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Hey all, weird stuff seems to be happening with the site. If you can post a comment on the site, please do so on this thread. If not, please email me and let me know what kinds of errors you might be seeing.

UPDATE: OK, thanks for all your messages — it’s pretty clear that a number of things are going wrong, but I’m completely baffled as to the potential cause. If any of you are clever with how WordPress (the software that powers this blog) works, I’ve posted a summary of what seems to be going on in the WordPress support forums, so if you think the gory details would help you help me, please have a look! Until then, I apologize but comments are down…

UPDATE II: Yay! Things seem to be back up and running again thanks to a timely bit of advice from faithful reader/Wordpress guru/close personal friend Dalton! In addition to be a Jedi master in the ways of Web development and an all-around stud, Dalton also has a blog showcasing his awesome photography that you should totally check out. (UPDATE III: This means that you can stop posting test comments, by the way. Thanks to everyone who helped me diagnose this with their test comments and e-mails!)

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Item the first: Faithful reader Pogoer points me to this story which reveals what most of us probably had guessed: They’ll Do It Every Time will be closing up shop forever after the last of the Al Scaduto-penned panels runs on February 2. I have weirdly mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I always rail against zombie strips, and while I’m still sad over Al’s passing, the 100 or so newspapers that ran TDIET now represent 100 slots for aspiring new cartoonists to try to break into the industry. (Let’s hope the papers do give some unknowns an opportunity to find an audience, instead of “getting that Family Circus cartoon we’ve heard so much about.”) But, since Scaduto was the third artist TDIET had in its tenure, part of me wonders what it might have been like to give the feature to someone young who had a very different style and see what they might have done with it. I do hope that this blog has in some small part given the feature a bit of a send-off and resurgence in interest in what turned out to be its last few years.

Item the second: Many, many faithful readers have pointed me in the direction of Lasagna Cat. What, you might ask, is Lasagna Cat? I could tell you that it’s a series of short videos in which Garfield strips are acted out live (and which feature an actual person in a Garfield suit), each followed by a somewhat longer video that matches a light-rock favorite with images from the strip, but that doesn’t even begin to capture how awesome and bizarre the videos are. By all means, check it out for yourself before Paws, Inc.’s wrath is unleashed!

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OK, boys and girls, your blogger had a lot of real work to do today and wasn’t even able to read the comics, much less blog about them. Expect Tuesday and Wednesday comics tomorrow morning. But! To tide you over, I have a big exciting announcement! Well, exciting if you live in Tucson, anyway.

Do you live in or near Tucson? At the beginning of March, I’ll be taking one of my many vacations (start whining about it now) in the greater Sonoran desert region, and I’d like to plan to meet up with y’all! And there will be a special guest: MR. BOB WEBER, JR.! March 7! Early evening! The Kon-Tiki at the corner of E. Broadway and N. Swan! MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!

Everyone who doesn’t live near Tucson: Um, comics tomorrow, I guess. G’Night!