It's Friday, so let's THREAD IT UP.

Today, I'm thinking about how the best things you made in the past still get to be part of your present.

Like... nine years ago (almost to the day) I set myself the goal of writing or covering a song a week because I wanted to be like Jonathan Coulton.

Then I spent a couple of years performing those songs up and down both the East and the West Coasts, at various comic conventions and house concerts and JoCo Shadow Cruises.*

A lot of those songs were just okay, and many of them were made better by my performance (which is to say that if you're able to make an audience laugh, you can cover at least some of your creative shortcomings).

But a few were pretty good.

And I'm going to get to sing one of the best ones at a jazz concert next Friday.

<a href="http://hello-the-future.bandcamp.com/album/song-fu-2012">Song Fu 2012 by Hello, The Future!</a>

(I'm also going to cut the last repeat of the chorus, where I make the Firefly joke, because Joss Whedon's Firefly isn't as culturally relevant as it was in 2012.)

Anyway, what I mean to say is that even as we get older and our identities change, the best stuff from our past doesn't have to go away.

We can still keep it, and share it with people. ❤️

*So... Jonathan Coulton has an annual cruise called the JoCo Cruise, and cruise attendees create their own slate of performances/events/etc. to accompany the official performances/events/etc., called the Shadow Cruise. I got to be part of many Shadow Cruises.