Ack! Template Unpleasantness
Something about the width of the evil barbecue poster pic seems to have wreaked havoc with my template: I’ve finally got a decent text width, but with the undesired side effect of putting all my links at the bottom of the page. I swear that wasn’t happening on Thursday evening. I’m not sure what’s going on, because reloading the original template doesn’t seem to have fixed the weirdness (though it did mean I had to relink my About page), and neither has resizing the picture. Curses. Maybe I should just switch to a completely different template. (I’ve tried to replace the default picture with one of my own, a sharpened-beyond-all-sense cropped version of one of my pictures from Holyrood, but I can’t seem to get the thing to refresh. Not sure what’s going on, and I’m getting frustrated, so that means it’s time to let it rest for a while.)
Went to see Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” yesterday evening. It was good, but to me it suffered from Overhypus Mortificarus: expectations had been built so much that, no matter how good the plot or animation or voicing is, you feel sort of let down by the reality. Also, the maggot character kind of got on my nerves, and there was way too much punning for my taste. It’s worth seeing, but personally I think it’s more of a Netflixable thing than an opening-night thing.
Too much punning! It wasn’t nearly as good as the Nightmare Before Xmas. :cry:
I like the new header photo.
September 24th, 2005 | #
Thanks! Apparently there’s a bit of lag time between replacing files and them actually filtering down so they show up. Resizing the picture also helped. I was kind of surprised by the effect of repeatedly sharpening the picture in Picasa, but I think it’s kind of cool, almost like an engraving.
CB struck me as much more of a children’s movie than NBXmas did, though it’s been so long since I’ve seen the latter, I may be misremembering.
September 24th, 2005 | #
I’m likely to lose massive geek/respect points here but I’ve really just never been a fan of Tim Burton. Not that I can’t appreciate him, just that his films almost always leave me wondering why. And so, I really don’t have any interest in seeing CB. I’m too old and set in my ways to worry about this ruining my cred.
September 24th, 2005 | #
No point loss at all. I really liked his early movies, but his later work has struck me as kind of uneven. I mean, Planet of the Apes? WTF? And the casting (particularly their relative ages) in Sleepy Hollow kind of weirded me out. I keep hoping, though.
At least CatCF was good, and suitably odd.
September 25th, 2005 | #