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Monday, July 07, 2008

Blog to the Purple

I know it is kind of funny to change my template just before going to BlogHer, where I will no doubt hear many speakers share a variety of exciting ways to jazz up my blog, but I was getting tired of the purple, even though it is the last remnant of my blog's original template. I know that purple is considered a royal color, and that British peers are described as "born to the purple," but the look was starting to feel heavy to me.

So I asked the Big Giraffe he could exercise what he claims are his limited web development skills do something quick enough so that he wouldn't feel put out if I undid it a month from now but thorough enough to lighten up the blocky feel. He asked a couple questions, and then went off to handle the boys' bedtime rituals, patiently answering all of our older son's questions, including what is the Big Giraffe's favorite color (red) and what is his favorite TV show (Babylon 5).

He then came downstairs, confiscated my computer, and started paging through the gibberish that makes up my blog template. I don't know how he did it, but his first draft was exactly what I wanted. As I pressed that Save Template Changes button, he suddenly gasped out loud as if in pain. When I asked what was wrong, he turned to me with a self-satisfied smirk and said, "Alex, your blog was stunning in purple!"

After a few blank looks from me and a lengthy explanation from the Big Giraffe, I now understand the reference to what is apparently one of the most famous quotes from Babylon 5. In an episode written by series creator Joe Michael Straczynski (JMS), a seemingly over-the-hill space alien ambassador got drunk and fell on his face during a banquette uttering "But in purple, I'm stunning."

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A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Formula Fed and Flexible Parenting may have been born to the purple, but in its new colors, I find it stunning.

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