Today is Dean Gray Tuesday.

Trying to repeat Danger Mouse’s Grey Tuesday success, the guys that did the spectacularly huge Boulevard of Broken Songs released a whole album of Green Day mashups a month ago and promptly got a C&D from the Day’s record company.

Playing off Kanye West Party Ben claims to be “$600,000 in debt on this thing (or thereabouts).” Considering Danger Mouse has since moved on to (just last week) be nominated for a “Song of the Year” Grammy for his work with Gorillaz it’s not insignificant, if wholly intentional, irony when Ben says “so we better win that Grammy, or, um, else.”

By all rights I should have hosted this album but I let the participation deadline pass without even listening to the whole album. I could claim that I was entrenched in my own album release and site redesign of my two web sites. But I’d lying to myself even more than usual. I’m not in the mood to self-analyze my ambivalence but I do support the protest in spirit, if not in hosting practice.