I'm moving

Yes, it's really happening. I'm packing my bags and headed for www.alphabitch.org. You can go ahead & change your bookmarks and links now, if you have them, (though don't be surprised if it just takes you right back here for a while). It will surprise exactly no one that I'm taking my time with the new template design, etc., but I'm really excited about it, as I think it will look really swell, be easy to find things, and (best of all) I will have total control, or I'll have a little more control than I have now, anyway.

Even though I haven't been posting much lately, I have added a few links to the blogroll, which is getting quite large. Especially check out blac(k)ademic, and Blue NC, and Plasticeye, and Redneck Mother, and Scrutiny Hooligans, and smallsworld, and all the folks at ScienceBlogs.

Plus I'd like to extend a special alphabitch welcome to AngryBlackBitch and Bitch|Lab.

Schism

A few weeks ago, the Drinking Liberally crowd in my town decided to leave my neighborhood pub in favor of this fancy new pizza place downtown. Seems they wanted food and hard liquor, and the smokers didn't want to go outside in the frigid North Carolina winter. As much as I'd like to be a liberal & all, I just can't bring myself to attend. Nice as this pizza place is, they don't allow dogs. Plus it's a little pricey, in my opinion. Not my kind of place at all, and I can't really walk home & there's no bus after 7 pm so there'd be cab fare on top of whatever I spend drinking.

It adds up, believe me.

So I've decided to start my own organization. I'm calling it Drinking Subversively, but you're free to call it something else if you like. There are no meetings, no mailing lists, no rules, no little buttons, and no website. All you have to do is go somewhere and drink something -- or not -- on Thursday night or on some other night; it doesn't matter. Wherever you go, there you are, and you are in charge. There is no way to recognize other members, nor is there any reason to talk to them if you do happen to think you spot one.

In fact, it's probably best if you don't mention it at all.