Schedule of Posts-15-2-2015

Struck-through posts have been cancelled or postponed until further notice. All dates subject to change; I'll keep you posted as situations develop.

Baseball Doubleheader–March or April; when's Opening Day this year?
What We Talk about when We Talk about Sharknado–uncertain; review of Sharknado and Sharknado 2 to follow, if not integrated into the post itself.
It's Your 65th Birthday, Charlie Brown–2 October.
Alex vs. the Golden Age of Television–TBD.
Star Wars recap/review–TBD, dependent on my finding a copy of the prequels and a special guest blogger's availability
Star  Wars, Canon and You–25 April
A Critique of "Heaven Is for Real"–TBD.
I Can't Believe I'm Writing this Post–late February
Marvel Phase 2: A Retrospective–June/July
End of blogging on Blogger–spring or summer; ignore the WordPress site's "March of 2015" because that was just me spitballing.

Schedule of Posts-22-1-2015

All dates subject to change; I'll keep you posted as situations develop.

Charles M. Schulz: A tribute–13 February; probably one of the first I'll put up on the new blog.
Baseball Doubleheader–March or April; when's Opening Day this year?
What We Talk about when We Talk about Sharknado–uncertain; review of Sharknado and Sharknado 2 to follow, if not integrated into the post itself.
It's Your 65th Birthday, Charlie Brown–2 October.
Alex vs. the Golden Age of Television–TBD.
Star Wars–probably a series of posts, TBD.
A Critique of "Heaven Is for Real"–TBD.

A New Direction

So, I’ve been thinking. Mostly about other stuff, but a lot about this blog and the direction I want it to take. And while I’m not entirely certain of what will happen going forward, I do have some ideas as to what I want to do with this blog.

Change of Address

 The new URL for the blog formerly known as the Diary of an Atomic Man and parked at that address for most of its existence is lagomorphslimited.blogspot.com. Please adjust your browsers and bookmarks accordingly. Thank you. [1]

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[1] Of course, it's not as though anyone would notice the change--Blogger doesn't redirect from defunct URLs...

Why I Won't Talk about Ferguson

So, some bad stuff is happening in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old black man, was shot six times and killed by police officers. This made a great number of people justifiably angry, and a protest movement of considerable size and volume has ensued. The police and state government have cracked down; last I heard before writing this, the governor had called in the National Guard. It's a big, controversial topic, but you'll have to turn elsewhere for coverage. Chasing the Rabbit will not discuss this.

I Ate'nt Dead

...in fact, I have two posts in the works, one of which should be up later this weekend and the other of which I want to put up on the Fourth of July. I think I'm done with the tweaks to the blog, though I think it needs a logo of some sort and I want to change the URL (though chasingtherabbit dot blogspot dot com seems to be taken--lagomorphpursuit, perhaps?).

We Interrupt Regular Programming for a Special Announcement

Sometime last night or this morning, I passed 2000 views. As of this writing, the counter is at 2012. Thanks a lot, all, and here's to the next 2000 readers.

We now return to our scheduled programming, already in progress.
--Alex Adrian, 4/8/'14

Fred Phelps, 1930-2014

A titan of hatred has fallen. Fred Phelps, founder-leader of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church and homophobe par excellence, is dead. I don't know where to go with that. Fred Phelps, dead. Fred Phelps, dead. How do I take that? Do I mourn or rejoice? Should the LGBT community picket his funeral as a last "fuck you" to a man who made so many's lives Hell, or give the Phelps family and Westboro some respite, time to grieve and mourn?
[Fair Warning: When discussing Westboro, homophobia comes up, as do anti-Americanism and simple bigotry. If these offend you or are triggering, move along. The rest of you, click away…]

Happy New Year!

I'm on hiatus for the first fourth of 2014; regular posting resumes in the Spring. Life once more got in the way; I started college and moved across Washington this year, so I've been in a bit of a vortex--perhaps "maelstrom" would be a better word. Once I get into the swing of things (and without classes which require vast essays to preoccupy the writing part of my brain), I should be able to devote more time to this blog.

Thank you for your patience and once again, Happy New Year!

--Alex Adrian, 12/31/'13-1/1/'14