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Anti-Bloggies

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date February 2, 2002

We’re having a lot of fun with the anti-bloggie nominations and votes. Of course, we know who will win for most outrageous color — Zeldman.

Stavros wanted a “Best Post Made Whist Dangerously” Inebriated category. Too bad they didn’t go for it. We all could have chipped in for a bottle of fine tequila as a prize. Or very old scotch.

And someone has been bitten by the Looney Tunes bug. I love Looney Tunes! I have three Warner Brother’s movie scene drawings, and a print inked by Mr. Chuck Jones himself — all Marvin the Martian.

Why yes. I am an adult woman. Thank you for asking. How old am I? Old enough to no longer care that people know I have Marvin the Martian mixed in with my Waterhouse and Millais prints.

Following this theme of whimsy — variations of this weblog as translated by The Dialectizer:

Elmer Fudd
Cockney
Hacker

The Cockney is incredible! Best of the lot. Too bad there wasn’t an Australian dialect included. I wonder what “BurningBird” translates to in Australia? Barbie’d Bird?

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Chocolat

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date February 2, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I’m probably the last person in the world, well at least among the movie goers, but I finally saw Chocolat tonight.

Gently, funny, romantic, melancholy, quirky. I like movies that leave me with a smile on my face at the end. Not a grin. Just a smile.

Maybe I should paint my weblog chocolate. Call myself SweetBird.

Nah.

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Chocolat

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date February 2, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I’m probably the last person in the world, well at least among the movie goers, but I finally saw Chocolat tonight.

Gently, funny, romantic, melancholy, quirky. I like movies that leave me with a smile on my face at the end. Not a grin. Just a smile.

Maybe I should paint my weblog chocolate. Call myself SweetBird.

Nah.

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Just Shelley

Fog is in the Bay

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date February 2, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I am in such an ambivalent mood this morning. Maybe the orange is getting to me, also. Maybe it’s the story I wrote last night. Maybe it’s the emotions that have run behind the scenes via email this week. Some of my weblogging friends have been hurting, and that hurts me.

Did you know that when you forgive another, you give a gift to yourself? Just a thought.

Anyway, the fog is in the Bay today, and I’m going to go for a walk.

Weblogging

Too Orange

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date February 2, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. And I apologize for the tastelessness of the post.

Orange. Orange. Orange!

Let me hear you folks — is BurningBird’s color scheme too hot? Too bothersome? Does it burn your eyeballs out, and make you want to grit your teeth?

Well, if you said yes to any of these questions, I want you to get your cute little hind ends (remember, all my weblog readers have cute hind ends) over to the Anti-Bloggies and nominate my weblog for COLOR SCHEME MOST LIKELY TO CAUSE EPILEPTIC SEIZURES.

Now, this is a weblogging award I can really get behind!

So, show The Bird you love her by telling the world that my weblog colors make dogs howl at the moon and small children run in fear to their mamas!

Go ahead. You know you want to.

9:14am

Rogi has seen the light! He’s come over to the Orange. And Jonathon has gone over to some pinky sort of color – but with a button and a stylesheet, I bet we can get him to see Orange!, can’t we?

Show me the Color! Come over to the Orange!

9:31am