Spitball Army

This humorous bit of promotional “marketing” was uncovered over the past weekend inside an advance package containing the Bodies and Minds CD by Great Lake Swimmers.

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That particular year, our friends at Sony were also excited, seeing as they are the purveyors of the entire back catalogs of both of these legendary artists. They put together a banner, taller than any man, to hang in our front window.

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Now I can’t expect everyone to feel like I am,
But I spot a trend that has got to stop,
And I want them to put back that old corner store.

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I was voter number 7 in line, so I was able to cast my “gender” vote quickly. There were two ballot boxes at the school where I vote, and one of them was down (it was sitting there like an abandoned R2D2, emitting an electronic beeping sound every few seconds). If they don’t get that baby fixed, they are going to have one hellish day come lunchtime or after work.

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I nearly hit the floor when my friend Ben gave me this painstakingly and lovingly made reconstruction of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, as a farewell tribute to my teenage record store, who has flown the nest after 16 and a half years.

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Every year I look forward to watching the broadcast of this annual event, then do a Homer Simpson DOH! when I hear about it the day after it aired. Not that it should be difficult to catch – the show traditionally airs during the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. But my brain gets wiped clean after the Christmas retail season, and the week after is spent stumbling along, trying to remember my name and where I put the car keys.

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This evening, after finally locking the doors, we were cleaning up with the store iPod playing in shuffle mode (yes, we use an mp3 player at a CD store…what of it?! 23,191 songs, by the way), when this came on:

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“There is a lot of sameness” in stores, Mr. Morris said.

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Shortly after announcing, on 1 November 2007, the closing of Laser’s Edge Compact Discs, I was invited into the studios of public radio station WBHM to discuss my thoughts on my business and the business of music. Program Director Michael Krall (who maintains a blog with criminal infrequency here) asked me the questions.

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