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I'm pleased to report that Revelry today joined the ranks of a club that includes "Gilmore Girls," "Friends," and "Home Improvement," among others. This blog will soon be translated into French, Italian and German, with posts from three years ago reaching readers abroad as if I'd written them yesterday.

That's right.
Well, no, that's actually wrong.

But Revelry is now in syndication, and I believe that to be rather neat.

Quick greetings to those who have made their way here after becoming link-happy over at Outlet, the Lowell-based creative webzine/entity that has begun to feature excerpts from this here blog (insert thanks to the Outlet peeps - and Robbie - here).

Welcome. Please feel free to stick around and say hello.

Whee!

Dear Blogger:

Thanks for heeding the call, my darling dears.

Love & stuff,
Vix

As you can see, Revelry has joined the Blogger Beta ranks...still playing around with things and will be adding the homey touches.

But in the meantime, hi. I'm baaaaack...

A technical, about-the-blog sort of post

There are some neat things abrewin' on the Blogger front - which means I'm agettin' antsy.

Recently, I flirted with the idea of moving Reverly over to TypePad. Well, "flirted" isn't really accurate. I went over, signed up, began to play with the interface and prepared to export the content here, import it over there.

In real-life terms, think of it as flirting, exchanging phone numbers, getting a call, agreeing to meet up for dinner, going on the date and leaning in for the kiss at the end of the night.

In the end, I couldn't quite lock lips, as it were.

Not that I felt guilty -- I've had every intention of getting my own domain and buying myself MoveableType for quite some time now -- but Blogger begged me to come back home and offered up promises of some sweet lovin'.

Blogger Beta, baby. Doesn't it just purr?

If you're not a blogger (or at all into webby design stuff), most of the new features that will be offered with the Beta won't make sense -- ease of template modification, labels, the speed and ease (for us, anyway) of dynamic publishing. But it's pretty good news. My big thing is the label addition -- I'll be able to file posts under categories, which means you and I will be able to click and peruse all of the posts similarly labeled. This is a very good thing. I can, for instance, write about something that happened a long time ago, post it with a label of "past" and you'll know that it happened a long time ago. Not, say, two days ago.

That was one of the biggest things that TypePad offered me over Blogger. If Blogger was going to offer it, problem solved. I cancelled the free trial and came back home.

There is one problem, though. "Gradual launch." Boo. I have no idea of when these magical features will become available to me -- and now that I know they're out there, I want them now.

The kicker? If you set up a NEW blog, you can hop right into Beta. If you happen to have, say, more than FIVE YEARS OF POSTS on one blog (an even earlier seven months of posts on another, by the way), you have to wait.

Dear Blogger: You and I have come a long way, baby. And I'm here for the long haul.

So how about you, uh, show me a lil' love? Eh?

By the way, if you could take care of that whole, nasty, "Hey, Vix, you have to fill out the word verification in order to post" thing, that would be lovely. I assure you - only a real, live human would come up with these rambles.

XOXO,

Tomorrow is the start to the Fall Concert Season - and I'm in the process of setting up a new space for the a&e/review/music blog I've been threatening to set up for ages now. With at least 12 shows within the next two months coming up, this is the perfect time to get cracking on the reviews and pieces I've been wanting to get back into for ages now.

I'll have more information about the new space shortly, and after it's set up, I would certainly invite/request/beseech you to give it at least a once-over. I'm psyched about it - it should be fun to do and I've missed doing something along these lines.

In other news...is there other news? Not particularly...except that I need a backrub.

That is all.

i'm surprised by the number of hits i'm receiving. pleasantly so. make yourselves known, if you wish, sign the guestbook and let me know what you think.
i jinxed myself by commenting on the dmb saturday. more details to follow--i refuse to think about it until i must. which means i refuse to think about it until tomorrow.
overall, a nice evening. during our walk around campus, danelle messed with my mind by offering this challenge to me: think of a movie that doesn't have either a love scene or some form of sexual tension.
i thought and thought and thought, and all i could come up with was the client. and that took me awhile. i talked to michelle on the phone, and immediately after offering her the challenge, she responded with two: the usual suspects and the negotiator. i can't believe i didn't think of the former...i'm a wretched kevin spacey fan now hanging my head in disgust.
i was also productive today, i came up with a new desktop wallpaper. yes, i'm infatuated right now, but he was just so damn brilliant, how can i not be?
reading scotty's random insights has become one of the highlights of my days. such a crackhead. for the record, apparently the computer is still broken for mr. day. i'll let it slide, but if it gets into july and there are no updates...well...ok, so there's nothing i can really do about it besides bitch here, but hey, the power of the written word. maybe, in some warped parallel universe, it would get back to the singer-of-the-big-spikey-hair. who knows (or particularly cares)...
now, however, i realize that i have to be at work in seven and a half hours, so i must away to my bed. but if you're up late and are bored, find this. read this. steinbeck rocks my world. trust me.