Well, I’m coming to the one-year mark of providing what can theoretically be dubbed “entertainment” here on mightygodking.com, and really I’m horribly gratified to see the readership steadily climb upwards; it’s worth noting, to me at least, that this site has finally broken into Technorati’s Top 10K Of The Web (”except for real sites like CNN.com and ESPN and, you know, shit people actually check every day - but definitely top 10K of the blogs!”). It totally makes me feel like a bigshot on the Internet.

Of course, the one-year mark means that it is also time to pay my ISP the moneys so I can continue doing what it is what I do.

Now, traditionally among semi-successful blogs, this is the point where the hat is held out expectantly and the site maintainer says something about how “your contributions can keep this site going because it’s a big timesink and a little compensation goes a long way and really, it’s less than a magazine subscription,” and all of that is true, I suppose, but in all honesty I would be doing this if my audience was fifty people or fifty thousand or fifty million [1], so I can’t really claim the “your money keeps me going” argument with any validity.

And besides, I can’t claim your money in any case, because, as longtime readers know, I prefer to keep my site’s use and alteration of copyrighted images as firmly as fair-dealing as possible, both out of principle and because I don’t want to get sued if I can avoid it [2], and under Canadian copyright law [3] monetary gain weakens a fair dealing argument.

All of that having been said, for folks who feel appreciative, there is always my Amazon Wishlist, with items ranging in price from “made me kind of chuckle one time when I was having a bad day” to “I slept with you that one time and accidentally gave you the clap, and wish to express my regret over that.” [4] But, and I would like to stress this, it is totally not obligatory in any way.

[1] By 2013.
[2] Although I’m pretty sure Archie Comics is coming after me at some point.
[3] Until the Tories gut it, anyway.
[4] YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

(Wishlist, for those few inclined to buy prezzies.)

I didn’t even know Fantagraphics was doing complete-reprint editions of Popeye, but now I know I must own them!

Seriously, when I was a kid and we went on vacation to Old Orchard in Maine, one of the things I loved best was that the tiny town library had this enormous anniversary collection of Popeye strips. I took that thing out every time we went and just read it through the entire vacation. I have loved Popeye my entire life, for serious. Finding out about complete-reprint editions is better than when you go into Loblaws to get something mundane and discover that the candy cane ice cream is back for the holidays.

They are on the wish list, people. If you feel so inclined to buy me nice things, buy me this! (I’ve got another comics parody in the works that should be done probably before the new year! Call it consideration!)