Ahoy Readers:

Belated holiday greetings!

As a present to you (a very poor gift we admit) we’ve made some changes to our commenting system which will hopefully result in far fewer strange error messages. If you see anything amiss, please let us know.

We’ve also added a pair of items to our page of praise and slander, should you care to read what others are writing about our little endeavor.

January’s going to be an exciting month: new stories in the queue, new president in the White House, New Year’s eve “microparty” involving costumes and Rotel dip. 2009 looks promising. Homelessness looms, but wouldn’t it be thrilling to be the mayor of a hobo town?

J.A.