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Friday 4/6/01 9:36 pm -- I've updated OsoaWeek with 8 new issues, and it's now up to date. There's a feature called "The Bluffcosm Report" in every issue now, which has cool Bluffcosm-related stuff in it. Also, I sent out another promotional emailing... to 126 people this time, as opposed to 29 last time. You can read the text of the emails in OsoaWeek 349.
Sunday 3/25/01 11:05 pm -- The March 2001 Wave of Blufftoons has finally arrived! It's a fantastic set of new audio wonderfulness, if I do say so myself! Here's a list of the new Blufftoons... Blufftoon 97: Classictronica #1 -- (2:19:44) A computerized radio show all about video games! Recorded at the March 2001 NAVA video game collector's meeting. Chock full of weirdness, sick topics, "adult material"... and also some stuff about video games. Blufftoon 98: Classictronica #1 Intro -- (0:45) Video Devil Jr., the great fictional video game character, introduces Classictronica #1. Blufftoon 99: Video Devil Jr. Station ID #1 -- (0:14) Video Devil Jr. tells you that you're listening to Bluffcosm.com! Blufftoon 100: Montana 1980 (Part Two) -- (15:46) More zany fake broadcasting from TV station "WWW". Featuring The Frank Nora Show, The Superdisgusting Movie, and a whole heck of a lot more! Blufftoon 101: Iggy and the Stud -- (3:17) Iggy Szalzo interviews Bart Phillips, the biggest stud on the Weird University campus. Blufftoon 102: Iggy and the Smart Guys -- (7:58) Iggy Szalzo interviews the smartest guys on the Weird University campus, Shannon O'Shannahan and Gil Mannings. Blufftoon 103: Iggy and the Condemned Man -- (7:18) Iggy Szalzo interviews Branson Stringfellow, a Weird University student who is scheduled to be executed for making obscene phone calls. Blufftoon 104: Umbrella -- (1:19) Dare we call this a sublime audio masterpiece? I think we may so dare. Blufftoon 105: The Royal Mall (Radio Edit) -- (4:44) A streamlined version of Beublin 13. Beublin and Buck search for Jocasta in this classic Blufftoon. Blufftoon 106: The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity #3 -- (5:00) Don't shoot the food! Get out of my sight! They tried to drive me crazy! George F. Will! Blufftoon 107: Train Crap & Blood #10 (Seriousness) -- (57:53) The final episode! Anger and frustration... Christianity and confrontation... amelioration and highway gunk...
Sunday 3/25/01 12:05 pm -- My Internet Audio Links page is up! It's a set of links to sites that are kind of on the same wavelength as Bluffcosm.
Saturday 3/24/01 2:29 am -- The Blufftoon Shuffle stream has been updated with 8 new Blufftoons from the March 2001 Wave. This stream now has 65 Blufftoons and has over 6 hours of material. With the March Wave (list and descriptions coming very soon), I have over 24 hours of audio in Bluffcosm.com, in 107 Blufftoons. Oh, and I almost forgot! Today is the one-year anniversary of Bluffcosm.com! Exactly one year ago, Bluffcosm began broadcasting! Wow, it's cool how I did the new homepage on the anniversary!
Saturday 3/24/01 11:23 am -- I started a mailing list and I sent out my first "Bluffcosm News" email to about 30 people.
Saturday 3/24/01 10:29 am -- The new homepage is up and running! It's not perfect, and it needs work, but it's a heck of a lot better than the old one. In other news, the March 2001 Wave of Blufftoons is in the very last stages and phases before launch... it'll be here before ya know it!
Wednesday 3/14/01 9:30 pm -- The Classictronica Photo Gallery is online!
Wednesday 3/14/01 12:29 am -- Blufftoon Shuffle is streaming! Check it out! It has every single Blufftoon, besides the ones in the other 5 streams, played randomly. Now... I gotta get movin' on revamping the homepage...
Tuesday 3/13/01 9:11 pm -- The Evil Farm is streaming! Check it out! The original Bluffcosm.com stream is down... I am revamping it, and it will be back in a few days as Blufftoon Shuffle!
Monday 3/12/01 10:37 pm -- Classictronica #1 is streaming! Check it out! And if you care, it contains some adult subject matter... BE WARNED! Also, the new Beublin A. Richardson channel is streaming! It's all Beublin, all the time! Check it out! I now have 5 streams going on Live365.com... Click here to see them all. This is an ongoing project... I am going to revamp the main Bluffcosm.com channel soon... and I'm gonna add an Evil Farm channel. In other news: ***The March 2001 Wave of Blufftoons is going very well, and should be out in a week or so. ***The Classictronica Photo Gallery should also be up soon. ***I'm working on a new homepage for Bluffcosm... ***And finally... um... how am I gonna get people into Bluffcosm? I'm working on it... but it's not easy...
Sunday 3/4/01 7:28 pm -- I have revamped OsoaWeek! Check it out.
