Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
by krisis
Speaking of Ms. DiFranco, she was just on the always-scrumptious KCRW show Morning Becomes Eclectic with her two horn players accompanying her otherwise solo acoustic performance (of the beat-poem “Fuel,” a wholly stunning “Marrow,” and (wow) the funky “Ain’t That the Way,” among other things). Catch the webcast here in streaming real audio!
by krisis
There has been lazy rain dropping through the haze all day and it has left the sky a baby kind of yellow like ruddy cheeks after a long shower. I bought lots of food so that i’m not starving so often, and i washed some dishes. Tiny dents in the giant pile of stuff i’ve been meaning to get done. I finally did away with all of my various nested tables because they were from the ages of antiquity. Matt fits perfectly on the couch from toe to top of touseled hair. He sleeps there often and i can never figure out why … this room is cooler but the couch is too fuzzy for this weather and we can turn the air on in the other room. I’ve decided not understanding a roommate is no reason to hate them. I have fixings for tortellini alfredo that will be yummily cooked as soon as i finish the second half of my dishes. Also, i updated my favourite links with recent reads book of days and halo33, as well as adding liz to the crushed bar.
I have been neglecting linking to Liz for quite some time now and it has only really hurt me because i keep forgetting to read her site; she comes at everything freshly and she makes me feel young and romantic even when i’m not feeling too much like either of those at all. Reading her page actually puts a lazy smile on my face that leaves me glowing & clean afterwards. Just like the rain.
by krisis
So, i redesigned.
This design is the first one not to use the basic frameset of left-side vs. middle that i’ve been publishing with since day one, and as redesigns go it was quick (less than six hours from starting the logo to publishing). It’s not exactly a visual revolution, but the interior code got totally scrapped and rewritten and a few old mainstays have been given the boot (ie: the rainbow separator bar and the brief date styles). My general dislike of graphics obviously persists, but i still want to add a touch of color here and there so we could be seeing a few more in the future.
Aside from my old sidebar getting entirely too long for my tastes, the old style of the page was beginning to make me feel claustrophobic. The page started out black and green but shortly evolved to a very white look with intricate background patterns, and then to a white on white scheme. I like a mostly white pages and i like tables with outlines, and neither of these facts will be changing anytime soon. However, just the ‘xoxox’ header graphic was too plain an idea to have hung around as long as it did. Behind the scenes i’m sporting increasingly cleaner code that doesn’t quite make it through the W3C validator on technicalities that i’ll clean up tomorrow, as well as a beefed up style sheet that i’m definitely going to hone so that i never have to fuss with font tag again.
I’m not done with this design-shift by a longshot… it’s still slightly too plain (and i have to somehow make the rest of the site continue to work until it gets the matching makeover, and i suspect it doesn’t right now). But, anyhow, here’s the new look that will become the old look once you reload it a couple of hundred times. It’s very… pumpkiny. If it makes your browser cry, or if you have useful suggestions, please feel free to give a holler.
by krisis
Seeing my face staring back at me from main page will take some getting used to.
by krisis
For those of you who didn’t realize that Philadelphia was the sexual technology Mecca of the East coast, check out this msnbc story about two women who were arrested for running a “sex dungeon” out of their residential “computer solutions” storefront. This local flavour story was brought to national spotlight [sic] by my local NBC affiliate, who didn’t even bother to blur out the number on the store’s sign. Good job, guys.
Philadelphia’s NBC10 news crew is the largest local collection of yellow journalists and hyperbole artists that i’ve ever had the opportunity to witness in action, and their newscast tends to be aimed directly at people who circle Access Hollywood and Wheel of Fortune in their teevee listing every week (which is a double whammy, because not only are those two syndicated gems typically aimed at the lowest possible denominator possible, they tend to be on at the same time every night and thus don’t generally require circling). Lead stories on their news teasers feature (in this order) (without fail) death, fire, breaking news on weightloss, & NBC-centric entertainment news. This station followed each NBA Championship game with a half-hour of local coverage featuring reporters standing in every sports bar in the Greater Philadelphia Area rather than run the normal nightly news or the NBC post-game show. They break into soap operas to report a dusting of snow that had been forecasted the night before. Their anchors are local glamourpusses who marry local politicians and are in-turn reported on by local gossip columns. In other words, it’s a quality all-American news organization that focuses on the subject-matter that an alarming number of Philadelphians actually care about.
Please don’t fail to take note of the wholly unspecific and incidental (though ironically written) reporting on this story by Lu Ann Cahn, who recently reported on a “Flash Fire” at Drexel that was really a small propane tank explosion. Aside from her tantalizing lead-in mention of the women possessing a “large knife,” there’s the explicit name-dropping of “medical bondage.” Unless Lu Ann has mistaken “bondage” for the ever popular “masochism” angle of S&M, i can’t imagine what she meant by “medical bondage” other than maybe wrapping ace bandages around unusual body parts. My favourite part of of the article was, without a doubt, friends and neighbors who didn’t mind the (apparently) openly operated sex shop as long as “they would be dressed real nice” and that their customers were “guys in Mercedes.”
B&D, S&M, E&P, and the shocking news about your favourite Friends star’s personal life, tonight on NBC10 at 11! And, for more unsual explorations of sex and computers, head over to Ernie at LYD, who blogged the article all the way from California.