So, you know—;

Goldfish aren’t even remotely golden. Not even in that lame way that we’re supposed to believe that certain crappy shades of yellow are somehow the color of gold. They should just be called Orangefish, if you ask me.

Of course, I have no particular reason for choosing this exact moment to point this out—except that I’m not doing a whole lot else just now, and besides it’s something I’ve been meaning to mention since I was, like, nine.

(Speaking of gold and childhood, those metallic crayons in the big box from Crayola were always a big disappointment as well—sort of impressively shiny-looking in stick form, but left merely a faint non-sparkly smudge on paper. I suppose I was looking for a more convincing gold-leaf effect. But that’s a story for another day.)

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes

The Bar-Kays - “Son of Shaft”, at Wattstax.

Feed wackiness (sorted)

So, for the ten or so of you out there that have been subscribed to my syndicated feed, perhaps you’ve noticed it’s been broken for a few days. I seem to have the trouble sorted out now. For some reason, the main content feed that WordPress automagically creates for this blog (http://pedicel.com/moodynarcissist/wp-rss2.php) has been causing the server to return a 404 error, even as it also sends the content of the feed. Although most browsers and feed readers will ignore the error as long as they get the content, the process at FeedBurner that was pulling my source feed into the syndication link that I’ve been sharing with the world (http://feeds.feedburner.com/moodynarcissist) was choking on the error message. Anyone subscribed to my feed via FeedBurner has probably been getting some sort of b0rked feed error for awhile now.

Anyway, I found that if I re-pointed my FeedBurner account to the URL http://pedicel.com/moodynarcissist/feed/ (which is really just another uriref to the same physical wp-rss2.php file) that the problem goes away. So, hopefully you will all be enjoying a working feed once again.