I logged into my MySpace account today, for the purposes of this column. It was even sadder than I though. It felt like one of those stories you hear of wartime when people get up from the table and years later they find a laf eaten piece of toast still sitting on the table and a newspaper open next to it. It’s like everyone got up from MySpace in like two days and just left, but there are these sad people who either never got the message or are missing the appropriate human senses to note that they are the only ones still walking around in that world. It’s a zombie video game but there are no more zombies and you don’t know how to end the game so you just keep walking around the empty streets.

Are people interesting because they are famous or are they famous because they are interesting? I think the answer is both, but with a fairly large asterisk. Snookie might be interesting in the way that a train crash is interesting, but I doubt she will ever be impressively fascinating. I had an odd weekend to be sure. I planned to spend New Year’s Eve at a local party and then home with my lovely bride. Instead, I found myself dining in a private room at the Chop House in Des Moines on New Year’s Eve with actor Matthew Modine. These things just seem to happen to us. Click the title to read the rest of Bryce's latest inkubator.

They say if you put a frog (or is it a toad) in boiling water, they will jump right out. But if you put that same frog/toad/Frankenstein creature in cold water and slowly heat it, he will sit there and cook and never notice his surroundings changing. I believe something similar describes the relationship I have with my yard. If I woke up one day and all of my rocks and mulched areas had moved-in like foliage ninjas and strangled off my hostas, I would have that Fed Ex guy from the tv commercial bring me one of them laser guns that I could sign for and them kill the milkweed ninja in his tracks. But I don’t slay ninjas and clearly I don’t pull weeds. Mostly this is because I don’t notice and because I’m too damned busy to worry about it.

Something's about to change in 365 land. It has to. The world around us is changing and we need to shake things up a bit on the home front to adapt to the way of the world. For ten years (YES, TEN YEARS!) Dubuque365.com has been the go-to spot to see what's happening in the Tri-States. Whether it was events and festivals or live music and civic opportunities, we did our best to keep you up to speed with what's happening today and tomorrow. I think we've done a decent job for a poorly paid ragtag bunch of self-trained publishing outsiders. I believe Sarah Palin would call us Mavericks. And she'd say we we rang bell and shot guns to warn the bad guys that the bad guys were coming, but that's another story.