I’ve discovered the source of my troubles with this site. You crazy @#$%^&* misfits!
Redirected into Oblivion
I have to recreate this post, because the site was restored back to the point immediately before the entry.
The past two hours have been spent on the phone with Bluehost, trying to figure out why Google refuses to index this site. Google says it’s due to a redirection.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and the scrappy newcomer DuckDuckGo, are both indexing and searching the site without a problem, but apparently Google has a requirement that isn’t being met. Which means Google is saying, “you are dead to me.”
With any luck Neal (or Neil), at Bluehost has done something that might help. For now I’m just happy to be working again.
P.S. Another problem that I hope won’t return. “Forbidden — You don’t have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”
The Pruetape Letters
A couple more tidbits from my first recorded conversation with Prue.
In this clip Prue explains why her father decided the family should stay in England after the war, rather than return to Belgium.
Prue had this funny comment about being a ballet student and seeing Moira Shearer.
Try and Try and Try Again
Second New Yorker submission in a row. I’ve never even been a finalist, and I was happier after giving up. Why am I doing this to myself again?
P.S. I tried thinking up a caption about an out-of-body experience, but nothing came to me. I’m hoping somebody was more successful exploiting that angle.
Boston After 9/11
The Frontline documentary “America After 9/11” paints a justifiably grim picture of the failures over the past 20 years of American policies and actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. The series is produced in Boston, which played an outsized role in the 9/11 attacks, due to lax airport security. The documentary doesn’t mention that, nor does it mention the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 by the Tsarnaev brothers.
Off the Rails Comedy
Ever hear of Big Train? If not, here’s a Big Train sketch, coincidentally about a big train, featuring Simon Pegg.
If you liked that one, this playlist has 25 more examples of the same sort of uniquely British nonsense.