Had a lot of questions about the new theme so here are a few answers.

It’s a variation on a pro theme called Sketch’d. I say variation when I actually mean ‘broken’. Straight out of the box the theme does some very nifty stuff that creates a blog somewhere between the traditional kind and more magazine-style blogs that seem to be in vogue just now. Being old fashioned and a moron I took it apart, snapped off the cool bits and kind of blu-tacked it together again.

All the bleeding and badly stitched code is down to me and not the guys who built it.

It’s the first WP theme I’ve paid money for after years of swapping out and tinkering with some very cool free ones. The inspiration came from Christian. It just never occurred to me to pay for something until he did. I’m easily lead.

I’m not sure what the blog is called anymore. It’s been Visible Monsters for the longest time (but I’ve also got that space to do something with at some point). I guess Sizemore covers it for now. I have older posts, not archived here, that date back to 2002. I’m still mulling over whether it’s worth importing all that stuff here.

The line I’m not a field agent, I read books is from one of the best movies of the 70′s: Three Days of the Condor. It’s been a tag-line here for a while, ever since Saying The Wrong Thing Since 1972 picked up a life of its own out in the real world.

The Hunter S Thompson quote is from a letter he wrote to Keith Stroup about the lawyers who got him out of some jams back in the 90′s. It’s republished in Gonzo Papers, Vol. 3: Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream. It just jumped out at me as something important given the social media world I now find myself a part of. I’ll be writing about that gang aspect quite a bit I expect.

The line This won’t hurt is the final line of Hunter’s suicide note. It’s something I aim to do something else with too.

Categories need an overhaul as does most of the sidebar content. I’ll get to that. Also gonna have a few standalone pages built under those tabs at the top and yeah the About page is also out of date. The fact that Max Rockatansky is looking after my 404 page makes up for this.

And then there’s the bunny. Go track down Pani Poni Dash.