Hammy vs. Siri: Day Two, Spleen Tickler

Spleen is my go to funny internal organ.  It meets the five critical criteria for all funny internal organs:

1.  Fun to say.

2.  Fun to hear.

3.  The ‘spl’ no consonant thing kick starts an onomonapiathon :  splat, splurt, splunk, spleet, splot, sploot, splurg, etc.

4.  Double e’s provide for optional extended director’s cut versions.

5.  Because I say so.

Tall Tale Radio Interview

Had a fun time last Friday doing an interview with Tom Racine of Tall Tale Radio.   I was mostly coherent and only had two beers during the whole hour.   Didn’t cry once.

Click on the image above or here to hear the interview.

Crickets and Cicadas and Frogs, Oh My!

I recorded this last night at about 11 PM on our back porch.

We live southwest of Austin, near Buda, TX on the edge of the hill country.  What you’re hearing is our nightly cacophony of insects and the occasional frog from our pond.   When I hear this I’m reminded of how outnumbered we humans are.  Outnumbered and ultimately outmatched by a menagerie of nightlife that hums and croaks and chatters and sings without a care whether we’re listening or not.

One summer (and the summers are HOT in central Texas) we went without air-conditioning because we couldn’t afford a repair.   It wasn’t that awful.  Sure, it was uncomfortable, but by 1 or 2 AM with the windows open it would cool down to the mid 70′s.   And in the sticky darkness I would finally fall asleep to this living lulabye.

Today, our AC works just fine and manages to successfully drown out this nightly serenade.

Not all progress is progress.