Welcome, one and all, to the new home of goliard blogging. And what a spiffy new home it is, too, thanks to the work of designer Lisa Sabin and illustrator Leanne Wildermuth of eWebscapes. I am glad to have had the privilege of working with them, and hope that my fussiness over detail and profusion of design notes were not the primary cause of their declaring a hiatus some weeks back.

This new site is a relaunch—or perhaps, in homage to the creators of the fantastic new Battlestar Galactica, I should say “reimagining”—of my old blog. The previous site is still up on Blog*Spot, but I will not be copying over the old posts wholesale. For one thing, it’s been a few years since the old blog was active (my, does tempus ever fugit up a storm!); for another, I want the new Blog Goliard to truly be a fresh start. Also, as a born perfectionist, I am easily embarrassed by each and every thing I may have ever written, said, or done that fell short of the ideal. (Which would be most all of it, of course.)

I do, however, plan on running an occasional series of lightly-edited “best of the old blog” posts to rescue a few of my favorites from the memory hole. Two such items, from the last World Cup, ought to be up within the week.

But enough nattering for now what I plan to do; time to get on with doing it! Thank you for taking the time to come round, and I hope you enjoy the new Blog Goliard!

P.S. The title of this post is taken from the leadoff track of Stephanie Schneiderman’s album Unbelievably Unbroken, which I’m listening to right now. I have a hunch that I am a bit older and a lot more male than most of the audience for this style of record, but I’m enjoying it. Good decompressing music for when I’m playing Mille Bornes or similar on the computer before bedtime. It is one of several fine discs that I would never have run across, or given much of a chance, had they not been featured as $5 Specials at CD Baby. If you’re not familiar with that fabulous online independent-music store, you really ought to give them a look—but be prepared to spend hours digging through their huge catalog and listening to the many, many audio clips they have posted.