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So, I’m back. The website is where it belongs (special thanks to Bob, as always, for making stuff like this happen for me), and all the archives are where they need to be (thanks to Amanda for assistance). The entirety of my twelve years on the web (minus those Sarcastic Voyage installments that got pulled to be published in The Sarcastic Verses) are now here, in one convenient location. They are categorized, searchable and not moving again for the rest of my damn life. Unless I have interns to take care of it for me.

So, if you do the RSS thing, go ahead and subscribe. As of this moment, the plan is to post one of these entries here every week, to check in with assorted minutae I may have to share, and to update you on the status of various projects. An installment of the new webcomic, God Damn It, Matt! will be posted each Monday. And other things, to be announced shortly, should follow.

A few important things happened to me this week:

• I found Mexican Coke, which is actually quite a big deal for me. Coca Cola started using high fructose corn syrup rather than simple sugar years ago, and things were never quite the same for my taste buds. Their various competitors followed suit over the years, including very recently, the great love of my life, Jolt cola. I’d noticed the stuff had taken on a sickeningly syrupy sweetness about a year ago, but I never quite understood why. Now I know. And (I never thought I’d hear myself say this) I may be done with the stuff if they have no plans to switch back.

It was actually Jones soda (the quirky hippie stuff that’s bottled somewhat locally in relation to me) that turned me into a sweetener snob. But their cola is hard to find, and appears to be some kind of special seasonal thing anyway. (Which makes no sense at all to me. Those turkey and gravy sodas — also made by Jones — should be limited. Not goddamn cola.) Some research I had done online finally clicked with those strange glass bottles I’d seen at the grocery store in my neighborhood (which is predominantly hispanic). So now, long story short, Mexican Coke. Yay.

• I made a late holiday purchase on Amazon, and ran into this little problem:

Mildly disturbing, to say the least.

Happy New Year, everyone. It’s good to be back.

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