It was time for a new look. The previous one, based upon a theme called Tandil, was pretty cool and had a sort of Tangiers bazaar look to it plus a lot of jazzy operational do-dahs. But it just got to be too dark.
A lot of what is going on with the country seems to be not so hot. A lot of times after going through press outlets and blogs my mood would get kind of dark and it seemed unhelpful to have gloomy thoughts or even funny, satirical thoughts — about gloomy events — presented in a setting that ran to burnt orange and umber, whose brightest accent was a hazy gray or a radiation-yellow.
So I went shopping for a new Theme.
Unless you’re a blogging-platform veteran, for whom <? and ?> are as natural as breathing, shopping for a theme is similar to [I know this is going to sound silly but sometimes a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do] a young girl shopping for a new hat [I know. I know. I should be talking tattoos or piercings. But this is my blog and I have a right to my two sq. ft. of earth just like anybody else so I’m going to employ images that are germane to what you might call the Apollonian aspects of my experiences].
Will my mother like it? Will it look good if I get transported into a movie with Tommy Dee and Sandra Sands? If I get hit by a car and Keanu Reeves is the ambulance attendant will he keep it forever as a treasured memento? Will my dad say it makes me look cheap?
Well, anyway, the smart thing to do would have been to set up a local server here on my own machine so I could try out the various looks until I found one that I liked, and, when I did, get it tweaked just right before it went “live.” Yeah. Right. Doing things the smart way. Pull the other one.
So things will be a little chaotic for a while and if something disappears and then reappears in a different place do not adjust your set.
Well, that’s an explanation of sorts for the chaos. If you’re interested in the idea of blog themes you can go HERE. It is to me almost magical that in a matter of seconds a blog can be changed from a serene, studied mien to steam punk.
Thing is, each time you change themes you have to set some stuff up again, and it will take me a day or so to do (actually, figure out how to do) a few things, like fix the RSS subscribe button.
But please don’t desert me.
