Wot's...Uh the Deal
Apologies to any of my regular HOT POOP readers, as I haven't been posting at all the past couple of weeks, not that I was ever prolific before...
Excuses...Excuses?
The weather's been pretty fine around Southcentral Wisconsin lately...Temps in the 70's and 80's, mild humidity, plenty of sun...So I've been doing stuff like sipping lemonade and reading music critic Nick Kent's selected writings, The Dark Stuff, out in the back yard...Stuff like mowing said yard...Taking clandestine pictures of the neighborhood squirrels and attempting to compile a dossier on 'em...(It's a long story, the one about me and the squirrels, and I won't recount it here and now.)...
Taking naps...
Drinking beer at the Union Terrace...
Drinking coffee at Ground Zero...
Shuffling around State Street, browsing book stores and CD racks, but especially the air-conditioned basement of The Exclusive, where their impressively extensive catalog of classical and jazz CDs are housed...
Recording music (Hat Creep stuff, mostly)...
Writing EVERYTHINGATHON! scripts...Compiling set lists for upcoming podcasts...Photoshopping potential podcast "cover art"...Basically trying to stay ahead of the game...
On that front, I've been toying with the idea of moving EVERYTHINGATHON! to it's very own website...If yr a fan of the monthly "show", any opinions/suggestions on that?
Also, at my regular 8-5 job, I've been incredibly busy...We're releasing 60 new localized (French, German, Spanish, Japanese) consumer software titles by the end of August, and I'm responsible for all of 'em as a Material Manager...This mostly involves Oracle and Excel, and endless streams of caffeine and music...Stuff like creating part numbers, UPC codes, creating bills of materials, costing all the components that go into each title, purchasing those components, scheduling the production of all that software, overseeing shipping, and so on, and so forth...It's good honest work, and I'm good at it, but you can bet yr ass that I'm not living the dream...Not really anyways...
I mean, alot of us ask ourselves how we ended up in the occupations that we, um, occupy, and is it fate, or free will?
I never became an astronaut, or a truck driver, or a radio disc jockey, or a rock star, and I haven't written a great American novel as my mom predicted I would, but I hope there's still enough time for any and/or all of that, including the astronaut dealio...In the meantime, I'll continue my dilettante ways, recording unreleased music, writing unfinished screenplays, creating half-assed comic strips, producing mildly entertaining monthly "podcasts", and taking naps...
I'm not sure where blogging falls into my grand scheme, but I will disappear for a week or three at a time, and if that annoys you, apologies in advance...The thing about blogs is this - I still don't know how I truly feel about 'em...99% of 'em are poorly written, unfocused, and mostly regurgitate other blogs...I realize this is the nature of blogs, which is why it's so rare (to me, anyways) to find truly good or great ones...HOT POOP is not a great blog, and not even a good blog, if for no other reason than I'm not prolific with it, and blogs should be nothing if not prolific...
I would also say that HOT POOP lacks focus, and related to that, I'm not so sure I have a unique "voice"...So in essence, I don't really like my own blog, except that it's my quaint opinions and fictions, and not somebody else's...But really, I'm still not sure what HOT POOP is actually about...Random songs and YouTube clips, mixed with my useless ramblings? Who DOESN'T have a blog like this?
Hotcha!
Hank
Excuses...Excuses?
The weather's been pretty fine around Southcentral Wisconsin lately...Temps in the 70's and 80's, mild humidity, plenty of sun...So I've been doing stuff like sipping lemonade and reading music critic Nick Kent's selected writings, The Dark Stuff, out in the back yard...Stuff like mowing said yard...Taking clandestine pictures of the neighborhood squirrels and attempting to compile a dossier on 'em...(It's a long story, the one about me and the squirrels, and I won't recount it here and now.)...
Taking naps...
Drinking beer at the Union Terrace...
Drinking coffee at Ground Zero...
Shuffling around State Street, browsing book stores and CD racks, but especially the air-conditioned basement of The Exclusive, where their impressively extensive catalog of classical and jazz CDs are housed...
Recording music (Hat Creep stuff, mostly)...
Writing EVERYTHINGATHON! scripts...Compiling set lists for upcoming podcasts...Photoshopping potential podcast "cover art"...Basically trying to stay ahead of the game...
On that front, I've been toying with the idea of moving EVERYTHINGATHON! to it's very own website...If yr a fan of the monthly "show", any opinions/suggestions on that?
Also, at my regular 8-5 job, I've been incredibly busy...We're releasing 60 new localized (French, German, Spanish, Japanese) consumer software titles by the end of August, and I'm responsible for all of 'em as a Material Manager...This mostly involves Oracle and Excel, and endless streams of caffeine and music...Stuff like creating part numbers, UPC codes, creating bills of materials, costing all the components that go into each title, purchasing those components, scheduling the production of all that software, overseeing shipping, and so on, and so forth...It's good honest work, and I'm good at it, but you can bet yr ass that I'm not living the dream...Not really anyways...
I mean, alot of us ask ourselves how we ended up in the occupations that we, um, occupy, and is it fate, or free will?
I never became an astronaut, or a truck driver, or a radio disc jockey, or a rock star, and I haven't written a great American novel as my mom predicted I would, but I hope there's still enough time for any and/or all of that, including the astronaut dealio...In the meantime, I'll continue my dilettante ways, recording unreleased music, writing unfinished screenplays, creating half-assed comic strips, producing mildly entertaining monthly "podcasts", and taking naps...
I'm not sure where blogging falls into my grand scheme, but I will disappear for a week or three at a time, and if that annoys you, apologies in advance...The thing about blogs is this - I still don't know how I truly feel about 'em...99% of 'em are poorly written, unfocused, and mostly regurgitate other blogs...I realize this is the nature of blogs, which is why it's so rare (to me, anyways) to find truly good or great ones...HOT POOP is not a great blog, and not even a good blog, if for no other reason than I'm not prolific with it, and blogs should be nothing if not prolific...
I would also say that HOT POOP lacks focus, and related to that, I'm not so sure I have a unique "voice"...So in essence, I don't really like my own blog, except that it's my quaint opinions and fictions, and not somebody else's...But really, I'm still not sure what HOT POOP is actually about...Random songs and YouTube clips, mixed with my useless ramblings? Who DOESN'T have a blog like this?
Hotcha!
Hank
posted by Hank Mohaski at 5:14 PM
3 Comments:
Hank...your blogs don't suck.
I read your pearls of winsome(ness) because they take me back to the days when John Ketter/Alice Schmitt told me "boy your gonna grow up to be precedent"...but just like everything those old crazy dreams just kinda came and went....'taint that America....lil pink-faced souses for you and me.
Jazz...maroon blazers lilting sashes...barry sax...Wichman...leaky spit valve...Natalie...dressed...Bumppo...denim...where were you in 79 when the dam began to burst...leather...cooperstown...west bend...foul balls cracking windshields
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Yr mentioning events I should probably remember...I mean, I remember the Jazz band and crazy old Wichman, and I'm guessing "Natalie" is a reference to the one we called "trashbag", but cracked windshields in West Bend ain't ringing my bell...Leaky spit valves...hmmmmmm....
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