Mad Blog Media: October 2020

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Forward, into the past

Me trying to work with the WordPress block editor.

Here's another item that falls into the category titled "Redundancy."

It's my Blogger account, another prefab blog setup from days gone by. I've had a bunch of these deals over the years, but WordPress and Blogger are the only ones I've held onto.

I haven't posted here since 2018, but now that WordPress has pissed me off again, it's something to consider.

What's all this then?

After spending decades with my scabby snout pressed to various grindstones of journalism, I sport plenty of mental scar tissue, a good deal less hair to cover it, and an undiminished appreciation for three subsets of the craft: drawing cartoons, monging rumors, and writing headlines.

And thanks to the Internet, the best thing to happen to journalism since the invention of movable type, I get to do all three of them without having to return to work at a newspaper, where management has slowly devolved into a button-down mutant hybrid of the worst aspects of the Spanish Inquisition, the dental bits in “Marathon Man” and the highway department of your choice.

Feel free to peruse my pointless harangues at your leisure, but be advised that they contain toxic quantities of disrespectful parody and rude satire certain to cause grievous harm to the humorless clots of tight-sphinctered ninnies whose breaking of wind only dogs can hear. Mad Dog Media neither sells nor installs senses of humor . . . we simply service them.