It pays to be aware of everything.
This page provides explanation for terms used on my site that need it. When explaining a term, terms that are defined elsewhere in the glossary are italicized.
Aeon’s End. A series of card games which inspired a few of my later songs.
Black Pearl Crew. My band of imaginary friends, based on similar protagonists from the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
broken meter. A parody that has not enough or too many syllables.
cartoonist, the. What I am to my characters. Mostly used when referring to the relationship I had with the Comic Five.
Comic Five. The LEGO equivalent of the Black Pearl Crew, and their predecessors.
fodder ratings. A system by which I measure how suitable songs are for parodying.
killing spree. A parody written under bad influence from violent material such as a video game.
mismatch. A parody that does not sound enough like the original words.
multiple subject disorder. Covering different topics that do not fit well together in the same parody.
music war. Rarely, during their early years, Styx would mix a pipe organ into a rock song. Not liking pipe organs, I likened it to having my music intruded upon. You will notice that I do not have a category for such songs, however. This is partly because there are only two of these but also because it is not important to parodying concerns, such that it does not even bear mentioning on my pages for said songs.
non improvement. A parody that fails to be as entertaining as the original song.
One Commandment. The sole god like thing I have done to my work. It can best be paraphrased as Now, dear domain, undo anything you have developed that would have helped my old subjects. Undo the things that would have kept the Comic Five in the spotlight.
Service to this commandment includes allowing more characters to appear, exploring things about PotC that were not in the Lego game, and writing things that are not for the sole purpose of trying to be funny.
Pirates of the Caribbean. The movie franchise on which most of my parodying is based.
tiny niche. Something with a very small potential audience, perhaps actually too limited.
waste. A parody that does not use the original song as well as it could have.