WordPress 2.3.1 Update
I did it! I updated WordPress without wanting to kill myself. The thing that I learned though is FatCow (my hosting site) won’t let me directly upload gzip files directly to my site and it appears that their ZIP utility doesn’t seem to decompress the package into the WordPress directory. No biggie, 7 minutes w/FireFTP from a decompressed package on my desktop and… Voila! New, more stable WordPress (fingers crossed). And in playing with WordPress, I thought I’d change up the design to something a little more regal, Royale 1.0. Très Chic!
Ugly Betty
Anyhow, while charting out my day with FreeMind, a mind-mapping tool, that geeks who worship Getting Things Done play with, I watched Ugly Betty and I need to tell everyone, “WATCH THE SHOW! It will make you smile, laugh, cry and somehow make your day a little brighter!” Tanner Stransky – EW.com said it very well, I love Marc and Amanda’s vile antics and cuts, but I admire that the writers appear not to be throwing away an opportunity to examine more critically the hysterical obsession gay men have with their bodies and their image. It will be awesome to see what they do with budding romance between a paunchy photographer like Cliff and an extremely superficial fashion assistant like Marc. I also want to shout props to the writers for being so deft at balancing all the characters. I just keep thinking, “Wow, what a great crew!”
Lost
So, BF & I have a new obsession. It was the sort of thing where I had not returned movies to Blockbuster.com in forever, finally did, needed to do ironing and then, “So, what’s with Lost?”, the ever-skeptical BF asks. “Um, friends liked it, recommended it and I have work to do…” And he didn’t leave and now we keep watching and now we have something like 60-some-odd episodes to go! Well, I’ll have more to say, but I’m going to wait to finish with Season 1 to critique.
Wahoo! I’m in, and the page looks GREAT, and you’re loving Ugly Betty, and you’re loving LOST!!!
I’m clearly excited. UB: i heart marc. He is just so funny and wonderful. I also like Cliff and I like their interaction, but I will admit to still not being fully down with gay PDA. I’m sorry! It’s still weird to me- I’m a horrible straight person who should be beaten with a noodle. Back to the point, though, I do think that they do a FAB job with the show and wonder why more is not being made (in EW, etc) about how other shows (::cough::heroes!::cough::) are sucking in their second season but Betty just keeps on just as wonderfully!
Lost does suck you right in, though. It can get annoying sometimes- wait until S3- but I appreciate a show that’s really different from the rest.
After you catch up on Lost, you should rent HOUSE.
Thanks, my dear. I didn’t compliment your new layout and tunes. They’re fab! In our chats, I never mentioned that I’ve been watching Ugly Betty for a while. G and I talk about it often. I’m glad that you were able to persevere past the homo PDA (It’s funny, at first I thought you were talking about Wilhemina’s new phone that Justin had to program!) what with the toe tapping and all…
RE: House
Been watching that for a while too. Good stuff. I use his tone and words when talking about our clients: “Patients/clients LIE! They continually misrepresent their problems or symptoms to what they THINK should be addressed, not the issue!” Love that. Also, I love Cutty.
RE: Heroes
BF has been whining that I haven’t been recording, but I’ve been watching on-line and, well, not bad, but then I get a little hyper-critical when they start using Irish mobsters…