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Liner Notes (February 22nd, 2025)
This week’s newsletter has early thoughts on the new Underoath album, some music recs of things I’ve been really enjoying over the past few weeks, and some website updates. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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I missed this Sunday (1994) release last year but it's so very much right in my wheelhouse. Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb...
I’m trying to spend my year thinking about how in ten years, that version of me, will be looking back on right now. Am I doing the things that make me happy? Am I living a life that I’ll be proud of? Am I being kind?
Finally got around to listening to this Patrick Stump interview/podcast and it’s got a bunch of stories I had never heard before. Really great stuff: https://overcast.fm/+ABKfnu...
Found a spot for the NFG drum head. The new office is coming together. I probably should do an updated full blog post once I finish a few more things.
Mario Universe Hard Drive Icons
LMNT:
The cast of characters in the Super Mario universe is vast. Insetting their badges on low-poly, color-coded Super Mario blocks makes hard drives look super fun. My only regret is not having 34 drives to use them all!
Oh, wow, these are great.
I have some errands to run this morning (haircut!) and then we have Valentine’s Day dinner reservations this evening. So, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get to writing a newsletter today or if it will have to wait.
Big Thursday kick this week.
It’s snowing… ❄️
I'm really loving this (kinda new) Heartwork album, 'Revisionist History,' this week. Listen: https://chorus.fm/share/alb...
Yeah, that’s a pretty nice mail day. ‘Dyed’ is definitely one of my favorites of the year so far (and I had to grab that covers album).
I wrote a script a while back to calculate the number of words (and articles) I've written on this website. I use it at the end of the year to put the stats in my EOTY post. On February 1st, 2025 I decided to run it on my entire posting history. The results:
25,212 articles published
2,551,146 words written
That includes articles going all the way back to April 2002. You know, I do think it's a little poetic the first posts are about Midtown. (As cringe-inducing as re-reading them is.) Pretty sobering to think about writing over two million words though.