And I’m guessing that Leigh and I are complaining about the same publisher (H of S).

Re. Jonathan Coulton’s songs, Leigh just named one of my favorites, “Re. Your Brain,” a sort of zombie office memo. My other favorites are:

“The Future Soon”
“I Feel Fantastic”
“Still Alive” (from the soundtrack to the computer game “Portal”)
and one of my son Nate’s favorites: “Tom Cruise Crazy”

I’ve got to stop this and get work done.

Steve, I followed up on an earlier post of yours and have finished two of the three Old Man in the Corner books. (I can’t find the first.) The second was riddled with errors as you describe above. I suspect the problem is that contributors are electronically scanning the books, but failing to proofread when the OCR software selects the wrong word.

(laughing) Remind me to tell you the bell joke, Steve.

Before she became Lada GaGa (supposedly named after Queen’s Radio Ga-Ga), Stefani Germanotta was a talented composer, pianist, and singer of torch songs. Undoubtedly, the dividing line is whether we prefer the old or the new.

In the 60s and 70s, head rock musicians often told stories as you suggest with The Who’s Tommy, Queen’s Night at the Opera, and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Heard out of context, they are still enjoyable, but they lose much of their meaning.

Occasionally CDs will come in boxes that remind me of the old albums. George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” (which was a triple album back in the day) came in a nifty box.