Tenth Avenue Geekout

Major geeking out, here.

This is a test of my hacked up Movable Type to LiveJournal bridge. I'm using blagg (a good RSS aggregator) with an LJ plugin to do the dirty work; the hacked up part is a) a modification of the default MT RSS .91 template so that the description field includes the entire entry, and b) a modification of the LJ plugin so that it sends the entry to LJ as pre-formatted text.

I beg of you to be patient while I make this work. When's all said and done, entries in my blog will propagate to LJ hourly. The reserve will not be true, and comments will not propagate. Extended entries may be odd. I'll work that out the next time I post one; I think the temporary hack will be OK for now.

Cast your eyes on this

Copplestone Casting has several very cool lines of miniatures -- the historicals would be great for pulp action. I particularly dig the Back of Beyond line, which covers Central Asia in the 1920s. Read the Web pages at the link back there; the historical information rocks.

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Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with lung cancer. He's long been one of my favorite musicians and I am very sad that I never took the chance to see him play before now. It seems unlikely that I will have another chance.