Yesterday marked Miscellaneous Heathen's tenth birthday. Holy Shit, to coin a phrase.
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I've been busy, and had let the comments pile up. They're all approved now. Mea culpa.
Mike's fixed the comment problem, so please resume your normal participatory ways.
Eight years ago today, a mailing list I maintained called "Some Arrant Knaves I Know" transmogrified into a blog called Miscellaneous Heathen.
Much of the last 8 years' subject matter has been political, because -- let's face it -- we spent most of that time watching the Bush Administration carefully consider what the right path would be in any given situation, and then just as carefully select the opposite. That fueled lots of angry posts, at times even overwhelming the "here's something weird" character of the ancestral mailing list. With Bush nearly out of office, I don't think I"ll stop writing about politics, but I do expect the post mix to become a bit less political. And I don't mind.
Here's to a return to weirdness. Happy Heathen Day. Now I'm gonna go watch and see if Alabama can beat Auburn.
You're going to need to jump through some additional hoops to comment at Heathen. Anonymous comments will require a valid email address; authenticated comments are possible with a TypeKey or LiveJournal account. Spam's a huge problem, so while I'm sorry to have to make it a bit of a hassle, it's really the only way I can keep comments open.
This will only sting a little. After wrasslin' for way too long with the terminally unfinished and almost completely unsupported Typo, Longtime Heathen M.A.D. courteously helped us migrate this afternoon the that modern-day hegemon of blogging, Movable Type, and what's more he's even hosting it for us. If you can see this post, you're already here -- and as part and parcel of this lovely little migration, feeds ought to work again, too.
All hail Michael for his selfless work here -- he custom-coded a Typo-to-MT script for me as part of this deal. Now, enjoy.
Some things will be a little different, and the whole commenting thing will be weird for a bit while I sort out what degree of authentication I want to impose thereon. Since working feeds will allow me to syndicate Heathen via my Facebook presence, I sort of expect comment volume -- specifically, angry reactionary Republican comment volume -- to spike unless I impose some accountability there. ;)
We don't do anonymous comments here. Identify yourself, or don't comment. Thanks.
Update: Let me be clear. I'm more than willing to engage anyone here, on Facebook, or wherever, but not anonymously. If you're too cowardly to argue under your own name, you're not worth my time.
I'm talking to the Typo people. This post is actually a test.
No fucking idea. Typo sucks ass. Moving again soon. Sorry.
