how things happen

[jfb]

Last night I was looking at the concert calendar for Linnaea's Cafe, and randomly clicked on the name of a folk singer. On her web page I was surprised to discover she went to Williams roughly when I did, so I sent her mail just to say "Small world." It turns out that Linnaea's had linked to someone else with the same name. The world isn't so small after all.

While googling for a Jim's Big Ego track listing to help me answer randomchef's request for funny singer-songwriter songs, I ran across Josh Woodward, another blogging singer-songwriter. After listening to his song "Dust" I was not surprised to learn he is a Peter Mulvey fan--in fact, he built mulveyfan.org.

After reading his blog I was somewhat surprised to learn a federal judge has approved a settlement agreement over the music industry's price-fixing of CDs. 5.6 million CDs to be sent to libraries and schools, plus $12.63 apiece for millions of consumers.

Comments

[randomchef.livejournal.com]

in fact, josh woodward is the mastermind behind fruhead.com, the amazing online community based around fans of moxy früvous. it was in fact this backcode that recently spawned mulveyfan.org. go check it out! früheads are wonderful people! :-D

small world

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I've posted many times on my shrinking world. But on the wrong number note, I apparently get a lot of e-mail from people looking for other people sharing my name, very often people several generations removed from me, so I can only conclude they didn't look very hard at my website.

I still regret not taking that chance to see you perform at Williams, but I was moving back home that day.