Paul McMorrow has a website

After losing a few versions of this website to hacks and attempts to fix hacks, I’m closing up my old wordpress.org home and porting back here, onto wordpress.com. Lots of content is getting buried and/or lost in the process. Some of it will reappear here soon, hopefully. Until then, enjoy this version of the site, revived from when it was placed into suspended animation four years ago.

A few changes of note around the old Rancho de TK TK. First off, this blog’s face has undergone minor reconstructive surgery, and unlike some people, I think we came out the other side looking better.

I’ve dumped Chris Pearson‘s PressRow for his Cutline theme, and am really happy with the results. I think the new design feels more unified and less distracting than the old one. It also accommodates image headers on individual posts much better than the old one, which should really allow me to break up the look and feel of all those Hill and the Hall cross-posts.

If everything proves sufficiently usable and easy on the eyes, the next step will be getting paulmcmorrow.com hosted, and hauling this show from WordPress.com over to WordPress.org. The endgame here is, obviously, a heavy paper stock business card with a halfway professional-looking URL on it. And maybe a two-tone picture of the Golden Dome. We’ll see.

I’ve also been able to sprinkle some new content throughout the clip archives. Old stories about Mitt Romney being a bastard, kids on bicycles, art museum security guards and state IT policy join a wicked awesome new interview with Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, the homebrewing superstar behind Denmark’s Mikkeller brewing company.

Unrelated but noteworthy: The new Daytrotter session from Ezra Furman and the Harpoons? Awesome stuff.

A quick housekeeping note: They’re finally here. PDFs of old Dig stories. And more are on the way.

Now you can relive the glory of deadlines past. You’ll love it. Maybe.

Since there’s so many of them, I’ve reorganized the clips page, splitting the old Dig section into three new pages, for the calendar years 2005, 2006, and 2007. Hopefully, this’ll make your trip back in time as easily-navigable as possible. Enjoy.