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Lack of Talent, its hour come round at last, slouches towards podcastdom to be born.

It's late and I'm tired, so here's the skinny: at the beginning of the year I ambitiously[1] resolved to record one song per month. Instead I've serendipitously turned up the LOT recording sessions from July 2005, which we call the Burlap Overseas, and which I never really went through. Now that stuff is backed up six ways from Sunday[2] and I owe it to my fellow Lack of Talenteers to go through all these hours of raw audio and pick out some interesting bits so we have something to build on the next time we get together[3].

If you're interested, feel free to subscribe to the podcast and listen along. Updates will be sporadic, perhaps even spasmodic or spastic. Now the disclaimers: you should know that LOT was never about songs or practice or technique or order or music, really; we are true to our name[4]; it's about some friends gathering in my grandparents' basement with lots of music gear[5], even more alcohol, a box fan to keep us cool, a washing machine to clean Gramma's clothes, and a microphone that runs the whole darned time. This is booze-soaked sonic experimentation among close friends and even if you hear nothing else, you should hear hints (or squeals, or yawps) of joy amidst the cacophony.

Notes

1. Read: foolishly [↩]
2. Phew. I am a paranoid backup freak. [↩]
3. Est. 2013 [↩]
4. At least I am [↩]
5. We switched instruments often, sometimes even playing the ones we could "play." [↩]

This is a slightly modified (read: rough) transcription of the talk I gave at this year's NJLA conference, called "Library Revolution." Continue reading…

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RlgDiginews

The latest in my series of scraped-together feeds: RLG DigiNews

I couldn't find a good feed for First Monday, so I scraped one together:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FirstMonday (Subscribe with Bloglines)

Let me know if you notice any problems with the feed (other than character encoding issues).

I confess; I'm a fan of graphic novels, many of which are published by DC imprints Vertigo and WildStorm. Wanting to keep up with the newest titles without having to make weekly stops to the local comic shop — which is a nifty shop, but why get up off your butt to do something if you don't have to? — I went a-searchin' for some RSS feeds and found naught. There may be some out there, and I'd be happy to hear of them.

In the meantime, however, I've thrown together a quick and dirty screen-scraper (36 lines of PHP, partly inspired by Screen Scraping Your Way Into RSS) that grabs an appropriate "new comics" page on the DC website, and generates an RSS feed from relevant discovered information. To keep abreast of new Vertigo or WildStorm comics, subscribe to the following feeds (which should be updated on a monthly basis):

http://feeds.feedburner.com/WildstormComics (Sub with Bloglines)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/VertigoComics (Sub with Bloglines)

Enjoy, and spread the goodness if you wish.