YESSSS!
Okay folks, as of this minute comments are working again, as are the post-title links et al. Because I’m a gott-damned GENIUS, that’s why. A-HENH!!
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News about CF specifically, or about Mike or Joe. Another catchall category, really
Publick Notice
Comments still ain’t working, gots no clue why. Trying to get that figured out now, we’ll see how it goes. I swear, for a plugged nickel I’d gladly pull apart ever goddamned hacker/spammer/whatever you could point me at.
Update! Post title links going to single-post pages are down also. Surpassing strange, I must say. Fucking scumfucks can’t leave a pipsqueak li’l blogger-dude alone. The way this shit just keeps happening over and over again is almost enough to make a fella just throw up his hands and walk away.
Publick Notice
Owing to a tremendous recent influx of annoying spam user registration attempts—some of them successful, alas, as shown by that stupid ad for an ED drug called Trama-somethingorother that I just deleted, posted by a nonexistent user yclept “Big Country,” NOT Big Country Expat,” who/which is legit—I’ve shut down all user registrations for the nonce. Hopefully, that will at least stanch the flood, if not stop it altogether. We’ll see, I guess.
Happy Halloween!
Presenting our usual annual mish-mash of 50s and 60s pop-rock chestnuts, a light dusting of spooky orchestral music, including the most spectacular setting of Orff’s Carmina Burana ever mounted, PLUS whatever the hell else I can think of, PLUS an assortment of Halloween-theme memes, most of which were swiped from your friend and mine, the lovely and talented Midwest Chick.
And now for the memes!
Eyrie note
No, I didn’t forget about the Friday Eyrie column I owe y’all. Because of the holiday I figgered I’d put it off til tomorrow, and also maybe make it another meme post too, since people really seem to like those (meme posts reliably get more visits than anything else, both here and at the Eyrie, go figger). Plus, I’ve downloaded so many really good ones from my usual haunts the last cpl-three weeks, and I’m excited about getting ‘em out there to y’all.
The Monday Substack meme thang will go up as regularly scheduled, unless something wild and crazy happens between now and then.
New Fundie!
Had to start up another fundraising campaign over at GiveSendGo, further explained here. To wit:
Our problem now is, the well pump at my house failed about a month or so ago, and neither Jeff nor I have anything like enough money to fix it. Hence this most sincere plea for help. One by one, Jeff replaced the well pressure-bladder, the pump switch, and fixed a leak in the main water-feed pipe under the house. Well systems being the dead-simple little beasties they are, there’s nothing else left to explain the sudden loss of water pressure inside but a failed pump. Replacing it is a job Jeff doesn’t have the training, experience, or faith in his own good luck to attempt, so the decision has been made to bring in a well-repair company located just down the street from us for the project. Thanks for your kind consideration, everyone!
And there you have it, gang. I’ll probably either make this post sticky or put it over at the top of the right sidebar, dunno which. Not sure, either, what happens when you have two (2) sticky posts fighting for position up top; we’ll find out, I reckon.
Behold! I bring you good tidings of great joy
If my email inbox is any guide, many of you CF Lifers noticed that my dear friend Francis Porretto’s Liberty’s Bastion blog has been down for several days now. I knew what was going on thanks to an email conversation betwixt Francis and myself over the weekend which concluded very felicitously indeed, at least from my own perspective. Namely: Fran will now be posting here at Ye Aulde Caulde Furye Blogge as and when he feels like it!
Y’all will know I’ve been a YUUUGE admirer of Porretto’s fine, fine work for a long while now, so I’m very proud indeed to have the privilege of hosting him here. Welcome aboard, old friend, it’s great to have you.
But…but…but…WHY, man?
Let me count the ways: because she’s hot as FUCK; she makes shitlibs weep, wail, and rend their garments by being disobedient to, disdainful of, and utterly insouciant about them, their opinions, and their prissy and prudish edicts.
Plus, because I fucking well CAN, damn your eyes.
YOWSA! Suddenly, an unexpected epiphany: with a woman
- THIS exquisitely lovely
- THIS perfectly put-together
- THIS breezily self-assured yet unpretentious
- THIS cool, calm, and collected
- THIS impervious to being rattled by foamy-mouthed liberal calumny, obloquy, and vitriolic rebuke
- THIS comfortable in her own skin
- THIS good-natured
- THIS balanced and well-adjusted
- THIS flawless in virtually every way
who even needs a reason? I’ma give dear Sidney her very own CF category, I do believe. Just ‘cause I feel like it, that’s why, no other reason. I don’t give a tinker’s damn if this is the only post in there, either.
FINALLY!
Mmmkay, as of right now, I believe…I think…I hopehopehopeHOPE that I have the Greatest Hits section unfucked—insofar as it’s ever gonna be, at any rate. Also, y’all might have noticed a new NavBar link to the right, yclept Miscellany. As that page’s intro blurb says, I intend it to be “A page for links to the things that need to be here, but just don’t seem to fit anywhere else.” Only two items therein at the moment, but I’ll find more stuff to populate it as time moves ever on.
Update! One thing you’ll see regarding the brand spanking new, bestest EVAR GH section is that all the old “Wayback Machine” links have been replaced with new Pages hosted rat-cheer at CF. Probably won’t make a huge difference to anybody but me, but still.
