As I ready my Proustian collective posts for the inevitable Oxford University Press book deal, I’d like to draw your attention to some changes to the site:

1. The Amazon.com mini-store in the sidebar — You can buy DRM-free downloads of our records from Amazon.com. You can also buy copies of our CDs, and peruse a list of books we like and recommend.
2. The new Calendar format — The calendar page has been reformatted to make it more useful for you. There are venue links for each show, links to Google maps for driving directions, and we’ve indicated the shows that are open to all ages. You can also get our show calendar in a handy RSS 2.0 feed.
3. The event list in the sidebar — Our next five performances are listed in the sidebar
4. The spam tracker — We get spammed mercilessly by spambots. Fortunately, our blog is protected by the most excellent Akismet plugin for WordPress. To celebrate the futility of blogspam, we’ve added the spam tracker to the sidebar. Join us as we march inevitably towards our 100,000th spam comment (we’re presently at 74,507).
5. The drop-down lists for categories and archives — links to categories and archives have been changed to drop-down lists to make better use of sidebar space. The archive goes back to September, 2004, when this site came online, and the list was starting to get unwieldy.

As always, thank you for your support. If you want to read my 500 posts, start here.