'Bred Crumbs
10.25.03
Give Them Two Days and One Room
11:25 PMNew Trading Spaces carpenter Carter and new Trading Spaces designer Barry: cutest couple ever.
10.23.03
The Network That's Just Overtired
03:06 PMMan, Fox "News" is such a baby. First, there was the Al Franken lawsuit; next, according to Matt Groening*, the news-network facsimile stamped its widdle feet and briefly cried "sue" because The Simpsons made fun of it. Groening's cartoon is Fox-owned and -operated, and in the end Fox decided not to eat its young. (For a change.) But watch out, Mad TV, you could be next!
Unless, of course, this is all just Groening pulling our collective leg.
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* Dallas Morning News link via Toon Zone.
10.21.03
Tonight's Television Topic
11:05 AMDiscuss: Wouldn't Lorelai and Rory Gilmore hate the Gilmore Girls theme song? Or, would Lorelai like it and Rory mock her for it?
If the Name Doesn't Say It All, The Drawing Does
12:01 AMThe thing that pulls me to the Giant Swedish Furniture Warehouse time and time again is shelfing. One shelf style in particular: the Lack, a thick pasteboard shelf, in a variety of colors and/or veneers, that has no visible means of support. It's mounted on a bracket inserted within the shelf. This spartan approach is starkly illustrated by the cover of the installation booklet:
Is it a shelf or a geometry diagram? Some VP at the Giant Swedish Furniture Warehouse must have been concerned about such possible confusion, because on the outside of the box a little something was added:
See? It must be a shelf. You can set an old pot on it.
10.20.03
Pepsi Degeneration
02 PMAs a lifelong Pepsi preferrer, I've endured a parade of repulsive pitchpeople: Michael Jackson (flambé), Britney, Shakira, the Osbornes, Beyoncé screeching out one of the very most annoying opera pieces ever, that damn little girl. Through it all, I've averted my eyes and ears and loyally kept consuming.
But if Pepsi signs the Queer Eye quintet*, thus making them even more unavoidable, I may finally have to jump beverage ship. Not that Coke ads do anything for me, but at least those oh-so-precious polar bears aren't likely to inflict makeovers on each other. After all, white is the new black.
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* Link via TV Tattle.
10.19.03
Signs of the Times
07:28 PMSigns of Life is a great new site devoted to pictures of signs that are humorous, mysterious or otherwise transcendant. And I'm not just praising the site because it accepted two submissions (this and this) of mine.
Design of the Times
01:27 AMSo here you have it, a redesigned 'Bred Crumbs. The changes aren't as drastic as the time it took to deliver them might have suggested, but it kind of updates the look while keeping the essentials: fluidity, wide-open spaces, and rust, rust, rust. OK, so maybe the left-hand column color is a little too Cnet 1998, but it's just how things worked out. Don't be surprised if there are little design tweaks to colors and images in the weeks to come.
Generally, most things seem to be working right, except for a couple of lesser bugs I'm still fixing, and anything that might emerge as I gradually access other machines. If you see something amiss, please click an email button and report it. Be advised that Crumbs from before mid-June 2002 aren't quite working and playing with the new design exactly right, but updates of those may be an infinitely long time coming.
Sadly, I have little in the way of new content to show off with the new face, except for a long overdue update of My 25 Cents' Worth.
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