{"id":2778,"date":"2013-04-09T07:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:39:00","slug":"singing-for-shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/singing-for-shatner\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing for Shatner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The departure of the Shatner’s Toupee blog has really bummed me out.<\/p>\n

\"tombstone\"<\/a>Perhaps I should hold out hope – it’s still there<\/a>, after all, despite being surreptitiously yanked off the web for a brief period.<\/a> The webmaster made a grand announcement on New Year’s Day that he was going to get up and running again, and now four months have passed, and… nothing.<\/p>\n

I’ve considered devoting this blog to continuing that noble legacy. I can think of no higher calling than investigating and chronicling the endless nuances of William Shatner’s artificial hair. Then I realized that I’d like to stay both married and sane, which would be very difficult to do if I were to fully indulge my unnatural obsession with Captain Kirk’s wigs.<\/p>\n

But I can dabble, can’t IOn a parallel track, I’ve set a goal of recording a new song every week. I’m not necessarily going to post all of them here for free, as I still have a burgeoning professional music career on iTunes that has yielded several dollars in dividends – and by “several,” I mean $5.63. My original album “Stalker Tunes” has been for sale online for a couple of years now, and nobody’s bought it in its entirety. (Just think! You could be the first!<\/a>)<\/p>\n


\nBelow is the graphic that made this one of the coldest selling items of last year’s yuletide rush.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Its follow-up single, “Edge of a Crow,” <\/a>has been sold and\/or streamed precisely 0 times, so you could say I’ve hit a sophomore slump.<\/p>\n

Still, hope springs eternal, and I’ve got about five recordings in the can, and a couple of them are actually pretty good. I think I’ve stepped up the production values considerably from my earlier efforts. I intend to release a second album sometime this year to give everyone another opportunity not to buy anything, so I don’t want to cannibalize my non-sales by releasing the songs on this blog for free.<\/p>\n

But I don’t think I can sell my latest opus, as it contains previously copyrighted material – specifically, it includes a whole lot of unauthorized William Shatner participation. I think most of it is protected by Fair Use provisions and would be considered legally acceptable parody, but why take a chance? This blog can’t afford to be embroiled in legal trouble, because I’ve only earned $5.63.<\/p>\n

So rather than risk Shatnerian wrath, I’ve chosen instead to throw caution to the wind and offer it to you as a token of my esteem, a tribute to the glory days of the toupological blog that was, and a pathetic cry for psychiatric help.<\/p>\n

I give you – Follicly Active<\/a>,\u00a0a duet between Stallion Cornell and an unwilling William Shatner.<\/p>\n

Enjoy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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