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I read a blog post the other day called something like, “Twenty Commandments for Getting and Keeping Readers at Your Blog”–a title that may remind you of Clemenceau’s response to Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points: “God only needed ten.” I’ve misplaced the link (breaking one of the blogging commandments right there), but if you’ve read similar posts, you’ve probably heard most of the advice. What jumped out at me was this: Old is the New New breaks each and every one of the blogging commandments. Thou shalt choose one topic and stick to it? A commandment I honor more in the breach than in the observance. Thou shalt comment widely on other blogs? The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Thou shalt keep your posts short and to the point? Thou shalt post regularly? Thou shalt have an informative “About” page? A distinctive banner? Bless me Blogfather, for I have sinned.*

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Walt Disney’s Deadwood

In other news, I heart Calamity Jon Morris:

Just picture a typical Bullock-Swearingen conversation in Mickey and Donald’s voices. Hee. And in the comments below the post, Jon reveals the rest of his imagined cast.

Pooh is Wu.

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