How to make your own album cover

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I wrote a piece for Mom.me about the catharsis of giving away baby clothes.

I missed the first time this meme came around, which is apparently as old as my marriage, but it came up on a site I was reading when people were discussing the cover of Kanye West's new album, "The Life of Pablo." So, according to the rules:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit "random"
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

This is my album cover (with thanks to meeyak, for giving me permission to use this lovely photo):

albumcover.png

I think this looks exactly like the kind of band I'd read about somewhere and decide it sounded pretentious and annoying. Then, maybe a year or two later, it would pop up on one of my Pandora stations and I'd go "What is that?" and realize that I do in fact like Bulcha Demeksa. And I think this cover looks way better than Kanye's.