Well, Needcoffee.com, the website I started as a lark based on some insane discussions with Bailey back in 1997, is finally turning into a website you can take home to meet your mom. You know, as long as your mom doesn't mind filthy language. Or a terrible sense of humor.

We won the Bloggie for Best Kept Secret Weblog, if you can but dig it. If you want to check out our distinguished competition, I've set up a permanent little box on the right hand side of the Needcoffee.com page with linkage.

As I promised myself, I celebrated by going out to get Thai coffee. Unfortunately, the place was closed for another hour or so, so I went to Starbucks first and got an iced chai. I still felt kind of tired while I was waiting, so I sucked on a Foosh. Then I got two Thai coffees to go. Awwwww, yeah. Now I can feel my hair growing.

That's what victory looks like.

Goose over at Veritas Lux Mea added me to his sidebar. Which is quite cool. I consistently get great music from his site, as I've mentioned before. I need to redo all of my sidebars, honestly. I'm thinking of adding a music one, and at that point I'll slap Goose and VLM in there as well as the other ones that are all in a conspiracy together to make my hard drive explode. Not to mention make me spend more money on music. Sneaky bastards, the lot of them.

On the newness front, I've got two more pages of Next Wave #4 up, as well as the latest chapter of Overkill.

I've got to get some infrastructure bits done on Needcoffee, so I'll be taking a few days to put full focus over there. No need to fear. Speaking of fear, Bloggie voting ends today. So head over and do that thing. It would be much appreciated.

What else? Oh, I've got a bit I want to write about the horror genre. And that will lead straight out of Episode 51 of Something Else, which is already about ready to pop. No rest for the wicked.

It's funny…I find out after Monday's over that Monday, January 23rd, is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. I'd vote for April 15th, myself, but regardless, my most depressing day of the year started off with finding out Needcoffee's been nominated for a Bloggie for Best-Kept-Secret Weblog. So that's incredible. Our readers are amazingly wonderful people, no matter what the rest of my staff thinks about them. I kid. Mostly.

So if you like our stuff, since NC is our biggest One Tusk hydra-head, please give us a vote.

In other news, I'm working on a new short story, independent of Something Else, that has a working title of "The Invasion at Nick's Place." Don't ask.

Lastly, latest amusing song I recommend to you is "Plea From a Cat Named Virtute" by the Weakerthans. Found yet again thanks to Goose at Veritas Lux Mea. Get the info there.