Ray E. Toler, Jr.

Crazy Monkey Shoes

Ray — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:30:16 +0000

Yesterday I bought a pair of crazy monkey shoes. They are butt ugly. And they are wonderful.

No MyAlRecMo. Yet.

Ray — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:01:52 +0000

The fates have conspired against me and forced me to postpone December as my month to write and record an album. I’ve had some gear malfunctions, had to completely disassemble the studio due to a move, and ended up needing to be in Texas more than I had originally planned on. That said, I plan [...]

MyAlRecMo?

Ray — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:56:01 +0000

You may be familiar with NaNoWriMo, or "National Novel Writing Month," in which people are encouraged to overcome their own personal inertia and write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. I've been intrigued with the idea since I first heard about it a few years ago, but fiction writing has always been an area that I've studiously avoided. I have enough trouble self-critiquing my lyrics and declaring them stupid before I've even finished the third line -- I can only shudder in horror at the thought of reading over my own fiction...

The New Math

Ray — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:30:14 +0000

Orwell had it so right... not only does 2+2=5, but $160 is less than $0.

The Outside of The Asylum

Ray — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:47:00 +0000

If Wonko the Sane deemed the world unfit because of instructions on a pack of toothpicks, what does this Wall Street Journal article portend for the future?