Bluesbomb?

Every Blogspot URL has been taken: ahmed, ahmedh, ahmedmh, ahmedhussain, mrmojorising. These are my ol' standbys. When naming this blog, I even turned to a random string generator for xkcd-esque inspiration. In fact, this blog was very close to being xziz.blogspot.com. Has a nice ring to it.

Then I remembered what I love most in the whole wide world except for the Internet and Anthony Bourdain: the blues! So I tried blueshound (nope), blacknblues (nuh-uh), blackandblues (no). Howlingtheblues was available, but not catchy. Bluesexplosion (any JSBX fans out there?) was taken, and the closest thing is bluesbomb, so here you are. I kind of like how it the Bs bookend and separate the two words.

I play a couple of instruments. I know my way around the blues scales on the piano and harmonica, and I can improvise fairly decently on both. One of my biggest inspirations is a hometown hero of mine named Nuri Nuri. He hosts a radio show here in Houston called the Blues Brunch, which is absolutely fabulous. I don't know how a Palestine Muslim a) obtains an encyclopedic knowledge of the blues; b) gets to Houston in the first place, or c) starts hosting a radio show. I just know that I want to meet this man sometime, because he may be the only person I will ever meet who loves Electric Mud as much as I do. Ever since my dad introduced me to his show, I have been religiously tuning into the stream from my computer every Sunday. I look up every artist on Wikipedia and obtain as much information about them that I can, in the hope of knowing half as much about the blues as that man. Every Sunday, our bandwith usage goes through the roof as I go on a torrent downloading binge for as much of the music I can find.

Perhaps I could work on one of the blues-oriented shows at WMBR? I've been listening from my computer, and none seem to be "true blues;" all have some funk or original rap mixed in. It's not a bad thing, but it's no Nuri Nuri.