After my idiot hosting company allowed their rackspace monkeys to delete all mySQL databases on my blogs and websites and after posting about ten entries since last March ‘07, the creeps have pulled another accidental mySQL deletion. They’ve thankfully made restitution for this second blunder and have finally put a redundancy system in place.

So, for all ten of you out there reading the ol’ blog, it’s back up. Any entries after “From Beyond on DVD” are sadly lost, but they weren’t Wordsworth or anything, so I’ll just start from here. Also, if you’re on my Facebook, forget about clicking on any note links to read the rest of any of the newsfeed entries.

The internet is useless. Remember kids, if you care about your intangible work online - make backups constantly, and don’t write directly in the blog editor like I’m doing right n———–

This pal o’ mine has decided to document his weight loss via a blog. As the above thirty crowd knows, weight comes on fast and furious if you don’t take care of yourself, so it’s nice to see someone taking action and hopefully inspiring others to do the same.

http://www.thebigfatdietblog.com/

Episode One: What a Fool Believes
Episode Two: Keep The Fire
Episode Three: I’m Alright
Episode Four: Rosanna
Episode Five: I Believe in It
Episode Six: The Seed Drill
Episode Seven: I Keep Forgettin’
Episode Eight: Gino (The Manager)
Episode Nine: Runnin’ With the Devil
Episode Ten: FM

Ben sent me this link. A collection of bizarre independent commercials.

Neat. Even David Mamet has a blog.

In the tradition of David Letterman’s Top Ten - and yes, I’m sure some of these were stolen from that very show, I found this list of children’s books “that didn’t make it”. This one’s for you Michel.

“Clifford the Big Dog is Put to Sleep”
“Valuable Protein and Other Nutritional Benefits of Things from your Nose”
“The Tickling Babysitter”
“A Pictorial History of Circus Geek Suicides”
“Babar becomes a Piano”
“Controlling the playground: Respect through Fear”
“David Duke’s World of Imagination”
“Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence”
“The Boy Who Died from Eating All His Vegetables”
“Legends of Scab Football”
“Teddy: the Elf with the Detached Retina”
“Tommy Tune: Boy Choreographer”
“Let’s Draw Betty and Veronica without their clothes on”
“You Were an Accident”
“Strangers Have the Best Candy”
“The Little Sissy Who Snitched”
“Getting More Chocolate on Your Face”
“Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her”
“The Attention Deficit Disorder Association’s Book of Wild Animals of North Amer - - Hey! Let’s Go Ride Our Bikes!”
“The Kids’ Guide to Hitchhiking”
“When Mommy and Daddy Don’t Know the Answer, They Say God Did It”
“Daddy Drinks Because You Cry”
“You Are Different and That’s Bad”

Pretty cool for a chocolate company ad campaign.

I’ve only found 13 so far…