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Confession: Internet is hard when you’re busy.

Life’s gone from 0 to 60 for me in the last few months. Not only has the sudden uptick in business kept me from maintaining this tumblr blog, but it’s also kept me from producing the art/photography/podcasts/voice overs/etc that this blog was _created_ to share.

(I mean, sure.. I could go on posting the baby bunny videos I find on reddit, but how does that make TomatoBlue different from any other blog in the tumblrsphere.)

That said: I’ve been pouring all my spare energy to one new, big project; something that should be ready for release as soon as this week. The project itself is simple, but what it represents (both as an accomplishment and as a sign of things to come) is pretty darn fantastic.

It feels silly to get so pumped over something so simple, but hey: I earned this.

So where does that leave this blog?

Well, first off.. with the initial phase of this project behind me, I’ll have a lot of time to focus on the things I’ve left behind. Art, sketches, music, writing.. so many fun and delightful things brewing in my brain will finally be able to see the light. And the light they see will be right here: on TomatoBlue.

Now, I’m not naive enough to promise “Post At Least One New Wonderful Silly Thing a Day, Everyday, Forever!”, but I’ll have the time and freedom to try my darnedest.

And heck, I haven’t forgotten that _this blog_ is my public face. If I’ve got anything in my life worth sharing, I’ll be sharing it here first. (The URL is on on my business cards, after all.)

The plan as it stands:

Today, you get this text. And a promise from me to be more awesome in public.

This week, maybe tomorrow, you get a release announcement for something I’ve been working very hard on. Like I said, it’s something simple… but what this means for the future I’ve got in store.. well.. it’s pretty sweet.

Next week, I’ll be doing my taxes. I’ll probably be pretty irritable. Sorry.

But after that: The fun begins… :)

Silly and Wonderful things. Straight to you. Courtesy of TomatoBlue.

I’ve never been able to take professional soccer seriously. Not because of some allegiance to baseball or football, or some weird amerocentric fear of anything different.

It’s because of all the damn floppers.

Watch any big, high stakes soccer game and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Two players from opposing teams go for control of the ball: one wins and passes to a teammate, the other dives on the ground and grabs his leg.. wailing in pain as if it was about to fall off. If he’s lucky, he convinces the ref to call a foul on the other team. If not, he’s still managed to stop the game and break the other team’s momentum.

It’s terrible.. shameful… It’s not even sporting. And when I say “it’s not sporting” I don’t mean “it’s poor sportsmanship and everyone should play fair”… I mean it makes the game less of a sport and more of a very athletic theatrics-competition, just one degree shy of professional wrestling.

I know not _everybody_ dives at the slightest bump, but like any good night out it only takes a couple jerks to ruin the party.

So why bring this all up?

Because Lionel Messi is not one of these jerks.

In the video above, Messi gets kicked, tripped, grabbed, thrown… abused… and does he call a foul? Does he jump on the ground and cry out to the ref just to troll the other team.

No. Messi gets the hell back up and keeps fighting for that ball.

He keeps playing the damn sport.

Way to go, Messi.

(Source: reddit.com)

# well... that turned into a bit of a rant now didn't it