well folks, i’ve been gone for a little over a week, just as i’d suspected. it’s amazing how quickly one can mentally unplug from the internet stream and its current b.t.w.... anyhow there is good news and bad, and, as is often the case, they are one and the same. the good/bad news is this: the site will remain dormant for an indeterminate period. it’s bad news because those of you who read the site religiously, cultishly, drawing all your mental and emotional sustenance from our content, refreshing your browser window again and again like a shivering addict will have to find something else to distract you from reality. (weirdoes.) it’s good news because while the dust-bunnies start forming in the space between these old sentences, and the tumbleweeds roll through the margins, i will be busily redesigning and reshaping the nonist.
likely many of you will gasp, or at very least sigh, and say “but it aint broke!” to which i can only respond, “aint is not a word, you lazy, lazy person.” the truth is i looked at the site one day recently and thought “my god i’m tired of looking at this.” and that’s all it took really. i’m a restless type and i intend to shake things up for my own selfish amusement and throw away years of hard work, for no particular reason, whenever i damn well please! in all honesty this site is in need of some streamlining, some back-end clean-up, some re-focussing, and a good juicy jolt from the design defibrillator. (clear!)
so folks, in short, please be patient while i tear down a perfectly good web site, break all your links, and continue the endless, impossible search for visual and functional perfection. i will return as soon as this task is complete, though i can’t say when exactly that will be, not more than a few weeks with any luck, after which the nonist will hopefully rise majestically from the off-white and orange ashes. wish me luck, and i wish you luck too.
Good luck with your redesign - I just recently updated my german GroupWeblog http://www.meckermotz.de.
Have fun in your creative destruction and recreation. May the design good bless your brain.
;-)
I understand your compulsion completely. Looking forward to seeing a whole new Nonist soon.
I’m scared
Hold me…
will the new design include capital letters? i can hardly wait to find out!
orange lettering, black background, more animated GIFs, please..
if jmorrison resorts to the clarity of capital letters, i’ll eat my hat.
please limit all text to wingdings....lowercase wingdings of course.
see you on the other side.....godspeed
whatever it is, it will be beautiful.
in the meantime, look at this!
weird:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_headless_chicken
inspiring:
http://www.shelterpub.com/_home_work/HW-book.html
baffling!!!
http://suzar.com/Releases/2r-Mamma3.html
absurd:
All hail nonism!
Aww...but I’ll miss you and I absolutely adore the current design! Plus, I found you way too late, so I’m not bored yet.
However, I know you’re brilliant and the new site will be too. I can understand the need to make a new start.
So, good luck!
indeed- good luck with the redesign. hell, by the time i’m done designing anything i’m already tired of looking at it. congratulations on lasting this long. blow it up. have fun. caps are for suckers.
Do Miss Nonist
when is it that you will Reappear?
is your momentous mental unplug - regain some kind of unexpected longitude…
Okay this redesign had better be good!!
ha! yeah john, i expected just such a reaction eventually. surprised it took so long for the natives to get restless.
truth be told i’m already on about the third iteration. designed a couple and was not satisfied so went back to the drawing board. think i’ve finally settled on something which meets the criteria i’ve set for myself. that means i’m done with the “designing” and now need only to implement it. shouldn’t be too long now.
i’ll explain further in my “return to action” post.
(sure is easy to not blog though. forgot how easy.)
Well, that’s all very well, JM, but I guess I’d better warn you now that I won’t be satisfied with anything short of total mind-blowingly, earth-shakingly excellent. I mean, the sort of good stuff that is so good that it’s impossible define (like a friend who was asked what made really good blues good answered “Hard to say, you just know it’s good if it makes the hairs on your arsehole curl”. That’s the sort of good I’m talking about.
You forget, John, that even Jaime’s ‘unsatisfactory efforts’ are that good. Keep da faith.
please hurry , need my nonist .
Quatsch.
would it be possible to create a section of the site specifically for me to air my personal grievances with friends of yours? that’d be cool. cause honestly, the shame of all that is slightly dissipating. slightly.
hey, folks. does jaime need to get off his duff and finish this thing, or what.
so i just got done watching south park, damn that show is good.
any-who, I was wondering what the reaction would be to stickers shaped like a cartoon speech bubble stating “hello, I am the prophet Mohammed” then stuck graffiti-style coming out of the heads of people on random ads? where does the blasphemy begin the intent of the artist or the label on the image?
someone needs to whip some of those bad boys up so we can do a social experiment.
Trademark disputes such as these really should be handled through the proper forum such WIPO or the WTO. I mean who needs riots when you can lock down and defend your IP with a serious legal team?
i’m already making t-shirts with mohammed on them that say “fuck your god” on the front and “suicide bomb me” on the back.
There is no substitute for the nonist. Much like sex, even when you’re bad you’re still damn good. See without your inspiring words I couldn’t even come up with an original idea. So maintaining that train of thought get fucked! Of course I mean that purely in a good way. We all need a good shagging to rejuvinate our spirit and fill the void between now and the time when you beginagain.