(Nerdy kid near the back, waving wildly)
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Mr. Ace! Mr. Ace! Chill my speech, too!

PS. If you're keeping track, I thought the faux porno was funny. But I liked Orgazmo too, so what do you expect?

Oh, is that what the problem was? I couldn't figure it out =p. Didn't bother me, heh.

Awww...I missed it!

That'll learn me not to miss a day.
Wanted to ask a question; why the cleaner language?

Ace speaks power to truth.

Well, it included the word "cunt," too, which is a word I wrote like twice before and then retracted and apologized for.

Wanted to ask a question; why the cleaner language?

There are a couple of reasons.

First of all, I'm not completely cleaning things up. My schtick is to be kinda dirty, and I can't see abandoning that now.

But when I was burned out on blogging, I was really overdoing it with profanity and shock-value jokes that weren't even especially funny. One reader told me he was dropping me out of the first-read category for that reason.

I still think that curses are occasionally useful and effective. But for a while there, I really couldn't think of anything funny or interesting to say, and I was pretty much letting fly with the word "cocksucker" left and right because, well, I don't know why. I guess I thought if I just amped up the profanity it might disguise the fact that I was really, really slipping.

And then there's the advertiser issue. This is a sell-out kinda thing, I know, but if I'm going to keep doing this, I feel I have to get some jack out of it. And so I think I've just got to cool it on the outright vulgar stuff if people are going to advertise here. Not get rid of it completely, just be more selective about when it's worth it.

A really funny joke that needs the word "fuck" will get the word "fuck." On the other hand, if fuck isn't absolutely called for, I'm looking for alternatives, rather than just saying fuckety-fuckety-fuck all the time.

I don't know if this is going to piss people off or not. I hope not. But this is a sort of muddle-through-and-guestimate type of thing. I don't know where the line is; I don't know at what point I'm losing more readers from being too vulgar than from suddenly being Mr. Propriety.

I'm just trying to be a little more careful about pushing the obscenity button when I don't have anything else to say.

We can still swear freely, though, right? (I'd put one of those smily things here but I don't use them.)

The exclusion or inclusion of profanity on this site has no impact whatsoever on my enjoyment of this blog. Just please don't start using any stupid euphamisms, like doody, frick, or c-word. I mean sometimes a cunt is just a cunt.

I have to agree with both sides (looking at John Kerry reflection in the mirror) - I think at one point the profanity was overdone and I kind of missed the point of the whole thing, but on the other hand I also agree with the above comment and sometimes a cunt is a cunt and you have to call it like you see it. Just keep the balance. I enjoy the site more with the balance you've found so far...you're doing a good job. Keep it up.

We can still swear freely, though, right?

Yeah, the comments are still fine for whatever, except like, you know, hardcore racism and the like.