyber-earth here ------ I BEEN BUSY!
To that extent (my favorite, along with "nominal", phrase to sneak into my writing) I will now direct you to the sites that I have been busy at, if you didn't already know, all of them band related:
The Official Desperation Squad Web Site
Panda Man Gig Report
Mr. P Email Archive
Pasadena Weekly
If you'll notice none of these links and blogs really provide space for what this blog tries to do - chronicle the twists and turns of my addled mind as I dash from one hot-button rant to another, although if you are dogged enough to find one of my PW pieces on the web site, kudos to you my friend! But, still, those are assignments, for which I am, gulp, paid for - sometimes.
But all this takes a lot of time, especially the D-Squad site, which I have high hopes for in the long run, just for the site's ultimate ability to showcase the band's long and colorful history. For instance, if you go to the flyer pages there are over 70 posted now, spreading across 25 years, and that only scratches the surface of what I have available to chronicle. There are over 200 more ready to scan, and that's just the art work. Ideally, a large percentage of the flyers will have stories attached to them so that you can click on say, the 1985 Spatz flyer, the show where we played with the Minutemen, and then read an account of how that show came about and what happened there (incredibly, an audio cassette still survives of that show!). That sort of thing.
So all of that is taking precedence over how I feel about the war in Iraq, and the supermarket strike, and the Lakers, et cetera. And, really, that's no great loss. Cyberspace is glutted with opinion-meisters such as myself, even though I feel that I, of course, offer a unique and vital perspective on all subjects. Even still, who really cares? What the blog has really done for me is allow me the chance to write on a regular basis, keep my chops up so to speak, until something else rolls around, and that something else has indeed arrived. Blogs are plentiful; virtual band histories are not. Talk is cheap; newspaper articles make you (a little) money.
So there you go. This blog will likely be cannibalized by the D-Squad web site, as my friend and mentor Mark Givens has provided me with a blog program that gets me out of the Blogger world - although, to be honest, other than some start up problems, Blogger is a wonderful tool for anybody wanting to do this sort of thing.
And so on and so on ---- or as I say in my emails -----
CHOW
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