The FC Blog is back.

Okay, we’re kinda back. We’re still reviving our archives and some things around the site may freak out on occasion, but heck, we’re alive. A big Thanksgiving cheer for that.

Contrary to what some clowns may believe (yes, that was me calling Todd a clown, and he deserves it for using phrases like “ambient insanity“…”unlikely excuse,” my keister), we actually did have a spectacular tech collapse here at the blog. Everything that could go wrong did. But when we woke up and saw the smoking wreckage that had once been the mighty FC Blog (a lord, nay a king amongst local blogs in the northern San Gabriel Valley) we decided to do something positive about it, after we had spent several hours gnashing our teeth and rending our garments. We redesigned the blog and committed ourselves to making it better than ever.

To that end, we invested in some backend improvements that should make the blog experience much better. Also, we got a tech genius to design some custom software to make it easier for us to blog. Long story short: if you care about any city between Pasadena and Pomona, this blog is going to blow your mind. Um, well, as soon as we get back up to speed. So, maybe it will only, er, rock your world, or slightly surprise you, but eventually it will blow your mind. Consider yourself warned.

We’ll have a lot more about the blog in the days to come, but this week is our soft launch. We’re sneaking back on the web without a whole lot of promotion while we kick the kinks out of this brand spankin’ new design. I’ll be showing off some new features, and testing the functionality of the site, while some of our writers get acquainted with the updated Wordpress and sharpen their knives. Please email me with any complaints (centinel@thefcblog.com) and let’s get the blog back to snuff.

One last thing to note: we were totally cryptic about who was reading us before (in terms of stats), but that attitude was one of the things that died with the old blog. From here on out, we’ll tell you how many folks are reading us so you can see just how important (or, um, unimportant) the FC Blog is. I can say that at our peak, before the tech debacle, we had managed to snag multiple months with more than 10,000 uniques, and we were still growing at a rapid rate. Right now, the readership is starting at one (me), so we have nowhere to go, but up.

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