Big changes a-comin' round this ranch. The earth will shake, skies will bleed, dogs will lick themselves ... AND each other. It's all going to go down real street, yo.
Well, really nothing all that dramatic. Just some reorganization, recalibration, and likely redesignization of Diztopia. In fact, as soon as I can get the domain out of the tenebrous clutches of Network Solutions and into more friendly territory -- supposedly by early next week -- you can find this heap of refuse at diztopia.com, which I've actually owned for over a year now but never bothered to implement.
The TypePad mandarins assure me that one should still be able to locate all content at diztopia.typepad.com, but I trust them not. So look at diztopia.com if everything else appears to have vanished. In related news, I was disturbed to learn of distopia.com, since that entity obviously makes me eat its dust, cartoon-wise. But I remain so much sexier, don't you think? Of course, there's also this, which is still online despite being abandoned back when I started this blog. Also this, which is equally dormant. All things considered, I claim mastery not only of my domain but all related homonyms. More later.
Meantime, check out William Georgiades' recent pieces in mediabistro, here and here. He's great at depicting the endless merry-go-round of (often simultaneous) back-stabbing and ass-kissing that is modern publishing, and I'm all too personally familiar with the situations he describes.
I'm looking forward to not having to type '.typepad' when next I encounter a strange computer.
And d'mind those other sites aswell: Soon all they'll be is some crappy search page you get with links to viagra and porn after you misspell the address of the site you really want to get to.
Although, I have to admit, as far as this site is concerned, I'm only in it for the mohney. Ha-hah! 'Only in it for the mohney'. Chris! Chris?!? I'm only in it for the 'Mohney'! The 'money!' Ha ha ha ha!
Posted by: Dave R | November 20, 2004 at 10:25 PM
I'll bet he's Mohning, now! None of us in Birmingham were ever educated enough to make that pun! Does anyone type addresses in anymore? I'm a clipboard jockey. If I can't highlight it somewhere and ctrl-c/ctrl-v it, I'm not going there. Unless I'm in Chicago on a Mac.
JH
Posted by: John M. Hicks | November 21, 2004 at 01:52 AM
Aheheheh. Yes, very amusing you rascals, making sport of my last name and all. Why, next you'll be transposing it into the title of a cover song performed by that scamp Billy Idol. The humor! The ribaldry! The humor and the ribaldry, and the power and the glory.
Anyway, I'm still rassling with the Network Solutions beast. It's a briar patch in thar.
Posted by: chris m | November 22, 2004 at 03:16 PM