Apologies for the technical difficulties that the site has been having this past week. Hear me now: do not use iPowerWeb for your site hosting. They are terrible. This is the fourth time this month that the site’s been unavailable, and getting it back each time was an exercise in stress, aggravation, and white, hot hate. What an incredible collection of morons.

(As they pull the plug on the site in three…two…)

But the worst part about them is not their capricious servers or their poor customer service, but the fact that their email – my jason_at_jasonmulgrewdotcom email – is totally unreliable. I know this because for as long as we’ve been using iPowerWeb, every six weeks or so I’ll get an email from one of you that says, “Really? No response to this?”, and it’s a forward of an email that you had previously sent to me at the jm.com address that I never got. The host company pretty much randomly decides which emails that I get and don’t get. Awesome.

Now provided, I am not the world’s greatest email returner. Especially now with the iPhone, I can check my email anywhere, read it, laugh, and then completely forget about it (this happens a lot when I’m drinking at a bar, shockingly). But still, I have lost sleep over which emails I have missed. Think about it: my agent first contacted me at the jm.com email. People first contacted me at the jm.com email. Without tooting-my-own-horn/name-dropping here (I think we’re too late for that), even musicians whose songs I’ve pimped have written to me at the jm.com email. So what emails to the jm.com email have I missed? Offers for handjobs? Career opportunities? Invites to threesomes? Who knows. Almost worse, those who may or may not have sent such emails did not get a reply from me, and they must think I’m a total asshole (i.e. “Um, so I asked Mulgrew to be the judge of our dick-sucking contest, and he didn’t even reply!”).

[Pauses to collect self, lower blood pressure]

Anyway, sorry again for the problems. Site Guy Brendan and I have discussed moving off the iPowerWeb server and I said fine, mostly because I don’t even know what that means. But hopefully there will be no interruption in service again in the near future.

Thank you for your understanding.