6:08 PM Ha, I lied! Maybe this will be the last blogger post for tanquelogue. Maybe not... who knows?

I was thinking about different ways to keep these archives online, whether it was worthwhile to try import them into another CMS (like drupal), whether i should just take them all down. For now the simplest thing seems to be just to leave them where they are, and to give my blog a different url. Fresh start and all that. I wasn't ever really emotionally tied to tanque.org/tl anyway, it was just nice and short. The new url will be tanque.org/tanquelogue, which years ago seemed crazy-long to me, but now doesn't.

this is the weblog equivalent of changing the time slot of a struggling sitcom over and over until it gets canceled. lucky for me my contract with tanque.org is a sweetheart deal.

anyway, in case you missed it, my infrequent posts will now appear at tanque.org/tanquelogue - or just look for them on tanque's home page.........

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11:39 PM okay, just like that dotcomments are back. I was mostly worried about getting them back online for peptide's sake. so, i think they're back up.

Blogger's been great, but it's time to try something else. This last post is to let my millions of regular readers that tanquelogue, along with tanque.org, is moving to drupal. maybe i'll switch back tomorrow, who knows?

i'd hoped to make this a little more seamless, but i'm not positive that i understand how to change the feed url in drupal match what blogger uses. so, if you happen to get this via rss, please note that i'm going to try to keep the feed the same (tanque.org/tl/atom.xml). if it doesn't work, you might have to update your feedreader to tanque.org/tl/feed. but i think i can keep it the same.

anyhoo, like i said, maybe i'll switch back tomorrow, but for now, i'm moving on. my next post will come from drupal. so long and thanks for all the fish.

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10:20 PM okay, in my playing around i've killed dotcomments...

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10:55 PM via Todd, CheatNeutral.

Is loyalty part of your nature? Or maybe you're just happy being single.

Whatever it is, if you're monogamous or single you can help those who can't help themselves - and get paid for not getting laid.

I never realized I could be getting paid for my lifestyle...

I'm not sold that offsets are a completely bankrupt concept, but I've never understood how they could be effectively implemented without there being a god-emperor of the planet in charge of everything. So, until I retake that role, color me suspicious.

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currently playing around with drupal at drupal.tanque.org (and to a lessor extent, joomla at joomla.tanque.org). thinking that maybe it'd be grand for tanque.org to have a real CMS.

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11:14 PM Before I complain about the movie I just watched, let me just say how cool it is to see pictures of Sean and Sonya in their new roles as mom and dad to cute little Julian. Good stuff.

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Standing Still isn't an offensive movie. That is, it doesn't quite reach the level of Hollywood factory cynicism that a movie like, say, Rumor Has It, does (for future reference, Richard Roeper must be on the take and on drugs to say of RHI: "It's really funny, true stuff." Jesus.) No, it's not quite that soulless and pointless, but then again it approaches it. To get a feel for this movie, imagine someone who's read good things about the Big Chill and decides that making an ensemble reunion flick is a good idea, but this time let's make everyone much younger (and let's not bother fleshing out any of the characters, oh and by the way, can we squeeze in some bi-curious hot girl-on-girl action too?). The problem with this, for me anyway, is that if you're going to show youngsters in their early 30's you can't expect me to suspend my disbelief so that i just accept that they're able to afford a huge mansion and lavish chartered jet rides to Vegas for bachelor parties. Nevermind that these characters are barely given two dimensions, much less anything more than one scene of dialogue each in which to pad their why-should-i-care backstories.

Hey, I know that sounds harsh. I rented this movie solely because it stars uber-cutie Amy Adams, who played such an endearing little freak in Drop Dead Gorgeous nearly a decade ago (okay, slight exaggeration, it came out in 1999), and she performs well under the circumstances, but I was left longing for Junebug. In a show like Entourage, we see morons who've lucked into extravagant circumstances and enjoy fantasizing about how we might live such a ridiculously charmed life; in Standing Still we're supposed to believe that a barely-post-pubescent-looking Colin Hanks is a Hollywood agent. Jon Abrahams, who fit the part of a young nouveau riche dude in Boiler Room seven years ago looks, if anything, younger in this movie. All in all, while we're supposed to believe that these are old friends getting together 5 years after college for a wedding, I couldn't shake the feeling that they all looked like high school kids partying at their parents' house while they're out of town, ala weird science or risky business. American Pie 2 did a better job of authentically capturing pre-wedding jitters, and that's saying something.

This movie didn't suck, I guess, but I can't recommend it.

But hey, after linking to Ebert's review of Junebug I checked to see what he had to say about the train wreck that is RHI. Oh for crying out loud: "But it's a good gimmick. And "Rumor Has It" works for good reasons, including sound construction and the presence of Kevin Costner..." ugh, to quote a bland but nonetheless two thousand percent better movie than RHI, I just threw up in my mouth. I guess you really can't trust anyone.

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8:16 AM via plep, from wikipedia, a cool photograph that's eerie, sensual and vaguely spiritual all at once. So much to like about this pic.

Since Pat and Rachel got married I've read one short story and five books (keep meaning to post something about each of them). I was in the middle of another book, Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami, when Julian came on the scene. DDD left me a little flat, a minor disappointment, but I'm still eager to read more Murakami.

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8:20 PM There was an FTP problem with Blogger over the past few days. Seems like it's working now.

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8:45 AM This seems like a pretty big story to me - I'm surprised it hasn't made more of a splash, but maybe that's because no one's sure exactly what Israel bombed in Syria.

Israel has enforced a news blackout on what may be its air force's most audacious raid since its jets destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor in 1981. The Israeli government has made no comment about the raid on what is believed to be a nuclear installation in Syria and Israeli newspapers have been forbidden to write anything on the subject.

When asked about the raid, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, refused to provide details. "The security services and Israeli defence forces are demonstrating unusual courage. We naturally cannot always show the public our cards."

Instead the details of the raid have been leaked to a series of foreign newspapers. According to the leaks, eight Israeli F-15 bombers entered Syrian airspace in the early hours of September 6. They successfully evaded Syrian radar and air defences and attacked a research establishment on the Euphrates river in northern Syria, destroying it completely.

Israeli intelligence believes that North Korea, which has provided missile technology to Syria in the past, has started supplying nuclear materials in recent months. On leaving Syria, the Israeli planes jettisoned their extra fuel tanks over Turkey. [Guardian link]

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