You Stay Classy… Interwebs.

Whazzup?!

The blizzog has been long overdue for a new look, and what better way to class this joint up than with a big picture of me… you know, being classy and stuff.

This is my first-ever Wordpress theme, and I’ve titled it “Stay Classy” after one of my favorite movies ever. It wasn’t easy to do, but it’s been a cool learning experience.

Drop me a Smart Remark below and let me know what you think.

You stay classy… Interwebs. And thanks for dropping by.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope that you all had a healthy and happy holiday season.

I had a happy holiday. Healthy is another matter. I’m so bloated from two weeks of just plain eating and drinking poorly (photo above) I don’t think I need to worry about any Clay Aiken mistaken identity fiascoes for a good while. Mickey Rourke, maybe. But Clay Aiken, not so much. If I keep it up, I’m going to end up on this page.

Speaking of bloated and mistaken identities, some 10-year old girl thinks I’m Jamie Lynn Spears. Peep the last comment on my 2003 blizzog recap post.

Man, that blizzog 2k3 post was pretty good. I remember when the blizzog used to be good. 2003 was like the Golden Age of Blizzoging I think, like Season 1 of “The OC” good. This is normally the part where I’d write that I know I haven’t posted in a long time and I’m going to do a better job in the new year and blah blah blah, but that would be like the addict saying that he’s really going to stop drinking this time, or Eugene Levy promising he won’t be in yet another shitty American Pie sequel. You and I both know that we can only believe it when we see it.

That said, I do appreciate those of you who have told me - or told me through someone else - over the past few months how much you miss the blizzog. I miss it too. Hopefully I can make more time this year to at least bring back some of that special magic. Not “The OC” Season 1 magic, but maybe at least that Season 4 It-Got-Really-Good-Again- But-Nobody-Was-Watching-And-It-Was-Too-Late magic. We’ll see…

Don’t Call it a Comeback

Welcome to the new and improved blizzog. I’m back, baby.

I know we have a lot of making up to do. I haven’t posted a lot over the last year for a variety of reasons: some physical, some mental, and some others. We could get into it, but it would be boring, and I have a lot more interesting things to say these days.

I have spent my spare moments in the past month porting my blog content over from the old and busted .Text software to the new hotness that is Wordpress. It should now be easier for me in many ways to give you the blizzog goodness that you crave… at least you used to crave.

For those of you that speak geek, you’ll be interested to know that with this move to Wordpress I have abandoned my beloved .Net/Sql Server platform for an open source LAMP stack. Big ups to my man Jeff Turner of JT.net fame for not only playing the Emperor to my Anakin in turning me to the dark side of Linux hosting, but giving the blizzog a place to stay on his very own Ubuntu server. Much love to JT.

For those of you that could give a crap about geek speak, just know that I’m reinvigorated and hope to get back to posting the pointless babble that you’ve come to expect from the blizzog. Don’t mind the new theme. It’s a freeware design called Cutline that I downloaded from the talented Chris Pearson. And while I dig the simplicity, it’s a bit bland for my taste and I’ll be designing my own in due time. I did put the microphone image there since I consider the blizzog my chance to rock the mic right and say what I think on these here interwebs.

Anyway, I missed you all and I know from talking to many of you that you missed me too. Hopefully we can start having a little fun again on these here pages like we used to.

Talk to you soon.