Because the Pep is back, exactly a year after first registering the domain name!  Symbolic, no? . . . no? Er . . . yeah.

But symbolism aside (or else inextricably included), there’s many good things in store.  Beginning with this! In keeping with the site’s first resurrection, here’s a second helping of our own special brand of multimedia experience—

Listen to The Wall Street Shuffle by the not-well-enough-known British rock band 10cc while reading this strip from the darkly funny webcomic Pictures for Sad Children:

Then, for the irony, play Investopedia’s online stock simulator at the same time!

So a week or two ago I was rooting through my hard drive in preparation for leaving for college (which event explains and half-way excuses the recent blogular hibernation in these parts), and I encountered a great host of files I had forgotten about long ago.  Amongst them were this mp3 file and this image:

. . . captured in the wilds of the internet and raised in captivity.  Zoological research has confirmed that they originally resided on these two websites, respectively, though the former homeland has ceased to be as hospitable as it once was.

Best enjoyed in tandem.