Hammer Mill Days

This Is Big Green: January 2013 Big Green shares the agony of the morning after with another installment of Ned Trek, space travel's only talking horse, plus three Big Green songs and some assorted groaning. Cheers. This is Big Green - Hangover Edition 2013. Features: 1) Song: Volcano Man, by Big Green; 2) Ned Trek VI: The further adventures of Romney's talking horse; 3) Song: Johnny's Gun (demo version), by Big Green; 4) Put the phone down: Our sucky science fiction future, and other topics; 5) Song: Oh, Larry, by Big Green; 6) Turn it down, the radio; 7) Talk of language; 8) Ignominious implosion. Go To Download Page >

Not a lot of time on my hands just now, so I'll just take a few wild swipes at some foreign policy issues. Benghazi hearings. It's a little hard to suppress laughter when I hear Republicans complaining about the Sept. 11 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. As only they can do, they are keeping the flame of this ludicrous conspiracy theory alive even though it was cooked up on the fly late in the election season to offer Romney a foreign policy talking point. The Obama administration rose to the bait back then, of course, and probably said way too much about the attack, trying to put the controversy to rest; they've been backpedaling ever since, probably kicking themselves for having commented so much in reaction to Romney's ridiculous embargoed media release on 9/11. The fact remains, though, that the attack killed three Americans. Three too many, of course, but the senators who are complaining the loudest - McCain, for instance, and the yargle-bargl...

Okay, now where was I? Wait, don't tell me. I was complaining about.... something.... No, not the song "Something". I rather fancy that. Something to do with Web servers. No matter. Here we are, back to the blog. What's happening at the mill? Lots. Working on the January podcast, now days behind schedule. Later every month, right? That's the natural course of business here in Big Green - land. Still.... our first installment of THIS IS BIG GREEN should be worth the wait, if you like weird, asinine, and abysmally non-commercial media content. True hallmarks of the TIBG brand. Smell something burning? Neither do I. But (and this is the point) we bloody well should, and here's why ... Marvin (my personal robot assistant) is supposed to be thinking up a viable creation myth for our upcoming collection of songs attributed to and written in tribute to cousin Rick Perry, governor of Texas. The album - Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick - is such a monumen...

We're still in the subway toilet, thanks to our friends at Dotster. I spent the last two days working on restoring our main site to something like normal functionality, but I'm no closer than I was on Friday, so.... so it goes. I had a column all ready for you folks, but I can't remember what the hell it said. All I know is that it had something ... something to do with this image. Oh well.... back to the drawing board.