Housekeeping
by phill
photo credit: Wisconsin Historical Society
This coming week I’ll be trying out a few things with this blog, the main aim being to get a more streamlined and personalised feel to it. I’m using a lot of stock standard plugins and a theme that, while very nice, is still someone else’s work, and I’d like to have a crack at at least modifying it so that I can say my layout is unique. So if you wander in over the next few days and it’s just static string sof incomprehensible gibberish (as if it wasn’t already) you have my apologies, I’m probably waist deep in the engine trying to find out what the ‘Header’ tag means, exactly.
As a few of you know, I do freely offer access to hosting a blog here. So far I’ve only had three takers, located at Cornea, Blotting Paper, and Spinebreaker, but if anyone who visits would like me to add them to the group, feel free. Once I get enough people jotting down their thoughts, I’ll probably change the front page from a redirect to an actual splash screen. So if you want to have your own toothsoup.com/yournamehere (or, when I get around to the housekeeping aspect, that might change to yournamehere.toothsoup.com) then just fire off an email to phill@toothsoup.com and I’ll get right on it. Obviously I’d prefer it if the blogs contained here weren’t of the myspace variety, but I’m willing to give anyone a fair go.
Other than that, I’m still sick, and I spent the weekend helping Lou out at her place making a model for her project. Her design is really cool, and it was actually pretty fun making the model. It was relaxing all the way up to the part where the columns just wouldn’t fucking stick, but by that time it looked nice enough that I could lean back and pronounce it done:
Not much else to say, really. I’ve been working on and off on a really crazy free writing piece that has so far hit 2,500 words. I’m hoping to hit roughly 6,000 and then cut everything back to between a half and a third of that. As happens in free writing, most of it is dribble, so it’s going to be pretty easy to do so. Once I’ve finished that, it’ll be back to regular stories that flesh out the rest of the myth. Wish me luck!
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Nice work on the model :)
Cheers man (: Now email me so I can set up your blog!
Just started John Cheever’s short story collection, 2 pages in and I already dig it. Bought it because he’s always compared to Raymond Carver, and Cheever supposedly wrote a lot about suburban alcoholism. It’s a subject I’m interested in finding out about since it’s totally foreign to me. Supposedly he used a lot of nuance, I hope that doesn’t ruin it for me.
I want to start a blog with book reviews like the above on toothsoup. I think it will be a huge hit. Especially since it’s not a book review, I’ve only read 2 pages and already have an opinion, and obviously have already had one drink and have therefore contradicted myself. I’ll call it The Literate Hypocrite.
hi.
Done and done. Check your email.