Nooneofanyimport, xpat, mountainbear, MG, DefendUSA, D.J., Sue, and dumbasdirt have all been sent “author” invites. Remember:
With great power comes great responsibility.
If you don’t want to bear such an awesome burden, I suppose you can decline the invite. I don’t see the option for forcing you to be my Puffington Host and creating material for this site which will later be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, not a nickel of which will ever cross your eyes.
If you’re a non-“author”ized regular here and want to become an unpaid pixel monkey, say the word.
World's Only Rational Man 
I have no idea how this works, but I’ll figure it out eventually
You’d better not screw up NOAI’s day job….uh…I mean her her day blogging job.
“If you don’t want to bear such an awesome burden, I suppose you can decline the invite. I don’t see the option for forcing you to be my Puffington Host and creating material for this site which will later be sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, not a nickel of which will ever cross your eyes.”
I had planned to politely decline, but now you’re making it sound so good!
As for the hundreds of millions of dollars, no worries. If the current trend continues those millions won’t be enough to buy a loaf of bread anyway. Plus, it’s only money. I’d only do stupid things with it.
Yep. Suddenly getting millions of bucks would probably sharply reduce my expected life span.
Millions of bucks… I could train them into an army. The Bambi army!
Motto: We put the “Bam” in Bambi
I gotta admit, it was exciting getting an email from the Great Worm! Even if it was probably automated.
Have I ever mentioned that the missus is totally grossed out by the WORM banner. (“Eeeuuuuuuwwwww! Close that window!”)
(On the up side, I am glad she did not see a certain butterfly tattoo which, for the sake of harmonious WORM community relations, I will, erhem, refrain from ever mentioning again.)
W.O.R.M., I hope you don’t want us to moderate comments.
Because we can, you know.
I finally got the name the novel that the steampunk reference made me think of. Perdito Street Station. It was bothering me for about a week that I couldn’t remember it, and it took a strange gaggle of Google search terms to find it. Boy, that was a mind blower, Perdito.
I have read it, it is a very involved story.
I am very honored to be included in the list with such an august gathering. Thank you.
That being said, I am still trying to figure out all the new buttons and such. So it may be a while before I do anything more than the occasional comment. 🙂
Cards won!!!
So I’ll probably return to working my way into the “regular poster” club (it’s a hard job, but someone’s got to do it). I’ve also got an idea for a post, since you seem to be in an expanding mood.
By the way, whatever happened to Crosspatch?
Back from a fun filled college sport weekend…woo-hoo! Got my fill band, too. Now onto to a guest post…wherein I will try to keep it light…ahem.