Sunday 3/4/01 5:42 am -- Classictronica... a new show on Bluffcosm.com! I recorded the first episode yesterday, and I shall endeavor to bring it to streaming reality within a decent timeframe. In other news, the "Train Crap & Blood channel" is up and running on Live365.com! Click here to hear it! On the stream, you can hear every single epside of TC&B, including the complete Train Crap & Blood #10 (Seriousness) for the first time. The Blufftoon "Salt and Light" is an excerpt from this episode.
Monday 2/26/01 11:23 pm -- I updated Laser Hinterland with the new 24-kpbs MP3s. Isn't that great?
Sunday 2/25/01 12:50 am -- I revised this website, and it is now offically Bluffcosm.com, with and all my other stuff secondary. This site still needs a lot of work, though. The February 2001 Wave of Blufftoons is now all done. So I'll be working on the March Wave, which will hopefully be out earlier in the month than the past 2 Waves. Also, I'm gonna be re-encoding all the lo-fi versions of the Blufftoons, in 24-kbps. My current 32-kbps files don't sound very good, and by making them 24-kbps, they are easier to stream and/or download. I plan on making several new stations on Live365.com, including "Train Crap & Blood", "The Evil Farm", and "Beublin A. Richardson". The main station will contain all the Blufftoons not in the other stations, and will be in random order. I hope to accomplish all this in the next few weeks. So get ready for a whole new way to experience Bluffcosm.com! It's gonna be most delightful.
Saturday 2/24/01 5:49 pm -- Check out The Motor Excursion Ruffians #1 Photo Gallery!!!
Saturday 2/24/01 3:03 pm -- The February 2001 Wave of Blufftoons is here! This is some good stuff, folks. There are 7 new Blufftoons, 6 of which are available on MP3.com. The 7th, "The Motor Excursion Ruffians #1", is an awesome new 3-hour show, and it's streaming now on Live365.com. Here's a list of the new Blufftoons... Blufftoon 90: Beublin 18: Pro-Establishment Drake -- (6:28) Finally restored... a deleted scene! Beublin berates Minion Van Hall about the bad reviews the band has been getting. Check out Beublin 3 to hear where this part originally fit in! Blufftoon 91: Go Away -- (3:04) Mike and Frank try to interview Physics Phil for their radio show, Anything But Monday. Phil is not cooperative. Check out the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster news report in the background, dating this piece to shortly after January 28, 1986. Blufftoon 92: Sounds of the Commons -- (9:26) Mike and Frank's cool trip to the college food center, recorded for their radio show, Anything But Monday. "Sights of the Uncommons" is the sequel to this Blufftoon. Blufftoon 93: The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation from Sanity #2 -- (5:00) We had a party in Kerhonkson once, it was called Mountain Madness, and they always thought it was gonna be like this. GET DOWN IMMEDIATELY! Blufftoon 94: I Want Something Funny -- (0:53) That's dumb.. that's stupid! Yes, huh, what, I'm not sure about that one! Blufftoon 95: The Killer Bag -- (6:10) An excerpt from "The Motor Excursion Ruffians #1", a brand new 3-hour show on Bluffcosm.com! Frank, Pete, and Nick play with CD-ROMs and bags in a field of snow. Recorded 2/11/01. Blufftoon 96: The Motor Excursion Ruffians #1 -- (3:06:45) A Computerized Radio Show on the Road! Join Frank, Pete, and Nick on their zany journey. Features include "Fun with Walky-Talkies", "Foods from The East", "The Killer Bag", interviews, wacky conversions, and more!
Wednesday 2/21/01 9:24 pm -- Motor Excursion Ruffians #1 is streaming on Live365.com! Click it and listen! 3 hours, 6 minutes, and 45 seconds of absolute zaniness for ya! The February Wave of Blufftoons is going up now... I'll have a full list very soon. Also coming soon, The Motor Excursion Ruffians photo gallery!
Wednesday 2/14/01 12:55 am -- This past Sunday, 2/11/01, I recorded the first epsiode of "The Motor Excursion Ruffians". It's a new 3-hour show, starring me (Frank Edward Nora), Peter Litkey (Yes, Peter is back, and better than ever!), and my friend Nick Scalera (making his Bluffcosm debut!) It's a quite zany program, and I hope to have it streaming this weekend! Above, check out my very official-looking "The Motor Excursion Ruffians" business card.
