FILLER

artwork by Albin Brunovsky

(written by Islander)

I don’t exactly remember when or why we fell into the pattern we have here for how the posting day goes, but the pattern is that we try to post a first thing at 7 a.m. Pacific Time (where I am) and follow that with two more posts, or sometimes three, an hour apart. The 7 a.m. posts tend to be written by other folks around here. On days when we have two premieres (like today), I try to get those up at 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., which seems to work well because about half our audience is in North America and about half in the UK and Europe.

Today I didn’t have anything in hand for the 7 a.m. slot, hence this “filler” post. We will have those two premieres coming up, and of course I think both the songs are very good or we wouldn’t be messing with them.

And since I’m here and not writing about music, I might as well let you know that this weekend at NCS will likely be different from most weekends.

Every summer in either late July or early August I’ve helped organize an outdoor picnic where I live for people I work with in my day job, our family members, and other friends. It’s a two-day event, and this year it will take place tomorrow and Sunday. It’s always a blast, but preparatory things start happening fairly early on both days, and I tend to stay up way later than usual at night.

That means I may not write the usual SEEN AND HEARD or SHADES OF BLACK posts this weekend, or if I do, they’re likely to be shorter than usual. But we’ll see – you surely know by now that I have an obsessive-compulsive disorder when it comes to NCS.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for now. Come back for the premieres!