"Only the Name Has Been Changed"

…to protect myself. I had received certain legal advice (not from here, not that there’s anything wrong with that) that if I continued to label myself as WendellWit, I may be legally required to deliver measurable quantities of Wit. Now true Wit is a rare commodity, more valuable than Humor, Laughs, The Funny, Irony, Satire or even The Wry (which it is often mistaken for), yet not appreciated as much as it should be. I have often aspired to Wit, but have rarely achieved it in my writing – it’s not easy, and the pressure to achieve it has made me question myself when all I wanted to do was go for the funny. And at times when I wished to be genuinely serious, the Wit Expectation made it harder to be TAKEN seriously (“Is he being, like, really really subtle?”). As I’ve mentioned before, my original blog was OneSwellFoop.com, a domain I lost (along with most of the original contents) when Real Life interfered big-time with my Virtual Life during the bad old days of 2002. I do now possess a handful of whimsical little domain names (including OneSwellFoop.NET) which I intend to be doing various whimsical little things with, but first, I really really reeeally need to clean things up under the hood here. If any of my Cool Web Friends ever took a good look at my CSS… NO! Don’t go there, please! I’m pleasantly surprised that this change has not broken most of the old links to individual posts and/or pages, for which I can only thank the wizards behind WordPress, allowing me to cross off one item from a lengthy ToDo list without actually doing anything. But stay tuned. You are gonna hear from me. And if it’s not all going to be here, I’ll be pointing you to wherever it is.