Whenever Newsletter 7-1

Well, here we are. Home.

The new website took two years to demolish and rebuild, and most people ask the same question: "What did you change?"

For starters, everything.

Tristan Rawlings, web genius, rebuilt the database and turned everything, including this newsletter, into RSS feeds. We poured over every last word, every filename, even the manner of uploading content, to make Google happy.

And every step of the way, the same question came up: How far do I go in whorring out the content? [Ladies: Do not be offended. I'm talking about male whores.]

We found, after extensive research, that "funny cartoons" would be a good keyword for my website, so now I have a directory called funny-cartoons. Having been in this business a while, I know that nothing makes a cartoon less funny than calling it a funny cartoon.

We also had to replace the Google text ads, which were not serving my long-term goal -- world domination through comedy. So I selected graphic ads that didn't bounce around too much, placed them in border candy, and voila -- camouflaged whorring.

As if I weren't already 300 emails behind schedule, I am now obligated to maintain the Ventura County Star website blog, the Real Life Snapshots (directory: "funny pictures"), and this bloody newsletter.

Still, I get the warm fuzzies every time I log on, and if Tristan weren't Canadian, I'd give him a big ol' kiss.

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