I had written an incredibly witty post, but I inadvertently closed my browser and lost it all. No, I didn’t save, thanks though, you smug motherfucker. So, now that I am pissed, I will simply say that if you possess a sense of humor, you should click the image above and read the post to which it belongs. I would never steer you wrong, Youdopia.

It’s from a great blog called Hyperbole and a Half, which is hugely popular but I just found out about it, from Brigid, via Facebook. The blog is hilarious, and you should read it… after you bookmark this one. It’s the Funniest Shit Ever.

I am busy as fuck. My wife and I have started a PR firm, and it’s going through the roof. It’s crazy how successful we are becoming. We started a blog three days ago, a digest of all the best bloggers in a certain genre… and it’s amazingly successful. It’s been live for three days,and we had over three thousand hits today.

My lovely wife is going to be on the radio tomorrow. She’s going to be an expert on a panel discussion, and it’s on a Spanish language station, so… super cool points for my sweetheart. My end of our business is doing well. I’m writing about ten blogs a day, along with press releases, correspondence, an online tutorial on monetizing your blog (I’m teaching it), and… shit… marketing, marketing, marketing.

It’s got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it.

More idols than realities. I’m ok. You’re so so.

The downside of this fantastic upheaval of fortune is this. We both get as much sleep as new parents. I’m punchy all the time, and I write like a goddamn stroke victim. Four and five hours of sleep a night for weeks is a killer. Thank god for fatty foods, sweets, weed, and Diet Pepsi. I’m going to live forever. However, we have made a SPLASH. We raised thousands of dollars through a pledge drive for a photographer to be able to have a showing at a museum. A real photographer in a real museum. It was a big deal and we pulled it off in twenty four hours. It was nuts. We’re really good at this. There just aren’t enough hours in the day, and we’re not making enough money for both of us to stay home, which is a super bummer.

So I’m looking for a full time job for supplemental income, but mostly for the benefits. One can’t be without health insurance in America.  So… it seems like following your bliss may work. The universe has certainly been good to us in this arena. We meet people, network, connect… it’s crazy. It’s crazy because this isn’t a thought out business model. We just did it because.

And now I must go because the baby has peed through her diaper and soaked the bed. Ah, life.

“There’s an end of my cigar. The girls will wonder where we are.” – Konx Om Pax, motherfuckers.

Later. Life’s nuts, but good. I’m fucking tired.

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I like shipwrecks. When I was a kid, and I would read from the giant pile of National Geographic magazines in our living room, I always loved the articles about sunken ships. Whether they were World War 2 hulks, or doomed galleons, I loved them.

The HMS Ontario was a British ship from the Revolutionary War. It’s amazingly well preserved, with even the knots in the rigging still intact. There are 160 in that wreck. There may be logs, maps, and ledgers with text still legible (ledger/legible/legislate), and of course the trivial detritus of a real life. Toothpicks, combs, chamber pots, etc.

Here’s some raw footage of the dive site. It’s neato to me.

I don’t know if any of my blogging brethren ever check their stats, but… maybe you should. I’ve got some interesting search terms topping the list, every day. These are the actual words that people typed into Google (or whoever):

• “One Charming Motherfucking Pig” (note the quotations)
• super cool shit
• st. georgeous
• craziest shit of the year
• oldest biblical reference
• roackabilly (note the misspelling. That means I have that error on my site somewhere. That knowledge would drive some to madness. Not I.)
• mel brooks pissboy (my personal favorite)