crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
Sorry.

Damnit, there’s my Grade twelve English Teacher telling me not to open with an apology again.

I’ve been busy. Nothing fun or sexy. Volunteer stuff, which I’ve been stepping back from in increments. Not sure how many more layers I’ll shed this year. Still feel a strong sense of obligation in some ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
Today is my birthday. Facebook friends are kindly wishing me well, which is appreciated. Twitter doesn’t give such notifications, but then, I don’t expect much from Twitter. Twitter for me is like putting messages in a bottle and throwing it into the ocean. Fun exercise, but it rarely produces more than a ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
Okay, so I haven’t been posting much lately, and you folks have accordingly and appropriately been staying away. I’ve published something on the order of almost 1500 posts. It’s been a long four years or so since I started this site. I’ve asked cajoled, begged, pleaded, in in a moment of weakness, I even ( Read more... )

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Sorry, no song lyric title this morning.

So today is the day. It’s 9/11. We remember the loss of thousands in NYC 14 years ago. We remember, both because it was unbelievable and horrifying, and because it changed our world for the worse.

Today is also the first day of the now-weekend-long Supercrawl 2015.
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I haven’t been posting much, lately. Stuff is happening. Even pretty cool stuff. But personally, I haven’t felt particularly sparkly, so I haven’t known what to write. As I’m fond of saying in meatspace, ‘That’s not an excuse. It’s merely an explanation.”

I think it comes from the fact that I haven’t been ( Read more... )

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So, what have I been up to lately? Mainly, painting, planning a couple of albums of new music, and trying to get my head into writing a few books I’m thinking I’d like to have done for the new year.

Here’s a painting I did a few days ago, and then dickered with a bit today in Photoshop, to create the ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
Listening to Circa Zero. Andy Summers comes back to pop music with stunning effect. It’s thirty years since The Police recorded anything new. He’s done a lot of recording since then, but other than the brief Police reunion concert series, very little in the way of true pop music. That’s not a condemnation ( Read more... )

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Just a brief post to talk about what I’m up to, and to share a brief bit of graphical stats amusement, which I don’t do very often anymore.

First, there’s those buttons I started working on. They’re still not done. I might work on them today, barring interruptions. Gotta give them a black glass effect, ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
I’ve been sitting on a big post about PB for about two weeks. Today isn’t going to be the day I post it either. I can’t express how confusing and frustrating it is to know a thing in your heart, but to still be hoping against hope that something good will come before you reach any sad conclusions. Take ( Read more... )

crossposted from Lee Edward McIlmoyle's blog
I’m in the middle of a lot of long term projects, and trying to productize and market a number of finished works and ideas. so I’ve been a little quiet. Not disengaged. Just preoccupied.

I have a few problems in the offing. Projects I’ve been working on for months, or even years, are facing the scrap heap ( Read more... )