Subtle Coolness

Write a poem on a napkin.
Let the emotion dodge the grease and condiments
As it hastily pours out between sips of lemonade
And bouts of hope and fear.

Taste like love? or onion rings?
I’m not sure if these tears are from
This hot sauce, or because she didn’t come.
I’ll wait five minutes more. Now five minutes more.

Closing time. Busboys clear the tables,
Take my cup, emptied a half-dozen times.
Can you refill my heart?
I guess she’ll never smell this rose, or wear this ring.

Above: Baby #1, circa 1986.

Above: Baby #2, circa 2005.

They say nobody does it like Sarah Lee,
But look at me:
I’m a regular Chef Boyardee.
You can have it sautéd
Or flambéd,
But don’t ask me how I did it.
I won’t tell you how it’s made,
‘Cause I’m a magician.
I’ll never reveal
The secrets of my kitchen.
I’m just keepin’ it real.
Can you feel me?
So keep your hands off my
Secret Family Recipe.

• Stop talking about what software actually powers your weblog in your weblog. It’s going to change tomorrow, and that post will mean nothing. Stop announcing changes or your posterity will get confused.
• Backup your weblog. If your application isn’t able to create backups, or you don’t know how, find another application.
• Test new software before you put it in a visible part of your website.
  • I’ll actually never live by this one. Putting untested code at the root of my site is how I get my kicks.
• Backup your weblog. If you are changing applications, make sure you can import your old entries into your new application (whew!).
• Make lists. Make lots of lists.

Hey there family! Hey there friends! Hey there anyone that doesn’t fall into either or both of those categories! If you’ve ever seen Subtle Coolness before, you’ve never seen her like this.

I just called my website “her”.

I’ve made some changes around here. I always do. The biggest change is the fact that I just jumped on the WordPress train, and quit using Movable Type. It wasn’t because of the licensing issues. It was because of the perl.