I, What?!

First off, I’d like to take a time-out to post the following: “lol @ irevolutionary.biz!” I’ve got a funny story behind that, as well as a new favorite punctuation mark.

The interrobang! I like it for the same reason I dislike instant messengers—language confusion. Just read about it, because I’m not going to rant and rave about an under-used, 45-year-old proposition. I just feel that more fonts should provide native interrobang support for those who choose to use it.

I got in a chat with a lad from #wowi-lounge on chat.freenode.net about the state of affairs of punctuation after I called parentheses ( “()” ) “parentheses.” He was all like, “Ugh, American words.” We talked about brackets of all sorts, exclamation marks instead of points, and who can forget the moment I shouted, “FULL STOP, BITCH!” I know I can’t. I have to admit, I really have a passion for the “flavour” of English, but people just call me gay for adding Us in words that didn’t need them. Now, I’m no gay, so I just dropped the habit.

I’m kinda’ wishing I hadn’t.

What’s the buzz around irevolutionary.biz? Well, nothing now. Remember that big falling-out Waf and I had regarding Jack of All Blades? Well, he brought a semi-mutual friend to take my role as proof-reader/letterer. A bit before we broke up, he had asked me to give him I, Revolutionary, because he had a great comic idea called “Industrial Revolutionary[/i]. I guess he really wanted it, so he settled for a .biz with the same title. (I’m not really sure why he didn’t just buy industrialrevolutionary.com, but whatever.)

It seems as though he has a base install of SomeryC up and running on the site, although there are no comics to be seen yet. It may be something to keep an eye on.

Finally, I just want to thank those of you who update your Facebook profile picture regularly (I’m being serious). It’s cool to check out what people are doing or whatever haircut they just got during the summer. Ten points to you.