Frost (but not Robert or David; Brief Web Tirade; Wholly Mackerel; Bodies; QAF2

After a night and day of rain, the temperature dropped like Microsoft stock, so I had to turn up the heat last night. I caught a "weather at ten" snippet a moment ago, and there was talk of a frost warning! A frost warning! What is this! Wholly Mackerel

Now for a brief tirade about web sites. Amazing what well-minded folks can do to a web site. Do I really need to experience a flash presentation every time I go to a site? Why must I put up with frames within frames? I went to the site of a major telecommunications company today, and their internal search engine did nothing but burb. And what is this business with music that plays automatically when I hit a site? Has it not occurred to these people that my sound card might be in use. How many sites have I seen in which the print is unreadable? There is a site of a television production where the links are light blue on a dark blue background. Gads!

I visited a new restaurant today at lunch - "Wholly Mackerel." No joke, that is the actual name. It is another one of the companies from the owners of Popeyes - the Copeland group out of New Orleans. This is a cross between a seafood restaurant and a fast food eatery. All the accoutrements - tablecloths, silverware, glass glasses - of a restuarant, but you place and pick up your order at a counter. I had a dish of Cajun Crabcakes which was a pair of great, spicy crabcakes surrounded by mediocre fries and a scoop of yucky slaw on a purple cabbage leaf and a wonderful glass of sweet tea. Was really not worth $9 though. Suppose it depends on how you look at it.

I keep seeing a commercial, and I'm not even sure what the product is - cologne, maybe. Shirtless guys playing b-ball. Shirtless guys playing guitars. Said guys having rigged, rippling, sweaty b o d i e s. No wonder, I don't know what the product is.

Found a copy of the Brit gay mag "Attitude" the other day at Books A Million. Has been awhile since I've seen a copy. Cover article was on Queer as Folk 2. Opening sentence of article is, "Charlie Hunnam is complaining about being treated as a sex object." Russell T Davies sezs QAF2 was commissioned as ten one-hour episodes. But he did not want it to be repetitive. And he felt that the two hours were just long enough. And he is really not sure how Joel Schumacher will handle the story line.

PAX!