Mendacious Muttering and More Music I Must Mention
Still no job. I interviewed at the Department on Friday but haven't heard back.

Last month I actually pulled in enough money to pay my bills, and then I did my taxes and had to forfeit it all to the Government. Great; let them spend it on their Financial Bailout and put it right into the pockets of those shysters whose jackassery brought about the conditions that cost me my job in the first place. Why don't I just pay them directly and save them the effort and expense of robbing me via bureaucracy?

And why did my credit card interest rate suddenly go up? Is it because I lost my job? What kind of logic dictates that you should charge the customer more because he now has less money? It's like my bank charging a fee for being "below minimum balance" which I think is the most retarded thing ever. I guess the poor can't fight back, but it's only a matter of time, if this kind of crap continues, there will be a new American Revolution. I would enjoy chowing down on the sweetbreads of a fat investment banker.

Since we, as a culture, are now OFFICIALLY rewarding ineptitude, maybe my best way to cash in is to laze around and do nothing. Or no, wait, you have to make colossal mistakes to have the big bucks handed to you (the bigger the failure the bigger the bonus), and that is going to require some actual effort. I'm too lazy, and I don't have the resources to pull off a truly colossal financial screw-up. Guess I'd better put some of my backup schemes into action:

There are now two albums of my very own musical product out floating around. "Circle A-b" is folk songs. "Ahoy" is a smattering of relatively recent original material. They are available in different stores. Tunecore's distribution seems to be completely random. It's three months later and the albums are still not up in all the places I requested. But they are up in many places. "Circle" is on Rhapsody. "Ahoy" is on iTunes, and I think also on Amazon in their MP3 department. "Ahoy" also showed up in one of the other stores; one I had never heard of and can't remember the name of... Do a search for Dr. Phlogiston and something of mine should turn up. Then buy some of it!

I am also doing commissions again, if you need some kind of cartoon drawn. The guidelines are on my website, which should be linked to from here...

What's the deal with badges? Do people really buy those things like hotcakes? I should get in on that action.