Okay, that’s it. The last two episodes of Showtime’s Dexter have closed with incredible yell-out-loud-oh-my-god moments, and I must declare it my new favoritest show. Michael C. Hall’s Dexter is less wry, less personable than the novel’s version, but he’s oh-so deeper. One of the other great things about the show is how it turns the plot of the books on its ear, rewiring connections and playing Dexter and Ice Truck off each other in a manner more befitting the obsessive inhumans they are. When the series began, I felt like I already knew where it was going: But eight episodes in, I’m totally hooked and waiting to see what happens next week.
(Note: Watching Dexter also makes me physically ill sometimes. If you feel uncomfortable with the subject matter, don’t watch)
In other news, we have a wedding location! Woo. I know, I know, I need to launch the wedding site. I am a lazy, lazy boy.
Five fun life tips:
1) You can play FFXII while on an exercise machine.
2) You can start a CSS document with * {padding: 0px; margin: 0px;} and effectively chop away all the browser BS that makes styling paragraphs so irritating.
3) You can replace any image with a standard thumbnail using a JS styleswitcher that goes to width:0 and padding:(half the image size). This sounds kind of lame, but it’s easy for clients to use and I THOUGHT OF IT OH YEAH.
4) When people find out you’re engaged and they shake your hand and say “congratulations,” you can’t say “congratulations” back to them. You have to think of something new.
5) Deerhoof’s Scream Team is fun to rock out to. The Four Runners album is hit and miss, but the hits are craaaaazzzzzzzzy. Scream Team and Spirit Ditties Of No Tone have thundering bridges that defy imagination.
Tip #2 is NIFTY.
Re: Tip #4; a simple “thank you” works… you could even add “we’re very excited.”
Dude, I like “Congratulations” back at them. It makes you seem foreign, or robotic.