"Culture Crawl" blog by Holden

My Mini web redesign

I’m writing this in July, 2008…

back in December 2007, I stopped blogging/writing posts, and did not get back to it until July 2008. That’s a long time without updates. I did however keep notes of things I wanted to blog about when I had the time. I still don’t really have the time , I feel that I must refresh a few things. I have only changed a couple small items and some headers in the last 6 months… but I haven’t paid any attention to the website or written anything new.

Anyway, around the beginning of this year, I changed one of the wordpress headers, to “Blogging with a quickness”. Or something like “2008 with a quickness” with the anticipation of making a lot of fresh updates in the coming months. Well that never happened. It’s been more like “blogging with a slowness” since nothing has happened here for 6 months.

While it’s a dated term, the street term “with a quickness” means something, in a street sense. However, my context is from college, where a buddy’s law school roommate was a African-American man, hailing from Philadelphia, he introduced me to the term.
He liked to reply to various questions with it.

“Ready for the movies?”
“with a quickness!”

“Did you remember the pizza?”
“with a quickness!”

This writing kinda makes him seem really dumb, but I liked him and he was one of the nicest and coolest guys.
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Anyway, like I said, it’s now July.

Also I’ve written some controversial posts, regarding the economy, housing, Chris McCandless’s mental illness, various other things that catch my interest. But I want people to think, not get angry.

At any rate, I also had some provocative images of bright orange fires, and bright orange type. (Currently There are still many fires burning in California, and environmentalists predict more fire prone dry scrub-land in the coming decade. It’s useful to mindful of this. Bu I also liked the orange and it fit my theme.)

I also had used terms like “with a quickness” and “smack down” in geeky ways. I can imagine that these items can be taken wrongly as well. So I’ve redesigned the site just a little bit to be less visually provocative (not that it was much to begin with.) But I don’t have time to totally do the “complete redesign”. I want to add a video page at that time as well, ok.

So, here are my action items.

• Replaced the orange type, with aloe-vera green color.
• Replaced the images of fire, with cool green bars.
• Removed the term “with a quickness”
• Removed the literary-sourced term “Inferno”
• Will be searching for other potentially inferred “angry tropes” or street-lingo for removal.
• I will try to blog fresh content again in August, after a few more projects are completed.
• However, I won’t be toning down my gentle absurdities…

So, yes, it’s a lot more bland, but it’s ok.

But after 6 months of no real writing, it needed a change anyway. I hope to come up with a better design, in the autumn.

Anyway.. For now, gentle readers, please just enjoy what it is… and let’s all get back to our careers and outdoor swimming.