A Sense of Doubt blog post #4151 - SoD Reprint from 2019 - TRM Mix for Musical Monday - Totally Random Music with no theme or selection system

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4151 - SoD Reprint from 2019 - TRM Mix for Musical Monday - Totally Random Music with no theme or selection system

Today's reprint is another music mix that needed fixing as I explain below.

Thanks for tuning in.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

Link to the original post I am reprinting below:

Monday, May 13, 2019

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1544 - TRM Mix for Musical Monday - 1905.13

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1544 - TRM Mix for Musical Monday - 1905.13 - Totally Random Music with no theme or selection system

Song list edited 2606.19.

13 songs for Monday May 13th.

No theme.

The only theme is no theme.

Randomness.

First two videos that I need for class followed by the mix links and a track listing.

That's it, that's all, goodnight.

TRM Mix for Musical Monday - 1905.13 - Totally Random Music with no theme or selection system

TITLE ABOVE IS YOU TUBE MIX LINK

TRM Mix for Musical Monday - 1905.13 
BY Chris Tower - 13 videos

1. Gil Scott-Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Full Band Version)" - 3:09
2. The Police - "Too Much Information" - 3:57

3. Indigo Girls - "Let it Be Me"

4. Savages - "You're My Chocolate"  - 5:04
5. Nick Cave - "Are you the one that I've been waiting for" - 4:06

6. Missing Persons - "Destination Unknown" - 3:28
7. Ani DiFranco - "You Had Time" - 3:50

8. Camila Cabello - "Havana" ft. Young Thug - 3:39

9. Macy Gray, Erykah Badu - "Sexual Revolution" - 5:11

10. le tigre - "deceptacon" - 3:10
11. Lamb - "Fly" - 5:14
12. MOON WIRING CLUB ~ "ALL SPIDERY NOW" by WotanAlthorpe - 3:39

13. Holly Herndon - "Frontier" - 4:31

below - YOU TUBE VIDEO POD PLAYER





ORIGINAL MIX - CHANGED 2606.19

1. Gil Scott-Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Full Band Version)" - 3:09
2. The Police - "Too Much Information" - 3:57
3. Nick Cave - "Are you the one that I've been waiting for" - 4:06
4. Ani DiFranco - "You Had Time" - 3:50
5. MOON WIRING CLUB ~ "ALL SPIDERY NOW" by WotanAlthorpe - 3:39
6. le tigre - "deceptacon" - 3:10
7. Lamb - "Fly" - 5:14
8. Holly Herndon - "Frontier" - 4:31
9. Savages - "You're My Chocolate"  - 5:04
10. Macy Gray, Erykah Badu - "Sexual Revolution" - 5:11
11. Missing Persons - "Destination Unknown" - 3:28
12. Camila Cabello - "Havana" ft. Young Thug - 3:39
13. Björk - "All is Full of Love" - 4:09

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1905.13 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1409 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.29 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 4015 days ago & DAD = 669 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4003 - AWESOME: Bruce Springsteen Raises His Music in Resistance Against ICE and the Trump Administration

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4003 - AWESOME: Bruce Springsteen Raises His Music in Resistance Against ICE and the Trump Administration

Not Comic Book Sunday, but I am still in quick share mode. Last day of the Winter quarter at Walden Graduate School.

Bruce Springsteen made a song for the people of Minnesota following the MURDERS of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Of course, the Trump administration doesn't like it but has to comment because they cannot take criticism let alone open resistance.

The actions of this administration and their thugs are brutal, cruel, and inhuman.

This is because they do not see immigrants -- illegal or otherwise -- as humans. And they do not consider those who resist to be "real" Americans.

And then Trump, who cannot hold back lack a mature adult or someone with the position of power he has and respect for the office he holds from spewing the most vile, offensive, insulting hate filled rants about people who oppose him and the actions of his cronies.

It's disgusting, vile, and despicable.

And then there's SPRINGSTEEEN!!

I wonder if he has more followers on social media than Trump?

I am disappointed in myself that I posted about Alex Pretti but have not yet made my post about Renee Good. When I do, I will use these sources:

Renee Good - video analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-transformed-federal-immigration-alex-pretti-renee-good-rcna256032

Thank you Bruce Springsteen.

Thank you people of Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Thank you for tuning in.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

Bruce Springsteen

Jan 29, 2026

Directed by Thom Zimny

Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro

Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

Trump administration slams Bruce Springsteen's 'irrelevant' anti-ICE protest song

The song is the latest offering from Springsteen, who has heavily criticized Trump's policies since he was first elected in 2016.

