From the Creek Running North support staff:

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties after an incident today in which Mr. Clarke’s head exploded. We expect to have the blog up and running again once we have been able to clean up all the little bits of brain and skull throughout his office and the adjacent corridor. Thank you for your patience.

Note:Many old comments were lost in a database crash in 2008. Some conversations may seem to make less sense than they would have. A few will make more sense now.

1. 
   the_bone 2004 11 24 at 8:26:53 pm

   This head-exploding business is contagious.

   The next time I’m asked to define chutzpah, I’m using this scenario as my example.

2. 
   Siona 2004 11 24 at 8:31:03 pm

   I laughed when I read that headline. Out loud.

   I can’t believe it. That can’t be serious.

    

   Christ.

3. 
   Sherwood Harrington 2004 11 24 at 8:53:21 pm

   I disagree, Siona.  I think it would be very serious if someone’s head exploded.  Especially if it happened somewhere that I had to keep clean.

4. 
   Rana 2004 11 24 at 9:21:01 pm

   *delicately stepping over small fragments of skull while holding tightly to my own head with both hands*

   Chutzpah is certainly one name for it.

    

   How can anyone take this administration seriously any more?  How can anyone afford to not?  It’s like a sick, twisted Zen koan!

5. 
   the_bone 2004 11 24 at 10:13:02 pm

   Hey, I want a rad little icon by my comments too!  Is this something only the MT-using “cool kids” have?

   (sorry for the derail.  let the “running man-esque” cranial detonation continue)

6. 
   Jarrett 2004 11 24 at 10:37:17 pm

   Well, to be fair, they ARE on the right side of the Ukraine issue, finally ... sure, it’s hypocritical, but hypocrisy barely registers now ...

   Trying to remember the last time this gov’t did anything I agreed with is enough to make my head implode ...

7. 
   Chris Clarke's decerebrated remains 2004 11 24 at 11:59:11 pm

   Hey, I want a rad little icon by my comments too! Is this something only the MT-using “cool kids” have?

   You will proceed to http://www.gravatar.com/.

8. 
   Steve 2004 11 25 at 3:13:20 am

   I clicked on the link, got the “you must surrender your personal details to us” screen, thought “sod that for a game of soldiers”, and still twigged that it was about the Ukraine elections before getting to where Jarrett explicitly stated it.

   What do I win?

9. 
   Chris Clarke's decerebrated remains 2004 11 25 at 3:20:28 am

   What do I win?

    

   My undying admiration.