It is with a heavy heart that I announce that The 26th Man is on hiatus.
I don’t know for how long. It might be permanently. It might be a few months, a few weeks or a few days, in which case this becomes a pathetic plea for attention.
In the meantime, I would like to profusely thank everyone who visited and read what I had to say, everyone who left comments and everyone who linked here. Thankyouthankyouthankyou for making my blogging experience so enjoyable.
Yours in red,
Jeff
“When I was young
life was fun.
Now that I’m older
life’s a bitch
or just the son of one.”
March 1, 2007 at 10:02 am
Sorry to go off topic here. The Occasional Potato has totally been hijacked. As has at leaset one other Blogspot blog that I read.
March 1, 2007 at 10:41 am
The Dude: Just take it easy man.
Walter Sobchak: I’m perfectly calm Dude.
The Dude: shouting Yeah, waving the #$%&*!? gun around?
Walter Sobchak: Calmer than you are.
The Dude: Will you just take it easy?
Walter Sobchak: Calmer than you are.
March 1, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I deleted Occasional Potato at about 4:30 pm Wednesday. It got spamjacked a few hours later, apparently.
March 1, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I always took you to be the least fickle amongst us.
March 2, 2007 at 7:58 am
I read all your posts at the OP, man. And while I’m not a Cards fan, I am a fan of baseball. I thought your coverage of the Cardinals was great, and I think you did the sport a nice service.
You will be missed.
John
March 2, 2007 at 11:53 am
Dewey Finn: Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can’t win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you’re just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don’t know the Man. He’s everywhere. In the White House… down the hall… Ms. Mullins, she’s the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he’s burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock ‘n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don’t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome ’cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!
March 3, 2007 at 7:19 am
Take ‘er easy, dude…
(i know that you will)
March 7, 2007 at 12:22 am
Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire…
March 9, 2007 at 12:10 am
God bless free speech. Until you attempt to use it.
Long live The 26th Man and The Abstract Prosaic. Looking forward to seeing both back real soon.
Johann
March 13, 2007 at 11:10 am
During the 1950s, a defining characteristic of McCarthyism was to deprive actors of work in Hollywood to punish them for political views expressed elsewhere. Attempting to stifle a creative person in a forum in reaction to content that did not appear in that forum is a chilling revival of the spirit of McCarthyism.
Ted Rall
March 16, 2007 at 7:39 am
School of Rock, Office Space….this is why Occasional Potato was so great. What other blog quotes such fine pieces of cinematic history?
From the comments here, I get the gist of what happened to your blog, but damn, the Abstract Prosaic will be missed. Good luck with whatever you’re doing.
nancy