By 

Mekishana Pierre

 

 

January 29, 2026 3:29 p.m. ET

https://ew.com/trump-administration-slams-bruce-springsteen-anti-ice-protest-song-11895474

Bruce Springsteen's new protest song is getting rave reviews from music lovers and activists alike, but the White House is definitively not a fan.

Springsteen released the song, titled "Streets of Minneapolis," on Wednesday, which boasts lyrics condemning the presence and actions of federal immigration enforcement in the city, and calls out "King Trump" and his "federal thugs." The song also narrates the killings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, who were fatally shot by federal agents this month.

"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis," the 76-year-old rocker wrote on Bluesky alongside the single's release. "It's dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free."

Saturday was the same day immigration agents killed Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, during a confrontation. Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7, with both occurrences going viral on social media.

Their deaths are the latest to gain national attention as at least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025 amid Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown, making it the agency's deadliest year in two decades, per The American Prospect.

In response to Springsteen's song making headlines, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, told Entertainment Weekly in a statement that "the Trump administration is focused on encouraging state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement officers on removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities — not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information."

Jackson added, "The media should cover how Democrats have refused to work with the Administration, and instead, opted to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegals."

Springsteen released a new video for the song, directed by longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, on Thursday. The video features scenes on the ground in Minneapolis and studio performance shots of Springsteen. Pam Springsteen, the Boss' sister, is credited with production footage along with Zimny.

Springsteen, who has written politically driven music for decades, has been heavily critical of Trump since he was first elected in 2016. Their spat was renewed with Trump's second term, with the "Dancing in the Dark" singer dubbing the current administration as "corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous" during the opening night of his Land of Hope and Dreams tour in Manchester last May.

"Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us," Springsteen told his crowd at the time. "Raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring."

The president fired back at the musician a day later on Truth Social, calling him a "dried-out 'prune' of a rocker" and stating that he "never liked him, never liked his music, or his Radical Left Politics."

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2602.01 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3866 days ago & DAD = 522 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3995 - Minnesota Shows Up and wants ICE OUT

Minneapolis 2601.23

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3995 - Minnesota Shows Up and wants ICE OUT

Just this today.

I feel these images and posts say everything I want to say.

https://bsky.app/profile/fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social/post/3md5pcxmwf22b

The anti-ICE protests in Minnesota are huge

[image or embed]

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social) January 23, 2026 at 11:35 PM

https://twitter.com/Saul_Eugene49/status/2014838502756647078

MINNEAPOLIS SHOWED OUT TODAY. Thousands march in -35 degree weather to stand up to authoritarianism in conjunction with the first mass general strike since 1946.

Trump and his goons stand directly opposite Minnesota values. We will not give in and we will show up. Believe that pic.twitter.com/wJ5qa6LlTO

— Saul Eugene (@Saul_Eugene49) January 23, 2026

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2601.24 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3858 days ago & DAD = 513 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3163 - The Information Giant Revolution - the Message - Music Mix

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3163 - The Information Giant Revolution - the Message - Music Mix

The lost mix.

I searched my blog repeatedly for this mix as I knew I had seen it, but it was just on You Tube and no blog entry even in draft form.

And then I forgot about it for four years...

This mix started with student recommendations of the first track -- "Giant" by Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man -- as well as Childish Gambino's "This is America."

From there I wanted a mix of contemporary and older tunes, so I added recommendations from my step-son Ivan of Thundercat and Tyler the Creator.

I added Gil Scott Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Too Much Information" by the Police as I used to use both directly related to a book I have taught many times:

Culture Jam

The book as a PDF.

and the concept of CULTURE JAMMING.

This mix is in many ways a CULTURE JAM.


And how prophetic was "Too Much Information" by the Police? 

Some of the songs found their way onto the mix because YouTube keeps making suggestions. Outside of those, I just felt that this mix needed Beastie Boys, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Run the Jewels, Mos Def (as do all mixes with hip hop need MOS DEF, most definitely), and Grandmaster Flash.

I raided my favorites for tunes like "Havana" by Camila Cabello and Radiohead.

But when YouTube suggests a WEEZER cover of "Take On Me," well, HELL YES, to that.

I am proud of this mix.

It has new to me songs or artists -- Rachael Price, Seinabo Sey, and Grinderman -- and I hope some new to you music as well.

The lost mix is now found and posted!

Thanks for tuning in.

