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It would seem that some side-effects of being recently dead still linger. Chief among them is a strange side-effect in which food that normally tastes delicious either tastes bland, utterly unappealing, or nauseous.

More disconcerting still seeems to be a tendncy on the past of my hands to type with a focus that comes and goos randlmly.
Although I did keep notes, off and on, and althoj=gh I have several sourvces of witynesses, it's going to take awhile to come pbak to full utility. [<-- That last sentence left as typed to illustrate the problem.]

Posted by Vanderleun at Oct 27, 2011 6:10 AM | Comments (33) | QuickLink:

Will American Digest Be Back On the Air Soon?

Posted by Vanderleun at Oct 25, 2011 11:28 PM | Comments (14) | QuickLink:

Happy UnBirthday to Me: I Almost Forgot to Mention That American Digest is 9 Years Old

American Digest became nine-years-old back in May. At least that's far back as the Wayback Machine tracks it in the year of Our Lord 2002: The New America - Dispatches. It is a bit older than that but I no longer remember exactly how much. Early 2002 in post 9/11 New York City was, as they say, "a life in interesting times."

The first incarnation of the page (shown above) was in another space and another time.

To date my counters show 6,311 posts in the main column and + 5,768 posts in "Thinking Right." That's 12,000 items and change. I've really got to tidy that up someday and move this whole endeavor to a newer and spiffier platform. Tasks I keep putting off until tomorrow.

Maybe I'll get to it someday. For now, thanks for stopping by and putting up with me. God knows I wouldn't.

Posted by Vanderleun at Jul 12, 2011 10:37 PM | Comments (26) | QuickLink:

ימח שמו וזכרו: "May his name and memory be obliterated."

Continued...

Posted by Vanderleun at May 4, 2011 6:48 AM | Comments (18) | QuickLink:

You know, I've been doing this for almost 9 years. I need a vacation.

Click and check the blogroll. Almost everyone on it is still going as one sort of life form or another.

"Just before dawn in Brooklyn Heights a dream woke me...." from "Will the Sleepers Awake," American Digest The New America - Dispatches Thursday, May 09, 2002.

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 8, 2011 7:42 PM | Comments (11) | QuickLink:

Little Miss Attila Will Be Enforcing Discipline at This Site

As astute readers might have noted I am out of here for a bit. In my stead I have appointed Joy McCann (aka Little Miss Attila ) as first speaker, prime poster and enforcer. So play nice.

Besides her amazing blog and star-class word-smithing skills, Little Miss Atilla has sometimes been know to live a double life. Here are some other facts about McCann you may not know:

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 8, 2011 2:39 PM | Comments (18) | QuickLink:

Status: Adrift and Becalmed

“As I imagin’d, so it was, there appear’d before me a little opening of the Land, and I found a strong Current of the Tide set into it, so I guided my Raft as well as I could to keep in the Middle of the Stream: But here I had like to have suffer’d a second Shipwreck, which, if I had, I think verily would have broke my Heart, for knowing nothing of the Coast, my Raft run a-ground at one End of it upon a Shoal,

Continued...

Posted by Vanderleun at Feb 18, 2011 5:57 PM | Comments (0) | QuickLink:

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER

KA-CHING! IS BACK

Posted by Vanderleun at Oct 29, 2010 4:02 PM | Comments (4) | QuickLink:

Honored to be a "Near Miss" on this list

Top 100 Conservative Websites: The Conservative 100, July 2010 | DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts - DBKP

DBKP has released its (mostly) monthly ratings of the Most Popular 100 Conservative sites on the web, the Conservative 100. The ratings are based on Alexa traffic rankings 3-month worldwide average.

Good company to be in even if one is allllllll the way down at the bottom at 108.

Posted by Vanderleun at Jul 30, 2010 9:04 AM | Comments (7) | QuickLink:

Something Wonderful: Coming This August

I'll be busy elsewhere for a bit.

You'll see.

Watch this space.

Updated: Land of Hope And Dreams - Bruce Springsteen - Live in NY City:

Continued...

Posted by Vanderleun at Jul 8, 2010 11:54 PM | Comments (12) | QuickLink:

1,400 Miles Later

It was all about my mom's bench. On that, more anon. But it was 1,400 highway miles start to finish. Going to California I did the 700 miles in two days. Coming back I did the same distance in one day and I'm suffering a severe case of road burn.

Two signs of the times seen en route.

First, spotted outside a restaurant (The "Kalico Kitchen") in Paradise, California, proof positive that the public telephone network won't be back.

Continued...

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 27, 2010 6:32 PM | Comments (20) | QuickLink:

TUMBLIN' DICE: Saturday Promo for My Tumblr Site

I'm using my Tumblr blog -- Van der Leun: Things That Go Boing in My Brain -- more and more as a simple and effective scrapbook of things I find and things that go boing in my brain. As the rain and snow settle in across this not-so-warming-globe, you might want to check it out every so often. In the last couple of days you'd have found, among many other things....

So far this month there's over 200 items @ Van der Leun: Things That Go Boing in My Brain, so if you do decide to go, pack a snack.

