Wednesday July 1 Links and Banter

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Wednesday July 1 Links and Banter
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Morning, all. I don't say it enough, but thank you. Thank you for popping in to this ramshackle blog slash forum slash mutual aid society. Some of you sickos even direct your variously-labeled web browsers this direction several times a day. Degenerates, all of you! For shame!

We're rapidly approaching on the one-year celebration (or whatever we want to call it) of this humble blog's (or, again, whatever we want to call it) existence. For the otter-editor hiding behind the curtain, that's kind of weird and unnerving and astounding. You lot have been here hanging out, talking sports, discussing challenges and victories and life and children and health and movies and music and beer and food and all the rest for nearly a year now. That is, to put it mildly, cool as fuck. And a good bit crazy.

Thanks for being here and taking the leap to yet another new platform. The importance of that and the trust behind it is not lost on me.

How about another year here, yeah?


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