This is the new home of The ADD Blog, at least for now. Blogger is ending its support of FTP publishing for sites like mine, that have their own domain and hosting, and so I had to scramble and find a way to continue to be able to update the blog. This isn’t a perfect solution — pretty far from it, actually — but I’m getting a crash course in Tumblr and trying my best to keep on my feet despite the blows raining down on me.

The whole Blogger clusterfuck really soured me on blogging (and the internet in general) for a few weeks, and I admit that I really was lost in my own anger, doubts and recriminations. From practically the moment I began blogging, back in 2002, I’ve very happily used Blogger’s platform, gotten incredibly comfortable with it, and happily used it to write about comics and other issues for many, many years. To have Blogger (Google, really) pull the rug out from under me (and millions of others, too, but few seem as outraged about this as I have been) has been disorienting at best and absolutely infuriating at worst. I’ll admit I pretty much decided to throw in the towel completely, but as Hawkeye once noted, “That trick never works.” I’m too much of a big mouth. There’s too much left to say.

Which isn’t to say this transition hasn’t been — and won’t continue to be — an enormous pain in the ass. It has been, and it is, and I am sure it will be. I feel like I should apologize to everyone who has ever taken an interest in my writing, or that on Trouble with Comics, for all this hassle and aggravation. I’ve been writing on the internet for over ten years. Some of my readers have been with me for nearly all of that time, and they should not have to deal with new bookmarks or updating their RSS feeds or any of the bullshit that comes with this. Google and Blogger are huge names in online publishing, and those of us that have supported them (hell, I even paid cash money for Blogger Pro back in the day) all these years deserve better. They’re the ones that should be apologizing, but more importantly, they are the ones that should not have allowed this to happen in the first place. This whole thing reeks of stupidity, arrogance and incompetence, and those are not characteristics I normally associate with Google and Blogger. They’re the only ones that I associate with Google and Blogger right now, and it’s going to be a long time before the black eye they’ve given themselves, and me, and everyone involved, heals up and good feelings can return.

But, “It is what it is,” as annoying people like to say. And I have to admit that fiddling with Tumblr’s templates and seeing what is possible has me a bit energized and excited about blogging again. “Just when I think I’m out,” Pacino famously said, and then I stopped writing this post.