In case you hadn’t heard this news, we’re about to go through a big move around these parts.(Probably not as big a move as the Gumby bandit, though.)

LivingIndefinitely.com started up in 2002. It was originally intended as a group project, though it quickly wound up as home for my stuff. That said, I’ve had a bunch of other projects that have been great but never fit the LI portfolio, so to speak – and over time, I’ve come to realize that I have too many projects under too many differently-named umbrellas.

Too many communities around those projects that are artificially separated because of my own insistence that some of my projects belong on a site and other projects belong on a different site. What it boils down to is that I’ve been trying to build a community around a site run by a person instead of just being the person. “Brady Carlson is the brand,” a relative of mine remarked, and he’s right – the LI brand has become a middleman.

Well, in true TV infomercial fashion I’m going to eliminate the middleman and pass the savings onto you. LivingIndefinitely.com is going to wrap up as a separate entity at the end of 2012, cause ten years is pretty flipping great, and starting in 2013 all of my projects – LI and otherwise – will be featured on a new site, BradyCarlson.com. All of the past LivingIndefinitely content will move to that site, and all the ongoing stuff – including Two Word Wednesday and the like – will carry on there too.

For those (three) of you who try to follow what I do, I expect that this move will make for one really cool and busy site, instead of like twelve that are updated irregularly and hard to track down. That said, I’m gonna hang onto the LivingIndefinitely.com domaine for the foreseeable future. It’ll point to the new site, but it’ll still work.

The transfer process is already underway and it’s requiring a good deal of reposting, unfortunately, so there won’t be any new content on any of my sites this month. So enjoy all the back content – there’s ten years of it, after all – and we’ll start anew in January.

Finally, a big thank you to each of you who has stopped by the site since 2002. Hope you enjoy the new site until 2022, at which point websites will become obsolete because the internet will become sentient. And evil.

Something to look forward to, I guess!
- Brady

The key lines from the past week:

“I take a long poll (sic) and smash the nest but by goll they’re still alive. So again I run but my with my Scottish ancestry I stop to turn out the light and man, one got me under the eye. Those honey bees sure sting!” – Canadian blazer model Don Cherry, showing his mastery of human-bee relations is even more palpable than his hockey knowledge and his sense of style put together and multiplied by a trillion. Sadly he did not tweet “AAAAAAGH NOT THE BEES” the way Nicolas Cage would’ve. [NESN]

And here in late 2012 he is still working – and that’s not all, either: CNET reports the website for Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign is still working too! True, the election in question is a full sixteen years behind us, and Dole’s running mate, Jack Kemp, has sadly left this earth, but if you want to consider whether or not to support the man, well, you can do that on the internet. Because win or lose, you know one thing: Bob Dole is not broken. Bob Dole is still working.

A world without mascots… is like a world without sun…

KISS bassist Gene Simmons once sang that line. Actually he mispronounced “mascots” and it came out as “heroes” – his New York accent at work, I guess – and because of that the record company misprinted the song title and so now no one realizes just how screwed we’d all be without mascots.

Seriously, without mascots how would we know when to chant “DE-FENSE”? Or start the wave? Who would little kids high-five and/or run in terror from at games and public events? And mascots are just as useful outside the sports world as they are in it. Fourteen US Senators, ten Nobel laureates and three popes were actually mascots. (Who could forget the short but influential papacy of Mr. Met II?)

I propose November be named Mascot History Month, and that we celebrate some of the important contributions mascots have made to society. I’m kicking things off today with a shout out to Clutch, mascot, friend and all-around hero to the NBA’s Houston Rockets. Seems one Valentine’s Day a lovestruck Rockets fan decided to proclaim his love for all time, in front of a capacity crowd at Houston Toyota Center. He brought his lady friend to center court, got down on one knee… and, well, just watch:

Yeah, that didn’t exactly go well. But look who was there for the dude after his painful rejection: that’s right, Clutch. He doesn’t mind hanging with a loser – after all, he remembers the Rockets’ 2005-06 season. I have it from people inside the Rockets organization that say Clutch not only walked the guy off the court, but took him out on the town with some of his mascot buddies – TORO the bull and Junction Jack the rabbit – got some drinks at Clutch’s table at the Drake Bar and then went dancing at HUSH til 2 in the morning. Clutch introduced the despondent would-be groom to a young lady who had unfortunately set a record the year before for most foul balls caught with a forehead (three) and they hit it off. Today they live in a ranch-style house in South Houston with their three kids and fourteen dogs. Technically the dogs are the landlords but hey, the price was right.

Now you may hear that this whole marriage proposal was a stunt and that the woman didn’t really turn him down. But I doubt it. Clutch may help losers, but he doesn’t help phonies.

And so, Clutch the Rockets Bear, we salute your many achievements as we celebrate Mascot History Month 2012!

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Mondays get Meta on this site – even Veterans’ Day, unfortunately – and the meta-related lesson we learn on this Veterans Day is this: be careful what you name your band, cause if you name your band The Civil Wars…

We sincerely apologize for the canceling of all of our tour dates. It is something we deeply regret. However, due to internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition we are unable to continue as a touring entity at this time.

In short: there is something of a civil war going on between the members of The Civil Wars. This period will be remembered as the War Between the Civil Wars.

Me, I’m going to name my next band Budokan, so that when we finally play that famous stadium in Japan, we’ll have the most meta album title in history: “Budokan at Budokan.”

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via Found in Mom’s Basement

A friend of a friend started a hashtag game on Twitter tonight – #BadSandyAdvice – and I couldn’t help but add a few ideas into the mix.

Just cut the power and water at your house now. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:07 pm

Fill a large pot with the spiciest sauce you can create. Marinate every piece of food in the house with it. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:16 pm

Since everything’s closed already, might as well go stand in line now for “The Hobbit” tickets. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:23 pm

Call emergency services and insist that only The Last Airbender can save your city. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:29 pm

Disasters are great branding opportunities. Be sure to use every storm-related hashtag to offer retail discounts. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:34 pm

That hardware store manager who says they ran out of generators three days ago? Lying his ass off. Tell him so. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:46 pm

Write “WE HAVE EXTRA FOOD, EVERYONE WELCOME” on your neighbor’s garage. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:49 pm

You’ll never have a better opportunity to pester your roommates into giving roleplaying games a try. Don’t waste it. #BadSandyAdvice – 8:54 pm

If a neighbor becomes too ill to evacuate, drop by his/her house dressed as Patch Adams. At least you’ll leave ‘em laughing. #BadSandyAdvice – 9:01 pm

“If you ask me, the soundtrack for this storm can only be one thing: KID ROCK.” #BadSandyAdvice – 9:16 pm

Remember, social media is changing everything. We can defeat the storm with enough tweets. #BadSandyAdvice – 9:28 pm

You are Kirok. You are a god. You can stop the storm if you and Spock can just get into the temple and deflect the asteroid. #BadSandyAdvice – 9:48 pm

Can you and that motorcycle of yours launch over the hurricane? One way to find out, right? #BadSandyAdvice – 9:55 pm

Introducing the new director of FEMA, The Iron Sheik! #BadSandyAdvice – 10:30 pm

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