A Good Day

Sometimes a day is just good. That is what I thought to myself when I took a look at today's Wall Street Journal and saw that they had published a Letter to the Editor that I wrote last week. My jaw hit the floor. My ramblings? In their publication?

Sure enough, there it is!

(The thing about the library is true, by the way, and boy do I have some words for the sleazeballs who keep hiding those books)

This was really special for me. I am a loyal reader of the Wall Street Journal and I deeply admire the work that they do. I have written about ten such letters in response to various opinion pieces, and finally, one of them has been published! As someone who spends a lot of time reading articles and then venting about said articles, having my voice in the pages of a respected national publication just means the world to me.

I'm especially proud that it was on the topic of censorship, something that I feel very strongly about. Left or right, book bans are book bans, whether you're a politically motivated "concerned parent" or an equally politically motivated publishing company. Both are censorship, and I'm glad that I was given the space in such a widely read newspaper to declare this.

And then, as if the day couldn't get any better, we got a new Homestar cartoon.

For those who don't know, Homestar Runner is a Flash cartoon series, and one of the most important works of web-based creativity in history. It's hard to explain to someone who has never seen it, so let's just say you have hours of wonderful mid-2000s goodness to look forward to. Its sense of humor is a taste you'll be glad you acquired. I can go on forever about its brilliant cast of characters, its intricate network of recurring jokes, its influence on Internet culture. I won't do that here and instead just leave the brand new cartoon here. New episodes are pretty rare, so they're nothing short of an event when they come along.

All days should be like this. By which I mean, all days should have my words in major news sources followed by the release of new Homestar Runner cartoons.