Happy Half-Birthday!

Or Maybe Half-Happy Birthday!

This blog launched 6 months ago with a post explaining the difference between collectors and music lovers (complete with video from High Fidelity. (To celebrate tonight, I'm wearing a half a birthday hat and half-blowing through a half-decent noisemaker!)

This was followed by posts on:

• Blotto (The 34th Most Important Band in the World, the most viewed page on this site),


• The Smithereens (Codependency's Greatest Hits),


• Darlene Love (Sacraments in the Church of Rock 'n' Roll),


• XTC (Thanks for Christmas),


• Why those UPS ads drive me up the wall(the Musical Definition of Irony),


• and the Del Fuegos (We Didn't Start the Del Fuegos, which contains my favorite comments of any that have appeared here).

So to celebrate, check out those early posts (or any of the others in the archives on the left side of the screen.

And welcome (or welcome back) to all the readers from all over the world (although none yet from Wyoming or Tennessee). And whatever I did to piss off the people in the island nation of Mauritius (who dropped in once and then never returned), I'm sure I didn't mean it!

And the four people from Homeland Security who visited after I mentioned the TSA, I'm guessing this post will finally bring you back.

Also, I should mention that there are 12 terms that return only this blog when you Google them.

And, as 120 people know, Clicks and Pops can be experienced on your iPhone!