“Hey hey! I’ve been in Reno for six weeks! Did I miss anything?” – Krusty the Klown
Good news, everyone: I’m not dead, I’m no longer homeless, and that overwhelming global pandemic has (mostly) subsided! Those things have been true for a couple of years now, but what’s new is that I just spent a couple hours messing around with the WordPress theme here and buying this spiffy new domain (deadhomers.com). To my great amusement, someone squatted on deadhomersociety.com when I was too broke to afford it. Enjoy it, algorithm bot, it’s worth it to me for the story alone.
If you are reading this at or near the date it was posted the site is probably pretty messy. If you are reading this in the future, long past the post date, this was the first post under the new theme and hopefully looks nice now.
The site is getting revived for two main reasons:
- I’ve got the blog itch, I need to post and I need to do so in full paragraphs.
- I’ve been working on a new book, and it needs an internet home.
So, there will be book posts, but the primary blog urges I need to scratch are movie reviews, complaints about the quality of the internet, fun stuff I find on the internet, and the occasional news post. I’ll also be firing up the old Quote of the Day machine to keep things lively.
Zombie Simpsons, now running much shorter seasons but still the same creative nullity it’s been for this entire century is going to stagger into S38 in the fall. It’s hard to care, it hasn’t managed to change much since I stopped regularly blogging about it over a decade ago: cheaper animation, weaker voices, no live music, endless recycling, and celebrity guests. I’m sure I’ll mention it occasionally, but actual Simpsons posts should predominate.
And that’s about it for right now. Gotta rebuild the site a little, get the old books back up (the links for the appendices to Zombie Simpsons: How the Best Show Ever Became the Broadcasting Undead are all broken, for example), and archive the old stuff in a useful way.
Who the devil are you?
Jokes aside, glad to hear you’re back.
Hell yeah.
mate, you have no idea how happy it made me yo see this post, so glad to have you back!
It’s a MARVEL seeing you back. Your writing style and the depth of your analysis, whether it was in identifying the flaws in Zombie Simpsons or the virtues in the actual ones, made me revisit so many articles now a decade old or close to. More than anything I wished you’d be well wherever you were, so not only hearing you are but also confirming more of your writing is on the way, well, that’s just about the best internet news I’ve had all year. Welcome back, Charlie, damn glad.
PS. I, no kidding, had literally just watched the moment in Bart Gets Hit By A Car where the devil tells him it’s not his time yet. Coincidence, I think not!
Welcome back, old friend!! I was hoping you would return one day. Glad you’re doing well!
Holy flurking schnit! You’re alive! (And apparently the shock has me quoting season 10… Well, at least its a good Halloween episode…)
I come back occasionally to the wordpress site (after the dot com domain went down) to read the old stuff, but it feels like quite a coincidence that I caught this so soon.
Anyway, sorry if I overreacted a bit, but I was genuinely concerned for a while there, so I’m glad to hear you’re doing better now. And blogging again! What a time to be alive…
I look forward to what you come up with in the future, because your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to s̶u̶b̶s̶c̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ t̶o̶ y̶o̶u̶r̶ n̶e̶w̶s̶l̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ read about them here on the Information Super Highway.
Sincerely, some nerrrrd.
PS: Did you see what happened to Frinkiac? I was prepared to grit my teeth and tolerate the new changes (and at least a few of them are good), but the horrible @I upscaling makes me want to curse a blue streak.
PPS: It looks like everything went through okay, but this new comment box is kind of a pain to fight with just for the rich text features, FYI.
Welcome back!
It’s late at night and I can’t sleep. I’m watching who shot mr burns on the loudest DVD player trying not to wake my girlfriend beside me, flipping through blogs I’ve bookmarked. I am so happy and excited to see this blog is back!
Welcome back! I’m glad my Bart Vs The Space Mutants live diary from 2013 lives on!
Oh nice, I was wondering what happened but it’s good to hear you’re back on your feet. If you need any help with putting a nice WP theme together, hit me up! I got a decade of experience and too much free time.