{"id":2026,"date":"2010-11-10T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T22:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2010-11-11T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:08:23","slug":"alfred-and-i-have-a-few-random-announcementsand-general-random-ness-to-shareplus-we-need-a-band-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"Alfred and I Have a Few Random Announcements
and General Random-ness to Share
(Plus, We Need a Band Already)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s Alfred again to help me with a few announcements. If you’re thinking, hubba what?<\/em> or who shot who in the what now?<\/em> or what in the what the?<\/em> or Alfred hubba who?<\/em> or who said what in the hey now?<\/em>, that means you don’t tend to make it to the bottom of my 7-Imp interviews. (And this would be okay. I mean it when I tell people, which I do a lot, that it’s almost a science to keep up with children’s-lit blogs these days. It’s hard, isn’t it?) Anyway, Alfred—who came from the pen of author\/illustrator Matt Phelan<\/a><\/strong> (whom I forever associate not only with good books for children, but also lots and lots of ukuleles<\/a><\/strong>) and whom Matt told over a year ago to pack his bags and live here at 7-Imp—is always here to introduce the Pivot Questionnaire. I have finally added Alfred to the “about” page of the blog. See here<\/a><\/strong>. I figured that 7-Imp has a new mascot (see here<\/a><\/strong> and scroll down for the news), thanks to illustrator Scott Magoon<\/a><\/strong>, whom I placed on the “about” page. (The mascot, not Scott himself.) And then I realized poor Alfred has really been a mascot of sorts ALL ALONG. Or at least my good buddy. He and I meet for toast and coffee every morning and discuss what to post. Yes, he looks rather sinister and moderately surly, but he’s really sort of a softie, too. <\/p>\n

Also, someone suggested<\/a><\/strong> that 7-Imp have its own theme song. Paula of Pink Me<\/a><\/em><\/strong> even wrote some zippy-quick impromptu lyrics…<\/p>\n

SEVEN THINGS! What kind of things they could be any things mostly book things but sometimes they\u2019re other things SEVEN THINGS!!<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I made that font big<\/font>, as I imagine the lyrics being sort of yelled spastically and crowd-goers moshing and such, as if they don’t have one single care in the world. Paula has suggested They Might Be Giants record it (I’ll also agree to The Black Keys, even if they don’t yell), possibly with horns in the arrangement. Maybe a ska treatment, Paula says. <\/p>\n

I will also accept Those Darn Accordions, but only if the elderly guy in the Santa hat sings it while clutching the typed-out lyrics:<\/p>\n

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Any takers? Any musicians up for it who can take 7-Imp to eleven? (You all know I don’t expect to get a response to this crazy-ass question, but if I do, I might straight up squeal. And I’d take a squeal right about now.)<\/p>\n

As I said, I’m here with a few random announcements (and, quite clearly, lots of rambling — I promise I’m about to get to the real<\/em> content here), the first one being that Alfred finally landed his rightful place on the “about” page. (My apologies to Alfred for taking so long to put him there. For a while, he was annoyed with me and even slipped NON-DAIRY CREAMER into my coffee.) But also: <\/p>\n