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You may think that you’re a dedicated fan of this blog: you comment on the front page, you comment in the forums, you wear your Comics Curmudgeon gear in public to the embarrassment of your spouse. But have you sent me an umbrella decorated with comic strips? No, of course you haven’t — unless you’re Sam Garst, that is.

Sam claims in his e-mail signature to be a “VP of Engineering” at a company that shall remain nameless to stave off its humiliation. Apparently, once you’re at the VP level, you’re just made of umbrellas. Many thanks, Sam, for helping me keep dry and watch Ziggy get all wet at the same time.

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A word of advice for anyone running a Web site: when your Web host starts sending you automated messages with subject lines like “The domain joshreads.com is about to exceed bandwidth limit,” you should pay attention sooner rather than later. A steady boost in traffic from my exposure on Yahoo! at the beginning of this month, combined with more multiple-graphic posts than usual lately, drove my traffic through the stratosphere and ate up my bandwidth allotment for August way early. Sorry about that! The bandwidth ceiling has now been pushed upwards, and I will be paying more attention to said warning e-mails in the future.

While I’ve got your attention, I should clarify the fact that J. Po first noted the Pruitt-with-two-Ts/Imus connection, though Smitty Smedlap did produce the stunning graphic that sealed the deal.

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Um, hey everybody! Yeah, so, this past weekend, I fell a little behind the ol’ curmudgeoning business … see, I’ve got this little old wedding thing coming up in less than a month, and we’ve still got to do things like write our vows and figure out where everyone’s going to sit and how to decorate and what to do if it rains and … stuff like that.

Not that actually we did any of that this past weekend, mind you. But we did determine that a lot of Beck will be played during various stages of the festivities. Plus, we picked out our wines! That was fun.

Anyway, because doing work is boring, I will spend the next little while putting together a post that really brings the glory and pageantry of the past few day’s comics (Ear-twisting! Nose-picking! Alcoholic rhymes! Rick Reilly!) to light. Hopefully by mid-afternoon or so. So hold on tight!

Oh, and thanks to all of those who felt that putting money in my virtual tip jar would woo me back. Not necessary, but appreciated! Ah, sweet sweet Paypal’d cash.