New Digs, 2009 Version

Feed readers, huh? They’ve changed my entire world, too (my world of fast, backlit reading). But there comes a time when you’re scrolling through your 1000+ links and wonder: Hey. What does marathonpacks.com actually look like? You know, in real/virtual html-coursing-through-the-tubes life.

Come by the house for a bit. I’ve remodeled! For the first time in over 4 years! The title of my post is what professional comedians (like myself) refer to as a “callback.” You’re all like “yeah, I remember when you posted this, on your way to your first remodel and the high-rolling life of a blogger in full control of his URL.”  Thanks, guys. Also, haha @ “moved offices.” Give me a second to write that bit down in the old notebook.  That is my own Life in Hell vs. the current realm of the 5th season of the Simpsons, if you know what I mean.

Of course, marathonpacks 3.0 is the most supercharged of all the marathonpackses yet. First, a new logo–only my second one ever–designed by Bloomington-based renaissance genius David Woodruff. He took the Geocities-esque primitiveness of the one I made way back when (on video-editing graphics software), and made it into something fresh and wonderful. And for this, I thank him.

But even more thanks have to go to Ryan Catbird, who more or less loaded my old site onto the back of his flatbed truck and drove it from the Blogger ghetto into the swanky new suburban home you see in front of you. Have you not clicked over? Do so! We’re all well-aware that Ryan’s a genius–as this, this, and this should more than suffice to prove–but did you know that he has the patience of Job, and no shortage of ability to talk to idiots like me in a way that allows them to understand things we have no ability to understand?  Or to take a site that was created over four years with the backend equivalent of duct tape and thumbtacks, and remodel it into the svelte, turbo-charged entity you’re looking at now (CLICK OVER DAMN YOU)?  Ryan Catbird is my Joe Clark, and he convinced me that life is worth blogging.  Sorry you had to go to jail for disobeying the fire marshal, Ryan.

A big part of the reason I’ve not been blogging with any regularity for so long, I’m now realizing, came from the fact that it was hard to do in that old system.  But this one: this one is easy.  So let’s expect more from Ol’ Harvey!  I’ll definitely be using this space much more for the stuff that I’ve been using it for since I started it as a poor-man’s Fluxblog, but I’ll be devoting much more space to my adopted hometown, and the never-ending supply of great music/artists/events emanating from within its tree-lined borders.  Videos, guest posts (like this), links-to-blogs, concert listings, so forth and so on ad infinitum.  For the time being, any post labeled “Bloomingtopia” can be sorted as such.

Thanks for reading (mom), and extra-special thanks, David and Ryan!

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