"In the dreaming coldness of ice like someone fallen and slept in snow avalanches a thousand years, forever young, was this woman. She was as fair as this morning and fresh as tomorrow's flowers and lovely as any maid when a man shuts up his eyes and traps her, in cameo perfection, on the shell of his eyelids."

—excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Blog Template Resources

I thought I would make available some links to sites that offer free pre-configured templates for blogs, as well as some blog template generators. I've probably missed some, so if anyone knows of a great link that should be included, please let me know.

eris: design template generator allows you to easily construct a blog template and configure it for a variety of blog hosts.

pixelscripts offers a number of templates with pre-made graphics which are also very adaptable for the most popular blog hosts.

Another site I just found is not that ugly which offers similar services and some nice designs.

The Firdamatic Generator is an excellent online tool for instantly creating a tableless blog template with two or three columns.

Another resource is migraine designs, a site that features pre-designed templates with high-quality graphics. Some very cool designs here. Francey Designs is very similar and has some striking graphics.

OTHER SITES:
blog designs:   many templates
blog skins:   huge site with hundreds of templates.
point of focus:   blogger templates
ehsany:   blogger templates
noipo:   blogger templates.

blog dsgn and weblog tools are two other resources you might check for different blog tools and ideas. These sites are updated often.

NOTES: Some sites offer "linkware" which means they expect a link back from your site if you use one of their templates. If you are using Blogger you should be aware that they have changed the forced ad to a navbar and this may mean many current templates will not work. You should check carefully to see whether the template you are interested has been reworked with the new blogger navbar in mind.

"MADEMOISELLE TAROT!" read Jim. "THE DANGLING MAN. THE DEMON GUILLOTINE! THE ILLUSTRATED MAN! Hey!"
"That's just an old guy with tatoos."
"No." Jim breathed warm on the paper. "He's illustrated. Special. See! Covered with monsters! A menagerie!" Jim's eyes jumped. "SEE! THE SKELETON! Ain't that fine, Will? Not Thin Man, no, but SKELETON!

—excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury



The Last Expression
More links to Artwork produced by Holocaust survivors and victims can be found here.

Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show-
Fantoccini, Marionette Circus, and Your Plain Meadow Carnival. Arriving Immediately! Here on Display, one of our many attractions:

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD!
—excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury



Candy by Mian Mian
"Why can't you smoke anywhere in this f**ing America?" the 33-year-old author of the best-selling novel "Candy" exclaimed before speeding out the door for a prereading cigarette.



Atoms for Peace
Listen to an NPR report on the legacy of Atoms for Peace.

Now the man stepped out the door with his brush, his paste bucket, his rolled papers. His eyes, a fierce and lustful shine, fixed on Charles Halloway. Smiling, he gestured an open hand.
Halloway stared.
The palm of that hand was covered with fine black hair. It looked like--

—excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury



"Techno-Impressionism is the last art movement of the 20th Century. The Techno-Impressionist Museum hosts the world's largest collection of Techno-Impressionist art, from the earliest known works to the present."

HERE IS FURL BETA

"Furl is a tool for saving, sharing and finding information (you know, the pages you want to save for future reference but then can never find again). At the core, Furl is a place to store content you find on the Internet and know that you can find it again at any time in the future."

Nice artwork and nice use of the horizontal scrolling in a webpage at fit for use. Why milk sucks such incredibly huge ass. Here is my Yahoo Music Station.

DESIGN FOR THE GIFTED

Stu Nicholls has worked out some advanced page designs and other coded wonders that should make you drool, if that kind of thing interests you at all. He's really very very good. Especially interesting is this pseudo-frame page that uses clever CSS to achieve a frame effect without frames.

Designers Galore: Your one stop source for linkware and shareware web graphics.

"Watching the boys vanish away, Charles Halloway supressed a sudden urge to run with them, make the pack. He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life. Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt."

—excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury



Magda Marczewska
I've been away. My brothers are in town and we've been busy tubing the river and drinking beer and yesterday we went to Mackinac Island and had some fun. If you go there you must watch out for the horse manure.

"...So it was on this night that blew warm, then cool, as they let the wind take them downtown at eight o'clock. They felt the wings on their fingers and elbows flying, then, suddenly plunged in new sweeps of air, the clear autumn river flung them headlong where they must go."

—excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

t h o u g h t s   a n d   e v e n t s

People are mean. People are bad. Sometimes People are very nice.

Alone and Lonely are not the same.

Saw several baby deer this morning. They're cute.

The new issue of rumble is out.

Ladytron is excellent. I'm listening to them right now.

I don't sleep well in strange places. I don't sleep well with strange people.

Nice quote from The Simpsons: "Fox News: Your voice for evil."

I am mentioned in a post from Citrus Moon. It made me feel good.

People take drugs because it makes them feel good. That makes sense to me.

My brother and his wife and her sister are in town. My other brother is coming too.

Weblogs are a good idea. I don't like boring weblogs. They bore me.

Read this thread where I call someone gay because he's an asshole. Maybe I should have called him an asshole instead.

Coffee is good.

You should always drink coffee within 30 minutes after it's made or it tastes like shit.

The word "shit" offends some people.

Other words that piss people off: "fuck" "asshole" "motherfucker"
"asswipe" "fuckface" and "whore". Also "butthole" but it's become more acceptable over time.

Many people aren't that interesting to talk to, but it's not their fault.

I want everyone to have a nice day every day. I mean it.

Have a nice day.