--- a/bitsyblog/blog.py	Sun Feb 23 17:45:22 2014 -0800
+++ b/bitsyblog/blog.py	Thu Apr 21 15:17:39 2016 -0700
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
-"""blog interfaces to data for bitsy"""
+"""
+blog models
+"""
 
+# imports
 import datetime
 import os
+import sys
 import utils
-
 from cStringIO import StringIO
 from glob import glob
 from pkg_resources import iter_entry_points
 
+
 class BlogEntry(object):
     """interface class for a blog entry"""
+
     def __init__(self, date, body, privacy, user, modified=None):
         self.date = date
         self.body = body
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@
         blog.sort(key=lambda entry: entry.date, reverse=True)
         return blog[:number]
 
-    # interfaces for subclasses
+    ### interfaces for subclasses
 
     def blog(self, user, permissions, number=None):
         """
@@ -95,6 +100,7 @@
     def delete(self, user, datestamp):
         """remove a blog entry"""
 
+
 class FileBlog(Blog):
     """a blog that lives on the filesystem"""
 
@@ -110,9 +116,15 @@
 
     def get_entry(self, user, datestamp, permission):
         modified = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(self.location(user, permission, datestamp)))
-        return BlogEntry(utils.date(datestamp),
-                         self.body(user, datestamp, permission),
-                         permission, user, modified=modified)
+        try:
+            return BlogEntry(utils.date(datestamp),
+                             self.body(user, datestamp, permission),
+                             permission,
+                             user,
+                             modified=modified)
+        except Exception:
+            sys.stderr.write("Error getting blog entry for datestamp: '{0}'\n".format(datestamp))
+            raise
 
     ### interfaces from Blog