http://www.meficomp.com Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:33:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Site looks bizarre at the moment, and was down for a few hours.  Apologies! http://www.meficomp.com/2007/06/06/recovering-from-dreamhost-hackery/ It's taken me longer than I'd like to admit to get some of the CDs in the mail, so if you're tapping your foot and glancing at the old wristwatch, mea culpa.  Be assured that these things are going out; I'm nearly caught up as of last night, and I ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/12/28/im-a-slow-shipper-but-dont-despair/ We've had nice music profiles up for our twenty-four recording artists for a while now, but we've been missing a couple of important non-track folks. Missing now more, though: Please say hell to John "interrobang" Ralston, our art editor and the man responsible for generating the fabulous portraits featured in the ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/12/03/two-more-important-profiles/ In or near New York City?  There's an awesome meficomp release party on Sunday, December 3rd.  Get your details right over here! In or near Portland, OR?  Track 1 dynamos The Harvey Girls (now features yours truly, Track 5, on banjo) have a gig on Wednesday, December 6th.  Details here! Wondering who did the ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/12/01/various-things/ These things are going out!  Rock!  I have mailers!  I've got postage!  I've got mail-merged address labels!  And, most importantly, I've got three boxes full of pre-orders ready to take to the post office as soon as I get off work this afternoon, and more to come. So now I need to scour the ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/11/27/its-shipping-time/ Short version: Due to an Office Depot snafu, I don't have my padded mailers.  I'm working a different route, and should have mailers by this time next week if not sooner, to commence shipping ASAP.  Thanksgiving Weekend will probably affect this a bit, alas. Long version: So I was hoping—expecting, really—to start stamping and ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/11/20/a-few-days-delay-on-shipping/ Random aside: I just tripped across this comment on Ask Metafilter, from mefi-thesis-writing mefite Quartermass in October, 2005: We need someone to curate a Metafilter compilation, as there are a number of people making great independent music here. Capital notion! http://www.meficomp.com/2006/11/18/a-prophecy-fulfilled/ No, no. Don't talk. Just sit back. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Mmm hmm! Of course, that's the finished product. The after. There was also a before, ere we had such nice finished products. There was a final mastered mix CD from turtlegirl, an order form ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/11/18/porno-for-publishers/ I was just tremendously excited about my Wednesday discovery of the ahead-of-schedule appearance of the CDs. "Ooh," I thought, "I can start shipping these things this weekend! Before Thanksgiving! Wow!" And then I thought, wait—I haven't ordered padded mailers yet! I'd better get on that, and pronto! I ... http://www.meficomp.com/2006/11/18/death-to-office-depot-and-ups/ They're here! I'm going to bed! Stories tomorrow! http://www.meficomp.com/2006/11/17/look-what-i-have/