Posted by Vanderleun at Oct 17, 2009 3:19 PM | Comments (0) | QuickLink:

American InDigestion: August News-Fast

Continued...

Posted by Vanderleun at Aug 2, 2009 6:42 PM | Comments (3) | QuickLink:

Happy Birthday to Me

~~[Video goes here but Youtube seems to be unreachable. Friday. 12:23 PM]~~ Back.

I know what you're thinking. "Did he blog for six years or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum webpage, the most powerful handblogged page in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?

American Digest Stats
First post: June 9, 2003
Entries: This will be entry 6,900.
Visits: 4,686,425 (But who's counting?)

Through some sort of odd harmonic convergence, the stories and items on the page below represent a pretty fair cross-section of American Digest so far.

Thanks to all my readers for coming by and coming back.

Posted by Vanderleun at Jun 11, 2009 11:26 AM | Comments (24) | QuickLink:

Family Matters

My uncle has seen fit to have his 100th birthday this week. I'll be escorting my mother to the celebrations. As a result, posting will be light and/or archival.

Posted by Vanderleun at Jun 2, 2009 10:29 AM | Comments (5) | QuickLink:

Leader of the Pack

[SiteNotes: At some point in the near future, this site will roll over to a new Wordpress / Thesis format. (Currently Movable Type.)There's a lot to be done in the background so posting will be light. In addition, many items in the 6,000 entries deep archives are going to be expunged as well. Fair warning.]

Posted by Vanderleun at May 20, 2009 3:14 PM | Comments (4) | QuickLink:

HOLP! And Now a Message from Yet Another Sponsor

Just in time for MOTHER'S DAY!

And remember that "HOPE OPPORTUNITY LIBERTY & PROSPERITY" spell "HOLP!"

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 27, 2009 9:06 AM | Comments (2) | QuickLink:

Is it humanly possible to go 3 days without an Obama post?

I don't know but, as God is my witness, AS GOD IS MY WITNESS!, I'm going to try starting right now, 9:10 PM Good Friday evening. Pray for me.

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 10, 2009 9:09 PM | Comments (8) | QuickLink:

American Digest Regretfully Announces Its First Sponsor

I have not sold out. I have bought in! Your clicks help to keep this site smooth and trim.

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 3, 2009 9:28 AM | Comments (16) | QuickLink:

News to Me: Thursday April 2

I'm looking at using this feature of Twitter as a way of tracking items of interest in the 200 odd (some very odd) pages I follow on a daily basis. Sort of like a rolling Instapundit scroll with enforced terseness. I'd like to know from readers how this item loads in their browsers. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Posted by Vanderleun at Apr 2, 2009 11:50 AM | Comments (14) | QuickLink:

We'll See About That

Yes, that. Over there. At the top of the right sidebar.

I must admit it rather suits me to have no followers. I must be doing something right to the right, right? Right.

[Bumped]

Posted by Vanderleun at Mar 27, 2009 11:02 AM | Comments (9) | QuickLink:

You've Got Questions. I've Got an Answer

Hootsbuddy notes that "Gerard Vanderleun is up to something." And he is, indeed, correct.

At present, and for the immediate future, I've taken a position as Editor-in-Chief for Pajamas Media.

As Maynard G. Krebs would say: "WORK!?!!" Oh well, it keeps me in champagne and skittles.

It's an amazing team to work with and, with a host of new projects being built backstage at Pajamas, an immensely interesting task. From time to time, I can be seen in the brief posts at that site as "PJM in Seattle," but the posts seen at the page now are, I can say, only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The roster of affiliated blogs built by Pajamas also gives me the chance to work with some of the most significant writers and minds of this new medium; a resource I am hoping to tap in a host of new ways as we go forward into the elections of this year and the braver, newer world that lies beyond.

I promise that I will be writing here again soon, if not at my former rate, but with, I hope, better quality. For now, however, just working with my colleagues at Pajamas is taking much of my time and energy.

And, yes, I am posting this in my pajamas.

Posted by Vanderleun at Jan 11, 2006 8:49 PM | Comments (16) | QuickLink:

Seasonal Shifts

TODAY, now that the rain in Seattle has stopped for at least 17 minutes, we'll be moving the vast American Digest editorial offices from the Queen Anne Moss Cavern to sunnier climes down at Lake Union:

No policies will be changed:

Posted by Vanderleun at Jan 4, 2006 8:31 AM | Comments (1) | QuickLink:

Note: Comments Are Set to Moderation

Patience Please. A Spam-Free American Digest Comes First.

Posted by Vanderleun at Aug 30, 2005 1:52 PM | QuickLink:

Meanwhile @ My Other Site

There's a brand new look and feel to Pajamas Media this morning. This and Politics Central represents pretty much what I've been working on with a great team for the past couple of months. (Oh, yes, there was that On-Hold War in the Middle East too.) Drop on by and see what you think.

Posted by Vanderleun at Aug 15, 2005 11:23 AM | Comments (0) | QuickLink: