diff --git a/app/blog.rb b/app/blog.rb
index 606622a3..3d593485 100644
--- a/app/blog.rb
+++ b/app/blog.rb
@@ -8,5 +8,15 @@ end
 
 get '/blog/:article' do |article|
   expires 500, :public, :must_revalidate
-  return Net::HTTP.get_response(URI("http://blog.neocities.org/#{article}.html")).body
+
+  attempted = false
+
+  begin
+    return Net::HTTP.get_response(URI("http://blog.neocities.org/#{article}.html")).body
+  rescue => e
+    raise e if attempted
+    attempted = true
+    article = article.match(/^[a-zA-Z0-9-]+/).to_s
+    retry
+  end
 end
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