#zyzzy78!

The thrilling Season 2 cliffhanger you won’t want to miss. (Listener Discretion Advised: Contains the one network-permitted F-word for the season.)

On today, my 29th birthday, I am casting my eyes forward to next Monday’s zyzzy78! post. September 29, 2013 marked the end of Breaking Bad, an episode that garnered an audience of more than 10 million in the United States. September 29, 2014 brings forth the Series 2 finale of the zyzzy78! project, which might not quite make that.

With 52 one-minute pieces released by the end of Series 2, I will have posted a year’s worth of weekly dispatches from the imaginary worlds built from my collection of personal tape recordings. (You can listen to the entire collection at the project’s SoundCloud playlist page.) This leaves 26 more to complete the planned group of 78.

When I began the project in Fall 2009, I was unemployed, not yet a graduate student, and afforded enough free time to digitize and remix these cassettes. Five years later, I have enough responsibilities to make the project less feasible—and enough resources to make leisure activities outside the home more frequent, which also cuts down on time spent hunched over a laptop dragging wave blocks around.

And don’t come back.

This is the time I’m doing this voice.

The Eructation of Mt. St. Bertha.

x = (6 strings) / (1 ChapStick)

You squeeze ’em, and you put ’em in your ear. Here, I’ll show ya.

Yeah, baby—Sausage Eating Robots, baby, rah-hah-ahhhhck.