I’ve got two things for you today. Just like Thing One and Thing Two in The Cat in the Hat, only easier on the furniture:
Thing #1: life is going to get a little bit chaotic over the next week or so – and I will be rather like the Cat in the Hat juggling all those things while bouncing on a ball – the cups and cakes and little toy boats. You know the kind of time I mean.
However - I have kitsch and retro posts aplenty for you! But the dear old Entrecard drops may not happen as much as I’d like, so apologies in advance and I will be back up to speed by the middle of next week. I’ll try and check in once a day and answer comments. I love your comments exceedingly, you know – it’s such a treat to read them! If you could only see me laughing and trying not to spit coffee on my keyboard.
Oh, and also…
…Thing#2: I have a third blog now. Like a third eye, only not! Because there are actually other things I like besides retro ads and Victorian weirdness – and so The Doubletake is going to be total miscellany and, I hope, fun too. There are a few posts over there, and I’m slowly linking the blog up with things. But like I said, I’m going to be orbiting-the-ceiling busy for a few days so things won’t totally be up to speed for awhile.
What sort of things will I be doing a doubletake over? Urban legends, slang, weird news (there’s a Doubletake archive from 2007 which I’ll put up, it was going to be an all-weird-news site then), maybe book reviews, old and new celeb stuff. Things I think are cool and interesting, because if I don’t find it entertaining, it stands to reason that you probably won’t.
Oh, and I might do some really bad recipes over there, like the original Kitchen Retro. So there will be a bit of retro. Just not, you know, all the time. That lady in the top righthand corner is retro, of course. She’s from a 1947 camera ad and that will be my EC avatar, when I get around to that. And I got the Cat in the Hat picture from NPR.
Try to keep your sanity over the next few days. I'm excited about your new blog.
Peach Tart – Thank you kindly
I'm just about to start juggling things now…Will try and get back later.
Will I need to follow the Doubletake blog with two accounts, or can I get it with just one?
I've just added The Doubletake to my blog feeds.
I'll take what's behind thing #2. Oh, sorry…where was I? Oh yeah, good luck with the new blog. I checked it out and it looks like it'll be loads of fun. Will add it to my faves.
Looking forward to your 3rd blog, I have 3 as well, one of them being for photography
Hi – Doubletake is great, but I wasn't able t leave a comment. Just letting you know. I have a blogger account, so it shouldn't have been a problem.Keep up the good work!Warmly,Laura
Eric – I don't quite know what you mean by an account – but that could be because it's a bit late in the day
I think you can just subscribe or bookmark it, probably.Tori – Thanks 
Leeuna – Thanks, I am looking forward to having a place for all the extra things in my head. And by mid-August I ought to have more time for it too. I just wanted to get things rolling…Amy- i will have to check your other blogs out 
laura – Oh my goodness, I'll go see what's up now – sorry about that! 
Heavens to Betsy, I'll never get anything done around the house now that you have three blogs.
Bill – That makes two of us! I won't be posting on all three all the time, though. I am thinking that KR will become the main blog, Doubletake second, and VDM assume its rightful place as an occasional historical recepticle. Otherwise how will I ever finish this awful novel? Or vacuum up the clutter that continues to encroach upon the floorspace like, um, like waves upon the shore (poetic, huh?)