Welcome
Posted on | March 19, 2009 | 10 Comments
Okay, Fan Club, I’m self-hosting this baby now. And all I can say is that I’m sure I’ve made about 3 zillion mistakes and that in your browsers my blog looks a little like this:
That’s right, like a million bucks. And, for whatever reason, even though the control panel for wordpress.org looks exactly the same as wordpress.com, I feel a little off my blogging game. Like the funny is all constipated with CSS coding and oh my fucking god how hard is it to make the google analytics go on???
So we will just be blogging by braille here at Recovering Californian for a little while. Just a short while. As I learn how to do all of this crapola because WHY THE HELL WOULD I JUST STAY ON WORDPRESS.COM WHEN THAT’S EASY?
Ummm something funny. Stever and I had a date the other night and we ate cheeseburgers and donuts and French Fries and then we went to see this Samba Bossa Nova woman sing. She’s from Brazil and was quite lovely. So she’s up there and telling the audience how she had great Japanese food in Portland and it was so wonderful. And then she said that there are 1 million Japanese people in Sao Paulo And this seemed like heaven to me — Japanese and Brazilians? I’d be eating 24 hours a day! The Samba lady said, “I eat so much Japanese food, I eat it all the time, I eat so much [pulls the sides of her eyes back] my eyes are turning Japanese!”
And in that moment, you could feel the collective sphincters of Portland’s white liberalism simultaneously clenching.
You see we are a polite people, and powerfully PC. And so it was a toss-up, really. Are we outraged at the slanty-eyed thing, or grateful that five people with brown skin were there to entertain us? Portland chose gratitude and on we went. It was a sweet show. Very relaxing and comical.
And that’s all I have for you at the new and sort of improved, melissalion.com.
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March 19th, 2009 @ 10:05 am
I like it!
I’ve been trying to figure out self hosting too, but I guess I’m dumber than you.
March 19th, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Oh, it looks so nice here. Good Job!
March 19th, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
Tonight is the PDX Wordpress Users group meeting…
One of our many smart Nates is going to be there talking about how to make your theme your bitch. That’s not what they’re calling the talk but that’s what I’m calling it. “Make your wordpress theme your bitch”
Just thought you’d like to know. 6-7:30 at Cubespace
March 19th, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
I think you’re really awesome for doing all this all by your lonesome. I’m impressed.
Like, a lot.
March 19th, 2009 @ 12:25 pm
I thought it was a pain in the ass to change my template. My brain might explode if I self hosted.
March 19th, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
Thanks, everyone! I’d like to say that I have not, in any way, done this myself.
If the man behind the scenes wants to unveil himself, then you can all applaud him.
Also, @mettadore on Twitter has been wonderful and Twitter has been indispensable.
March 19th, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
But all of the mistakes have been my own.
March 19th, 2009 @ 3:06 pm
The “Melissa Lion is Awesome” section is definitely my favorite part of the new blog.
Congrats on the self-hosting!
March 19th, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
You are so very fancy.
March 19th, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
Maybe she will be sued just like Miley Cyrus for doing the same thing and offending all Asian people in the L.A. area. I think I have been surfing TMZ too much. Way awesome on the self-hosting. Now you have to give a class on that.