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Sordid Lives: The Series

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 | love it, must watch | No Comments

If you haven’t seen “Sordid Lives” (20th Century Fox), go out and buy, rent from Netflix, or download it! A Southern classic, it’s a movie all gay men from the South have heard about. I think the best way of describing it is to imagine “Steel Magnolias (Special Edition)” (Herbert Ross), add a cross-dressing Leslie Jordan, a funeral, therapy, and lots of pills and cigarettes.So, it’s been rumbling for a while, but they are making Sordid Lives: The Series, and here’s the trailer!

I like how they added the element of a cute young gay man “discovering himself”. Southern hijinks are the best hijinks!

Tags: love it, must watch, TV

Trip to Whole Foods

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | impulse | No Comments

Goal: Kashi GOLean Roll! Bars @ $0.79 each

Result: $109.31 total receipt purchase.

Tags: groceries, impulse

Best Bouquet Ever

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 | photo | No Comments

@ Whole Foods Buckhead.

Disney’s Aladdin in a jockstrap…

Monday, March 17th, 2008 | daily | No Comments

[From davidkawena's deviantART gallery]

Andymatic had this link up to illustrator David Kawena’s gallery of popular male Disney characters “remixed” with um, details you didn’t get to see in the movies. This isn’t a sordid reimage of innocent characters, I would like to think of this as more of a realization of childhood crushes and giving the characters the depth we innately knew they had.

Tags: art

FIERCE

Monday, March 17th, 2008 | must buy | No Comments

Gurrl! If you were like me and watched the just-ended season of Project Runway, you KNOW what this shirt represents!I’m a big fan of BRAVO’s reality competition shows, even watching their take on interior design (Top Design), but NOT Shear Genius. Right up until NBC decided to pull their shows off of iTunes, I had season passes for Project Runway, Top Design, and Top Chef. Call it my guilty pleasure.

Last week, the Saturday Night Live Clip on Hulu completely resulted in a faggy mess at work, where I went off my rocker and started to end all of my sentences with fierce, tranny, hot mess, hot tranny mess, hot fierce tranny mess, and all sorts of combinations of the above.

So anyways, the above is a picture of the front of a shirt made by Wire & Twine, an excellent store by designers. Their stuff is definitely on my “to-buy” list.

Oh, and it’s a companion to their Make it Work shirt.

(Via the last ten days.)

Brunch at the Dupont Grille, Washington DC

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | Food | No Comments

Ah…. I hate moving….

Sunday, March 16th, 2008 | daily | No Comments

So the website’s been down for a few weeks now. I’m sure no one has noticed, as my updates have generally been sporadic at best, and it’s become quite the photo blog instead. Even Collin noticed.

Well, things at work have been getting kind of hectic, and a general feel of stagnancy with the look and the content just made me feel blah. I guess when you are not being stimulated creatively, professionally, or even individually, there’s just nothing to write about. But I digress about the current turn of events.

I decided to move to Dreamhost a month ago, after four years with my previous provider Mediacatch. They weren’t bad. They just were not suiting my needs. I found myself unable to find out my actual disk storage limits (their system showed me with an unlimited quota for 2 years), and their MySQL system was a bit archaic. The fact is, they were usually so low-maintenance that I forgot their name quite a number of times.

So following my impulsive tendencies, I decided to just up and switch everything over. I downloaded my server contents to a folder, and backed up my wordpress blog database into a 34MB mySQL file.

At the same time, I had just picked up “PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide” (Larry Ullman) to help expand my skill-set, and just for a hobby. This would be a great opportunity to play with code and stuff, and rebuild my geek credo.

I had been tinkering with a redesign for almost a year now for my blog, but could never settle with anything definite. Compared to years ago, where it was normal for me to churn out new looks and designs every six months. Such is designer’s block.

So in the whole moving process, I hit a snag with my wordpress backup. There is a bug in wordpress that was preventing me to import entries later than November 2006. I tested this out on my local installation of wordpress and MySQL (using MAMP), and until that gets resolved, I can’t import any posts from 2001-2007. Hopefully this will be resolved and everythign will be back up.

This current look took 4 hours to create visually. I used the whole of last night (8 hours) to integrate it into a working Wordpress theme. I used Textwrangler and CSSEdit to edit and test. I spent maybe an hour reading up and seeing if Coda could work for me in the future.

The look currently isn’t perfect. I shall have to troubleshoot slowly and fix as bugs come up.

Tags: apology, explanation, update, vent