Attention: Fake Steve is now Real Dan

Dear friends,

Please check out my new blog, which I'm calling "Real Dan." (URL is realdanlyons.com/blog.) I really was hoping to just take the summer off and relax, but stuff keeps happening and I can't resist blogging about it.

I hope you'll bookmark the site and/or add Real Dan to your feed readers. Most of all I hope you'll start sending in your sicko ideas and strange photographs. The email for the new blog is simple to remember: realdanlyons@gmail.com. With luck we can all pick up where we left off, before Fake Steve decided to head for parts unknown. As my dear friend Bike Helmet Girl likes to say: Peace.

I'm sailing away

My goodness I am so high it's not funny. Apologies for all the confusion lately and much love to the many folks who have written in asking, Dude, what the hell is going on with the blog? There's no big scandal or anything. It's just I tried to add a new permission for "Real Dan" to post some items on the Fake Steve blog and somehow "Real Dan" gained admin privileges and Fake Steve appears to have been wiped out and is unable to log back in. Not sure if this is Google screwing with me or if it's just the meds -- I'm thinking it's the latter. I'm so pumped full of chemicals right now that most of the time I can't remember my own name. Iulia and Natasha are looking into the Blogger situation but at this point it probably doesn't matter.

Just FYI, I'll be launching a new site under my own name in the near future. Should be next week. I'll announce it here as soon as it's ready and provide a link. I hope you'll come check it out.

Meanwhile I've compiled a "Greatest Hits" book for anyone who'd like a small keepsake of the FSJ blog. I did it using some Web site called Blurb. I made a huge version of this book for myself but it was way too expensive for regular civilians. So this morning I created a short version. It's 120 pages long and costs $25. You can get more info by clicking on the box in the right sidebar.

UPDATE: I've had a few requests for the bigger book that I created for my own personal use. So I've included a button for that too. Unfortunately, the two buttons look exactly the same. Just FYI -- the top button takes you to the shorter, less expensive version. The bottom button takes you to the longer, more expensive edition.

I'm sorry that the blog is fizzling out with yet more screwups and confusion. But I suppose it's somehow appropriate, too.

I know you'll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is not really going away. He's just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix once said, If I don't see you no more in this world, I'll meet you on the next one, but don't be late.

Namaste to all. Much love. Peace out.

This site inspired me

Fair enough, I'm having a bit of a rough day. But then I saw this page and I really cheered up. So much so that I went and looked at the rest of the Web site. It's truly moving, and I'm sharing it with you in the spirit of love.

If you have any favorite inspirational sites, please send them along. Much love.

Proof that God exists and has a sense of humor

Jesse Helms and Bozo the Clown, dead on the same day. Nice work, O Great One. I honor the place where your sick sense of humor and my own become one.

More raves for Vista

Even Intel won't run it. Shocking.