I’ve spent a lot of time recently complaining about artists not blogging and shooting their careers in the foot in the process. Well, get this. Someone is listening, and I think some pretty cool stuff is about to happen in the way that artists start interacting online.

Starting this week, the ball is rolling for some pretty intense changes online for a few different artists. I’m excited to get more involved with them and see where it goes and explore new possibilities. I don’t think there is really a title for this sort of thing yet, and with that, nothing really to compare it to, so it’s an adventure for everyone.

So since we are all in it together, look for pretty drastic online changes soon with these guys, these guys, hopefully this guy, and a few others.

And lets all cross our fingers and hope I’m right about this sort of thing.

We haven’t gone anywhere or done anything in a few days, and I am realizing that blogging is pretty tough when you don’t leave your house. There are things I could talk about, but most of them are unconfirmed and I don’t want to spoil and surprises. So, since I have already said enough about not having anything to say, I will leave you with this. 2007′s Words or Phrases Of The Year as chosen by the American Dialect Society.

Word of the Year: “Subprime”, an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage or investment.

Most Useful: “Green”, designates environmental concern.

Most Creative: “Googleganger”, person with your name who shows up when you Google yourself.

Most Unnecessary: “Happy Kwanhanamas”, Happy Holidays. Kwanza + Hanukkah + Christmas.

Most Outrageous: “Toe-tapper”, a homosexual. Sen. Larry Craig, an Idaho Republican, was arrested in June for an encounter in a Minneapolis airport bathroom in which “toe-tapping” as said to have been used as a sexual come-on.

Most Euphemistic: “Human Terrain Team”, a group of social scientists employed by the U.S. military to serve as cultural advisers in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Most Likely To Succeed: “Green”, designates environmental concern.

Least Likely To Succeed: “Strand-in”, protest duplicating being stranded inside an airplane on a delayed flight.

Who can use them all in a sentence? Ready? Go.

I’m sitting here. The boys are asleep. Kristin has come down with a cold and is asleep. It’s just after nine and I could go to sleep if I wanted to, but I am sitting up thinking about how gross Spray Salad Dressing sounds to me.

I honestly can’t think of this being a good thing. Kristin said she liked it, just before she rolled over and went to sleep. Now I don’t have anyone rebut that with. Surely she doesn’t mean that she actually likes Spray Salad Dressing. Maybe it was just something she said to shut me up so she could go to sleep. Maybe she doesn’t realize what a weird thing that is. She can’t mean that she actually has thought of spraying oil from a pump onto her salad. I mean look at the name of this “flavor”. Balsamic Breeze? What is that? A new fragrance from Bath and Body Works?

Here’s what I picture. I picture Blue Cheese dressing glopping from a nozzle and then clogging up and shooting me in the eye or something. I picture someone using it as breath spray and then talking too close to me. I picture accidentally thinking it’s something else and trying to clean my windows or countertops with it. I picture a lot of things, but I’m certainly not picturing it on my salad.

My mom got Kristin a Hallmark movie called The Christmas Card for Christmas. Over the holidays we didn’t have time to watch it, so after the kids were in bed we decided to try it out. Who’s seen it? Come on. I know some of you have. Get those hands up.

Now, here’s the deal. It’s not a good movie by a long shot (Sorry Mom). The acting is pretty bad, the story isn’t very thought through, and the entire thing is predictable, like I’m sure most Hallmark movies are, but that’s not why we watched it. For those of you who have seen it, and those of you who are dying to run out and get it after my stellar review, the reason we watched it, and the reason my mom got it for Kristin, wasn’t because of the acting or the story line, but because the entire movie is based in Nevada City and in the church that Kristin and I were married in.

It was cool to see where we spent so much of our time while we were dating. To see shops that we got coffee, the river where we would sit all day, and the church that we started our lives together in. It’s weird to live in Tennessee now and watch something that is so many places we used to spend so much time, and (here’s a movie spoiler, as if the cover of the movie isn’t) to know that we have pictures of each other on the same bridge that the main characters in the movie finally hook up.
Thanks mom.

I need your help. Which musicians are blogging the best? Go out and find them.

We all already know about John Mayer, Andy O, Mark and Shaun. Let’s find some more.

I want to know who’s doing it the best and what it’s doing to their career.

I don’t like them either, but I have added ads to the bottom of this blog. I want to see if there is really something to this “getting money from your blog” thing. I know people have done it and I know people talk about it, but I wanted to see for myself.

I tried to make them as inoffensive as possible and also put them at the bottom, and who knows, maybe someone out there reading this really does want to “attract Mr. Right” or maybe “treat their gum disease”. If that is you click here and click often so I can get a check.

So there they are. I apologize for them being there if they offend you, but you know what? I get to be the boss here.

You will also notice that I have added a menu to the top of the side bar. “Things I’ve Written” and “Things I’ve Seen”. You are currently looking at “Things I’ve Written”. They are blog posts… that I have written. The “Things I’ve Seen”, are simply that. Things I have seen. They are photos of which I was directly on the other side of the camera, and pushed a button. Sounds so unimpressive when I say it that way, doesn’t it?

So that’s the weekend house cleaning. Thanks.
-The Management.

In California, no vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

In Florida, if an elephant, goat or alligator is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.

In Montana, it is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone.

In Oregon, a door on a car may not be left open longer than necessary.

In Tennessee, it is illegal shoot any game other than whales from a moving automobile.

…in case you were wondering.

Got fifty-two minutes to spare? Me neither. I haven’t had time to watch this whole thing yet, but the idea is, once again, brilliant.