I miss the International House of Blogcakes.
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It is no secret that the Idea of Progress and McGone at the International House of Blogcakes are not the best of friends. This is no fault of your gentle host, fair reader– it is McGone that is the despicable one.
I’ve even made threats against his friend, Fernando von Bakonstein.
Now, McGone is of course [...]

And Fernando? We’ll just see about that.
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It is not as if the Idea of Progress has been posting with any of the frequency of the past, but a recent event has disrupted even this, the fragile regularity of tIoP’s posts.
The Idea of Progress was framed.
Google was lead to believe that tIoP was a spam blog.

Google claims that this was [...]

Beware the Ides of Hob!
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Reuters
CHICAGO, IL (Reuters) Suspected JC Penny model McGone escaped from federal custody earlier today in where he was being held in an undisclosed location. Authorities believe that he is headed back to the heavily guarded International House of Blogcakes compound in rural Illinois.
In a video released to the press this afternoon by [...]

Associated Press
CHICAGO, Illinois- (AP) Maverick billionaire and suspected inventor of Head On,”Fancy Pants” McGone has escaped from the holding cell where he was currently awaiting trial, charged with assault with deadly puns and second-degree illustration. Although authorities will not comment on where the proprietor of the International House of Blogcakes was being held or [...]

Associated Press
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) – In what was described as a “madhouse” by one startled onlooker, followers of the International House of Blogcakes, described by authorities as more of a cult than a religion, took to the streets in protest of the arrest of their leader, celebrity blogger and fashion icon “Mad Dog” McGone. [...]

Some people would like you to believe that their materialistic lifestyle is the sole path to any sort of happiness. Some people clothe themselves in their Chinese-made button down dress shirts and their Mexican crafted ties, put their papers cut from the living rain forests into their naugahyde briefcases and strap themselves into their [...]