Yep. Two new pieces for today. First, "Joan of Arc", a new installment of Crayon Poetry Corner from contributor Jax! Welcome to the SC family, Jax. 🙂 And speaking of family, in the other piece, A Crayon Haiku Farewell, SC says goodbye to the noble Duncan MacPhish. Rest in peace, little guy. (more...)

So it looks like Scary-Crayon's fifteen minutes of fame are almost up, with the site only pulling in 1794 unique visitors yesterday and raking in just under 800 MB of traffic. With the exception of the net ads piece, which was viewed 1400 times, page views are just about back to normal. Admittedly, with me footing all bandwidth costs until July 17, the thought of a decrease in traffic isn't entirely unappealing, but I will miss the popularity of SC (even though it didn't get us any donations and only a couple of people e-mailed me about the site). Hey, I guess I can always look back and remember that seven day stretch during which SC pulled in over 20,000 unique visitors, eh? Not bad for our humble little page. 🙂 (more...)

So I'm having a bit of a problem with the computer right now. Tried to run the virus scanner but after the thing ran for about an hour and a half (no viruses found thus far) and had still gone almost nowhere I opened up the window to find that it had wasted most of that time scanning some temporary internet files, yet these files didn't go away when I cleared the IE cache. Grrr! So I stopped the virus scanner to go get rid of these -- apparently I'm supposed to run Disk Cleanup to get rid of them -- and Disk Cleanup won't run. It starts, but then it hangs while scanning old files for compression purposes so that it can tell me how much space I'd stand to gain by letting it do its cleaning work. I DON'T CARE; I JUST WANT THE FILES GONE! So yeah, it's pissing me off. (more...)

The Cat With Hands is one of the creepiest short films I've ever seen -- hell, it's one of the creepiest things I've seen, period -- so I just had to draw my own. What do you think? Comment! (more...)

From Amanda, who got it from Jenica (who's been added to the links, though I've taken the liberty of shortening her blog title -- I'd Rather Be A Mermaid Than A Flame -- for aesthetic reasons), a quiz.

My weblog owns 6.25 % of me.

Does your weblog own you?

I probably would've scored even lower had it not been for the question about whether you dream about meeting other people you only know from their blogs and the internet. I wouldn't say that I dream about it -- in that I fantasize about meeting them and give serious thought to what I would say if I ever happened upon them in person -- but I would like to meet most of the people whose blogs are linked in the sidebar. And I did have that dream about meeting Caren (read about it here, and whoa, has it been a month already?), so I answered yes. And while I'm at it, congrats to Caren regarding the rising success of her new book, and my thanks to her for the link. Anyway, there's another quiz window I can close. (more...)