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Written by Randy Hayes   
Thursday, 26 May 2011

You are here because . . .

A) You are either looking for information about collectible shoe merchandise connected with the now-defunct Red Goose Shoes brand, or

B) You saw an email address for This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or someone else in my family and your curiosity got the best of you.

Let me explain.  I registered this domain name so I could have a personal blog and email address with a unique name.  I gave everyone in my family an email address at this domain -- maybe kind of lame, hindsight being 20/20, but we're pretty much stuck with them now. The blog part was conceived in 2004, and was supposed to just be my sandbox -- a place to post stuff that I had on my mind or songs, videos, images that I created.  At that time, you would have come to this site because . . .

A) See above, or

B) You were one of my friends who thought I was a very rad dude.

The site went through a few changes punctuated by massive vacuums of space and time. That, I attribute to simple busyness and apathy. But I tried to revive the blog again in 2007 or 2008, just when facebook was rising from prominence to dominance.  As far as I'm now concerned, that kind of sucked the life right out of the web and reinjected it as pseudo-life into one homogeneous blob at its own domain. In any event, "interacting" with my "network" at "facebook" gave me little to no reason to blog here.  Then I closed my account at facebook altogether in March of 2010. Such a maverick.  But now I was totally cut off from the web.  Besides coming to my house and standing there and just looking at me (which I highly recommend), how else would people know how awesome I am?

Well, until I loosen up a little, or maybe actually start being awesome, I think this site will stay just like it has been since our "Aluminum Anniversary" (oh boy, that was over three years ago). Until then, I have email @redgooseshoes.com, and I will keep this domain.

For those of you looking for collectible shoe merchandise, keeeeep googling.

 
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Monday, 05 May 2008

I have Marty Balin's Hearts stuck in my head, and that's a good thing. I'm considering learning a set of songs from that era of popular music (circa 1980-1984, which is when I first started to have favorite songs on the radio), and play a coffee house with them and maybe some original material. My dad has always worked in radio, so I kind of keep track of everything that's happened in my life by which songs were popular at the time. My dad does it too. Both of us really have a knack for remembering years and dates like that. Definitely some Alan Parsons and Hall and Oates will be on the set list.

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Finally, my first post (and it's not even about me)  E-mail
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Saturday, 05 April 2008
Yep, I finally found the motivation to roll back into blogging. I got an email this past Monday, March 31st from a friend of mine from college, Matt Rogers. He was announcing the release date of his book, which alone was news to me. But the release date was the next day, April 1st. He had told me a while back that he had written a book and was looking for a publisher, but I hadn't heard anything since. Turns out that the book being released was one he'd written since we last spoke and which details his experiences and reflections on the killings that took place on the Virginia Tech campus, where he is serving as a pastor.
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