Tonight, a sad and unprecedented event. Owing to the annual SFWA cocktail party in Manhattan, I will miss a CD Mix of the Month Club meeting for the first time. My sorrow is boundless, kids, but I'm afraid the sci-fi club comes first.

However, thanks to the welcome accommodation of CDMOM's kind organizer, this does not mean my mixes won't be making the meeting themselves in my absence. My contribution to the November CD Mix of the Month Club will be The Political Animal, with Spicy Stories generously thrown in as Dr. Priapic's Autumn Love Prescription Bone-Us Mix (see jewel-case sticker below).

See, one of our number is attempting to conceive, and it was suggested that mixes of mood music might help, but by the time the suggestion was made my timely political mix was already in the can, so what choice did a simple music programmer have but to move February's Valentine mix forward in the rotation?

I know. TMI. Anyway.