Well, THAT sucks

Jeff Goldstein is taking Protein Wisdom dark until Dr. Demento can be safely locked up behind bars.

I would be lying if I said the whole affair de Frisch hasn't left a creepy aftertaste that has taken the fun out of blogging as of late.

Robbo and I both blog anonymously or, at the very minimum, semi-anonymously. To be perfectly honest, when we started, there wasn't really a reason for that one way or another. For me, it was creating a character which allowed the blog posts to flow in a way that when I tried blogging under my real name, just never came out all too well. Not to speak for Rob, but I presumed he did it that way because, well, that's just the way I set up the site. Now, to be perfectly honest, I'm glad---I don't need that type of attention or grief in my life, and I know Robbo sure as heck doesn't.

Back when we started in November 03, the gold standard--unattainable, it seemed--was 1000K visitors a day, and hanging with it to see the sitemeter crack a million. Maybe even sell some ads or something. Year or so ago, the "big time" meant a minimum 5K a day--okay, a stretch but something attainable through the right application of, umm, traffic management skills. Now, the "big time" means you have a dedicated moonbat wackjob stalking you in your private life, threatening your children and trying to get you fired. Feh.

Sock puppet wars, homicidal moonbat stalkers, Melissa Theuriau married and born-again prudish---blogging just isn't as much fun as it used to be.

I'll make two predictions for the 2008 election: a blog will create and host THE critical and definitive campaign "ad" that will have a discernable impact on the outcome of the election; and a prominent blogger will be murdered by a deranged on-line stalker.

Yips! from Robbo: Don't let Steve-O fool you, folks. I can read the signs. He's just fixing to hoover out our PayPal account and scamper off to Rio.