Happy New Year from The Kitchen

Thanks for reading, commenting, retweeting, sharing or otherwise caring about what we do here. Our re-launch on our own domain in October has been a great success and we even seemed to have gained back or even slightly grown the traffic & audience we had built up over seven years over at our old blogspot home. Bigger and better for 2011! If you feel so inclined though, drop a comment with what you’d like to see here at The Kitchen over the next year. Year-end lists coming today (or this weekend, hopefully….)

Follow the Brand New Different Kitchen Facebook Page!

Just launched and featuring many more links from music to video, news, concerts, contests and much more. Be clear: this will be way more than merely just stale duplication of what’s on the blog. Because it’s so easy to post and share links on Facebook, it’s gonna go far beyond anything I’d ever have the time to compose and format properly for posting content-wise here on the blog and will be a whole new way to experience and enjoy The Kitchen.

The best way to get the updates from the page quickly and easily is to click ‘Like’ on the actual Facebook page or follow me on twitter. For a preview, see the screenshot above or check the Facebook widget in the right hand side menu sidebar right here on the blog.

I’m in NYC for the next week or so and am gonna be busy with Thanksgiving and also a bunch of meetings so the Facebook is probably going to be updated more frequently than the blog so I suggest you act accordingly!

Let me know what you think of the page or if you have any suggestions on how to change or improve it by leaving comments below or on the page itself.

The Kitchen is Now Re-Open For Business!

Yes, after seven long years as a Blogspot and a week or so hiatus while we re-tooled Different Kitchen (officially known as Other Music from a Different Kitchen), we’re back on our brand new custom domain, Different-Kitchen.com publishing on WordPress. Sayonara, Blogger! Don’t let the doorknob hit ya where the Good Lord split ya on your way out!



So what’s er… different? Well I didn’t want to change things up too much but I’ve actually had a logo, designed by my dude Kevin of Debut Studio (and now Nike!), since 2004 but never had the wherewithal to install it on the blog. Now it’s up top, fully represented. Other than that I wanted to keep things somewhat familiar and maintain an aesthetic link to the original blog so you’ll see the orange links are still in effect (hope y’all like that) and many of the widgets from the original menu sidebar are also still intact but looking a lot more uniform and clean in design.



I’m actually still trying to figure things out on wordpress so you may still see some virtual ‘scaffolding’ as it were and things move around these parts as I experiment and learn the ins and outs of this new platform (hence the ‘distressed’ Yes We’re Open image above). I was going to wait til after the long weekend to re-launch but how could I pass on the ‘perfect 10’s’ of today’s date which are apparently good luck according to Chinese culture.

And before I forget: many thanks to the homie, Rafi Kam of Oh Word and the Internets Celebrities for hooking this up for me gratis! You are a mensch amongst mensches, my dude! Wanna take advantage of the Rafi’s largess through the same offer for your own blog? CLICK HERE.

As I wrap up this first official post (there’s actually some other stuff up already posted while I was in semi-secret ‘Beta’ mode testing things out so click around and check them out), let me say: I hope you dig the new site. Ain’t much gonna change beyond what I mentioned already in terms of the overall mission:  I’m still gonna try to share with and expose you to stuff the other bloggers can’t (or won’t) laced with pithy one liners and insights that destroy those geek bloggers’ boring essays and self-righteous elitism. Dig what you see or have suggestions? Email me or drop a comment below. Ditto for advertisers. Now that we’re on the more flexible wordpress platform, we should be able to do some more innovative and engaging stuff with any partners who want to work with The Kitchen. Walk with us, I promise we’ll do our best to make Different Kitchen 2.0 one helluva ride just like the first seven years were.