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by mg at 05:58 PM on January 25, 2002

Hi again. Didn’t think you’d see me so soon, huh? My self-imposed exile lasted what, 40 hours?

Well, I’m not really back, so don’t be rolling those eyes at me lil' missy. The only reason I am posting is to make sure I’ve made something perfectly clear: No matter what my future role might be, I will not be shutting Bad Samaritan down. I wound never close it down, short of being nominated to a cabinet position and needing to get rid of the evidence quickly before my senate confirmation hearings.

This site will remain open whether I post every day or not. The rest of the staff is able (when nudged to action), talented (all the damn time), and beautiful (after they’ve put their face on). Despite that fact, they are quite a lazy bunch, so in anticipation of a new design, and you know, just because, I am officially announcing an open casting call for new authors.

Bad Samaritan gets some pretty decent traffic (about 1,500 unique visits per day); potential authors would gain more than a little exposure for their own personal sites. But maybe you don’t have a personal site. If not, you can still use the opportunity to exhibit whatever perversion of my dream you can imagine to take advantage of this stage I’m providing. (that sentence was awkward as hell, but I have no intention of changing it)

Maybe your site gets more hits than Bad Samaritan. That shouldn’t discourage you from joining up. In fact, that is even better. I’d love to leech off someone else’s popularity for once. And you’d be doing a good deed for a poor struggling Webmaster. It’s all about karma people.

And, as the present crop can testify, I’m hardly the strictest boss in the world. Aside from the occasional guilt trip, I’m not too demanding. Post when you can, about whatever you want, in whatever manner you want. It’s all about having fun people.

So, here is the fine print. If you want join up, send an email letting me know, include a link to any place I can get a good idea of your personality. Your personal site, any sites you may have written for in the past. If there isn’t anything out there floating in the either, you can send me something. A lover letter, a book report, or grocery list, anything you think will help me make my decision. Okay? Okay.

I’m expecting a lot of submissions, and will be very upset if I don’t get them. And you don’t want to see me get upset. I get all weepy, start sobbing uncontrollably, and hit myself with sticks; it’s really kind of pathetic.

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PS: I’ve still got a couple slots open for hostees. If you run a site currently residing on Blogspot, Geocities, or anywhere else you might want to be fleeing faster than Afghan across the Pakistan border, let me know, I’ll be your Amnesty International.

PPS: Have you all forgotten the January Song Lyric Contest thing? No one posited a guess for Wednesday or Thursday’s post.

comments (2)

Dashboard Confessional - Standard Lines

by k. at January 25, 2002 7:57 PM


Dashboard? Fuck yeah.

by Shar at January 27, 2002 2:22 AM