Mixed Meters

Humans need holidays. Otherwise our lives would get just too bleak. And what could be more bleak than the winter solstice in the northern...

I haven't posted a 30 Second Spot in, like, more than a year.  (One year and four days to be precise.) 'Tis the season for my annu...

Although it's been very quiet around Mixed Meters lately this blog does have some traditions worth preserving.  One of these is my annua...

Traditions are a bitch. I've created some traditions while writing this blog and these have become my own little bitches.  I'm com...

As my contribution to home front morale in the continuing War Against Christmas this is the first of two musical offerings - the annual Mix...

The most hallowed Mixed Meters' musical tradition is probably the yearly winter Solstice piece based on Jingle Bells.  Theoretically the...

Mixed Meters is surprised to find himself once again documenting the ascendance of a new cute and cuddly animal into the pantheon of Christm...

Mixed Meters returns to the airwaves with my Jingle Bells-related musical offering for the 2009 holiday season. Listen to A Combination of ...

Yes, fresh from the land of cryptozoology , it's a Christmas Penguin. This one was collected by Leslie in Armstrong's Pasadena Garde...

Click here to read the first Stalking the Christmas Penguin. It discusses the geographic illiteracy of Americans and answers the question ...

A 30 second spot based on a familiar holiday tune. The melody is reduced to bare bones or less, a small nubbin , smelly and harsh to the to...

It's become a Mixed Meters Tradition to post some of my original holiday music - this year again based on a tune you'll recognize. ...

By my own definition the Christmas season begins on the first day I notice Christmas music being played at Starbucks. So today, Thursday No...

This story also discusses the root causes of Halloween, stuffed penguins, various types of snowmen and green table grapes. It all began near...