Practicalmadness

In the grand tradition of making some over-specific pronouncement about my plans for this and other sites, then deciding to go eat mayonnaise instead of following through with them, I’d like to grandly pronounce my plans for this site for the latter half of 2005.

• Podcasts: I’m working on the first of a series of Practicalmadness podcasts, which will be posted sometime during the month of June (I hope). I envision the podcast as my long-threatened sequel to the Communique: longish, occasionally brilliant, stuck in production hell for months at a time. If you’ve been reading me long enough to remember the Communique, man is this gonna be for you. And if you’ve been reading me long enough to remember that Communique is not pronounced comm-you-nee-kay (at least in this context), man you’ve got to get a life. (At some point. Clearly I have not, or I wouldn’t be bringing it up.)

• It’s a day that ends in Y, so clearly it’s time for a redesign: Well, I’m gonna fix the color scheme. Light gray and chartreuse seemed like a good idea in theory, and this is not the time to point out that I am in fact altogether unschooled in color theory. We’ll just take that as read, thank you, and look forward to a Practicalmadness that is 5-10% less insane. (Well, visually.) I also want to make the fonts a bit more consistent, focusing on super-readable serif fonts like Georgia (the body text font here for 2+ years) and Caecilia. And I redownloaded my original source graphics for Spaghetti Boy and David Nemesis, and I do have a whole new Photoshop release to play with…

• Spinoff blog redux! One of these days I will follow through on my threat to move my Mac posts to a separate blog. In the meantime, I have enough Gmail- and Backpack-themed entries in my drafts folder that I’m thinking the Web Arcana section should be spun off. So Practicalmadness will be the “lifestyle” blog (movies, politics, art, music, TV, food, dinosaurs with fanny packs) and this other blog will focus on the web stuff. Because after twelve posts about how much I love Gmail, it’s time for me and Gmail to run away and consummate our passion. Um, I mean, to start another blog.