Big old can o’ worms
That’s what I opened for myself when I set out to add my “Digression” piece to the Greatest Hits page, as mentioned here. Turns out, the GH page was thoroughly and completely hosed, God only knows how or why, up to and including about half of the articles linked therein, which now no longer exist at all. Infuriatingly, the missing essays include one of my own personal favorites, “Frodo On Trial,” which was the first post of mine ever to be linked at NRO’s The Corner blog way back when.
Yep, “Frodo…” was a good ‘un alright, but along with several others, it appears to be gone for good; if there’s any kind of backup around out there, I sure haven’t been able to find it. Only thing I know to do at this point is to just delete all the GH pages I currently have, including the “Greatest Hits” parent page, create new ones, and just basically start setting up the whole “Greatest Hits” section again from scratch.
In fact, I spent the whole weekend doing exactly that, and am not done yet, although the end is in sight as of right this minute. Maybe it’ll work, maybe it won’t; if the whole damned site goes off the rails at some point over the next day or two, well, you’ll know why.
Update! HAAAA!! Found the “Frodo On Trial” piece. It was hiding under a different title, namely “ICC and the Dark Lord.” THAT’s certainly a load off my mind! Now, back to work…
Linky-lurvs
Attentive CF Lifers may already have noticed our latest addition, findable at not-quite-bottom left in Ye Aulde CF Blogrolle section: Substack Scalawags, featuring whippersnappers who have cast aside the creaky, crotchety, arthritic old WP “weblog” gizmo for that newfangled Substack whatsit all the kids are talking about nowadays. Check it out, loads of excellent stuff in there.
Side note
One thing about the absolutely jaw-dropping influx of donations I’ve been thoroughly floored by this week: there’s just been so damned many of you fine folks hitting Ye Aulde CF Tippe Jarre that just ain’t no way on God’s green Earth I’m gonna be able to send out email thank-yous to y’uns. This kinda makes me sad, honestly, since kiting a personal, private thanks whenever I receive a particulary generous donation out of the clear blue sky is something I’ve always enjoyed doing, and has long been standard practice around this here websty.
Subscribers, not so much; never could see any justification for spamming peoples’ inboxes once a month, so I never have done it. Moreover, most of my little coterie of “subscribers” are longtime readers I’ve become friendly with over the years, with whom I correspond on the regular outside the confines of the bloggiverse. I’ve even swapped pictures with what you might call the “CF Inner Circle” on occasion: photos of family; spouses; pets; favorite vacation spots; cars, boats, motorcycles, even the (VERY!) occasional airplane, and other such-like things as and when the urge hath struck.
So yeah, with all that goin’ on I figger my subscribers know already how much I truly do love them; no real need to keep rubbing their noses in how awesome they are, I shouldn’t think.
As for you folks who kicked in on this past week’s impromptu, kinda-sorta, not-quite-official fundraiser, please accept this brief missive, impersonal as it may seem, as a sincere expression of my gratitude. Your generosity humbles and awes me; your kind attention restores and renews my determination to keep on keepin’ on with this blog-writing nonsense, to the very limits of my ability, skill, and strength. The CF Pledge remains in full effect: long as y’all keep on reading, I promise I’ll keep on writing for ya. Hopefully, at least some of it will be half-decent, anyway.
Thank you all so very, very much.
Holy Mother of…?!?
So I go into the hospital for a cpl weeks, get cut, sawn, and stitched upon a bit, emerge a good bit the worse for wear, have to go back in for an encore performance, emerge thinking what the hell, Death CAN’T be THIS busy, can he? During this agonizing interregnum, natch, I avoided all things Innarnuts like the proverbial plague, knowing as I do that A) a thorough cleaning-out of the mental pipes is a good and necessary thing now and again, and B) my worn-out, Amazon’s Cheapest wired keyboard and mouse rig was due to give up the ghost at any moment.
When what to my wondering eyes did appear, upon my exit from Hospital Durance Vile and re-entry into what some poor deluded souls are pleased to kid themselves is the Real World, but a PayPal account that had, for reasons unknown to me, absolutely blown the fuck UP over the past weekend, rocketing from a running daily balance of, basically, zero (0) dollars and no (0) cents, up to a pretty hefty surplusage in nothing flat.
Pulled 40 bucks from the slush pile right away and headed back to the ‘Zon to see if a more satisfactory keyboard/mouse siuation might be arranged, whereupon I picked up this sweet little rig. Now all’s I gotta do is get used to the feel of the keyboard, which is definitely nowhere near as stiff and clunky as the old one was—with the added advantage that most, possibly even ALL, of the keys seem to work too. Yowza!
Many, many humble thanks to all you fine folks out there in Blogolandia, for all the many things you do and have always done for me over lo, these many years. Back to regular posting in a trice, soon as my head stops spinning like a spinning top.
Neverending nightmare
Look for blogging to continue sluggish to non-existent here, folks, as I’ll be returning to the hospital tomorrow for yet more hacking off of vital body parts at the urgent behest of my physical-therapy nurse. To say I’m dreading this unwelcome encore like an ass-whupping would be a gross understatement; to say I’m the slightest bit happy about it would be a damnable lie. Back as quick as I can be, provided I live through this shite in the first place—by no means a given, I regret to say.
Eyrie up!
Well, not quite yet it ain’t, but since it’s Friday and I’m way behind on pretty much everydamnedthing imaginable, looks like a prime opportunity for another special Friday meme edition over there. Update here when it’s up and running.
Update! Okay, gang, she’s up, and she’s a good ‘un, if I do say so myself. Which, I do.
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