the otherwhirled

Apparently, everyone is all smitten with this “where i’ve lived” widget-thingy, as if it enables one to magically better themselves or their readers. phaw. phaw, i say. i don’t give a shit where you’ve lived. i read your damn feed because i think you’re blogo-sexy. speaking of blogo-sexy, or internut-sexy, or what the hell ever, i [...]

I can has blog from iPod! (Wordpress released blog app in iTunes store yesterday. Works on any Wordpress blog. W00T!!!!!!!)

…because apparently when i’m too busy to blog, good things happen to me. that is, i am honored to be bestowed, perhaps festooned, with the heretofore unbeknownst-to-me award entitled, “Arte y Pico”, which has nothing whatsoever to do with my (heretofore unmentioned-on-this-blog) dexterity in making home-made hot sauce, salsa picada, various varieties of chile con [...]

Well, here I am, hosting the Carnival of the Liberals today, when I have yet to manage to get a post into one ever. There’s many reasons for this, the primary one being that I’m never really satisfied with my own prose, and another important one being that my “liberalism” has become so ingrained [...]

There were some great submissions for the Carnival of Liberals, and it’s been a busy two weeks. I will wrap up my reading this morning and have the Carnival posted around lunchtime, Central Time. My thanks to everyone who submitted their works!

…wherein commander other rambles for a bit about the new version of Wordpress, blogging in general, and other stuff that have made an impression on him recently. For those of you who don’t know, commander other is a professional photographer with a peculiar bent in that he doesn’t feel that a “professional” needs to cram his [...]

I'd like to give a big, Otherwhirledly welcome to FranIAm, who despite her religious proclivities has volunteered to guest-blog here in the otherwhirled from time to time. FranIAm is in that extremely finite category of Believers whom I respect and admire, and I am confident that her contributions here will contribute to our collective enlightenment.