Loud Family under construction

I have sort of a good excuse not to have touched the Loud Family web site in so long because (a) I maintain over 60 other web sites, and (b) the band was on hiatus for quite some time. But I'm trying to rectify that by updating their web presence. I decided to take a piecemeal approach because the site is rather large, so if you visit loudfamily.com during the next few days, you may find that certain pages are the "old" (2000) style, and others have the "new" (2006) look.

There was one particular thing on the old "news" page (and I'm using the term news loosely here) that truly horrified me, and showed just how long it had been since I even looked at the thing. The loud-news mailing list, which sends out periodic announcements about the band, is hosted at a site called Smoe.org. Smoe is the creation of a few people whom I know through the Ecto newsgroup. Only the folks who run Smoe.org means what "smoe" means. Anyway, on the LF news page, I state: "And, no, I don't know what Smoe means. It's apparently a state secret that makes Deep Throat's identity look like front-page news."

Of course, Deep Throat's identity was front-page news—almost a year ago! Cringe.

My stealth pre-order campaign has gone pretty well so far; I've gotten several orders from loyal blog readers. Thank you! I'm particularly gratified that a handful of folks have purchased the Statuesque CD. Hope you enjoy it, and all the others.