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Howdy, y’all. This is a short site update, meaning it required nothing but five minutes of forethought and climbing down off the ledge. I’ve made some little changes to the site and there are a few things you may like to know when navigating round.

• Images: When you click on an image that has been posted from this point on, the gallery pages will now have an XL image at 500px wide. This is much improved from having to click and then click again, like you do on all images preceding this (it cannot be done retroactively, so check out the galleries on the posts going up in a minute).
• Posts: At the top and near the comment section of each post, there is now a “Previous” and “Next” post navigation system. This should make browsing/ scrolling through posts a little easier.
• Widgets: I am also trialling some little widgets and doodads. It’s cluttered like a mother, but I’ll have a tidy up and decide what to keep, next week.
• Blind Items: This has sh*t to do with navigation, but I’ve decided to dig up Blind Item posts and slot them back in like nuffink ever happened.

Howdy y’all. I just wanted to take a second to say that; one, I appreciate you all and thank every individual reader for taking the time to come over to my site; second, and more importantly, I would consider it a signal honour if you would release your inner lush on my behalf, this 4th of July weekend.

I gather it’s a time when US peeps get crunk and party like it’s 1999. Boozing is cool, as is sobering up and promptly returning to your regularly scheduled programming, early next week. I’ll be here in-part on the weekend and of course, from Monday on (it’s not a holiday over here, yo’).

Assuming you managed to stay off the sauce while reading this, happy July 4th!

Hey hey, wanted to let you guys know that after some temporary technical problems that meant I had to take it down, the special TV channel for the site is back to view.

You guys can tune into Grindhouse TV again on its own official page!

On this dedicated page, you can watch the latest entertainment news, movie trailers, music videos and more.

Make sure that you don’t miss out. The videos and news that plays will be updated every few days, to make sure that you have the absolute best quality viewing material available. If you have any suggestions for news stories or videos you would like to see, let me know and I may be able to make that the new main video.

The video chosen to air today is Ego by Beyonce. You can watch loads more entertainment news etc by choosing another of the clips below it.

Click over now and tune into the official Grindhouse TV page ===>

I just want to say “thanks”, to those of you who’d emailed to let me know you’d had some problems commenting on the site. I appreciate you taking the time to give me the heads up, so that I can fix it. These things do happen, and I have asked my tech to look at the problem and I think the problem should be solved now.

I have a suspicion it was one of my crack-addicted anti-spam plugins that was hungry and greedily eating comments and also blocking some real commenters. Eeek. I am very, very sorry for any inconvenience!!!

I know you guys like long comments and so appreciate that it’s a pain in the bum to rewrite and then resubmit (which you amaze me by doing anyway). As I say, the issue with people being stopped from commenting should be over, I think. So comment away as normal.

So you know, if comments do not appear right away, you may just need to wait a second and refresh your  page. Comments will either appear there or in my admin queue for moderation, where they will be reviewed the same day (sometimes even regular phrases/key words etc. trip the standard spam filter – and there ain’t a lot I can do about that, sorry. Do not worry too much, the comment will be fished out by me).

Let me know if anything else goes funny when you comment and I can get it ironed out for you. You guys continue to rock, and you amaze me with your dedication to sharing your views within this community. I heart you all.

xoxo

Hey hey, wanted to let you guys know that I’ll be making some tweaks to the site shortly. One thing I have done is fine tune a new page on AG.com.

You guys can now tune into Grindhouse TV on its own official page!

There is a dedicated page, on which you can watch the latest entertainment news, movie trailers, music videos and more.

Make sure that you don’t miss out. The videos and news that plays will be updated every few days, to make sure that you have the absolute best quality viewing material available. (Also, at least for over the weekend, a fun little TV unit is also available in the side bar too).

Click over now and tune into the official Grindhouse TV page ===>

I’ve decided that further to my last site update, and just so we are all on the same page and no one is left wondering what the eff is going on, I am going to just put my most up-to-date Comment Policy:      

• Your first ever comment will be moderated before it is made public; I’ll approve and respond to all real comments. 
• Linking/ self-promotion in the body of the comment will get the whole thing deleted. 
• Troll comments & insults will never be approved. 
• Oh and one last thing, my comments section is not the place to wet your pants ‘cos I dissed your favourite star or expressed an opinion which arbitrarily got your fangirl/boy panties in a bunch… save it for your therapist.
• At this moment in time I am testing turning off comments on all posts over 2 weeks old, in hopes of reducing spam.

In a nutshell this means any and all real comments are welcome and will be approved.

 Be you blog owner yourself or a passer by, please comment if you like a story and assuming it’s a real and relevant commentary on the article it’ll be approved and I’ll respond with my own comments, where relevant, within 24 hours. 

Obviously spam, people with websites that appear to be non-existent/ shady or whatever may just go in the spam filter. And trolls get no room to move whatsoever (they seem to realised the site has a zero tolerance policy on trolling and moved from pestering me/ my readers).

With regard to comments, the longer the better plehz. I am so freakin’ proud of this site and the only thing that makes me prouder is the people on it! I haz a happy about every one of my readers and the fact that my notorious multi-paragraph long rants (like this one) don’t seem to even cause the blink of an eye.

Long postings by me seems to inspire comments of equal length. Don’t be shy. If you only have time to write a one liner, please feel free. If you are compelled to write a multi-paragraph novel in my comments section *cough… damn I heart you Kelly and Static… cough* PLEASE DO!

This site is the place to write long comments. Every single one is read, responded to and appreciated. 

…and if that wasn’t clear, let me summarise… WANT TO COMMENT??? BRING IT ON!!!