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birthdays & blog themes & bourbon

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I don’t know the original source of the image or any of the important things one should know before posting an image publicly, so I’ll take all blame for sharing it here.

My pal Sal made me this hilarious rendition of the party he’d throw me if he could invite monkeys, manatees, and gators to a birthday party. Safely, I mean. You could cart all three into a room and dress them up and give them cake. I guess…

Once.

I think the card/imaginary party is a safer way to go.

Less cleanup.

Also, fewer chances of any sort of Fish and Wildlife Service or other law enforcement intervention. The older I get, the less desirable these things become.

I’ve been neglecting you a bit mostly due to illness and then some unsuccessful adventures in re-theming this site. I’ve been too stubborn to give in and hire a wordpress guru, but I’m getting close to admitting I can’t roll my own any longer (a conclusion I should have reached a long time ago, I know).

I’ll be back soon – expect a post on Monday about the craptacular 2008 SyFy movie, Lost City Raiders.

Just as soon as I sober up.

Not from my birthday, from the Lost City Raiders viewing session. It’s a doozy, but I mean that in the best possible way.

Tag, you’re it! (Also: shut the fuck up about the royal baby)

I wanted to do a flashy redesign but then I went down a rabbithole while cleaning up the tagging system that had gotten a bit out of control.

While cleaning up the tags I’ve fixed loads of broken code, broken links, missing images, and all those other things no one likes to keep an eye on.

Tags should provide a nifty way to quickly visualize topics I blog about on a regular basis.

Tags actually provide evidence that I just like to tag things.

-Telepathic crickets.

-Huckabee.

-Things that will strangle you in your sleep.

-Dinosaur Super-soldiers.

-Who gives a fuck about the royal baby? It’s a baby. They all look like sticky bags of flesh.

-Giant snakes.

-No one pays attention to the tags.

-Shut the fuck up about the royal baby. You don’t know the baby. Babies are weird to everyone except the person whose lady parts they squirmed out of.

I’ve finally edited things down from 3,000+ unique tags to fewer than 400. This took forever, but I had a little time to kill recently. (You don’t think I’m actually paying attention when I watch all those SyFy craptacular movies, do you?)

new template. again.

Patience, my pets, while I try out a new template. Nothing is were I left it and the whole process makes me a bit irritable these days because my PHP skills are, um, lacking, so everything takes ten times longer than the bad old days of plain vanilla HTML tweeking. There probably wasn’t anything wrong with the old template, but it kind of bugged me.

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Everything I do, I do for JunglePete*

You should now be able to subscribe to follow-up comments via email. I know, how very 2002 of me. I’ve been meaning to fix that for a while now (probably since 2002), you can thank JunglePete for encouraging me to fix this feature. Also, go read his post, “Living Without Aigrettes” and look at the pretty bird pictures. I know you loyally read all his posts, but I just wanted to make sure you didn’t miss that one. Educational and aesthetically pleasing. Bonus.
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