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Posted by Will Collier  ·  22 June 2006

It's been like this for weeks now in the comments and occasionally in my email: "Where's Steve, huh? What'd you do, dump him in the gutter somewhere? Huh? HUH?!? So where is he, dude?"

Okay, okay. Here's the deal: Steve's busy. He's not dead, he's not divorced, he didn't defect to North Korea, and he certainly didn't convert to the Old Amish Order and give up computers or booze. He's just busy.

So, while he's busy, you people are just going to have to put up with me. I'll be stepping up my blogging here as much as I'm able, and when Martini Boy gets the time, like Ahnoldt, he'll be baaaack. If anybody needs to reach me, just send an email to blog -at- willcollier.com (give it until Friday, the setup hasn't populated quite yet). I promise to read it, unless you're a representative of a deposed African dictator looking for an account in which to stow several million American dollars.

That's it for now, so quit reading and go have a drink. I know I will.

Comments

The least he could do is post a recipe on Fridays, that won't take too long.

We really like the flank steak and I'm experimenting.

And baby pics.

What'd he do, buy a bigger house?

Posted by: Sandy P at June 22, 2006 06:14 PM

Currently allowing a watermellon full of vodka to freeze overnight. Yum yum.

Posted by: Gabe J at June 22, 2006 06:33 PM

But Will. Where's Steeeeeeve?

;)

You've been doing a fine job. Steve'll come back when he's ready. In the meantime, we'll just have to appreciate your eclectic charms!

Posted by: NukemHill at June 22, 2006 06:48 PM

Steve who?

Posted by: Pursuit at June 22, 2006 08:59 PM

Thanks, Will.

Give my best to Martini Boy & his family if you get the chance.

Posted by: Joan at June 22, 2006 10:43 PM

Seriously. Folks who complain about Steve being missing for a bit really ought to check out Bill Whittle sometime. :)

Posted by: Matt at June 22, 2006 10:45 PM

Saw Steve a few weeks ago and, as Will says, he's busy with the real world. Once he's got his other activities where he wants them, he'll be back.

Posted by: andy at June 22, 2006 11:12 PM

Seriously. Folks who complain about Steve being missing for a bit really ought to check out Bill Whittle sometime. :)


It's funny because it's true.


Posted by: rosignol at June 23, 2006 12:36 AM

Will, what's your e-mail address?

I only have Steve's.

Posted by: aaron at June 23, 2006 12:44 AM

If he wants to come back, Andy. Like you posted a while ago, the blogosphere ain't what it used to be. It's starting to get a little too cliquie, mainstream, repeatative, and dumbed down.

Posted by: aaron at June 23, 2006 12:47 AM

Well, Whittle is back, ejecting away.

But Steve's still "busy." Hrrrumph. Yeah. Sure.

Will, tell him to get off his damned bar stool and pour me some more words. I've got a magazine to run, pal, and column inches to fill. He can't ride on his previous article forever, you know.

And here I was going to give him a masthead title, and everything. I mean, what the hell does he want? Money?

--Robert Bidinotto, Editor-in-Chief
The New Individualist

Posted by: Robert Bidinotto at June 23, 2006 06:26 AM

What, Steve's got something better to do, like deal with a newborn, rather than entertain us?
Yeesh, some people have all the nerve.

Posted by: rbj at June 23, 2006 06:54 AM

What was the name of that "rehab" place again??

Posted by: JD in Oslo at June 23, 2006 07:58 AM

OK, so while I miss Steve, I gotta have some more baby pics! They grow up so fast, you know!

Posted by: PHenry at June 23, 2006 09:08 AM

We all saw the pictures of 11 mile lake and the Garden of the Gods. Seriously folks, if you had that in your back yard, would you be sitting at a computer?

Posted by: Burt at June 23, 2006 09:28 AM

I actually expected this to happen to Steve after his kid was born. I have two kids, and I know just what they can do to your free time, at least for a year or two.

I bet you could graph the amount of output of a blogger versus the number of children in his home and get a nice straight line.

Glenn Reynolds may be an exception, but then, that just proves Glenn Reynolds is a robot.

Posted by: TellSteveThis at June 23, 2006 11:28 AM

Thanks Will, you're doing fine. I just get a bit antsy when somebody prolific disapears. I had an e-mail friend do that in the mid 90's, I found out later he'd been killed in a motorcycle accident. Makes me get concerned faster than I used to.

Posted by: TL at June 23, 2006 02:43 PM

Met up with Steve, Melissa, and Preston at the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur last Saturday.

We had a good time, but he's still busy.

Posted by: wheels at June 23, 2006 07:06 PM

I can read between the lines. Will has taken over Vodkapundit in a coup d'etat, and Steven Green sleeps with the fishes.

Well I for one welcome our new Collier overlords.

Posted by: dorkafork at June 23, 2006 09:21 PM

Maybe he is busy deleting all references in this blog to his former life as a psychic.

Posted by: David at June 24, 2006 01:49 PM



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