Today marks a big change in the blog world, readers: We are closing down Various Things & Stuff and starting up an all-new blog, called SlashPolitics.com.

Don’t fret: You’ll still get all the blogging you’ve come to expect from us at Various Things & Stuff, although we will be losing the royal “we,” along with the cigar and sweet fedora. In exchange, you’ll get a lot more political news and headlines, both local and national, analysis, totally unscientific Internet polling and even videos.

SlashPolitics.com is up now, and we hope you’ll check it out, bookmark the page and return frequently for updates. (In the near future, we’ll find ways for you to subscribe so you can get an e-mail alert whenever we post.) As always, you can follow us on Twitter for breaking news, political updates and the occasional personal anecdote thrown in for good measure.

We’re excited about the new blog, and we hope you’ll be, too. So head there now!