some necessary changes on this here blog

You may have noticed a few changes lately on this here blog, like the vision of a spectral Lady GaGa glaring at you from the masthead banner, and things like that. I'm not necessarily a huge GaGa fan, I just thought her look that weekend of the Equality March at the 9:30 Club was kind of spooky and I wanted that image on my banner. I think the rugby images are getting old, I need some new ones to scroll at random like they do.

• I added recent Twitter posts to the right sidebar just below the links. Yeah, some of you may have gotten lazy and moved completely over to posting only on Twitter and Facebook, but I'm still keepin' it real on this here blog and showing the Twitter posts.
• I updated the blogroll to the right. I tried to add all that I could remember, others who I follow on Twitter often, and those who post significant bodies of work. If you haven't posted anything in 6 months, you're out like Heidi Klum's trash.
• I removed the "Dead Blogs" options because many of them simply disappeared off the 'net. Not even the archives remain. We will miss you, oh blogs of our nerdy ancestors.

This weekend we're playin' rugby way the hell out in Winchester, somewhere in Virginiastan. I'll watch out for the roaming packs of teabaggers and frothy Republican bottoms.