So here's the deal, I have missed posting in my Bengal orange bloggoland. But I don't have time for jack: I'll try to post when I can, and will try to bring some quality control to the content through repeated revision of whatever's posted. But things are likely going to be leaning crapward for awhile.

I am so busy because of the now job editing the content for AOL's Columbus and Cincinnati sites. Good work, getting paid to bone up on Ohio stuff like this. (Not that funny, but awfully human.)

Anyway, working at AOL ain't AIDS in Africa (AIDS in Africa being an unprofitable for me thing, being one of those godawful things in the world I hope to keep covering until I die), but this is the likliest best path for me: bread and butter content editing, with freelance fun stories on the side.

This, to quote the other Montel, is how we do it. Check out the tagline foreign writer extraordinaire Fred Kaplan on Slate:

Fred Kaplan, the War Stories columnist for Slate, also writes for The Perfect Vision, a high-end home-theater magazine.

Fred's writing literary biographies, he's writing about Iraq, he's writing about plasma TVs. If I can do half as good as Fred down the road, I'm happy.

So: I know this post sucks a bit of hole, but I have to go off and meet the wife. I'll try and edit it into something more readable and engaging soon. Or maybe not. Trying to figure out how to do all this in twenty minutes.