this is the new site. one of these days (say like, in two years or so, hopefully) i'll redesign it again. but i think this look and feel will stick. to boot, i've done something kind of nutty. i've gone back to blogger. i'm really sick of relying on .text and of getting away from the xml roots my site began on. so this is the first post of the new architecture. well, the new/old architecture. all of the posts are intact from the .text site. i just had to start on the first day of a month to make a clean break from the old architecture. so this is just the first post in the new format. all the rest of the stuff is still there, just click on "archives" to see what i mean. (go on, click it. it won't bite) yet another chapter in a life of j&b whiskey ads. always coming back to what always worked.