Moving. Going to be without internet access for a bit. I'll try to do up a nice backlog of writing, though.

Computer problems, and illness. Hopefully have both fixed this week.

Comment pages on TMB added. Links seem to be a little odd in behavior, but the basics should be sound, I hope.

I don't like blogs.

I am inexplicably backwards sometimes. I've been on the internet since I was a kid, and yet I'm miserable at web design. When I finally decided to make a damned page, a highly intelligent and sexually attractive friend of mine recommended the use of WordPress. After trying it out I quickly decided that I despised it.

I just don't like the way most blog formats organize stuff, I don't like the way they archive entries that I want to go back through, I don't like the things they do to the simple clarity of URLs. LJ's been a minor exception because I don't actually intend anything useful with it, and I use the free version which doesn't hit me in the balls with a painful jingle-jangle of bells and whistles.

So I went ahead and just browbeated my girl into HTMLing me something simple and straightforward and tossed it up with the occasional minor adjustment.

A voice in the back of my head, however, made comments about, well, comments. "This is web You Point Oh!" it wheedled at me. "Remember when e-mail happened and nobody wanted to bother with letters anymore? Well now there's comments and nobody wants to bother with e-mail anymore! If you want any feedback you're going to need comments, and that comes with the horror that is a Blog Format!"

I of course told this voice very angrily what it could do with itself and declared that the end of that. My online writing is an exercise, if anything, and I figured that if anybody really wanted to comment on my horseshit, they could request it. I was smug in the fact that nobody ever would.

So, now somebody has asked for the ability to comment on chapters of The Magical Brothers. I sit here with a foul expression on my face, fuming, while the voice in my head laughs and laughs. You're a dick, voice in my head.

So I'm asking people: Is there some widget thingamajig I can plug into my site that will allow comments without having to actually switch over to a blog format? I spotted something called Disqus that looks like it might be what I want, but it also makes a lot of noise about some big revolutionary networking thing and my immediate reaction to wide-eyed sweeping stuff like that is fuck off. I may be grossly misinterpreting it, but I am still wary. I want my own little cave for people to crawl into and leave wall-carvings in, that's it.

I realized today that writing TMB has been a pretty successful experiment thus far. It's doing what it was meant to, keeping me writing, even today when I'm in a hurry and have had an all-day headache. And it's spilling over to the book. I would write something better here but I've used up my coherence for the day and am hanging on by a thread.

I wouldn't call this a promise per se, more a notice of attempt, but I'm gonna try and see if I can't finish Chapter 4, that is, have it completely posted, this week. That may mean additional updates past MWF. So watch the feed.

What's happening next?

Mick and Max are going to a concert.

Sheesh! What next, they do their taxes? When do things get moving?

Chapter 5.

Oh.

Yeah.

Well. Um.

Hm.

I didn't really have any more questions.

I thought that might be the case.

So...

You maybe wanna go somewhere?

...Sure.

See you at 8.

It took me forever and twelve days to figure it out, and I'm still not sure I got it entirely right, but The Magical Brothers now has an RSS feed. I am now riding high on the wave of the future of ten years ago.

Going to PAX tomorrow. Or rather, later today, damn my nocturnality. So I won't be writing then, and won't be updating TMB.

And chapter 2 comes to a close, and I have a massive amount of writing to do to maintain a good backlog. Lord knows how great my panic will be when I actually have readers.