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Don’t you just love these melodramatic, angsty, brooding and pseudo-mysterious appellations that pretentious webloggers like me splatter over their latest post for the day?

But in a way of speaking, the title is apt.

As very few of you know, my Friendster blog “began” a year ago, September 4th to be exact.  It had a dinky name called “Tatak Tolitz” for about two weeks or so, before I changed it to its current name…   But if you notice, I have posts that go as way back as 2002… which would be impossible since I just started the blog at Friendster last year, right?

Well, maybe that’s because I’ve been weblogging since 2002 at my own personal site, Tolitz.Com, which had been in development limbo constantly.  If you visited that site, you’ll see the words there that say:

“Don’t worry, once Tolitz finds the time for himself and his site, this site will be up once again.”

Well, my friends, that time is almost here…  Yeah, I’m gonna be moving my weblog back to my site in a couple weeks, and I’m gonna be resurrecting my little corner in cyberspace once more.

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What does that mean for my Friendster blog right now?  Well, I’ll still be using it, of course, but I will slowly wean myself off it week by week.  Does that mean I’ll be abandoning my Friendster blog after I get my site back up?  Hell no! I met most of my good friends in this place, so it won’t be going away soon.  But the posts will not be as regular or as constant as it will be on my own site when I move my weblog there.

What prompted me to make this move?  A lotta things, really. Friendster blogs, specifically the Typepad service, limits me in some way…  The fact that only Friendster members can reply to my posts is also a small part of it, and the pains I have to do in order to get around the pre-formatted design can be very unnerving at times.  I wanted more freedom – not just in content, but in aesthetics.

Of course, that would mean the people who visit my weblog would once again dwindle or start from scratch once again, but I was already used to that.  I’ve been weblogging since 2002 until 2005 with only a handful of people reading what I write, so it won’t be a shock to me

I do have to hand it to Friendster, though… the blogs here increased my readership by 500% from the time I started writing… no doubt thanks to the blog email notification spam, hahaha!

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So expect an announcement from me, here, on when my site will re-launch itself. It might come in a couple of weeks. Maybe a month. But it will come. And then the hour of the wolf will be upon this little room I have in Friendster, where I share the dark, funny, often confusing thoughts that play around in the dark recesses of this thing I call a brain.

Will you miss me? I dunno. I sure will miss you guys, though

Technorati: astigmachism, friendster, tatak, tolitz

Stupid name? Well… you’re stupider! In fact, you’re the stupidest of the stupid! Spongklong! Get out of my sight!

Well, not really… just thought I’d show some fake angst to start off this blog entry… how did I do? What, not convincing enough? What do you want from me? Get off my case, damnit! Don’t ever visit this blog again!

Actually, I don’t mean it… I’m glad you took the time out of your hectic schedule to revisit this little corner of mine in cyberspace. If you’re a return visitor, the better – although I would have to suggest getting your head examined if you actually like going back to a place like this.

Anyway, why the change in name? I dunno, after a couple weeks I felt the name “Tatak Tolitz” felt a little too serious or formal. Someone who sees the name would assume it has content that is actually useful, or something respectable, or something pertaining to Filipino values, culture and documentary-type posts… of course, I’d probably die of boredom if I went that route.

So I changed it into something a little more… err… apt. Something that matches the content of this blog. In other words, something silly, contemporaneous, and one whose very existence doesn’t make sense at all. Something that will make you say “what the fuck does that mean? It’s so stupid!”

Yep, that’s this blog folks. Sometimes you think it makes sense and has something of value to offer. But underneath you just notice how utterly stupid it all is.

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So what does Astigmachism mean? Well, it’s the combination of Astig and Machismo. Astig is slang for tigas, meaning “hard” – or colloquially meaning “badass” and “tough” … Machismo is, well, machismo. And after the trip to Cerritos to get new eyeglasses, I just thought it was a nice play on words for someone like me who has high astigmatism.

I know you’re thinking that a word that means “hard” and “macho” would have some pornographic references. Not that I’m complaining, or anything. In fact, please go ahead and think so, especially the girls. My phone number is…

Anyway, that’s the reason for the name change. Will the content of this blog also change? Hmmm… Is Puff Daddy white? Uh huh, didn’t think so

So thanks for visiting this blog, and for those who have been here before and have religiously followed it day by day, I apologize for being incognito for the past few days. But if you’re in my friends list, isn’t it a nice break from the usual “Your Friend has Updated His Blog” emails you get?

What, you still think it’s a stupid name for a blog? Well… you’re stupider! You’re the stupidest of the stupid and…

Yeah… anyway… back to work…

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