I’ll probably be taking a short break from posting for the next week or two.

Things are about to get a little hectic for the next two weeks (for generally positive reasons), so I’m probably not going to be updating Yankee Fog until April 15 or so. (For my UK readers, that’s 15 April.)

Yankee Fog has been online for almost exactly a year now. When I started, my plan was to treat it more like a weekly column than a blog; instead of a series of short entries, I’d post one long entry, one day a week. I also attempted to remain fairly focused; just like a newspaper columnist, I aimed to write in a consistent voice about a fairly focused topic–to whit, the life of an American screenwriter in London.
In the year I’ve been online, I’ve developed a small but loyal (and, based on the comments, intelligent and articulate) readership. Still, I’ve gradually found myself chafing at the self-imposed restrictions. I even created a separate website for humor pieces that didn’t fit in with the voice I had created for Yankee Fog. I’ve also found that my readership has plateaued at a fairly low number.

I have just returned from a trip to the US, and am not yet enough over my jetlag to string together a coherent spaghetti flower. See? I told you.
I’ll try to have a longer (and more coherent) post tomorrow.

Nominations for the 2005 Bloggies are now open. Just in case, you know, you wanted to nominate Yankee Fog for “Best British Weblog” or “Best-kept-secret Weblog”. (The latter is for the weblog whose secret is best kept, not for the weblog that would best be kept secret.) You could also, if so inclined, nominate “The Truth About John Kerry” for “Best Non Weblog Content of A Weblog.” You know, if you wanted.

I’ll be out of town for a few days, and might or might not have Internet access. So, expect this week’s entry to be at least a little late.
Merry Christmas to those for whom it’s applicable, and happy Isaac Newton’s Birthday to everybody else.

My apologies for troubles you might have had accessing the site over the past 48 hours. The first 24 hours were because of problems at Plus.Net, which has proved to be a so-so hosting service. The next 24 hours were growing pains as I switched over to Dreamhost, which is reputed to be better.
Please bear with me as I get everything running on the new server. Thanks.

I’m afraid I didn’t have a new Something Interesting last week, and I don’t have one this week. You will be pleased to know, though, that I spent the time I should’ve spent writing them engaged in two vital activities:
1. Writing election-related humor.
2. Arguing about the election with my cousin.
Thanks to my heroic engagement in these two activities, I can guarantee you that Senator Kerry will win the election… unless, somewhere in the world, some Republican has cancelled my efforts by arguing with his own cousin, in which case, all bets are off.
Wait a minute. All the time I was arguing with my Republican cousin, he was arguing with me. Curse those wily Republicans! Looks like this election will have to be decided by the voters.
Next week, I will have calmed down and can once again stop obsessing, and start writing entries that don’t have the word “election” in every sentence. In the meantime, check out my new election-day guide to understanding the electoral college as well as my new ad, George Bush & The Constitution.

Sorry to have missed my usual Something Interesting on Tuesday. My campaign ads have suddenly gotten a huge surge in visitors–after getting maybe a hundred visitors a day for the past few weeks, I’ve had 11,884 visitors in less than 12 hours. I’ve been busy doing rejiggering and mirrorifying to deal with the surge in bandwidth. I’ll have a new essay up tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!

After posting my short films, I was convinced I had a “This Land” style hit on my hands. Beyond a doubt, within a matter of hours, I would be well on my way to the 65 million viewers that JibJab got for their short.
And, indeed, over the past week, more people have been coming to this site than before. Some of them are even watching my short films.
But according to my server logs, an inexplicably large number of them are coming here by way of a Google search for the word “shaboopie.”