Glenn “Instapundit” Reynold’s linked to yesterday’s post about synesthesia, which brought the kind of traffic this blog hasn’t seen in many months. Thanks for the ride, readers.
My excuse reason for not updating the blog as often as I used to invariably shifts from blogging for clients to looking for more clients to pitching article ideas to print publications and off-blog sites. Round and round and round she goes. Where she stops? Who’s to say?
I found yet another reason to not update the blog as much as I used to. I’m trying to raise my writing career to new levels. Yes, that means books. I’m going through an exciting time of boldness, exploration, and discovery, and this is a feeling I’d wish on my worst enemies. Should’ve done this long time ago.
I’ve got something floating around, and I hope to be more specific about what the thing is in the near future. I can’t wait until it comes to fruition so I can blog about it.
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Update: Glenn Reynolds has synesthesia: “I see sounds as visual analogs with shape, color, and texture. Based on my own conversations, this is quite common among people who do sound engineering, and probably helpful.”
And we have a smeller and taster! Commenter Gregg the Obscure writes: “Have had synesthesia as long as I can remember – the main attribute is that some (not all) musical sounds have associated smells and, occasionally, tastes. This happens more with either pipe organ or orchestral music than with other instruments. Also, FWIW, I have very strong senses of smell and hearing, but poor eyesight…The months of the year each bring to mind different smells, though not shapes or colors.”
Later…I don’t want to create an even longer post by excerpting more comments, so please read all of them. Good stuff, esp. one by speedwell.
Much later…And J’s comment. Too cool.
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If I still had the crazy traffic of my political blogging days, LBC Media would be an influential one-woman PR agency.
I’d work long, hard, and passionately for my clients. Hanson, Rissi Palmer, and all the others could fire their PR people and hire me! 
Hey, you’ve got to have dreams and seemingly impossible-to-reach goals, or life loses its color. Challenges make the heart race and the adrenaline flow. Thinking big transports us from the sometimes mundane existence of day-to-day living. It’s stimulating to plot, plan, and execute each step toward a goal. Taking risks, no matter how small or unimportant those risks may appear to others, is what makes life…fun. (I work from home, sometimes in my pajamas, because I took a risk three years ago and quit a boring 9-5 job to start my own business.)
And certain well-connected people might be reading your blog. (Or following you on Twitter.)
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Back on the east coast. It’s raining. 
Looking for more evidence of digital music downloading’s impact on CD sales? Remember 12-CDs-for-a-penny music clubs? At least one is closing down. BMG Music Service announced that it would close shop by 2010. CDs sales are down, and DVDs aren’t selling well, either. From the article:
One of the problems music continuity clubs face is the growing popularity of MP3 players, which give consumers access to music whenever they want it.
“Consumers want control of the process instead of the other way around, like it used to be,” Benjamin says. As a result, “continuity is in the process of reinvention” as clubs try to figure out how to give members more control. She points to HCI’s Silkies hosiery club, which now allows members to decide how often they want shipments as an example.
The growth of digital music is behind Bertelsmann’s decision to shut down the BMG Music Service club, company representatives said during its annual analyst meeting in March. The company’s US CD business fell in line with market declines in physical music sales, which dropped off by more than 20% in 2007, according to Bertelsmann. The US DVD club also didn’t perform well, and Bertelsmann is considering shutting it down, too. Book clubs, however, are relatively stable.
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