Reply To: Another little paean to JoCo (a project that is not a music video)
I am obliged to all of you for your kind words. Thank you all.
I know I'm monopolizing this thread, so I'll save some space and just link to my critical comments on this:
http://vaguelyamusing.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/monday-aftermath-4-the-things/
In addition to everything else, you can listen to an excerpt from my alternate concept for the song there. Do stop by. (I'm so lonely.)
To quickly respond to points raised here:
Kodamakitty – Thanks for the praise of my voice, although I've listened to this too much to hear any of the good things you mention. Re "look ma! no hands!" — you are quite right and I would be perfectly happy to hear a recording done by someone with hands.
I am sorry to say that I did not actually have persistent headaches last week. (That doesn't quite read right.) In hindsight, the offending line should've read something like this:
"I was going to post a song to get you through the first week of Thing a Week withdrawal, but I had a lot of trouble recording it (mostly due to my persistent headaches, clammy palms, jittery voice, and flop sweats)."
I don't make my jokes clear enough sometimes. (Guess I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.)
Which provides a nice segue into:
Kerrin – Thank you for your compliments but especially for your critique of the ending. The last line was yet another joke that I flubbed in execution — it's a sideways reference to the original ending of "The Presidents."
…of course, you probably got the joke and you're just telling me most politely that it's not funny. Well, I find I am beginning to be of your opinion.
You make me smile when you tell me that the last line "will date very quickly." Of all the thoughts I had while putting the song together, none of them had anything to do with its effect on posterity. 
Before I had quite finished recording the voice part, I had already realized it was abysmally awful. I shudder to think how people will think of it in two weeks, much less the distant future.
Yes, "my" lyrics list the Things in order of release. (Lord, it would've been so much easier to fiddle with the order, he writes, thinking of pairing Shop Vac and Baby Got Back, inter alia.) As an unintended bonus of writing the lyrics, I can now list the Things in order from memory, and given any week number, I can tell you what Thing appeared that week in seconds flat.
Not, y'know, to brag or anything.
Thanks again for reading or listening. Y'all are a pleasure and a joy to create for, even when what I create doesn't make any sense.