Whoops
OK, so I’ve got this blog, here. And it hasn’t been touched or updated in about three months. And I’ve offered no explanation. Whoops. Simply put, life has just started getting in the way of producing these ditties every day, and it seems kind of silly to make them sporadically, since the whole game was that I needed to make one each and every day. It was an ongoing challenge, and it’s what made it fun for everyone.
So, that said, I’m not going to make the claim that Ditty a Day is dead forever. It’s just on a temporary hiatus, until I find myself with some more steady time to actually devote to making it a regular, ongoing thing again. Sorry if you enjoyed hearing the ditties – they’re still here, for your repeat pleasure, and there will probably be more in the unspecified future.
In the meantime, though, please enjoy this clip, showing just a little bit of what I have been up to recently. (And come see the show on November 7, if you’re so inclined! I’m the MD!)
Ditty a Day #30: Ellen
I just heard that Ellen DeGeneres is the replacement for Paula Abdul on American Idol.
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Ditty a Day #29: Pizza
This one comes from the bizarre story of a pizza delivery man who decided to use a customer’s son as ransom. If the pizza place had a jingle, this would be it.
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Ditty a Day #28: Doug
Here’s a ditty that is at once two firsts (confusing, no?). It’s the very first cover ditty, so sorry if you were expecting originality. This is the theme to the best children’s show to ever air.
Also, this ditty is recorded and mixed entirely on nothing but an iPhone attached to a Blue Mikey, using the FourTrack app. Kinda cool that you can now use your phone to track and mix a decent-sounding 8-layer song. I’ve got some nifty video of the recording, which I’ll post later.
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Ditty a Day #27: Gas Meter Reader
I don’t even know.
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Ditty a Day #26: Mason Dixon
One more missed connection. I really couldn’t resist this one.
EDIT: I must be illiterate or something, because the listing clearly says “Dixon,” not “Dixie,” as this ditty goes. I thought it was a strange play on words…
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