I. Hate. Blogger.

No, really — I do. Which is sad, ’cause there was once a time when I’d have laid down on a railroad track for that quirky little Web publishing tool. But now? No, no, nooooo. Why? Well, because while you’re probably reading this brilliantly witty missive only on the ol’ Myspace, you should be reading it, as well, on the actual fucking blog.

Nope, it ain’t working — hasn’t been for several days, and it’s begun to be a major pain in my ass, let me tell you. Any time I try to publish any blog on the site (there’re a bunch), it runs a while, then I get the “Your publish is taking longer than expected. To continue waiting for it to finish, click here.” message. I wait and wait and wait and wait and wait, and then usually, I get one or more errors saying “org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPConnectionClosedException: Connection closed without indication.“ Usually I’ll try to republish, naturally, and go through the same rigamarole. If I eventually give up (often after an hour+ spent on the damn Status screen, waiting for it to say it’s published) and shut down for the night, sometimes it apparently keeps running and gets itself published somewhere in the dark, dark night while I’m not looking. But not always. (Like, say, last night.)

This really, really sucks. Especially since my email to Blogger Support has gotten me nada, zip, zero. Argh.

At any rate, big-big-big apologies to all — if you’ve emailed me a show to list, I swear I’ve got it in there and am trying to publish it. I’ve already missed a couple of damn shows this week, and that embarrasses me to no end. Double argh. Bear with me, y’all…