As I paid the additional $25 that Register.com extorts charges for the privilege of updating an expired credit card, two thoughts occurred to me: 1) I gotta get the hell away from Register.com, and 2) I haven't posted here since last July.

It's cool. As I age, I'm finding myself increasingly disinterested in writing blog posts and more focused on making stuff. Here's an update on stuff I've been making.

Both Explone and Kirby Krackle have new records coming out in 2015. The Explone release, Suicide Fences, will come out on CD, digital and vinyl-yes-vinyl sometime this spring. Patrick's motivation for releasing on vinyl, as far as we've discussed it, can be summarized thusly as f**k yeah vinyl! It'll be the first time either of us have had music released in turntable-compatible format. I don't own a turntable, so this is probably going to go up on my wall.

The new Kirby Krackle record (which has a title but it hasn't been officially announced yet) will likely come out in March around the same time as our annual Kracklefest show during Emerald City Comic Con. Kyle has also been releasing goofy one-off tunes as part of the Kirby Krackle Patreon. The latest of which, a holiday single entitled "I'm Stuck In A Human Centipede For Christmas" was part of the super-popular Cards Against Humanity Holiday Bullshit 2015 and even worked into their annual super-brainy crypto-puzzle. Sooo there's that.

Kin to Stars is still on ice, although I still yearn to record at least two of our songs for posterity. Just haven't made the time.

I have another handful of Car Trouble songs that exist only in my head at the moment. I got a really great response from those songs, including passing interest from a legit indie label. There will probably be more Car Trouble in the near future.

I spent about six months teaching myself iOS app programming, stealing Objective-C snippets from StackOverflow to create Metafilter Radio, an audio player for listening to songs and podcasts posted at Metafilter. Here's why I can't be an app developer: since I started that project, there have been two new major iOS versions, two new phones, a new programming language (Swift) and so many OS X and Xcode updates I'd have buy a slew of new phones and laptops to have any hope of keeping up. I think I'll leave app development to the folks with money, and make my next project in AngularJS or whatever.

Finally, I soft-launched a webcomic called Neat Hobby, back in August. More on this later, but the takeaway here is I started drawing again and it is probably the thing I am most excited for. I don't care if it's not funny or the art is bad or if no one reads it. Perfect.

Thus ends the bi-annual update/humblebrag. See you in July!