I am now the proud registrant of cantsleepclownswilleat.me (calm down, right now it just points to the usual Weightless Dog home page).

What to do with it?

If you don't get the reference, here's a link that attempts to explain the genesis of the phrase.

It's a great domain name, really. Nondirective, strange, fairly easy to remember, and strange enough that people will wonder what the hell I'm up to. The problem for me is, what do I do with it? Some of my other domains, like ct90.net, etradeblows.net, lnotesl.com, and the infamous beerlooterdude.net, all have pretty distinct purposes and I've mostly used them for the expected ends.

I am going to have to think carefully about this one. Having the Domino server at my command makes things fairly easy to set up a site to answer to almost any domain, of course... one easy copy/paste/modify, and I can have another website running in about two minutes. But this domain name is a challenge. What should it be about?

A help site for people suffering from coulrophobia?
An Alice Cooper fan site?
Yet another Simpsons fan site?
A support page for cannibalistic Emmett Kelly impersonators?

Whew.

Years ago, in the early, pre-Google days of the net, I maintained a page called The Page Of Weird Shit. It's been moribund for some years now, as the sheer volume of net.strangeness overwhelmed the time I had available to hand-hack the HTML. As a result, the PWS never made the transition to my Domino server here, and in any case, there's so many sites out there devoted to everything from the mildly amusing to the outright gruesome that I'd just be another one.

If I was imaginative enough, I could come up with a Zombo.com-style meme and host it at the URL. But I'm not. Zombo.com is legendary.

I'll think of something, but in the meantime, suggestions are welcome. And if you think you have a better idea than me about what to do with the domain, you can always buy it off me and go on to make millions, or something.

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1. Bob Balaban07/19/2008 09:26:08 PM
Homepage: http://www.bobzblog.com

I'd definitely go with Alice Cooper over yet another Simpsons fanboy site.
We are NOT worthy!!!
"The priest he recognized me, and punched me in the nose!"
I mean, c'mon!

2. Mike VandeVelde07/21/2008 12:56:27 PM
Homepage: http://www.teamspace.ca/

I just saw a guy wearing a T-shirt with this on it this weekend (synchronicity!), and had to ask wtf it meant. He said it was from the Simpsons, and I'm usually pretty good at Simpsonsology (see below!), but I didn't actually remember the episode until I saw your screenshot. I don't have any real ideas for your domain, but if you weren't aware then maybe this will help inspire you:

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