Thursday, September 10, 2009
I Told You She Was Real
For years (when the subject has come up) I've been telling people about this Skipper doll I had when I was a kid. "It was kinda like prepubescent Skipper," I'd say. "If you rotated her arm, her breasts would grow." I'm not sure anyone ever believed me. Now, thanks to a random comment posted in response to the upcoming Altered Barbie show in The City, I can prove it. Thanks Sarah. Whoever you are.
Fine, Blogger. You Win. This Time.
I finally did it. I abandoned my old template in favor of this new design. Why had I been resistant to make this change? Well, because I HATE the archive options. The old design didn't give a flip when I wrote something and didn't organize by date. It simply gave you a list of Post Titles. If you liked the title, you'd click through and read. Now, I used to work pretty hard on interesting titles and I didn't want to see them disappear to lists of "May" and "September." Worse, under this new template you get stupid little triangles (aaauuuuggggghhhhh!) by the monthly header if you want your post titles to show. Blogger, if you're listening, THIS IS UGLY. Just gimme a list of post titles and be done with it.
So I've been thinking of moving the blog to Bravenet or another provider (I have friends who seem to like WordPress), but ultimately, I'm attached to this one. And, frankly, I'm not writing often enough anymore to bother with a move. So a little redesign (with ugly archives) and... here she is.
Unfortunately, to make a banner out of the picture at the top, I had to crop out the offending tag. Friends who've followed me on Facebook and other outlets will get the joke -- the armless OCD statue helpless to straighten the upside down tablecloth, tag showing. For the rest of you, here's the full shot:
Fitting, no?
So I've been thinking of moving the blog to Bravenet or another provider (I have friends who seem to like WordPress), but ultimately, I'm attached to this one. And, frankly, I'm not writing often enough anymore to bother with a move. So a little redesign (with ugly archives) and... here she is.
Unfortunately, to make a banner out of the picture at the top, I had to crop out the offending tag. Friends who've followed me on Facebook and other outlets will get the joke -- the armless OCD statue helpless to straighten the upside down tablecloth, tag showing. For the rest of you, here's the full shot:
Fitting, no?
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Kells Irish
While the meter maid gave an unsuspecting San Francisco citizen a ticket, I snapped this shot of the Kells Irish Restaurant and Bar ("pub" in the fine print) through her minuscule vehicle.
I visited Kells in Seattle a few years ago.
There's a T-shirt to prove it somewhere.