There probably is not a sentence adequately dexterous to both excuse and explain my absence for the last seven months.
Was I off in an undisclosed location working on the cure for the Lazy Eye while teams of international terrorists swept down upon me one after the other? (Spoiler alert: that’s the next season of ‘24’)
Was I down in gutters with a mad old soldier, telling tales of brothers in arms?
Was I playing my guitar until my fingers bled like some drawn-out, lame stereotype from 34.6% of every third tier power ballad ever written?
Was I learning how to love you like only a hot Latina can?
No, I was not. Well, I did have this thing happen where two of my fingers bled, but my wife has since instructed me not to perform dentistry on the cats…and the cat is Latina, so there’s that.
But I can tell you where I will be.
I have become a humor contributor for the James Randi Educational Foundation – a site which is currently boisterously unfunny (but on purpose). This is an organization that is near to my intellectual interests and my heart, so being asked to write for them is very, very delicious.
The JREF is a registered non-profit organization trying to flood a little logic and skepticism into the belly of a fine assortment of human persons who are making the world harder to live in by playing fast and loose with pesky little things like facts, science and reality. My regular readers (all 2.3 of you) will know that this is already a very big interest of mine.
They also get an ass load of traffic as such things are measured in my neck of the woods.
Ironically, the second reason that I’m posting this here is because I will be writing a lot more, and some of that will not be a fit for the folks at JREF – when that happen I will be posting here as well as any other crap that slides out of my face and onto my keyboard.
As a result, I will probably be here more, as well as posting at JREF.
If you were a fan of what I did here (and how likely is that?), you will be a fan of what I will be doing there; I was specifically (and very generously) directed not to change what I do.
My first column for the Foundation is HERE. I’ll post additional linkage when others go up.
Now bugger off.
7 Comments
9 November , 2009 at 3:22 pm
Haha! That was great. And how often are Mister Potato Head and Hitler mentioned in the same discourse?
Good ta’ see you back!
9 November , 2009 at 3:23 pm
Thanks very much, Lobo.
You appear to be the only person to have not deleted my feed…not that a person could blame them.
11 November , 2009 at 2:38 am
Dan’s back! Sweet! Welcome back buddy. :)
Read your column over at Randi. Great stuff. I’ll give it a shout out on Angry Seafood’s FB fan page.
11 November , 2009 at 8:38 am
Thanks, Chris – I’m feelin’ the luv.
14 November , 2009 at 11:42 am
It’s alive! Halleh-frikkin-luia…good to see you back mon.
14 November , 2009 at 1:18 pm
Thanks, Grond.
15 November , 2009 at 1:30 am
What scares me most is that almost 50% of America actually believes the “Ray” argument….I won’t dignify it by giving it a more complex name.