Kickstarter and Lucy Smokeheart

I was contacted recently about making music for a Kickstarter project called “The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart”. I was asked to make pirate music that should be “about six seconds in length”. That suggested some wiggle room to me, and I wiggled. Also, the request was made on Thursday evening and needed to be done by Monday. There’s two things about me: I’m cheap and I get things done quickly. (The picture on the left is from a costume shop ad and has nothing to do with this project.)

They Take too Much – 0004

When a stop sign is placed at an intersection, a law is imposed on drivers. Some people will honor the stop sign and others will, to varying degrees, ignore it by either merely slowing down or even driving right through it. Before the stop sign was imposed there was no possibility of breaking the stopping law; now that it is imposed, there will be people who disobey it. Only because of this new law will there be new criminals. In this sense then, making a law causes criminal activity.