Hey, gang! To celebrate our start at Modern Tales, we have a few goodies in store for you. First, as you can see, a spiffy new site design. It may look similar, but the back-end wiring has been scrapped and re-done.

• It is about 1.3 gazillion times simpler for J and I to post updates (thanks to Blogger).


• We have done away with the forum, which was always in a higher weight class than we needed, and replaced it with the Shout Box.


• The billboards were fun for a while, but we decided to save you a mouse-click to get at new content.


• The sketchbook will not resume a weekdaily schedule, but it will live on. It will continue in the form of yet another Blogger blog.

To all our viewers coming back, J and I are terrifically happy you've stuck with us. To new readers coming from Modern Tales, hello and welcome! We hope you like what you find.