Site traffic has exploded in the last week.  I can’t say I’m entirely
happy about it, since it’s in the wake of Katrina, and the mainstream
press is generally such a damn echo chamber that we all have to
scramble online to try to figure things out for ourselves.  Still, I’d
much rather have one-tenth the traffic and tens of thousands of my
fellow citizens still alive. 

And I never thought a sentence like that would ever exist.  Even written in dry understatement.

[Long pause, looking for words.  Finding none.  Then, at last, finding one.]

Shit.

Horrible goddam couple of weeks, eh?  And I’m just sitting on my ass in
L.A., sending money and complaining and trying to figure out what to do
next.  I can’t begin to imagine. 

Back to the subject.

This is still a boutique operation, of course, nowhere near the size of
the big blogs and not trying to be.  This is just a place where I vent,
kid around, ask questions, profess strange loves, and otherwise slap
neurons in digressive fashion.  Also, I occasionally post pictures of
unusual places, cute animals, or politicians acting like assholes.

Someday, perhaps, I will find a picture of a politician acting like an asshole with a cute animal in an interesting place.

This will be, in Bush’s phrase, the trifecta.

(Also, this will be a new twist on Clue: Tom DeLay condescending a
Bichon Frise near the Great Pyramids!  Hillary Clinton flipping off a
Chinstrap Penguin in Sumatra!  Etc.)

I digress.

We’ve had only a couple of tiny glitches on the upslope, and that’s to the credit of Colin and Islandnet.com, whom I thank profusely.

Since I make my living writing other stuff that actually pays, and that
takes time, I rarely post more than a thing or two a day.  Still, if
you’re new to the site, I hope you’ll bookmark the place and pop in
regularly, even when entire major goddam cities of people are not being
wasted due to mass incompetence.

Let us dare to dream.