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Here is an uncut recording of New Year’s 2009 starting from just before 11:49 PM December 31st, 2008 and ending at 12:15 AM on January 1st,  2009.  I’m using my outside microphones and a shortwave radio receiver. The sound is similar to “4th of July Ambience 2008” and “Ambience Recording” with the addition of the shortwave radio station WWV running simultaneously.

This drawing is another of a series of “geese” creatures that I have created throughout the years, starting in 1966 with the original “Super Cosmic Goose.” I’m really not sure when I made the drawing, but I would guess sometime between 1970 and 1990. In this one, I gave names to the anatomy of this creature. Of course, it is quite juvenile and I feel a little embarrassed, but I know some of you will laugh, and that’s what matters. Be sure and click the picture to see a larger image for all the silly details!

There was up to 4 more inches of snow overnight in Seattle from December 23rd to December 24th. Everybody thinks I’m nuts, but I am starting to wonder if my roof could collapse.

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As requested, the other side of the 78 rpm record “You Cooked Your Goose With Me.” The recording technique is the same as well.

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Here is a recording I made in the 1980s, which was played several times on Over the Edge and in particular an episode called “The Starting Line.” I would usually announce that while I was recording, the rototiller would hit a rock and the person operating it would cuss. That never actually happened. With that in mind, this “field” recording seems to be well liked. As a matter of fact, it is a field recording and of course I used my Sony TCD5M cassette recorder with a one point stereo condenser microphone. I have for you the entire “Rototiller Tape,” plus a couple of pictures of myself and a rototiller at my grandparent’s home in Santa Rosa, California, most likely in 1958.