1. Um, are those wisps of smoke, or strands of a black girl's weave?

They are supposed to be wisps of smoke, but the more I look at them, the more they look like something I'd find disconcertingly tumbling down 16th Street on a Sunday morning. The wisps still look cool and artfully placed nonetheless.

2. Is that you in the header image? Because I've seen you recently and...

Yes, that is me. The photo was taken on May 28, 2007, at 8:10 p.m. I'm kind of slouching, which contributes rather effectively to the illusion of pectoral muscles and abs. Aside from color saturation and contrast, the photo is not otherwise Photoshopped.

3. Your blog has a lot of advertisements on it now. How dare you try to profit from something that thousands of people enjoy for free each month!

The ads are unobtrusive and purposefully targeted to gay men with an interest in fitness and bodybuilding. I've been blogging since 2001; I deserve a small ROI at this point, OK?

4. How do you choose your advertisers?

I don't; Google assigns them automatically and without my input. This is why it looks like RealJock.com threw up all over my blog.

5. Are you going to blog only about bodybuilding and your self-diagnosed body dysmorphic disorder?

No, and my disorder is not self-diagnosed, thank you very much. This blog is more or less an account of my quixotic journey from Body Dysmorphic Town to Muscle Dysmorphic Village. They are not so much different municipalities as they are hamlets of a single township.

6. I give it two weeks before you disappear without explanation, only to put up another apologetic splash page a few months later.

Yea, probably.