Thursday 1/25/01 10:31 pm -- The January 2001 Wave of Blufftoons has arrived! Oh jolly day... it's awesome... after a several-month hiatus Bluffcosm is back, in a big way! Over 56 minutes of AWESOME new audio crazy madness. Let's go, oh yes! Here's a list of the new Blufftoons... Blufftoon 80: Bad Hole -- (1:47) 11/25/73... deeply insane kids. Blufftoon 81: The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation from Sanity #1 -- (5:00) The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation from Sanity... the name says it all! Blufftoon 82: Cut and Shoot -- (8:08) Frank Edward Nora at age 2, interviewed by his father. His strangeness was quite evident even at this young age. (Recorded 11/15/69 and 2/22/70) Blufftoon 83: Tornado Warning -- (7:06) 11/25/73... Frank (age 6) and John (age 3) deal with the imminence of Tornado Googoo. SHALL WE LISTEN TO THE VOICES?!? Blufftoon 84: Sights of the Uncommons -- (13:39) Fall 1986. Mike and Frank explore the wonders and mysteries of the college food center. Originally recorded for the video "Weird University". Blufftoon 85: Woodstock 89 - Dirty Trip -- (4:08) 8/16/89... the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and there's an impromptu reunion going on. This episode: Mike and Frank encounter much mellowness and hostility. Blufftoon 86: Woodstock 89 - Dan Quayle -- (3:59) 8/16/89... the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and there's an impromptu reunion going on. This episode: What do folks think of Dan Quayle? Blufftoon 87: Woodstock 89 - Army Tent -- (4:46) 8/16/89... the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and there's an impromptu reunion going on. This episode: A chat with Gary about many things. Blufftoon 88: Woodstock 89 - Eighth Grade -- (3:40) 8/16/89... the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and there's an impromptu reunion going on. This episode: Maureen on trees, food, and cults. Blufftoon 89: Woodstock 89 - Hell No -- (4:04) 8/16/89... the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, and there's an impromptu reunion going on. This episode: George and the end of the world.
Friday 1/12/01 3:39 am -- I just completed the first Blufftoon of the new Millennium! It's called "The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation from Sanity #1", and I'm quite happy with it. It's a medley of random Bluffcosm bits, with some never-before heard junk thrown in! It's truly mind-numbing! I'm hoping to get the Jan. 2001 Wave done within a week or so. Aren't you excited? New Blufftoons! Yeah, hooray!
Thursday 1/11/01 1:49 pm -- I finished the artwork for the "Dear Courtney" CD (see above, click for larger image). Go to my MP3.com page to buy it for just $5.99 plus shipping. But it'll take a few days for them to approve the art, so you might want to hold off for a few days. The January 2001 Wave of Blufftoons is coming real soon, so watch out!
Friday 1/5/01 4:57 pm -- Hey, I'm back! Yes, Bluffcosm.com did have a little hiatus there, but now things are moving again! I've done a lot of thinking about Obliviana, and I'm gonna be focusing on Fuzzy Daupner, Severe Repair and Bluffcosm in 2001... Today, I did a few things that I've been meaning to do for a long time. First, I added the October 2000 wave of Blufftoons to the Live365 stream. Next, I added "Peggy's Playroom" to Laser Hinterland. And finally, I created a new DAM CD on MP3.com, called "Dear Courtney". I haven't done the cover art yet, but it should be done soon. There will not be a November or December 2000 Blufftoon Wave, but there will be a January 2001 Wave, coming soon! Bluffcosm is back, man!
Wednesday 10/25/00 11:08 pm -- Well, I guess I'm not gonna be able to put "Peggy's Playroom" on MP3.com... I got an email saying that it contained a copyright violation... I guess it must have been me as a kid singing a song from Snow White... ooh... crime of the century! Anyway, I'll be putting it in Laser Hinterland as soon as I get a chance. But hey, at least I know that someone at MP3.com is listening to my stuff. That prove's that at least SOMEONE is listening! Wow.
Monday 10/23/00 11:36 pm -- One more piece of news today: the review from Listen.com that I reproduced below is no longer on the site. I don't know what the hell is wrong with Listen.com! All I can say is, I'm happy I made my own copy of the review, else it would have been lost... perhaps forever!
Monday 10/23/00 11:02 pm -- Above is the new picture I have on the MP3.com page. You'll notice that Peter Litkey is no longer in the picture. Due to his religious convictions, Pete has decided to limit his involvement in Bluffcosm.com. Though I did present Pete as my comedy partner, Bluffcosm.com has always been completely a creation of me, Frank Edward Nora. Peter Litkey is extremely talented, and I have been very lucky to have had his involvment in Bluffcosm.com. You can hear some of Pete's reasons for "dropping out" in the new Blufftoon "Salt and Light". I do look forward to working with Pete on some new Blufftoons in the future, but because of this religious stuff, I'm afraid the work might have to be very limited in scope. But who knows... maybe we'll wind up doing some really cool stuff. I don't know. But just for the record, Peter Litkey is no longer a "partner" or a "major player" in Bluffcosm.com. I hope that all zero of you reading this are not too upset by the news. (Do I sound bitter? Pete dropping out and no one listening or paying attention? Bitter? Hahaha! No way! Me, bitter? HAHAHA HA HA!)
