Hat Passed · 2 June 2003
Well, heck. The response to the request for donations below has been truly remarkable, and the generosity quite humbling. We’re breathing easier around here, and the gratitude is boundless.
Though there was less schadenfreude than expected, I did enjoy this:
So, after spouting hither and yon, for what seems like umpteen years, your idiosyncratic peeves, dressed drolly in smug repartee, picking nits with everyone and everything from: vacationing Britons to automobiles to celebrities to typography to Shrub presidents to smelly feet to head colds to css to xml to etc. to etc. to etc.—Then suffering upon us (your precious readers!) the endless yet endlessly maudlin, parade de bourgeois…happy puppy snuggling, happy puppy sleeping, happy puppy yapping, happy puppy wistful, happy puppy contemplative, happy puppy roustabout, happy puppy stubborn, happy puppy in repose, then finally and brutally sequeled with happy puppy 2.0…You ham-fistedly foist upon us (your precious readers!) a beggarly call for, “Alms, Sir? Alms for the poor?”. Oh how the mighty have fallen! Just how did “himself” find hisself in such dire straits? Angel funding fall through for the supposed “Extraordinaire-CMS-du-Jour”? Afternoons spent romping with dogs in the French countryside not paying what it used to? Tough market for navel-gazing bloggers? Pray do tell! Ah well, nevermind, the means to this end…It is not for us (your precious readers!) to ask why. After all, what would our dear sweet precious infinite internet be without your infinitesimal and occaisionaly irritating grain wafting through its midst? $10 US paypal dollars have been whisked to your account.
Woo!
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