Joel's humanistic blog

It's the 13th of October. Boo!

There are plenty of terrible Blu-ray covers out there, but none of them can quite match the one for National Lampoon's Vacation . The theatrical poster had a badass illustration by Boris Vallejo in the style of his own sword-and-sorcery book covers: Then, the DVD cover used what I would have bet my life was the crappiest possible Chevy Chase photo on it: Luckily I didn't make that bet, because the Blu-ray cover achieved the Herculean feat of using an even crappier Chevy Chase photo.  Feast your eyes on this:

It's been a while. In the past two years, I've been away from this humble BlogSpot(TM) blog, experimenting with a move towards a WordPress(TM) platform.  But I just couldn't get the hang of it.  I had used WordPress for more disciplined writing on other sites (but that just made personal blogging feel more like a chore than self-expression), but I could never figure out how to set up the plugins that gave it all the bells and whistles on my own.  And worst of all, my readership was not just the intermittent trickle it is here (hello, all 4 followers I've retained over the years!) but nonexistent.  For better or worse, my claim to Internet fame remains  on this blog . I began to need a change from my change of pace.  Something without the customizable fussiness of WordPress, something more like the "type in a box and press Publish" simplicity of the interface that got me posting online in the first place. Something that plenty of the bloggers I enjoy rea