Monday 10/23/00 10:11 pm -- The October 2000 Wave of Blufftoons is finally here! Six new audio masterpieces -- an eclectic blend of insane sounds! You gotta check 'em out! Here's a list of the new Blufftoons... Blufftoon 74: T5 -- (5:18) Circa 1978... a tape labeled simply "T5"... what insane and wondrous mysteries might it contain...? Blufftoon 75: Peggy's Playroom -- (4:16) One kid's parody of a kid show... Blufftoon 76: Salt and Light -- (4:14) In this excerpt from "Train Crap & Blood #10: Seriousness", Peter Litkey explains why he must limit his involvement in Bluffcosm due to his religious convictions. No joke, this is real. Blufftoon 77: It's a Tuck-In (Collector's Edition) -- (6:18) Includes an introduction recorded on the NJ Turnpike in April 2000 and an excerpt from the Blufftoon "Arcade Phantom" that refers to the infamous tuck-in. Blufftoon 78: Phase Cop (Episode 1: "Mr. Donleder") -- (4:52) Meet Hathaway Chang, one of the cool and mysterious Phase Cops! Blufftoon 79: Please Shift the Goddamn Car -- (11:14) Scenes from a mid-80s family drive.
Tuesday 9/5/00 11:23 pm -- The September 2000 Wave of Blufftoons has arrived! It'll still be a few days before they all show up on MP3.com, but they are on the Live365.com stream, if you manage to catch 'em! Here's a list of the new Blufftoons! Blufftoon 66: The Evil Farm (Distilled Highlights) -- (10:01) NJ, Jan. 1987... troubled teens explore weird occult mysteries. The epic, 10-part, 86-minute epic condensed down to 10 minutes for your listening pleasure! Blufftoon 67: Dear Courtney (Part 1) -- (7:07) Cindy and Kara's good friend Courtney has moved to Florida, so they make a tape to send to her. A classic, soaring, mind-twisting extravaganza! Part 1: Fluffy the Hamster, The Fishing Dog, and more! Blufftoon 68: Dear Courtney (Part 2) -- (8:27) Cindy and Kara's good friend Courtney has moved to Florida, so they make a tape to send to her. A classic, soaring, mind-twisting extravaganza! Part 2: Area Codes, The Feather Earrings, and more! Blufftoon 69: Dear Courtney (Part 3) -- (5:12) Cindy and Kara's good friend Courtney has moved to Florida, so they make a tape to send to her. A classic, soaring, mind-twisting extravaganza! Part 3: Most Floppiest Ears, Raccoon Attack, and more! Blufftoon 70: Kathy Jones -- (0:33) It's fine and dandy! Blufftoon 71: Bill Jorgensen -- (3:58) One day when the inspector was walking home from the police department, he met a man named Frankie. He noticed something unusual about this man, because he had a .357 Magnum in his hand. Blufftoon 72: Montana 1980 (Prelude) -- (1:51) It's July 8th, 1980. The time is 9:14 PM. It's the night before our trip to Montana. Blufftoon 73: News From Civilization -- (2:03) 11/20/85. Frank is a freshman in college and has drank way too much vodka. In a drunken stupor, he reads from a Walt Disney World guidebook...
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Sunday 7/30/00 12:12 pm -- Bluffcosm.com was reviewed on Listen.com! Above is the review, along with a picture of the reviewer. I also added a link to Listen.com on the top of this page. Now, as far as the review itself... um... The reviewer refers to something called "My Dinner With Andy". This most likely refers to the highly-regarded 1981 film "My Dinner With Andre", daring in that it consisted of pretty much just a dinner conversation between two men. I think that this comparison is fair for some of the Blufftoons, but as is usually the case, I doubt if the reviewer listened to all that Bluffcosm.com has to offer. As far as calling us "cerebral", I can see where the guy is coming from, but I disagree with his implication that Bluffcosm.com is some kind of artistic, deconstructionist thing. My guiding principle in Bluffcosm.com is for Blufftoons to be ENTERTAINING. I wish he would have identified the "ten minute segment", so I could better understand what he means by "a hostile dead-end of a punchline". But I do like his concluding sentence, where he does at least concede that Bluffcosm.com COULD be very funny. And, of course, "UNSPEAKABLY HATEFUL" is be a great review quote to use! Also, you can see my original post. The Bluffcosm.com page on Listen.com had been deleted for a long time before coming back a month or so ago. But I really would like people to write some comments on Bluffcosm.com on Listen.com. Now, I must begin to work on the September 2000 Wave of Blufftoons. I have a lot of cool stuff in the works... check this page often for updates and other fun stuff!
Tuesday 7/25/00 1:36 am -- The August 2000 Wave of Blufftoons is here! I've spent the past three entire days working on Bluffcosm... and the August Wave is all done! MP3.com, Live365.com, Laser Hinterland... the Wave has arrived! There are 17 new Blufftoons, just shy of two hours in total length! There are now 65 Blufftoons in Bluffcosm, with a grand total of over 14 hours of material! The icon above is used to identify all the new Blufftoons on the MP3.com page. Each month there'll be a new Wave with a new icon, to make it easy to see what's new, eh? Here's an overview of the new Blufftoons: 4 new episodes of Beublin A. Richardson: Beublin 14: Final Test Cream, Beublin 15: Snowy Summersquash, Beublin 16: Eisenhowagy, Beublin 17: Dimmer Switch. The Evil Farm! I've been working on this one for awhile! There are ten episodes (with a total length of nearly an hour-and-a-half!): Episode 1: "Bus", Episode 2: "Cop", Episode 3: "Rag", Episode 4: "Fry", Episode 5: "Cut", Episode 6: "Buy", Episode 7: "Can", Episode 8: "Dog", Episode 9: "Sky", and Episode 10: "End". And three more: Road to Truro, Bluffcosm Banter #3, Bluffcosm Promo Insane. All of these are on MP3.com except Bluffcosm Banter #3, which is in Laser Hinterland. Every single one is on the Live365.com stream. It's awesome to have this new Wave of Blufftoons finished! I'm very happy with these Blufftoons... now I just gotta get people to listen to 'em! Next... The September 2000 Wave of Blufftoons! Okay!
