{"id":870,"date":"2025-05-04T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T02:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paoprod.com\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:10:39","slug":"a-quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paoprod.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/a-quick-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick update"},"content":{"rendered":"There will be no regular blog post this week, as I'm hip deep in research and interviews for a few upcoming pieces I am excited about publishing.  Instead, I'm going to give a quick update on what's been going on behind the scenes.  Over the past several weeks, the dam has burst as far as the \"Ghosts of DFW music history\" blog series.  Thanks to a few very important new contacts, I've been able to procure a treasure trove of valuable information concerning a trio of west side music venues of the 1980s, and have been given access to another trove of reminiscences and potential illustrative content for these and another set of venues I'm researching on the east side of town.  I've also made enormous gains when it comes to getting access to hitherto unpublished information about one venue in particular which I am very excited about.  I think these will be worth the wait.\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nAside from the \"Ghosts\" series, work also continues on a few other long-term blog projects, some of which have been in the pipeline for as long as a year or more.  I expect to have these completed and published sometime during the summer.  All this means that 2025 should be the best year to date for this blog, not to mention a good year for finally getting out a lot of other content that's been on the sidelines for years - more concert photos and other photo galleries, more road trip travelogs, maybe even additional old footage of the local scene (working on this!).  I also expect to roll out a long-needed e-mail newsletter by the start of next week so I can (hopefully) drive engagement for the website as a whole.  Overall, when it comes to projects, things have been very productive as late and will continue to be so for quite some time.  I originally created this website in 2008 as a showcase for my work, but it's never really shown its true potential until now.  Here's looking forward to a productive and fulfilling next chapter.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog-images\/Quick-Update-050425\/1271.jpg\" alt=\"1980s Dallas zines\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be no regular blog post this week, as I'm hip deep in research and interviews for a few upcoming pieces I am excited about publishing. Instead, I'm going to give a quick update on what's been going on behind the scenes. 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