The Information Giant Revolution - the Message

1. Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man - Giant (Official Video)

2. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

3. The Police - Too Much Information HD

4. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message

5. Camila Cabello - Havana

6. Yeah! Oh, Yeah! - The Magnetic Fields

7. Childish Gambino - This Is America

8. Vampire Weekend - This Life 

9. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

10. INXS - Mediate

11. Mitski - Nobody

12. Built to Spill - I Would Hurt a Fly

13. Nick Cave and PJ Harvey - Henry Lee

14. Gil Scott Heron - We almost Lost Detroit

15. Frou Frou - Let Go

16. Weezer - Take On Me

17. The Breeders - Cannonball 

18. PJ Harvey - The Wheel

19. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

20. 'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close

21. Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise

22. Run The Jewels - Legend Has It

23. Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall

24. LCD Soundsystem - oh baby

25. Chaka Khan - Like Sugar

26. Seinabo Sey - I Owe You Nothing

27. Van McCoy & Pan's People » Do the Hustle (1975)

28. Grinderman - Get it On

29. ThunderCat - Them Changes

30. Radiohead - The Numbers: Jonny, Thom & a CR78

31. Mitski - Washing Machine Heart

32. Eurythmics - Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)

33. Rachael Price - Can't Find My Way Home

34. Steely Dan - Do It Again

35. Thundercat & Tame Impala - "No More Lies"

36. Tyler the Creator - Earfquake

37. Mos Def - Quiet Dog, Bite Hard

38. Air - La Femme D'Argent (Music Video) [A Trip Down Market Street - Restored] [FLAC]

39. Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric ? ( Very Rare Unbroadcast Complete Version 1979 )

40. Thundercat - 'Show You The Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)' (Official Video)

41. Calvin Harris, Rag'n'Bone Man - Giant (Calvin Harris version)

BONUS

Thievery Corporation • Chet Faker • Bonobo • Morcheeba - Special Coffeeshop Selection [Seven Beats]

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2310.16 - 10:10

- Days ago = 3027 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3137 - Via Warren Ellis - Idea Improve, Revolutions Don't Stop, and Writing Soundtracks

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3137 - Via Warren Ellis - Idea Improve, Revolutions Don't Stop, and Writing Soundtracks

Just this today: a share from Warren Ellis' Orbital Operations newsletter.

Thanks for tuning in.

FROM

Orbital Operations Orbital Operations for 20 August 2023

I was grubbing through my files and it seems that in 2014 I started to write something for Vulture about the Oliver Stone-directed film NATURAL BORN KILLERS. I evidently just left a fragment:

It was the sound of the guns that did it.

Guns in movies all pretty much have the same sound. A change in those sounds catches your attention. The clatter and pop of handguns and rifles is rendered as nothing compared to the entrance of Harry Callahan’s Magnum with its great flat POW in DIRTY HARRY. The guns in NATURAL BORN KILLERS have a grinding, mechanical sound, steel gears and hammers, before the explosion. These are the sounds of relentless murder machines.

If I could pick one thing that exemplified 1994, it would be NATURAL BORN KILLERS. It was a remarkably pure expression of the culture. It was about the things that everybody was thinking about. Not the least of which was the postmodern position and the awareness that the whole of 20th Century culture was fair game for the creative toolbox. The cultural memory was now dense enough that entire stories could be told using nothing but cultural memory.

This latter part was a notion that began for me with Stone’s JFK, and made it into my work in all kinds of ways in the late 90s and probably early 2000s, its last iteration probably being the “dream sequence” episode of NEXTWAVE that Stuart Immonen took to its ultimate level with his impersonations of Clowes, Pope, Mignola et al.

"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

Guy Debord, 1967

Apparently I wrote this for someone in 2013, no idea who:

Revolutions don’t stop. Once begun, they continue to revolve. There somehow remains, against the will of history, a presumption that they spin around to a state of grace, a better position on the wheel. We fantasise this about politics, and in the digital space, in the creative world and within the engines of commerce. It’s rare that we consider the wild machinery of revolution and understand that disruption is a runaway process, and that eventually even the most powerful disrupters will themselves be disrupted. Only those actors crushed in the cogs of the process are remembered as “revolutionaries”. Those who meet success become the establishment, and are themselves targeted by the operations of the dreamstate of revolution.

Some years ago - 2019, maybe? - I did a thing for BBC Radio 6 Music where I was asked to present a list of tracks pertinent to my life and work and discuss them. I just found the original track listing in my files, along with some rough notes. Maybe you’d like to go and find them.

TRANSMETROPOLITAN, The Pogues

Where I got the title and tone of the book TRANSMETROPOLITAN from

THE SPOIL FACTOR, Danielle Dax

(one of the first intimations that you could come where I come from, with these ideas in my head, and still get to make something with them)

BETWEEN THE WARS, Billy Bragg

And Billy’s here to say, you can be where you’re from and say what you want.