Wednesday 7/19/00 9:44 pm -- Ten days ago me and Pete recorded new Beublin material in a park near Hackettstown, NJ. Above is a picture of us from that day. The new Beublin stuff should be part of the August Wave of Blufftoons!
Monday 7/17/00 11:17 pm -- The last Blufftoons were releases 64 days ago, and there's only about 2 weeks to wait for new ones! See, I have a new idea in Bluffcosm -- I'm gonna be releasing a new set of Blufftoons every month, starting next month, August 2000. I've decided to focus on a specific subset of aspects of Obliviana for the rest of the year. These are Bluffcosm.com, ZopeTV, Severe Repair, Superior, OsoaWeek, and Aerie Obliviana. The aspect of Obliviana that I've suspended till next year is the whole game / supernatural / 209 aspect, the development of which had been taking up a huge amount of my time. And though I'd been making progess in this area, I made the decison to put it on hold to focus on the more tangible aspects of Obliviana. This two-month hiatus from Bluffcosm.com is disturbing to me, and I don't want it to happen again. So get ready for the August 2000 Wave of Blufftoons!
Monday 7/4/00 2:41 pm -- Bluffcosm.com on MP3.com... "For Joey" is number 71 overall in NJ, but "Pebbles" is ABSOLUTELY LAST in NJ at something like 6890! Wow... I'll try and get some more MP3.com figures soon. Blufftoon production news! A new Blufftoon called "Road to Truro" is nearing completion, and I have finally begun editing "The Evil Farm", which will be an epic series of Blufftoons! Get ready for the next wave of Blufftoons... and also another CD! Bluffcosm.com is back, baby!
Friday 6/23/00 10:15 am -- Don't worry, there'll be a whole new wave of Blufftoons in a few weeks! In the mean time, check out this link to Ciffipur Pathways (a part of Obliviana, if you didn't know)! It's on the Looney Labs website, a site well worth delving into. Go check it out! In other news, Fuzzy Daupner's first album, "Modern Sapling", has been released and it's AMAZING AND AWESOME! I'm a lyricist and producer and stuff for the band, so go and listen. Hear it, man. NOW!
Thursday 5/25/00 9:45 am -- Bluffcosm.com Radio has finally been updated with 12 new Blufftoons. The brand new Bluffcosm.com CD, "Audio Stupidity Punks", which features 10 great Blufftoons, is available NOW at MP3.com for only $5.99 plus S&H (the lowest price they allow). I just got ten copies myself yesterday, and they're AWESOME! I registered a new domain name, Dashic.com, which will be the occult part of "Obliviana Super Occult Amusement". Watch for the initial Dashic.com homepage SOON... I haven't yet started on the next wave of Blufftoons, but I will soon, and there's a whole lot of awesome stuff that'll be comin' your way... including "The Evil Farm"! In MP3.com news, Blufftoon 21, "For Joey" was #62 in General Comedy the other day, 5/22/00! The day before it was #954. Cool, huh? I realize it's been 11 days since the last update. I've been focusing on other aspects of Obliviana, as well as the band Fuzzy Daupner, which I am a producer/director/lyricist for. But don't worry. Like I said, there's a new wave of Blufftoons coming in the next few weeks. Watch out! It's gonna be radical fun!
Sunday 5/14/00 3:28 pm -- Laser Hinterland is updated! There are 6 new entries: "Birthday 1977 (Full Version)", "Pen Buying", "Bluffcosm Banter #1", "Bluffcosm Banter #2", "All About Zope", and "Train Crap & Blood 9.5: Cotton Candy". The 2 "Banter" Blufftoons are gonna be on Bluffcosm.com Radio as well. So that's what I gotta do next--update the stream!
Sunday 5/14/00 2:00 pm -- The artwork is done for "Audio Stupidity Punks", the first Bluffcosm.com CD! See it above, and click for larger image! The art still needs to be approved by MP3.com, so wait a few days before buying it! It's a really awsome CD, man.
Friday 5/12/00 1:30 am -- I created a Bluffcosm.com D.A.M. CD at MP3.com! It has 10 Blufftoons on it, and it's almost an hour long (MP3.com imposes a limit of about an hour on the D.A.M. CD's). I didn't do the cover art for it yet, so hold off a few days before buying it! I'll post the cover and interior artwork right here on this page as soon as I complete it. And then... it'll be... BUY BUY BUY, eh!
