I’m just going to head this off, well before I put the paddles on either side of the cold dead heart of this blog and shout ‘clear’:

Comments are closed.
Comments, for this iteration of the blog, were never enabled.
(Comments are trash, never read the comments.)

If I post something here that you feel you must comment on, I’m not going to make you type in an email for verification or log into Disqus or go to a bespoke forum site or subreddit – just, find me on Twitter. Twitter has a wonderful system for, [*cough*] …conversation, and sadly enough I’m almost always logged in over there, so that’s the best way to comment. To me. Directly.

Sadly, this means your immortal words will not live on my CMS, forever inscribed beneath this or any other blog post, for later readers or for search engines to find. No “this is really more of a statement than a question”. No “I tried to follow this recipe but I subbed pasta for the rice, chicken for the beef tips, and anchovies for the Sichuan peppers and it came out Awful!”. No spam, no links, no SEO, no ‘well, actually’, and no drama. No. Comments.

This is by design, and since I’m the person paying the hosting bills, it’s a policy that will not change.
Thank you. And if this is a deal breaker for you, well, at least I’ll know it’s because you dislike *my* words & voice (& rules) and not because of something toxic in the comments.