I’ve been biting my virtual tongue all week, trying to contain myself, but finally! The new, better, faster, stronger Gunpowder & Lead is here - cleaner look, better subscription services, and big plans for the near future.
And if that weren’t exciting enough, I’m thrilled to announce the newest addition to the G&L crew: Dan Trombly! He’s a scholar and a gentleman and if you haven’t been following his work at Slouching Towards Columbia, you don’t know what you’re missing. Fortunately, you’ve got a weekend to catch up - should be just enough time to get through the most recent post. If you read quickly.
Honestly, I cannot adequately express my gratitude for my co-bloggers or for you, our readers. I never expected to get this much enjoyment out of this blog, so thank you for making this so worthwhile. I have a quick favor to ask - can you go update your blogrolls and email subscriptions and RSS feeds right now please? I know it’s a pain, but I promise we won’t do this to you again. We’re here to stay.
In fact, to make up for the outrage, I’m giving away two Go The Fuck To War prints*! (because that’s how birthdays and blogging work, right? I give you stuff? … wait.)
To enter for a chance to win, just leave a comment on this post with a suggestion for blog features / post topics / sarcastic warmongering artwork you’d like to see. Deadline to enter is Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 EST. One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime on Thursday.
* There’s some explaining to be done around these, but in short: no, I’m not really mongering for war through art. More TK.
One of the smallest arms is the cell phone. You folks are pretty smart cats, I’d like to see some more on civil society abroad outta you. Pakistan would be a good start…Syria too…certainly Afghanistan.
Send me a couple of these prints…hell, I’ll pay for them.
Civil society? But that sounds so… civil.
We’re working on setting up some kind of storefront - will keep you posted!
More collegial eviscerations.
I love the new site! And I’d like to see more of the same, if possible, please.
I would like a regular crossover feature entitled “Shoot this/Drink that”*, which we can co-author.
*Drink and shoot things responsibly, kids.
I wholeheartedly endorse this.
I was going to post something, but this epically brilliant idea totally fried my circuits.
More on Latin America, please.
Latin where now? Oh, do you mean that weird landmass somewhere south of Texas? Rgr.
Yeah they seem to have a lot of guns too. Figured it fit.
More about good old Europe and. Keep up the spirit!
Thanks! We do love us some Europe.
Congratulations on the new site and the ever-expanding stable of talent. Perhaps as a tangent to Diana’s work (and Daveed and Dan’s forthcoming paper) on small arms, I would be interested in reading any additional coverage you can offer on organized crime networks.
Also, I would like a weekly podcast.
Can it be a podcast about scotch? I’d do a weekly scotchcast.
And good idea - I’d been thinking about organized crime for a while and it fell by the wayside, but perhaps I’ll pick that back up.
More shallowness, less depth. More buzzwords and exclamation points. Just one man’s opinion.
Thank God for you, sir. I hate all this in-depth analytical stuff we’ve been doing lately. Instead, we’re gonna synergize solutions and follow up with the appropriate stakeholders. It’ll be great.
I wholeheartedly agree!!!!!
A store to sell random merch like the prints. (Personally, I’d buy a tshirt of those). Echo the podcast suggestion above. Also, change your twitter bio to this site, not the wordpress one. Other than that, good work!
Aw, dang! I knew there was something I was forgetting to do! Rollouts: They’re Kinda Challenging. Thanks!
Chronicle academia and think-tank buzzwords ala Pentagonese. Keep Dan away from the entry on R2P.
More pictures, perhaps.