24 hours coming up...

I am trying to decide if I want to do the 24-hour blogging thing again this year. The original site doing this was Blogathon.org, but last year they decided to take a year off. ProjectBlog.org organized as a substitute just for last year, I thought. However, earlier this year they posted something about doing it again this year, on July 23rd. However, they have not updated their site since March, and if people are to register and start collecting sponsors, they're not even set up for that yet.

Blogathon has started updating its site, and their date is Aug 6th. I'm thinking I should just go with them, since they were the original ones anyway. If I even want to do it again; maybe I'm getting too old to stay up for 24-hours. Last year, I don't think I felt completely normal until Wednesday - I think it was worth it, though. And it was kind of fun... So I'm warning you now; be prepared for a post from me on your friends page every half an hour for 24 hours a month or so in the future. If that's going to bug you, you might want to set up a filter to screen me out.

Also, if I want to do a different charity...I picked The Nikki Hospice Foundation for Pets last year, after reading about them in Newsweek, because I wanted to do something as a memorial for Bob. Afterward I got a very nice letter from the president and she also sent a thick folder of information to everyone who sponsored me - who provided their address, anyway. She also said they were working on a new website, however, it seems exactly the same since I last looked at it. Maybe I should do something else this time. Possibly something more to help out efforts in tsunami areas, since I heard at the time for some things, wait a few months, sometimes organizations feel the pinch later.

Maybe I'll wait until they set up their charity list, and see what they have...

24 hours coming up...

I am trying to decide if I want to do the 24-hour blogging thing again this year. The original site doing this was Blogathon.org, but last year they decided to take a year off. ProjectBlog.org organized as a substitute just for last year, I thought. However, earlier this year they posted something about doing it again this year, on July 23rd. However, they have not updated their site since March, and if people are to register and start collecting sponsors, they're not even set up for that yet.

Blogathon has started updating its site, and their date is Aug 6th. I'm thinking I should just go with them, since they were the original ones anyway. If I even want to do it again; maybe I'm getting too old to stay up for 24-hours. Last year, I don't think I felt completely normal until Wednesday - I think it was worth it, though. And it was kind of fun... So I'm warning you now; be prepared for a post from me on your friends page every half an hour for 24 hours a month or so in the future. If that's going to bug you, you might want to set up a filter to screen me out.

Also, if I want to do a different charity...I picked The Nikki Hospice Foundation for Pets last year, after reading about them in Newsweek, because I wanted to do something as a memorial for Bob. Afterward I got a very nice letter from the president and she also sent a thick folder of information to everyone who sponsored me - who provided their address, anyway. She also said they were working on a new website, however, it seems exactly the same since I last looked at it. Maybe I should do something else this time. Possibly something more to help out efforts in tsunami areas, since I heard at the time for some things, wait a few months, sometimes organizations feel the pinch later.

Maybe I'll wait until they set up their charity list, and see what they have...

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So, am I imagining things or is the new Coldplay song I keep hearing, Speed of Sound, almost exactly the same chord progression as Clocks? Just a different rhythm.

Not that that's any great sin in rock music, but you'd think they'd want two consecutive releases for airplay to sound a little different.

(And I'm sure this was a record company decision and the band had very little input on it - idiot record companies.)

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So, am I imagining things or is the new Coldplay song I keep hearing, Speed of Sound, almost exactly the same chord progression as Clocks? Just a different rhythm.

Not that that's any great sin in rock music, but you'd think they'd want two consecutive releases for airplay to sound a little different.

(And I'm sure this was a record company decision and the band had very little input on it - idiot record companies.)

What if...

...Jet Black (of Cowboy Bebop) liked folk music as well as blues? How do you think his singing voice would sound? Anything like this?

http://www.stanrogers.net/index2.html

(and listen...)

Similarities - They look a little alike, Jet owns a former fishing vessel and has trouble making a living trawling in bounties, while Stan Rogers wrote songs about out-of-work fishermen, both very big men, both rather passionate about things they believe in, similar age (Stan died in a plane crash at 34).

Yes, I am completely crazy....

(crossposted to cowboybebop)

What if...

...Jet Black (of Cowboy Bebop) liked folk music as well as blues? How do you think his singing voice would sound? Anything like this?

http://www.stanrogers.net/index2.html

(and listen...)

Similarities - They look a little alike, Jet owns a former fishing vessel and has trouble making a living trawling in bounties, while Stan Rogers wrote songs about out-of-work fishermen, both very big men, both rather passionate about things they believe in, similar age (Stan died in a plane crash at 34).

Yes, I am completely crazy....

(crossposted to cowboybebop)