diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 2456142..a5f2ee0 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ Revision history for AnyEvent-HTTP-Message
 
 {{$NEXT}}
 
+0.100     2012-04-19T01:28:25Z
+
   - Initial release
diff --git a/README.pod b/README.pod
index c2b9b83..5ea7fc8 100644
--- a/README.pod
+++ b/README.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,158 @@
-=head1 AnyEvent::HTTP::Message
+=for :stopwords Randy Stauner ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TODO featureful http cpan testmatrix url
+annocpan anno bugtracker rt cpants kwalitee diff irc mailto metadata
+placeholders metacpan
 
-See module POD for more information.
+=encoding utf-8
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+AnyEvent::HTTP::Message - Lightweight objects for AnyEvent::HTTP Request/Response
+
+=head1 VERSION
+
+version 0.100
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+  # don't use this directly
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This is a base class for:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+L<AnyEvent::HTTP::Request>
+
+=item *
+
+L<AnyEvent::HTTP::Response>
+
+=back
+
+=head1 CLASS METHODS
+
+=head2 new
+
+The constructor accepts either a single hashref of named arguments,
+or a specialized list of arguments that will be passed to
+a the L</parse_args> method (which must be defined by the subclass).
+
+=head2 parse_args
+
+Called by the constructor
+when L</new> is not called with a single hashref.
+
+Must be customized by subclasses.
+
+=head1 ATTRIBUTES
+
+=head2 body
+
+Message content body
+
+=head2 content
+
+Alias for L</body>
+
+=head2 headers
+
+Message headers (hashref)
+
+=head1 METHODS
+
+=head2 header
+
+  my $ua  = $message->header('User-Agent');
+  # same as $message->header->{'user-agent'};
+
+Takes the specified key,
+converts C<_> to C<-> and lower-cases it,
+then returns the value of that message header.
+
+=head1 SUPPORT
+
+=head2 Perldoc
+
+You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
+
+  perldoc AnyEvent::HTTP::Message
+
+=head2 Websites
+
+The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always,
+in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Search CPAN
+
+The default CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
+
+L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>
+
+=item *
+
+RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker
+
+The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.
+
+L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>
+
+=item *
+
+CPAN Ratings
+
+The CPAN Ratings is a website that allows community ratings and reviews of Perl modules.
+
+L<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>
+
+=item *
+
+CPAN Testers
+
+The CPAN Testers is a network of smokers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.
+
+L<http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/A/AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>
+
+=item *
+
+CPAN Testers Matrix
+
+The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.
+
+L<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>
+
+=item *
+
+CPAN Testers Dependencies
+
+The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.
+
+L<http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=AnyEvent::HTTP::Message>
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Bugs / Feature Requests
+
+Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to C<bug-anyevent-http-message at rt.cpan.org>, or through
+the web interface at L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>. You will be automatically notified of any
+progress on the request by the system.
+
+=head2 Source Code
+
+
+L<https://github.com/rwstauner/AnyEvent-HTTP-Message>
+
+  git clone https://github.com/rwstauner/AnyEvent-HTTP-Message.git
+
+=head1 AUTHOR
+
+Randy Stauner <rwstauner@cpan.org>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
 
@@ -9,4 +161,3 @@ This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Randy Stauner.
 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
 
-=cut