Due to complex computery shenanigans, allowing the littlebaldbastard.com URL to lapse has disabled the feed that was syndicating content to Livejournal. Because LJ feeds are chiseled in granite and unmodifiable, this meant a whole new feed was necessary. The Ask the Little Bald Bastard/Suburban Panic LJ feed is now available at
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/suburbanpanic
I hope that you'll take the time to add the new feed to your friends list. Thanks for reading.
After almost six years on Blogger, Ask The Little Bald Bastard is pulling up stakes and hitting the trail. I've packed up the whole mess, and hired hundreds of industrious computer gnomes to cart it all off to my brand new old website, Suburban Panic!
My interest in the Internet has shifted a bit. I'm hoping to make my online writing something that could eventually find its way onto a résumé without instantly causing an embolism in a hapless Human Resources manager. Consensus seems to be that having "Bastard" in the URL won't exactly trigger an instant hiring frenzy.
The content won't be changing too drastically. I'll still answer questions when I get them, but the primary focus will be on short essays and cartoons. I'm making plans to bring some other contributors on board as well. The skeptical, anti-dogmatic rants will continue unabated.
What does this mean for you? Probably very little. Starting tomorrow, the Feedburner feed will start carrying the content from the new space. Livejournal readers, I'll be posting links to the feed for your use. The front page of Ask LBB will have links to the new page, as well as a saucy little feed widget posting links to the most recent updates.
Big thanks to everyone who's read and linked to Ask LBB over the years, and special "why can't you be more like them?" thanks to everyone who submitted a question. I hope you'll all join me at Suburban Panic! for another big announcement, 'round about the end of the week.
If you're reading Ask LBB in a feed, today is a good day to wander off of your electronic front porch and take a gander at the stuff in another neighborhood. I've made some changes to littlebaldbastard.com, including a new banner and an updated list of links to interesting stuff.
Because I'm nobody's design professional, I'm just using a slightly tweaked Blogger theme. The banner is all me, though, and I think it turned out pretty well. I hope you'll stop by and check it out.
Now With 20% More Bells, Whistles:
I've added some new functionality to Ask LBB. There's a new RSS feed, as well as an email subscription service. Your inbox, it burns us!
Impending Experiment
I'm thinking I might try illustrating a question and answer every now and again. I worked up a picture for the Fanta question, and I'm going to post it tomorrow morning. I'd appreciate hearing if anyone has trouble with feeds or other displays; feedback about the picture itself is also welcome.
Dear Little Bald Bastard,
How will I know if you've answered my question?
- Darryl L. Pierce
Dear Darrrrryl,
What a fortuitous and not at all planted question! If you want to see all of the questions and answers as they're posted, you can add the Ask LBB feed to your favorite feed reader program. Then, you'll get to see every update I make, until the day when my bitterness finally dissolves my fragile organs, and I die choking on my own bile. Enjoy!
