New Profile Picture

A fellow blogger told me not to put your picture, facially speaking, on your blog.

I'm not sure what the rationale is but I did put my hand and my photo bombing flip-flopped foot on it today.

My old profile photo was an apple in my lap; first, because I like the image but also the nonsensical phrase "apple in the lapple" (which is what I thought when taking the photo) makes me smile.

Anyway, the blue mug in my hand in the new photo is a favorite of mine. I use it a lot when I don't feel like doing things. Inspiration comes in the oddest of places. Like, if I ever get to be a writer of books and someone asks me, "What inspires you?" I get to say, "My mug." Then they'll stop asking me questions, I suppose.

I really just wanted to thank you this morning for reading my words. I check my google produced "stats" every day like a teenaged dreamer and they are growing...a lot...especially for a blog with a weird-assed title that people are probably not googling on the random.

And because the blog post wouldn't be sufficiently mine without a little music, I also wanted to tell you that I listened to Led Zeppelin for a long while yesterday. They are one of my go to bands when I need a kick in the pants. I was bratty and ridiculous and lazy yesterday but then I heard When the Levee Breaks and I cried. I cried because if it keeps on raining the levee's going to break and that made me think...if the numbers keep increasing on this blog the book needs to come. Then, for the legitimately real first time since 1986, when I was told by my English teacher, a man who did NOT give praise to kids, to WRITE A DAMN BOOK...I am going to try.

Thank you from the bottom of my guts for making it rain over here on the levee. And proper thanks and praise to Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie for first writing and recording When the Levee Breaks in 1929, about the great Mississippi flood of 1927.
I was unceremoniously copied and ripped off by another blogger once, so I know how it feels to be screwed by someone you trust. Giving proper citation and credit is important to ethical writers.
Led Zeppelin absolutely gave credit where credit was due to Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in the liner notes of the Runes album or the Zoso album or Led Zeppelin IV...or whatever you call it in your house.

And look! I'm learning to insert videos! Woo hoo!

Peace out! ←My friend Pamma Jamma says that all the time. She's got it on her license plate. We love her for it.

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