Sequels suck.  Sure there’s the exceptions to any rule (Godfather 2, The Two Towers, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2), but the fact remains that a follow-up to the original almost always disappoints at some level.  So here’s my sequel to my original blog!!!  Keep in mind though even though this is a new URL, new software, and a new interface it’s still the same rotten attitude underneath it all, being powered by anger and sarcasm.

Gee whiz, I’m a glutton for punishment.  Am I really starting this thing up again?  The past month has been a whirlwind month in terms of a lot of changes (new job, new car, new iPod…) and now that things are getting back to normal, I realized that writing is what I like to do.  Is making it available publicly cathartic or vain?  I’d like to think it’s the former.  Will I push myself and write every Monday through Friday for 14 straight months again?  Probably not, but I’d be surprised if I didn’t have 2-3 posts every week.

www.palebluescot.com is the new URL – live it, learn it, love it.  For those of you who don’t know, “palebluescot” was a term I adapted from a Scottish comic from the 1990’s who used the tagline “…and if they don’t like it, they can kiss my pale blue Scottish ass.”

As for the new site, we’re trying to link the old blog database to this one and hope to have that done soon.  Until then, you can always click on the Blog Classic link to search for the amount of times I wrote the word “ass” or “catfucker” or “hockey”.  This new site is a work in progress so things will be changed randomly as I figure out how to make this new dot net software my personal wench.

Coming up will be unique stories like how I took a life (albeit an animal’s) during a job interview, being assaulted by an insane moving guy, being forced to drive a minivan for a week, the retirement of a childhood hero, and other random oddities from Insane Suburban Dad With An Urban Attitude.  I was reminded of why I like to write this blog for little things in life like the traffic report on the radio this morning.  The reporter said “…for those of you driving downtown to your G-O-B...” and then realized she had just spelled “JOB” wrong.  I can’t keep stuff like that bottled up in me – I’ll explode.

I’ve also decided to continue to not be anonymous on the web.  I think part of the deserved criticism of bloggers is that most of them hide behind pseudonyms and would never say the same thing in person.  The worst offenders to this are people who post on message boards.  It’s so easy to not do anything in life yet be loudly critical of it.  I have never seen such a cowardly group of people who talk trash online but can’t back it up.  It’s symptomatic across the board – from sports sites to news sites to political sites.  While I think the internet causes more good than harm, anonymous posting of comments brings out the worst in a lot of people.  That being said, this new site does not require you to give your name when posting a comment, nor do you have to.  You can register if you’d like but it’s not required.

And despite KB’s insistence, I do not penetrate cats.  The burden of proof is on the prosecution.