BLUE VEILS AND GOLDEN SANDS – Delia Derbyshire

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was very Important to me. To me, it all stills sounds like the future, the present and the past all at once, and it stands for inventing the future with the tools you have to hand.

HEROES, David Bowie (album version)

Because it’s bold and it wears its heart on its sleeve, yes, but also because it’s careful, formal invention. The stepped mics, the guitar figures, a gateway for me both to Eno’s ambient music and to German experimental music.

FUR IMMER, Neu!

For me, comics are percussion. You can do a whole journey with rhythm and tone.

HOW MEN DIE IN THEIR SLEEP, Lydia Lunch & Lucy Hamilton

I can’t use any of Lydia Lunch’s spoken-word work on a Sunday afternoon, but this collaborative instrumental album captures a lot of the eeriness and the sadness in her spoken-word, I find, and her spoken word work was a fascination of mine.

DRIVE IT ALL OVER ME, My Bloody Valentine (or CIGARETTE IN YOUR BED)

Their first album was perfectly okay folky pop. And then, suddenly, they did something I’d never heard before – they took pop songs and turned them inside out so all you could hear were the guts. They found a way to make popular art raw and alien but you could still see the bones.

THE VISUALIZATION, Phurpa (album Trowo Phurnag Ceremony)

I’m using this one to represent my long interest in musics from all over the place. It stands in for the idea that a writer should read widely if they want to be any good.

SUNLIGHT HEAVEN, Julianna Barwick

(colour and light)

BOLTS, Northern Structures

This is why I can’t live without music. I was stuck on a scene in my novel GUN MACHINE, and listening to Mary Anne Hobbs on the radio – she knows this story – and she played this, and all of a sudden I had the pace and shape of the scene I was trying to write. Music fixed the book.

GREY AND GREEN, Felicia Atkinson

This record was the recurring soundtrack to my novel NORMAL, and was often in my earbuds during a year when I was flying in and out of there, resting between periods of intense activity in LA.

KING NIGHT, Salem

This was a frequent go-to when writing CASTLEVANIA: for when you need the sound of the devil punching the world and the world beating the shit out of the devil. Yes, I know I can’t say “shit.”

DEATH IS NOT THE END, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Deadlines

Orbital Operations, 10 September 2023

Brazen Blaze

The most-often repeated piece of advice in visual storytelling is “show, don’t tell.” As I have railed before, this leads to the most egregious repeating moment in television: “You need to see this,” someone is told over a communications device, and then it cuts to that person standing with some other people looking at the thing they apparently need to see. This is because the writers have had “show, don’t tell” dinned into their heads.

AND THEN SOMEONE TELLS THEM WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING AT ANYWAY.

Seriously, pick any bit of action tv, particularly streaming, and see if it happens in exactly that way. See how many times it happens. See how many times it happens in a single episode.

It’s a principle. Not a rule. Everyone else may treat it like a rule, but it’s not and you don’t have to.

There’s a bit in the old British show WAKING THE DEAD where crime scene manager Frankie tells prickly insane Detective Superintendent Boyd over a radio link, “Boyd, you need to see this.” And Boyd yells “Just bloody tell me!” Whoever wrote that is my comrade.

It slows things down. You need to choose slowing things down, not accepting it because you think there’s a rule that must be followed.

Like most things, show-don’t-tell is fine in its place. But it’s not connective tissue. It’s a bad end-of-scene gambit, it eats up useful time, it’s so over-used that it creates no anticipation or potential energy any more, and it’s not interesting. Images and words can strike sparks off each other with their frictions. The words can be telling a slightly different story than the image, and thereby enrich each other with meaning. If you want emotion, then emotion comes in the telling of something, not always the showing of it. Show don’t tell is a tool, not a rule - choose when to use it and you’ll surprise your audience.

I read somewhere, a few weeks back, that there is no longer a comics sales chart. Good. The old one was always wrong anyway. And, honestly, back in the day, people were obsessed with it. It did nobody any good, it made a lot of people crazy, and thinking about it too much gave you brain worms.

If you want to do something useful for the comics medium, start a magazine devoted to some decent review writers, art and craft focussed interviews, the history of the medium and some honest to god lit theory and practice. That would have more utility than knowing someone’s best guess at how much ROAD TO BUMHAIR-MAN FAMILY (AR FOIL VARIANT COVER Y) sold last month.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if comics were the only narrative medium to deliberately not offer a sales chart? A statement that it’s the work that matters, not the stats.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2309.20 - 10:10

- Days ago = 3001 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.