Tuesday 5/9/00 9:30 pm -- Five more Blufftoons uploaded to the MP3.com page last night: "Tailor's Proverbs", "Birthday 1977", "It's a Tuck-In", "Making Polarized Worlds: Part 1", and "Pebbles". They are all available NOW. Of the remaining six in this wave of Blufftoons, 4 are headed for Laser Hinterland and two are gonna be on Bluffcosm.com Radio. Watch for news on these SOON!
Monday 5/8/00 11:25 pm -- I uploaded 5 new Blufftoons to MP3.com yesterday: "Beublin 10: Good Morning", "Beublin 11: Buck Lanters", "Beublin 12: Balconies", "Beublin 13: The Royal Mall" and "Arcade Phantom".Only 3 of them are up now (Beublin 12 and Arcade Phantom are not up). I'll be uploading a few more tonight. I'll be updating Laser Hinterland and Bluffcosm.com Radio in the next few days.
Sunday 5/7/00 9:46 pm -- SIXTEEN new Blufftoons are all done and ready to go! More on these soon. There's a thunderstorm brewing outside here right now. Um, I'm listening to Bluffcosm.com Radio right now... Train Crap & Blood #8 is on... cool...
Saturday 5/6/00 1:07 am -- I got rid of my links to Listen.com. From Listen.com: "We are currently processing your information. The reason why it was up, then taken down is because it was forced published from a datafeed. Then we had to take t down in order to review it. It will be back up sometime soon." Here's what I posted on Listen.com. I'm including it here because it'll probably be gone if they ever put Bluffcosm.com back up: "Hey! This is Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Bluffcosm! It'd be, like, real cool man if you could check out some of my Blufftoons and review them here at this awesome website listen.com! Come on people, I wanna see some comments, okay? Bluffcosm.com -- totally original audio content that rocks. And it's friggin' weird, too!" In other news, Bluffcosm Laser Hinterland is here! It's the place where all the odd Blufftoons that aren't available anywhere else are available! I mentioned it before, but it wasn't named yet. I added one more, "Bluffcosm Alpha Intro" (Blufftoon 1). Check out the page, the link is at the top of this page. I decided to forget about using idrive.com for now. I have room on my site for a good number of Blufftoons at 32kbps. Yeah, and talking about links, I finally updated the link graphics on this page, with the "card" links that are on the homepage, but at half size. The old link graphics may be avaiable in the future in Laser Hinterland in the "Banner Boneyard". The Bluffcosm.com website has been down sporadically recently. I called up my web presence provider, and the guy said he'd go upstairs and check the server out himself. It seems to be back up now. Y'know, this page used to be the main Bluffcosm page, but now it's the Bluffcosm News page, so I should identify it as such. I'll change the title of the page, at least. It was "Bluffcosm.com -- People are gonna be hearing this on the Internet!". I'll change it to "Bluffcosm.com News". Cool.
Wednesday 5/3/00 9:02 pm -- Hi. I'm Stormjaunting, and I'm in the Virgin Megastore in Times Square right now, writing this on my Palm V. I'm on chorded Storms 5 and 8. I got a really cool new idea about Stormjaunting earlier near the World Financial Center. It'll be cool to bring Stormjaunting back into the spotlight a little. In my homepage redesign, I brought back an online fortune-telling game called Ciffipur Pathways which debuted on 1/1/99, but which I took offline later in the year. It is related to Stormjaunting somewhat. Now, the Bluffcosm status report: Live365 stream: cool. MP3.com page: cool, missing links are back. Listen.com: I resubmitted Bluffcosm there, but I'm getting rid of my links to there ASAP. Idrive.com: I'm not 100% convinced that it's cool yet. I still have a lot of audio production to do on the Blufftoons-in-progress on my hard drive. But a few more should be ready in a few days--including ones in the new unnamed category I mentioned the other day! Here at the Virgin Cafe, I got a double espresso before and paid for it with 2 Sacagawea golden dollars. Then I saw that I had a ripped-in-half dollar bill, and instead of dealing with it later, I folded the two halves together and put it in the tip jar. It was a little weight lifted off my shoulders! Last night, Fuzzy Daupner played a showcase at Barnes & Noble in Clifton, NJ. It's a new rock band that I am involved with. I handed out a lot of Bluffcosm.com promo cards there. And the show was GREAT! Well, that's about it for now. I only got 4 hours of sleep last night, and my bus isn't till 10:15, so I'll be home around 11. So at least today's update is done now! For me now, another 45 minutes of browsing and video games and Times Square coolness!
