{"id":1149,"date":"2011-09-18T23:04:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2011-09-18T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T06:04:09","slug":"and-your-the-master-now-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/18\/and-your-the-master-now-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And your THE MASTER now is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HI, MIRA GRANT FANS! Welcome to the home of rage-driven acoustic elfmetal! That was quite the turnout you guys provided to the WHO IS YOUR THE MASTER NOW? poll; well done!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk losers and winners, shall we? First, our loser, with a frankly astonishing ZERO (0) votes: SAD FOX MASTER!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-09\/master-not-even-one.jpg\"><br \/><i>Not even one?!<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Out-polled by <i>&#8220;MANOS&#8221;: The Hands of Fate<\/i>. That&#8217;s gotta hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Now for our winner! I give you the animated GIF presentation of your new THE MASTER &#8211; hit refresh if you want to make sure you start at the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-09\/master-regeneration-longer.gif\"><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Mira Grant!<\/i> Congratulations, voters! <a href=\"http:\/\/miragrant.com\">Mira Grant<\/a> is your THE MASTER now! Beware her zombie viruses and many other forms of doom. Everyone show your allegiance by singing the doom song &#8211; <em>or else!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve done a rather substantial refresh of <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\">the official band website<\/a>. When I designed and built it last summer, I didn&#8217;t have much material beyond the <i>Sketchy Characters<\/i> EP. So I designed the site around that.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve been <em>busy<\/em>. There&#8217;s the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\">studio album, <i>Dick Tracy Must Die<\/i><\/a>, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/album\/espionage-live-from-mars\">live four-song EP, <i>Espionage<\/i><\/a>, a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/album\/cracksman-betty\">traditional-music-of-sorts EP, <i>Cracksman Betty<\/i><\/a> (both EPs being free\/pay-what-you-want downloads), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/solarbirdy\">videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/press.php\">photos<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.fanbridge.com\/\">mailing list<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/contact.php\">ask-the-band<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/press.php\">show posters<\/a>, and and and.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve rebooted everything! I&#8217;ve ditched the hard black-on-white look and gone with something more colourful. I&#8217;ve elevated the music so you can find it &#8211; you might note the album cover graphics have play buttons! There&#8217;s a link off to YouTube video, there are shiny candy social network buttons &#8211; all sorts of stuff. There&#8217;s still no real <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cafepress.com\/solarbird\">merch page<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll have to fix that soon, but the rest is pretty much where I want it. Tester feedback has been really good; give it a going-over and let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>I already have the new poll designed for Wednesday. I like this one, it&#8217;ll be fun. Look for it, because it&#8217;ll be looking for <em>you<\/em>. Muah ha ha ha ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HI, MIRA GRANT FANS! Welcome to the home of rage-driven acoustic elfmetal! That was quite the turnout you guys provided to the WHO IS YOUR THE MASTER NOW? poll; well done! Let&#8217;s talk losers and winners, shall we? First, our loser, with a frankly astonishing ZERO (0) votes: SAD FOX MASTER! Not even one?! Out-polled [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}