New project! New site! New music!

I’m running up to a proper launch of my latest endeavor, The Aural Times. The concept: news headlines rendered as musical recordings, thrice weekly. We sing the news so you don’t have to.

It’s in beta as of this writing, but the domain is live, and some test content is up, including a full-fledged first entry discussing Dick Cheney’s recent gun mishap. (”Gun mishap” is what you call it when you don’t want to say “shooting of his hunting pal in the face.”)

I’m hoping to get a couple more full entries up, and finish working out some of the site underpinnings, this weekend — I need a functional archives section, even if I don’t have much to archive yet, and there’s a few design elements I’d like to tack on, including some below-the-fold editorializing, site news, and a comments section of some sort. But it’s looking pretty good, and I’m starting to feel pretty proud of the design work I’ve done on it, modest as it may be.