Idling near the gravel pit

Rural speed, shed talk, hard chirps, and the suspicion that a simple job should stay simple.

The truck is idling in the drive, the coffee is gas-station warm, and your site is finally doing its basic tasks without dressing them up as a product launch.

Dirtbag is here for plain posts, visible links, comments, feeds, OPML, XFN, microformats, web-safe colours, and just enough CSS to keep the text from hugging the ditch.

• RSS is visible.
• Comments are open.
• The blogroll has an OPML file.
• The only JavaScript is WordPress core’s own — the theme’s stays in the glovebox.

Somewhere under the hood, there is a rockabilly backbeat: slap bass, cheap chrome, and a rhythm section made of loose bolts.

Outside, the sound of car tires coming down your gravel road…

If a page can be a page, let it be a page.

And get on with the writing!