So I have been working on a potential new job. I will let everyone know about that later and give full details.
Suffice to say, it involves me dealing with everyones crap.
I was up this morning having my morning coffee thinking about things to write about in my blog and I would like to address three issues.
1. My new blog layout. As it turns out, a couple people don't like it. Here is the problem. As I looked at the font I was using in my last blog layout... the classic and ubiquitous 'Times Serif' I found myself looking at a font so uptight and proper that it was actually affecting my gentle, subtle, yet humourous writing style. What I wanted to portray to all of my beloved readers was that I was hip, and cool and relaxed. That I could, you know, get down and boogaloo with all you cats and chicks. So I desired a softer and generic san serif font, which I find more able to be read.
Initially I intended to change the font and some colours on the blog altogether, however I ran into some considerable resistence from Bloggers web-based weblog logarithms set within my chosen template. Basically I was stymied by some glitch in the system. I do, for the record, like the general layout of the last blog layout, but because I felt the font and colours were not representative of my new and hip attitude, I switched. Perhaps you can get used it? I don't know. I will be more than happy to bring back the old layout as soon as I can figure out how to properly format it. If not I still may bring it back, even with the old font... Because That Is How Much I Love My Readers!
2. I have tracked down an 'Adam Halliday' that actually lives not only in my great city, Halifax, but within my neighbourhood! I have been busy gathering information about him and will contact him soon. Remember...THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE (possibly two).
3. I have been doing some writing as per a request that was made for me...it will be in several parts. Keep your eyes out for it.
One last thing I suppose. You know, from time to time I see people walking down the street glaring ahead with their headphones of varying shape and size, and I think 'man, I am glad for those people!' I mean, if it wasn't for those people then who would there be to tune me and the rest of the world out? Because boy, oh boy, we certainly are a noisey, raucous bunch. Kudos, I say.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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For the record, yes you are a noisy raucous bunch. But it's not so much the noise I'm blocking out, as it is the noise I'm tuning in. CocoRosie, The Flaming Lips, Fiest or Vinal Café just to name a few of my favorites. Obviously you've never had the pleasure of making your daily trek to wherever it is you need to be, while your favorite beats become the soundtrack to your life. Think about it..... Early morning, 20 minute trek across the commons to get you to your hum drum job in the cold wet snow - cause it's NS in the winter - with Mush-a-boom playing in the background. Or how about watching the local crazies come and go on the bus (talk about a raucous bunch) yelling at the driver, drunk and mumbling to themselves, while Yann Tiersan’s playful La Noyee plays in your ears reminding you that life is beautiful! (See what I'm sayin?)
This is not to say that mp3 players don’t detract from getting to know your neighbor or flirting with the cute girl in the café -which are both equally important to a thriving community- but so does msn and yahoo and facebook and txt messages etc, etc, etc….. In my not-so-humble opinion, we’re all becoming/are cyborgs by way of laptops, mp3s, prosthetic limbs and even pharmaceuticals consistently pervading our bodies and our lives.
Don’t take it personally Mr. blogger, but sometimes the noisy world needs to be shut out for the sake of some beautiful music ;)
-Defensive Mp3 cyborg354785377
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