Bored Athenians, after five and a half fairly chaotic years of brief commentary and shameless link-theft, is suspending operations due to all contributing authors being seduced away by Twitter, which far better suits our miniscule attention spans and need for immediate posting gratification.

You can find ongoing pedantry, punditry, and platitudes from your favorite Bored Athenians on Twitter at @evil_overload, @vennui, and @shenifonler.  Ennui can also be found combining sentences into coherent paragraphs and kicking other sorts of grammatical ass at http://pennoir.wordpress.com.  Read her words, and heed them well.  We’ll be watching.  The extensive archives will be left online for nostalgic perusal during times of boredom, rememberence, or Twitter outages.

Thanks, y’all, it’s been great!  The Blog is  dead, long live the Blog!

-Evil Overload

Compliments of CM from DC. Apologies to Evil Overload and the Dark Side.

Wondering about Tuva? Here’s the Google Maps perspective, centered on the Tuvan capital city of Kyzyl.

Anyone know if that singing is linguistic, or just musical? In either case: Woah!

The Obama campaign later sent this message to the station in response to their unfair and un-journalistic hostility:

‘”This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign.’

Read about it here.

And ask yourself:  Was this interview more or less hostile than the Palin interviews?

1.  Halligan tool

2. Denver tool

3.  Stanley FuBar