...this blog debuted. I've made a lot of great connections as a result of the work I've done here, and I look forward to more in the future. My thanks to everybody who has read, commented, linked, downloaded the podcast, or re-tweeted in all this time.

This is another one of those there's-too-little-going-on-but-if-I-combine-everything-and-throw-in-some-gratuitous-filler-then-I-have-a-blog-post post. So here goes;

1. Only a few days until Vegas! For those of you who won't be able to make the Vegas Podcast-A-Palooza, which I will be hosting, you can watch the video stream here beginning at 6:45 PM Eastern on Saturday.

It took over a year for it to happen (mostly due to my own delays), but Jason, Jeff and I finally got our act together and figured out the best way to do this. We're going to do this every month, and eventually bring in other members of the Popdose staff. But for now, it's just the three of us being jerks.

First off, September has been the busiest month in terms of traffic here at WFW. Both of the previous two weeks have resulted in new records for hits (beginning with the host switch in July 2008), and I want to thank everybody who has linked or retweeted my posts in this time. For those of you who have discovered this site because of the Springsteen-related content, welcome, and, although this blog isn't entirely dedicated to Springsteen, I do hope you'll become a regular reader and commenter.

A few days after the death of Michael Jackson, I was contacted again by Whitman Publishing to work on another of their excellent limited-edition Vaults, and I am proud to see that it is now available!.

This was a collaborative effort. I wrote the biography text and the foreword, about 15K words in total.

After three years and 61 episodes, I've decided to call an end to the podcast. I arrived at this decision yesterday after realizing I could no longer motivate myself to put forth the effort necessary to do the show every two weeks. As I said on the last episode, I had some ideas but I couldn't bring them to fruition.

No major reason for the delay time, I've just been lazy. I've had a couple of ideas floating around my head for the past week, but every time I've thought about developing one of them, I got distracted by something shiny. Most of the time, it's been the sun. We've had some absolutely beautiful weather here this past week.

Once again, I was all set to begin work on the next episode of the podcast when, last night, I was contacted to work on another book. I don't know how many details I can give out, but it will require pretty much all my time and energy over the next week, so I won't be able to do any work on Episode 60 until I'm all done with this project.

I felt it was time to change the theme of WFW. The main reason for this is that the old theme wasn't suited for Firefox and the right sidebar was always below the blog entries. What's the point of having a blogroll if nobody sees it, right?

So I've abandoned the black and red color scheme that had been in place since the blog was first launched in December 2005 in favor of blue.

Coming on Tuesday...

The press release for my book.

Limited Edition Collector's Vault Celebrates
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
Two-Volume Box Set Highlights First Family In Hundreds of Photographs
and More Than 90 Commemorative Souvenirs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Deb Murphy, Whitman Publishing
March 31, 2009 678.

The other day on Twitter, my buddy Jeff Giles of Popdose (who have a fantastic St. Patrick's Day mixtape for you to download) publicly shamed me into getting back to work on the podcast. So I spent Sunday night working on the script for the first time in two months. I got about 2/3rds done with it, and I was looking forward to recording it in the next few days.

Last week, I finally began working on getting the podcast up and running again. It's been more than five months since I suspended production and I felt it was time to re-launch it. I had some trouble getting back into the flow of it, but by Friday I had about half of the script done. I was on track to have it ready for release this morning.