Shout-out to new subscriber Elane! Thank you! And to the anonymous donor who asked “Just want to know if NTMTOM is the same as NONTOM”: Thank you very much, but I am not the same as Non Tom, the premium tea from Vietnam. According to this page, when you brew Non Tom, “you will feel smell of small nuggets.” As far as I know, I don’t smell of small nuggets, but this is the sort of thing even your best friends won’t tell you.

I want to apologize for the cheesecake video earlier today, which looked really funny until someone noticed how it was staged. It bothers me when I get punked by things like this, because it means I’m not paying close enough attention. Anyway, onward we go.

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Shout-out to Carol (again!) for her generous donation. Thank you! I also got this nice note from another recent subscriber:

I also wanted to express my profound gratitude that you created your site. Cute Overload was my homepage for almost ten years, and your writing on the site was easily my favorite – I have legacy beverage stains on various monitor screens because of you. When Cute Overload announced that they were shutting down, I burst into tears and was left to wander the electronic aether in misery, abjectly cute-deprived.

Please post more. There are legions counting on you.

Although I’m very touched by this message, I posted it mainly to announce that “Legacy Beverage Stains” is now the name of my all-tuba death metal band.