What's going on.

Is that what busy looks like? Shut the front door! I had no idea it looked like that. Sakes alive.

Press record nowWell, once again, you are encountering me in the midst of some level of astonishment. Seems like I spend half of my life sore amazed and the other half just plain sore. (I am definitely in the sore second half.) Anyway, never mind my poor self control - these are indeed heady days here at the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill in now waterlogged upstate New York. There's so much shit hitting this fan, it's hard to see your face through the fertilizer. Or something.

Here's what we've got on the burner: lunch. Marvin (my personal robot assistant) is heating up a can of soup. He doesn't seem to understand that you need to TAKE THE SOUP OUT OF THE CAN BEFORE YOU PUT IT IN THE FIRE. (I'm hopeful that, if I raise my voice, he will begin to understand.) So if we hear a 'splosion just before noon local time, we will likely know why. Soup in a can, friends. Keep it cool. That's all I've got to say.

Beyond the lunch issue, there are other things happening round these parts. Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick has been sent to the distribution house and will soon be available in all the usual online outlets - iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, blah blah blah. We are also on the verge of pressing a limited run of discs - those should be ready by the end of July, maybe sooner. If you want one, tell Marvin next time you see him at your corner gin mill. (Lush!) Or just leave a comment on this post and let us know. Or visit our contact page.

We've also got another episode of THIS IS BIG GREEN in production, with a fresh installment of Ned Trek. It's Ned Trek #11, and you'll hear it very soon. Weird? Yes. Childish and stupid? Perhaps. But you get what you expect, right? Big Green is nothing if not honest.

So, album ... podcast ... we've got it going on here at the hammer mill. Watch for the eerie glow of success. Or ... something else.

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