Paul Montgomery really likes Superman.
I strongly disagreed with Paul Montgomery before I even knew him, but saying so would be rude (and get me strung up by the people in the comments section).
Even I like the occasional Superman story, between you and me, but it’s pretty doggone occasional.
In fact, that company’s whole publishing line is […]

Is this thing on?
It’s been an interesting couple of months that you haven’t heard about here. The previous post/transcribed conversation came with uncanny timing, just when the tectonic plates in my head were pressing hardest against one another and I was looking for any excuse to erupt with some petty, petty steam about Why We […]

I just had an e-mail exchange with one of my oldest friends in the world that succinctly summarized something I would have written a 4,000-word post about, so I will simply quote it:
Dude, just checked out your website and saw that you haven’t written since Christmas. What could have happened around Christmas that keeps […]

It really did just eat that whole goddamn thing.
Gahhh.

Ach!
It just erased my day 6 post!
It’s gone. It was so long, too. It was probably the best one ever.
Oh, that is f***ing depressing. I have to rewrite that whole goddamn thing?
No. Not today. I’ll try that again tomorrow.

Do you have any idea how many more hits this site has gotten since I linked to that Google Bl*g and snarked about it? I’m linking to that thing every day from now on.
“Google added a new feature to Google Maps today. I approve. Link“

I doubt I need to explain that saying “the internet will be down for the weekend” in my household is more or less equivalent to saying “they forgot to deliver this week’s oxygen,” including the part that ends with everybody hyperventilating and clutching their chests. It would just be One of Those Things if not […]

My philosophy is, when the comments are better than the post, post the comments.
Just didn’t want that to get lost in the shuffle. Carry on!

For your edification, these are some of the ways that people around the web have recently found this site:
MSN: zooporn
Google: keds sneaker fetish porn
Google: how to make a mocha i c
Yahoo: st guinefort
Google: st louis del taco murder
Google: sex slaves deactivation codes
Google: st louis del taco homicide
Google: does hearing the doorbell mean somebody i know […]

I actively have about six things I want to say in this space, things of some length and breadth and volume and… velocity. I don’t have time now, though, because I just spent God knows how long on this splitting headache redesign. The time just vanishes when you fiddle with this stuff.
(It was a nice […]

I feel bad for people who call me (ever, but especially) while I’m at work. Absolutely nobody is listening– I have never met any of the people who currently work on my floor, and most of them probably think my cubicle is unoccupied– but I always get like the guys on “The Sopranos” trying to […]

In my experience, having a web site– really having one, as opposed to this myspace bull$#%@ the kids do these days with their anime and their Fiddy Cent– is like a combination between cultivating a bonsai garden and Jenga. Prune a little there, add a little here, more water, less sunlight, just a little mOh […]

God, naturally my e-mail is down because I took it down with accidental but nonetheless great violence. I thought I was updating some extremely outdated information about my site’s domain name in order to improve its function, but I was instead tipping the first domino in a minefield. Rather than changing the server’s old name […]

My e-mail server appears to have been down for about 15 hours now, so this may be the only game in town. This may be the way you reach me today. Or I guess the… what do they call it?… teliphon? Is that right?

Boy, ryan is cooking up some stuff that could mean big fun for my little web site here. I’ve been playing around with a test of jimski.net version… what is it now, 4.0? 5.0?… and if you could make out with a web page, my wife would be awfully pissed at me right now.

Thanks to all birthday well-wishers! Due to some weird e-thing, I just got 90% of today’s mail about ten minutes ago, so your love is overwhelming me at the moment.
The wife and I had a lovely, blessedly uneventful evening of fine dining and little else. Last year, this was a week full of birthday surprises […]

If it’s been a week, it’s time for the site to break. The “Recently Changed” sections have not so much been “changed” as they have been “saved.”

I assure you, I am well aware that the site was down for a couple of days, denying everyone the opportunity to check it and see I hadn’t updated it yet again. The bits and bytes and megs and migs that make site go have been uninstalled and reinstalled, the requisite number of goats have […]

I don’t want to let this pass unnoticed: a couple of weeks ago, I was in full diatribe mode* about a dimwitted government functionary who suggested that prayer didn’t have to be religious. During the crescendo, I wondered sarcastically what a non-religious government chaplain would look like. A few days later, I was delighted to […]

what will the site do?
we’re all on suicide watch
what the– Japanese??-”This Damned Code,” a haiku by jimski

From: Daniel Markell
Subject: CASTING CALL
To:
Great blog. .
Im the casting Director for a major network, and i think you could be a good fit for a new show.
Just some savy search words on goolgle brought me to this page. . .
give me a buzz or reply if youre interested.
The name of the show is Survival of […]

I was going to wait until I was satisfied with everything and unleash a blogalanche, but since I’ll never be satisfied I might as well just go for it.
Submitted for your approval: a look back at the jobs and job hunts of 2004. Writing it all down gave me a chance to look back at […]

F***ing SBC.
The site is back up after 24 hours of downtime. (I mention this only because I don’t think anyone would have known otherwise.)

In other news, I recently discovered my jimski.net e-mail accounts have a spam filter that is not attached to my eyes. In the early days of my AOL-hosted journals, I was a reasonably-priced feedback whore and dimwittedly posted dozens of my e-mail addresses on every page of the site so that young people could tell […]

You may have noticed this site going up and down like a jolly carousel recently. Sorry about that. Blame SBC. I do.
For everything. Lost keys. Ants at my picnic.
For the last week or so, for no reason I can yet diagnose, I have not been able to load this web site during the day. Only […]

(I did not)
…that this site’s most frequently visited page is the one about how much the matrix sucks? All over the web, lonely, desperate visionaries are typing in “matrix sucks” and finding this site like some kind of oasis, a safe haven, like Casablanca with more swearing. In particular, the Germans love me. I mean, […]

Congratulations to Joe and Mary Catherine, married this weekend in an exhausting whirlwind of activity. There is no one I would rather be seen scattering rose petals for.

I am the busiest unemployed person who has ever lived. I have a lot of things I need to add here for your edification and amusement, both of you, and so hopefully I’ll have ten more minutes to do that shortly.

…and then, for a long time, nothing happened.