Welcome to Rated B

We're changing our name!

Yes, when I named the Fear the Outside weblog The Rundown in, or around, 2002-03, it was a rather quick decision that I'd given far less thought to than I should have. Truthfully, I'm reasonably certain I cribbed it from Bill O'Reilly's show. Hey, it was a time of war and sacrifices had to made - quick decisions could have saved some lives back then! This quick decision did none of that but Goddammit, it could have.

Of course, "The Rundown" is about as original a title as "Ass Invaders 28" but movies so entitled tend to do fairly well, so... Although the weblog itself has been online since around 1997-98, it had no title and once GeoCities went under, it disappeared. I saved a lot of that material although I've reposted little to none of it. Also, as a weblog, it had no specific purpose or subject matter - it dealt with everything from what I was feeling about everything from relationships to annoying commercials to comic books and movies, et. al. Furthermore, naming blogs wasn't important at all back then, so there didn't seem to be much sense in spending a lot of time overthinking it.

Then, when the BLOGGING BOOM came and went, a literal glut of blogs with the same title - mostly shitty and almost all of which have changed hands numerous times since then - emerged and quickly overtook us in the search engines. So, this title change - while well overdue and definitely something I've been wanting to do for a very, very long time - does have some business connection.

Still, the nature of the entire thing has changed over the years and I want the title to reflect that.

Because we accept non-Google AdWords advertisements, it is listed as a "spam" blog by that organized crime syndicate. Because I refuse to "pay protection" to these thugs and their strongarm tactics, we will not be requesting reconsideration for inclusion into their paid directory - ahem, "search engine."

We fully realize this is a BlogSpot blog, owned by the monopoly which has to remind itself and its employees to "Not be Evil," and that this may well mean this blog's termination on Comcast's Google's servers. If so, you will then be able to find Rated-B on The Weirding directly.

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Thanks!

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