Thank you, Captain Hampockets, for relaying my messages the past few days. Thanks too, to the people who’ve contacted me by email. I can’t remember so many folks saying so many nice things to me, ever.

What happened is: Reddit says I broke a rule — upvoted (or maybe downvoted?) something I'd written under an alias. Reddit's internal mechanisms are algorithms so I must have done it — whoops & sorry. For my accidental crime, I've been sentenced to a week in solitary, here on my recliner.

I'm not mad at 'em, but it means I can't trust Reddit with my writing, so — welcome to whatever this is. The URL is ItsDougHolland.com, because I'm tired of being a lazy cheapskate and want my name back. The title is Mostly Words, but I might change it. Heck, might change it every day. You can't do that on Reddit.

I hope you like orange, the dominant hue here. It’s my favorite color when it’s not Donald Trump.

This site is very much in beta mode. Please zing me an email if you spot any typos or broken links, etc — itsdougholland at gmail.com. Also, please pardon the mess as I'm importing all my old material from Reddit and posting it here. For the next few days, if you only want to see new posts, look for "Recent posts" in the sidebar, or visit the archives page.

And now, some leftovers & links:

ᐅ Let's do the banana dance.

ᐅ I am older than my father was when he died, and he didn’t die young.

ᐅ I haven’t seen Duel in a great many years, but younger-and-slimmer-me thought it was terrific. This article made me put it on my rewatch list.

ᐅ And I'll close with some bad poetry that I invented and sang in the shower yesterday:

I am flabby
I am weird
last night’s dinner
in my beard

That's all I have to say. Now it's your turn.

Is anyone even out there yet?

5/28/2021
Leftovers & links