Well — not CLOSED closed. Just temporarily relocated. Because today we’re making a mad dash out of these here parts & jumping the big stupid Wall of Oppression that has long held us back & we’re running roughshod through the terrified audience at VERSUS.com. Or to put it another way, we’re the bull shown here:

Poor VERSUS.com. You’ll likely never knew what gored you in the spinal column & ravished your site. But nevermind all that. It is a price I’m willing to pay for the quarter-ounce bag of WIN that will certainly go down.

Because a special-edition Live Colloquium kicks off at 5:00. “Special” in the sense that the usual band of Pagodan misfits will be joined by AJ Foyt IV, John Lewis (The Creator) and PR extraordinaire Pat Caporali, all broadcasting live from an undisclosed fortified compound. (The pot to take a taser to the neck has grown to $850, by the way, and there’s the chance that Pat rides the lightning & walks home with the cash. We shall see.) Better still, panelists for the Live Chat include people who actually know what they’re talking about. Wonderful people like George Phillips from OilPressure.com, Tony Johns from PopOffValve.com, The Speed Geek from everywhere, and Will McCarty from IsItMayYet.com. A blue-ribbon panel, that. Whatever nonsense we’ll be discussing will certainly be more entertaining than whatever isn’t going on in the race.

So let us now flee this hellhole & RUN!! RUN TO FREEDOM!!!

[hops wall ... gets speared in the head ... doesn't really care]