Tuesday 5/2/00 -- I completed the redesign on the Bluffcosm.com / Obliviana Super Occult Amusement homepage. It looks pretty cool! In other news, I am creating a new category for Blufftoons -- as yet unnamed -- for Blufftoons which don't fit in with the Live365.com stream or the MP3.com page. I'll come up with a name for this stuff soon. Till then, check out the first two on idrive.com. They are "For Joey (Full Version)" (Blufftoon 31) and "The Flint Orwell Program (Radio Only)" (Blufftoon 32). Monday 5/1/00 -- The MP3.com page is cool except that the links to other artists are gone. I added a new animated banner-type top to the main page. It has 19 cool slogans! Monday 5/1/00 -- Bluffcosm.com is operational again. Sunday 4/30/00 -- It was an utterly friggin' beautiful day today. Yesterday, too. Here's a Bluffcosm status report: Live365 Stream: Cool. MP3.com page: Cool. Listen.com page: still uncool, gone, destroyed, whatever. Bluffcosm.com: THE SERVER IS DOWN! Great. In other news, Me and my wife Denice were playing Cosmic Wimpout with our friends Nick and Tara, and two of the first three games we played ended with Nick getting 5 sixes. And this was the first time he was playing the game! If you're not familiar with Cosmic Wimpout, check it out HERE. So anyway, I have a LOT of Blufftoons in the works. Probably like over ten. I have to get some completed! Hopefully I'll get a few done this week. Saturday 4/29/00 -- New "Beublin A. Richardson" Blufftoons recorded today! I play comedian Buck Lanters, who was referred to very briefly in several of currently-available Beublin Blufftoons. It'll take me awhile to put this new stuff together, but it should be done by next weekend. In other news: Live365 Stream: Cool. MP3.com page: Cool. Listen.com page: uncool, gone, destroyed, whatever. Friday 4/28/00 -- This has been a pretty insane week. Um... well, today, past midnight, I created a new set of graphics for the Bluffcosm.com homepage. They look like cards and they're awesome! I'll try and put up a graphic of what it looked like before, which was pretty lame. Yesterday I did a Bluffcosm data spreadsheet, and I found out that there is over 10 hours worth of Blufftoons now! In other news, it looks like my listen.com page is down. My Live365.com stream is going just fine. I found out from tech support there that it went down because of server upgrades or something. Wow. It must have been a real inconvenience for all zero people listening at the time. Anyway, I have a bunch of Blufftoons in the works, and they should be available this weekend. And as well, I plan on getting together with Peter Litkey tomorrow to record a new epsiode of Beublin! Tune in, yeah! Thursday 4/27/00 -- I finally got up to date with OsoaWeek. Check it out. The latest issue has a lot of stuff about Bluffcosm in it! Thursday 4/27/00 -- The Live365.com stream was down again this morning. I had to go and reset it. That's the second time it stopped working, and mere hours after I started the new playlist. So, if you ever try to listen and get the error that Bluffcosm is not broadcasting, just try again later. Thursday 4/27/00 -- I finally updated the Live365.com stream! There are 29 Blufftoons on there! It's gotta be way over 8 hours of stuff! I'll figure it out exactly tomorrow... Monday 4/24/00 -- The Live365.com stream was down for a few days, but it seems to be back now. Sunday 4/23/00 -- All 7 new Beublin A. Richardson Blufftoons are up on MP3.com now. I also made Bonnie's Tarantula Farm "Beublin 8", and The Flint Orwell Program "Beublin 9". Saturday 4/22/00 -- More new stuff on MP3.com! "Existence", "Montana 1980 Part 1", "For Joey", and "Ping Pong". Go and check 'em out, man. The original 13 video episodes of "Beublin A. Richardson" are now 7 Blufftoons! (12 of the episodes are paired together to form 6 Blufftoons, and the last episode is by itself). They'll all be on MP3.com in a day or two! I haven't updated the stream in awhile... but I will soon... Wow! Bluffcosm is on another cool website -- listen.com! You can post your reviews and comments on Bluffcosm there! Go on, do it! You have to join the site, but it's free and it's no big deal. And listen.com provides a list of similar artists for artists they list. For Bluffcosm.com, they say that these artists are similar: Tom Waits, John Belushi, George Bush, Patti Smith, Soul Coughing, and several more. Wow! I added a banner to MP3.com the other day, and I'm adding a listen.com banner today. Thursday 4/20/00 -- New stuff on MP3.com! "Cooper" is a very amusing segment from Train Crap & Blood #9, over a third of that entire show, in fact! Also, another great Blufftoon called "For Joey". Yeah! More stuff! Sunday 4/16/00 -- A new Blufftoon "The Hot Kestrel" is on MP3.com. It's a cool little horror movie type thing. Tune in, yeah! Friday 4/14/00 -- The 18-minute Blufftoon "Throat Ripper Scene" is on MP3.com. It's definitely not the kind of thing that people are used to listening to, but I think it's pretty awesome, so give it a chance, eh. Blufftoons are meant to be listened to over and over again, like songs. Oh, and this word "Blufftoon" is being used for the first time here. A Blufftoon is a feature/episode/sketch/etc. in Bluffcosm. I came up with this word because it was needed; no existing words can adequately describe the basic units of computerized sound in Bluffcosm. So there you go, Blufftoon! Wednesday 4/12/00 -- "The Flint Orwell Program" is on MP3.com. That and "The Mini Car Show" are on the stream now. And hey! Check out this REVIEW of "Bonnie's Tarantula Farm"! Monday 4/10/00 -- A new feature is on MP3.com--"The Mini Car Show". It'll be on the stream soon. Bluffcosm.com was mentioned on another website! It's "Girl With Blue Stuff" a fan site for my sister-in-law Carrie. Check it out here! New epsiode of "Beublin A. Richardson" recorded on Saturday, called "The Flint Orwell Program". It'll be on MP3.com and the Live365 stream soon! Also, we recorded the somewhat infamous "Train Crap & Blood" 9.5, "Cotton Candy". This is the first "half" episode of TC&B, and you just might be able to catch it it the stream sometime... Digitization of the audio of the original 13 video episodes of "Beublin A. Richardson" has begun! A LOT OF AWESOME STUFF IS COMING!!!!!  
