My Eyes! O, It Burns …
Just wanted to mention that I know this site has the most visually boring layout possible. I am in the midst of deciding which WordPress template I want to use; or I might go with Textpattern, which I’ve heard good things about. Textpattern seems to be more of a cross between blogging software and content management, which might work out better for me even though most of what I do is writing.
The template I use actually is a WordPress template (the “Kubrick,” which is their original and default template) but it’s run through my own domain host’s coding and cannot be customized to any great extent. And I hate fixed-width layouts with those giant margins. I just have to make a decision and then install the software. And copy everything from here first, because with my luck Something Bad Will Happen and I’ll lose all this writing.
There is just so much to do and not enough hours in the day. I really wish I could be like Leonardo Da Vinci, who is said to have only slept 3 hours a night. I loves my sleep but it’s a giant time-waster. That’s pretty much why I gave up TV except for TDS, TCR, CNN, and C-Span. And Faux News when I want to fulfill any fleeting masochistic tendancies I might ever have, since watching them always gives me a giant pain in the stomach and a headache. But sometimes I can’t stop myself. I do watch a few regular shows now and then but I can hardly remember the last time I watched some certain series 2 weeks in a row.
In years past I have always gotten HBO for the time when The Sopranos came on but this year I didn’t. For one, I just hate to have to be glued to the chair in front of the TV set. Two, I can get them for free via The Mysterious Underground, assuming I’m willing to wait at least a half day past original air time, and that’s fine with me. And three, much as I like the series, those people are just so revolting. The women especially are so … gross … I can’t think of a better word. They all know that their husbands/boyfriends make a living off robbing, torturing, and murdering people–often totally innocent non-Mob-connected people–and they are all totally fine with it as long as they get to keep buying their designer clothes and German sports cars. If I were Meadow, when I realized what my father was, I would have moved away in the middle of the night and changed my name. But she’s all cool and fine with it and now she’s dragging her fiancé into it. Like she can’t figure out what goes on at that “construction” site. They’re just all such shallow putrid people. Yes I know they are fictional characters. They can still be revolting and generate feelings of disgust in those who are watching. They wouldn’t be “good” fiction if they didn’t cause a reaction like this. I, myself, have just had enough of subjecting myself to feeling a little sick when watching them. I can get that from Faux News, and it takes less time.