A Crayon Haiku #12 is up. w00t.

Wanna know how my day was? Pretty crappy -- one of those "damnit I have no faith in humanity so why don't I just hang myself before things get worse?" days. People consistently and almost unanimously disappoint me with their views whenever the "race" issue comes up. On the one hand, I know it's a really complicated issue and sadly most people aren't prepared or willing to really think it through, and then on the other hand it's so bloody simple that you can't help but be discouraged when they fail to arrive at "acceptable" conclusions. Or they claim to have arrived at a conclusion that I could get behind and then totally negate it with their diction. Argh.

NOBODY TOUCH THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH. IT'S MINE! I'm totally turning that one into a short story. What paragraph, you ask? Clearly not the one above. You must mean the one I cut out of paranoia! Ho ho ho! Well, it will make a good story.

And yes, if you can't tell, I'm a little drunk. Next time, Angel! Or maybe Estella's questions. Y'know, whenever. Meh.

I'd planned on blogging about the series finale of "Angel" in tonight's post, but that'll have to wait until next time. Also, I owe Estella five answers to her five questions, a la the ones here. While I'm at it, I'll dig up that question Dee asked a while ago, and maybe answer MF's too, though MF seems to be long gone. WHERE ARE YOU, MF? ;_; (more...)

For today's update, Splinter and Mummato explore the mysteries of Whitehall pasteurized processed sandwich slices. And for the Buffy fans out there, the cheese guy from "Restless" also makes a screencapped appearance. Enjoy! (more...)

Nasty weather we're having, eh? For those of you not in the area, we're in the middle of a heavy rain-thunder-lightning-hailstorm. But hey, at least I'm not without background noise...it almost sounds like it's coming through the roof. I hope not! (more...)

Alright, so today's unique visitors only doubled, which isn't so bad. And while I'm sure that the plug on god bless the children of iraq had something to do with it, I'm not entirely sure how much, since a good number of hits came in today from a handful of blog and forum posts. And of course, the TMNT anime drew the vast majority of hits, which probably wouldn't be the case if most of the visitors came to the index, since I'd expect them to read the most recent articles rather than the old TMNT one. Well, there's a relief. Actually, it's worth noting that it was the blog that pulled in more than the usual number of posts, with over double the visitors it gets on a regular basis. Given that the usual number of people viewed the main page, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the post pages and the resultant increased frequency of pages appearing on google searches help account for the increased number of unique visitors, as well as the possibility that the various web bots faced the daunting challenge of scanning them ALL today (which would account for today's rather HUGE access log file). Whew.

So yeah, the site is okay! And I'm still gonna donate something to Ryan, 'cause that server's gotta be killing him, even if my shameless plug didn't end up causing the death of mine. Again, I wipe my brow to that one.

Alrighty, I'm mighty tired now, but I should have a new article for you on Wednesday...and maybe another little something later today/tomorrow. Whee.