New look!

Here's a little blog history. The name I had in mind when I came up with this blog was, surprisingly, not The Crap Shack. It was going to be The Boston Tea Party. That name would be especially fitting since it's going to be a Boston house blog and presumably, we'll party all over the blog. And we might drink tea while partying. (Yes, I know the Boston Tea Party was not so much a "party," but the prelude to the American Revolution.) The witty pun-based self-centered alternative, The Boston Tse Party, was also considered—the headline faeirie came up with that.

However, I'm crazy superstitious and I thought it would be totally embarrassing if the BU people called and rescinded their offer. By then, The Boston Tea Party would be the shame equivalent of a nose zit on prom night. Therefore, I played it safe and tentatively called this The Crap Shack just so I won't jinx it.

Then I talked to O'Leary, we were drunk at the time, and we both sorta want to start a life-after-the-Gateway blog because we'll be punted out of Sad Newspaper pretty soon. But I thought it'd be unwieldy for me to handle 2 blogs and basically repeat myself all over the blogosphere. That's when I thought I should invite O'Leary to The Crap Shack and have him as my blog house mate. The name stayed because O'Leary won't be going to Boston and it won't be too much of a party with just me there. But we'll both continue to bring the crap.

Hence this layout—also, proof that I can design & produce the shit out of this html code thing. I found the banner off some tea company's website and I took it. I'll make a banner of crap when I'm tired of this.

Chris, if you want to add stuff to the side, just let me know.