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As part of the ongoing, evolutionary process to nudge the Bucket ever closer to blog perfection one infinitesimal step at a time, you may notice a few minor changes. They're almost too small to even bother noting, but this is a blog, which by definition is primarily preoccupied with remarking on the unremarkable. For instance, that last sentence did run-on quite a bit, didn't it?

Anyway, here goes.

I can't think of a single reason why anyone would want to e-mail me when it's so much more fun to tell me how much I suck in a public forum. But in order to keep the shit from this blog from overflowing onto an e-mail account I actually occasionally use, I have spared no effort or expense to create a state-of-the-art Bucket-specific e-mail account at popsbucket@hotmail.com. In case any potential spammers missed that, it's popsbucket@hotmail.com. Please send your penis enlargement, debt consolidation, Nigerian bank fraud and free incest porn junk to that address.

For you Bucketeers, if you've thought of something to call me that's just too vile to share publicly, that would be the place to send it.

Also--and again, I can't think of a single reason why anyone would want to do this--I've enabled the E-mail This Post To A Friend option down there near the Comments. "Enabled" sounds so willful and active (just like our President!) when actually I was nosing around yesterday with my Blogger stuff and said "Hey, I wonder what that does?" Turns out it... you know, enabled that option. So there it is. Go on, clutter your friends' e-mail boxes with Pops-ness. Don't think of it as spam, think of it as electronically-transmitted syphilis if it makes you feel less guilty.

And because it is our solemn duty as Americans to celebrate mediocrity and plain idiot common sense as excellence, I would like to point out that I finally figured out how to change the font-size of my links over there on the right. So if the link to your blog looks just a leeeetle bit smaller, that's because it is. Yes, it only took me 6 months to figure out how to do that. And remember, just because the text of your link is smaller, it doesn't necessarily mean that I think less of you as a human being.

Also, there's a new link there at the bottom, The Meat of the Matter. It's by some guy who calls himself "The Butcher", which is scarier than it sounds. Actually, ironically enough, it's all about militant vegan eco-terrorism. Yeah, I was surprised too. Sort of a mixed message, when you think about it. The first post I read was about the time he (allegedly) beat a grouse poacher to death with a bag of live puppies.

And now, so this post will have some non-housekeeping content, I offer you the following quote from never-was Hollywood action star Jean-Claude van Damme via (strangely) Demagogue:

"It's not true that the potency of a man decreases if he has a tough physical training regime every day. I can tell you that from my own experiences. When I get back home every day I am my wife's superhero in bed."

And with that visual image burned into the back of your eyeballs, I take my leave.

Enjoy the superficial new-ness of the blog. Unfortunately, nothing can be done to rescue the content.



This post on the Narcissus Scale: 9.95 (it was the J-CvD quote that saved it)


Pops

- posted by Pops @ 9:56 AM