A reader with a very impressively exotic name, a prodigious database of vocabulary words, and an appreciation for the finer things writes:

Dear Mr. Shea:

An unconventionally and obtrusively direct and straightforward intrusion into your electronic mailbox without the customary courtesy of introducing oneself, but urgency of purpose requires I forego colouring this missive with Ciceronian polish and therefore must put the question straight to you:

Have you even been aware all this while of the Brothers Chaps’ collaborating with Telltale Games to create S.B.C.G.A.P.? (The last and final instalment of the season was released back in December.)

For the uninitiate, permit me to interrupt and explain that he is referring to “StrongBad’s Cool Game for Attractive People”, the Brothers Chaps latest contribution to Western Civilization for which a grateful nation should give thanks.

We continue:

Given the scores of hidden Generation X miscreants to be found festering in the Catholic world ranging from closet metalheads

…to old school Sierra / Lucasarts adventure game enthusiasts to 80s nostalgists to retired arcade veterans, in return for feeding the hungry masses with this piece of news you will certainly earn for yourself from them Masses of thanksgiving for your sake.

But seriously though, there is something you failed to add that constitutes a grave omission. As in Judaism a Torah requires a Talmud, so does the Homestar site require the Homestar Wiki, a very indispensible tool necessary for interpreting the sage mutterings in every Homestar Flash cartoon and replete with useful information from transcripts to the inside jokes and real-world references in each cartoon. It is essential for getting the full experience. It would be recommendable to place the link to it alongside the one to the main site you added on your blog. Here’s the U.R.L.: www.hrwiki.org

Continue faithfully to spread our dotty cult far and wide.

Jokingly yours,
Samer AlBatal

P.S. Good job spotting the new hremail. I can’t imagine it as a permanent replacement for sbemails yet I’m afraid.

Thanks for this suggestion. It is noted and ignored. 🙂 I see myself more as an evangelist for the glories of Homestarrunner than as a catechist. My task is to get people in the door. Those who fall in love with HR will, out of the abundance of that love, naturally Google for more information and find it.

Besides, after the trauma of setting up the new template, my nerves are still too raw to go back in now and add still more material to the left rail.

I need a drink.

Seriously, dude: cool name!