Welcome O curious one,

This whole blog site you're staring down, Awfulgood.com, is the Second Coming of a site from days of internet yore, you know, back when refreshing the screen meant dropping a buffalo nickel in the monitor and winding that crank off its side.

Site's working motto: "Beauty and Debased". Which'll do until I cogitate better. As it is, it's pretty much on target as I expect I'll run on about certain skin-deep-beautiful things, as well as certain horrifically debased things—sometimes both at the same time as an example not to draw too fine a point Sarah Palin.

I'll try to keep this whole rattrap safe for work, but no 100% promises since I neither know where you work nor channel all your boss's sordid preferences.

Beyond that, keep your comments safe for work, too.

• If you don't register, your comment gets held up til I do a look-see.
• If you do register and comment, that comment get posted, no delay. Your registration will probably be there next time, too, until your cat nukes your browser's cookies.
• You abuse the privilege, that comment gets file-13'd and your comments'll be Banned For Life—a sparkly new automatic thingy in Movable Type 5 that even so I'd prefer to live my whole life never having to use.

So just to keep us all calibrated: spicy is fine, provocative may could be OK, combative is pushing it. Abusive or imprecatory toward the others around here, probably get you redacted, deleted, or vaporised. Overly potty-mouthed is right out. The deal is, I like commenters and don't **** on them, so please don't **** here either.

Now, you're welcome to e-mail me, Carter, about this that or the other thing, just know from the get-go I might print it here. May need to tighten its corset up in the process, but I won't change its meaning.