4/7/00 -- Bluffcosm.com is on MP3.com! I'll be making an official link to it soon. Right now, I just have one track on there, "Bonnie's Tarantula Farm". Above, check out two pieces of art I made for the MP3.com page. 4/7/00 -- There's a cool new feature on Bluffcosm.com--"Montana 1980: Part One". I recorded this as a kid in 1980, and it was something like a parody of a TV station. The amazing thing is, I called the TV station "WWW"! Cool, eh? 4/6/00 -- "Train Crap & Blood" episode 9--"75432" is on the stream! Check it out! (The other episodes are off for the time being so you can hear the new one!) 4/2/00 -- "Train Crap & Blood" episode 9 recorded! It'll be on the stream in a few days. 
3/31/00 -- Bluffcosm promo card (see above). Click for larger image. 3/28/00 -- Hey! A new slogan! "People are gonna be hearing this on the Internet!" And new script type up there, "The wonder of computerized sound, brought to you by the awesome creative power of Obliviana Super Occult Amusement. Listen often, dear enthusiast of coolness!"  3/27/00 -- I figured out that the problem with converting at bitrate 32 was having the sample rate at 44. With 22/32, the files sound just fine. So I redid the Live365.com thing so that it's all at a 32 bitrate, meaning that folks with 56K modems can listen. Yeah! Also, I added a cool Beublin thing called "Bonnie's Tarantula Farm". Check it out! 3/24/00 -- Bluffcosm begins broadcasting today! It's true... but in the Internet world of today, "broadcasting" doesn't necessarily mean very much... See, I started a "channel" on Live365.com. The main content right now is all 8 epsiodes of "Train Crap & Blood", which I did in the early nineties with my friend Peter Litkey. My brother John and our friend Dave Kopperman were also on most of the shows. One thing I want to point out is that I was acting like a real prick on epsiode 1, "Pennsylvania". I cringe when I listen to it. And it's really just on that one epsiode, I believe, that I act like such a jerk. I recorded an intro in the car earlier, driving to 7-11. It's about 3 minutes long, and it's presented between the episodes. I put it through a lot of filters and stuff to get it to sound like it does. So to listen to Bluffcosm on Live365.com, you'll need a high-speed Internet connection -- 56K won't cut it. The reason for this is that in order to accomodate 56K connections, I would have to convert the MP3's to a lower bitrate. When I tried this, the sound quality was so poor as to be unacceptable. And it's not like all that many people are going to be listening in the near future anyway... ***** 2/28/00 -- Hi! It's exactly 10 weeks after I "premiered" Bluffcosm with the message below. Well, Bluffcosm is still here, but I have decided to use the name for a different idea. Whereas the previous idea had to do with a kind of virtual world, the new idea deals with audio content. This audio idea is something I've been working on for a LONG time, and the project's code name up till now has been "Welcome to the Weasel Village Mall". Now, it's BLUFFCOSM! Watch for Bluffcosm to get into gear, sometime between tomorrow and like 4 or 5 years from now. Hahaha! I'm fucked up! P.S. Isn't it cool, the Bluffcosm logo looks a little like a radio tower! Also, 11/19/99, the date of Bluffcosm's "establishment", is the last date with all odd numbers in it till January 1, 3111. THE FUN OF COMPUTERIZED SOUND! Or maybe... THE BASIC COOLNESS OF COMPUTERIZED SOUND!  11/19/99 -- Today, Bluffcosm.com leaps forth into existence! About 1576 days ago, on July 28, 1995, I started my other website, Obliviana.com. In that time, I managed to accomplish a great deal, but attracting an audience was not one my accomplishments. Bluffcosm came out of nowhere. Just a few weeks ago, I came up with the word "Bluffcosm", and it has thundered ahead in this short time to become my second website. Bluffcosm is very much a part of Obliviana--but it has to be in its own space, apart from the need to fit in with the complex web of ideas and content that is Obliviana. Stay tuned for Number 1 of the Cosm, "Jadehead Bluff". All contents copyright 2001 Frank Edward Nora, Lord of Obliviana. E-mail: obliviana@aol.com FastCounter by LinkExchange |