Well hey there Stinky Britches!

So over the past few weeks I've received too many kind emails all expressing basically the same sentiment almost universally expressed in the comments of the last post I did here, which usually goes something like this..."Cajun Boy we like you at Gawker, but it's not the same...Are you ever going to come back to writing your blog?" I've been kinda avoiding answering that question here for a while, not out of any sort of fear or anything, but more out of a weird sense of sadness. Allow me to explain.

First and foremost, to answer the question, yes, eventually I will come back here. This is my baby and I started it from nothing 2 1/2 years ago and developed a bit of web presence and I don't really plan on letting it go...At this point I can't imagine not having a web presence...but I just don't have the time/mental energy for CBITC right now.

You see, back in early May I started writing Gawker at night. After filling in for the outgoing night editor for two weeks, Gabriel Snyder, Gawker's managing editor, offered me the job permanently and I accepted it with great enthusiasm. Frankly, I'd have been a bit of a fool to pass it up. They made me what I thought was a good financial offer, I work at night, so I can still work on the various OTHER projects I'm working on during the day, and I have an audience of hundreds of thousands of people each day reading the site. The opportunity to write for and drive stories to that audience, one of the more influential and well-informed on the web, is sort of thrilling. It's just such a bigger soapbox, a louder megaphone, than writing on my personal blog will ever be. And to be quite honest, the night editor job at Gawker is the only gig within Nick Denton's Gawker Media empire that I've ever truly thought, "Hmmm...I'd like to do that."

So, with all of that said, again, I just don't have the time/energy to pump out a minimum of 8 posts a night at Gawker AND post regularly over here. In fact, when I'm not writing Gawker, I do everything within my power to stay the fuck off of the internet altogether, just because the job requires so much data consumption that I need every break I can get from it. I just don't have it in me to spend even MORE time on the net writing another blog. It's just too much.

However, I do plan to pop in here more often to occasionally post some things that fall outside of Gawker's scope. I haven't been doing that in the last few weeks, but that's going to change. So there.

Finally, I know it's different over there...I've had to alter my "voice" a bit to fit the writing style my boss wants out of me, and I have to cover things I wouldn't normally write about over here, but compromise is part of life I guess. So though I still haven't signed a contract for them to put my name on the site's masthead, it's official...The job was offered, I accepted, hands were shook. But again, I'll be popping in more regularly, so keep me in your RSS feeds and bookmarks and whatnot, but for the foreseeable future, you can follow me at Gawker. Here's the direct link to all of my posts there.

http://gawker.com/people/cajunboy/posts/

So again, come visit me at Gawker. Email me your tips. Email me to say hi or how you saw a clown crying in a candy store or whatever. (cajunboyinthecity at gmail dot com) I miss you guys over here. I'm sad to have to neglect this blog for a while, but I'm only doing it because it's in my best interest to do so.

So yeah, I sold out. Sometimes you just have to do it.