Archive for August, 2005

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Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

UGP is up through T, more or less. Highlights include The Mimosa Cafe (Sturgeon, Zelazny, croissants) The Passion (frightening images of Nichrist), Three Brothers (notional, ridiculous movie created during, I believe, a very long IM with Andrew), and TASP (Ah, quotes whose context I have mostly forgotten).

Up through “S” in UGP Migration

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

Well, “S” is a pretty important letter for UGP, and I’ve finished it off, more or less. I particularly enjoyed fiddling about with the Sci Fi Porn Stars list. (Note: linked page is highly, highly offensive.)

Prison Break Premier

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Okay, so the new fall season kicked off (for me at least) with Prison Break—which features John Doe alum Dominic Purcell. What I didn’t realize is that it also includes Robin Tunney of Empire Records and Peter Stormare—not a monstrously fat Stormare as we (reluctantly) saw in Constantine, but with a compensatory mullet.

Wow.

As for [...]

Grilled Cheese Extravaganza on Slashfood

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Slashfood

Mmm. I do love grilled cheese, and I’m working on a Grilled Cheese Mods page for UGP, but in the meantime, this is pretty cool.

While I’ve done a lot of different things with grilled cheese over the years, here’s a basic walk-through:

Start with good bread; a rustic white or a sourdough batard are good choices; [...]

Consumer doppleganger?

Monday, August 29th, 2005

Well, sort of. I saw someone at the counter today carrying a moleskine, a Pentel “Sharp”, and a rather ungainly Jansport shoulder bag, all products I own and, until relatively recently, carried on a regular basis, and only one of which has any kind of popularity.

Minor site improvements

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

I’ve fiddled with the Gramarye theme a bit, tweaked the feeds (added last.fm, uncrossed the streams) and removed that ugly, ugly header from the UGP sidebar.

Update: Freshened up my FOAF file (kind of) and popped it here. Also set up autodiscovery on Gramarye (if you have the Foaf Explorer bookmarklet, or something like it, you [...]

2005 Fall Lineup

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

It is a well-known fact that I am all about television. I love it, absolutely. Or, rather, I am passionate about it, which sometimes means love and sometimes means hate. And I definitely believe that, one way or another, TV is the future.

So, the beginning of a new fall season is always a time of [...]