Hello everyone.
Obviously this blog is up and running and the old blog is dead, and boy am I glad about that.
There are many changes to come to this site, the biggest being an integration into a full blown website that should be happening in the next few weeks. Nothing obtrusive or anything, just a tiny menu bar that will appear in the black space above the title banner of the blog. (Which will always be the main page and main focus of this site.) I wanted a place to keep a bio page and a page dedicated to my writing and what not... with Movable Type I can merge those into the blog, so here I am. Only none of those extra bells and whistles exist just yet!
Also, the left sidebar is still unfinished and emptyish. The FlickR random photo popups seem to only load half of the time. This makes me angry.
The new title... the new title is something I'll have to bring up on the yet to be created FAQ page. Jeremy commented that I was getting a bit pretentious when he saw the title. He said, "What does that even mean?" I don't know what the hell it means, really. I didn't come up with it!
The title comes from a message board thread about my family that I found on Google. You can read the entire thread here. (The relevant stuff starts on the third post.) It is the single funniest thing I've read in regards to my father's television show.
I want to put a transcript of it in my book, it's so funny. These people are so critical of us, yet they have really nice things to say at the same time. That thread is a rollercoaster and I love it.
For those that don't feel like sorting through the thread to find the good stuff, I'll reprint some of it below...
-I've discovered George Stella from "Low Carb & Lovin' It" on the food network channel, and I bought his recipe book.-I TIVO that show, but the man scares me.
-That's because he *is* scary . . . and his wife and kids seem like robots instead of real people. The show does have great meal ideas tho, and I've cooked a couple of them for my roommates and sig. other.
-Hmm, why is he scary to you guys? His son Christian is cute. They probably seem like robots because they aren't actors, and maybe they're a little nervous about being on TV.
-It's not a robotic thing for me, it's quite the opposite. His personality is still that of the jovial-yet-insecure "fat guy", yet his body is not. There's an incongruity there that's quite dissonant to me.
-Yeah, I guess I see what you mean. He does annoy me sometimes. But I love his recipes!
-***** is probably right, his wife and kids are probably just nervous about being on TV, but that results in the robotic-like behavior that I perceive. (His son is cute!)
