Welcome, Meiner Damen und Herren, to the new Spleenville Journal! It's time to present: The New Blog Faq. I don't think I ever got around to writing a faq for my previous blog. But anyway. Here it is:
Q: Why on earth did you change your blog?
A: Because I wanted to. All the pages were full. (Beat.) A new year, a new blog. That sort of thing.
Q: That is so inconvenient for me.
A: Allow me to extend my sympathies -- oops, sorry, fresh out of sympathies! Oh all right -- here: open your blogroll editing function, or go into your html template and change where it says "blog" in the URL to "journal." Without the quotation marks. Everything else stays the same. See how easy? No, I can't help you if you don't remember your password. Wait -- better yet, do you have a child in the household? Get them to do it.
Q: Why is the name of your blog "Too Much to Dream"? Are you going all soft and girly?
A: Bog forbid. I just happened to have that song in my head for the past three days. Therefore: the name of my new blog. You must all suffer for my psychological aberrancies.
Q: Where is all the warmongering? Will there still be spleen-venting and ranting? Will choppin' dude ever be seen again?
A: I am as bloodthirsty and spleen-filled as ever. I will probably not be posting much about politics (as if I ever did), but that is what other blogs are for. As for choppin' dude, he is on a secret mission. He may make an appearance from time to time, as his assignments allow. Try to be patient. We are at war, you know.
Q: That's what the Orcs say.
A: You are banned.
Q: Can you (make the background color/font color brighter/darker, make the text larger/sans-serif/a different font, make it look perfect in my weird arcane browser that only people in downtown Tallinn use)?
A: No.
Q: ::Wail:: My eyes!
A: Oh, okay -- I plan to make a "printer friendly" version available very soon. In the meantime, turn off stylesheets and so forth in your browser.
Q: Why won't you post about (insert subject)?
A: My blog, my interests. Don't like it? Consult my ass Google.
Q: What's with all the Tolkien crap? Are you some kind of geek?
A: A sphincter says what?
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Addendum the first to the FAQ: Guys, try to keep in mind -- at the end of the day, the entire freakin' Internet is all a giant waste of time. We should all be Out There making money or babies or something. So if I seem to get all worked up about some silly thing or other, just remember that I could be using my powers for evil. Keep me blogging. Do it for the Children™.
Addendum the second: anyone who sends me particularly amusing (as in, stupid, retarded attempt to flame or intimidate) email will have their email, with address links, posted and mocked. So far I haven't had one of these in a good long time; most blogroaches -- you know who you are -- seem content to infest the comments. But I thought I would add this little warning just in case. Oh -- and re comments: I will be closing comments to posts after a certain length of time arbitrarily chosen by me.
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 1, 2003 01:17 AMI've labeled your link "Andrea Harris" on my blogroll. That way, when you next make a weblog name change the link label can remain the same, and folks will know who it is I'm linking to.
I trust you're cool with that.
And good on you! for your decision to steer clear of politics for the most part on this new weblog.
Again, a Happy New Year! to you.
ACD
Posted by: acdouglas at January 1, 2003 at 04:30 AMOh, that's fine. I'm not going to be hiding behind a sock puppet ever. (I figure it's too late for that!)
Oy, is the sun up yet?
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 1, 2003 at 04:40 AMOne more question... Is that you in the picture at the top of the page? You look awful without your make-up. JUST KIDDING! I know it's not you but I had to say something about the picture. :-D
Posted by: Lynn at January 1, 2003 at 08:08 AMThe Electric Prunes weren't at all girly, though Annette Tucker and Nancie Mantz, who wrote the song, certainly were. (Tucker co-wrote the follow-up single, "Get Me To The World On Time", with Jill Jones.)
Posted by: CGHill at January 1, 2003 at 10:12 AMI think the idea of sticking to the author's name makes sense for those of us (I did it with Dodgeblog.) who like futzing around with the name. Like the new look as well.
Posted by: Andrew at January 1, 2003 at 03:18 PMI like the new look, except that I thought the picture was of Michael Jackson for about a minute. I changed the look of my blog too. It's good to change periodically, but I can't keep up with Lileks.
Posted by: Brian O'Connell at January 1, 2003 at 03:35 PMMichael Jackson, heh heh. Yeah, I don't know how Lileks does it. Must be his Magic Mac!
Posted by: Andrea Harris at January 1, 2003 at 03:58 PMOut with the old...in with the new... Happy New Year!
Posted by: robyn at January 1, 2003 at 07:35 PMI think its "Meine," not "Meiner." "e" is the plural ending.
Posted by: albo at February 3, 2003 at 02:25 PMEr, yeah, it's been a long time since I took German...
Posted by: Andrea Harris at February 3, 2003 at 08:25 PM