ALOHA!
4 September A.D. 2002 Welcome to the new home of the Cuparium, Cuparius.com! For those of you who are familiar with the old website, you will be pleased to notice the absence of pop-up advertisements. The former host also seems to be having recurring technical difficulties, which are a much less common occurrence with the new one, Dreamhost. If you need a domain or a host for your domain (or both), give them a try.
Since the old Cuparium is becoming so difficult to access, the famous Engravings by Heck, Comments by Cuparius feature will be transferred to a page on this website, as well as a few other odds and ends that are worth salvaging.
The "words" link, by the way, is currently inactive, but not for long. Give me a week or two and things will begin to materialize there. I'm serious!
The guestbook and the counter are now online. Hurrah! (There are some who said I'd never get this far. Take that, you fiends!)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, from this day forward Yours Truly is an updating maniac. No more eight-month delays. No more half-hearted promises to post something new. No more floods or beached whales. Well, maybe a flood. And a beached whale. Or two. But fear not, we pulled the last two unfortunate whales back into the sea and they are thriving once again in their natural habitat. We did it before and by George we can do it again! What? What?
So, as I was saying, welcome to the Cuparium!
A brief fanfare, some understated pomp, and thus the beginning of a new Cuparium, the website of Cuparius, published by Divine Right. :-?
Site-Seeing
Have you ever wondered where your money goes? Pay a visit to Where's George? and learn how you, too, can track the geographic circulation of your bills. 'Tis free, and a Site worth Seeing!
From the Bookshelf
I am halfway through The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury, an account of New York's gangs, riots, and political bosses in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and the basis of a new film by Martin Scorcese to be released in December 2002. It is the stuff of nightmares, but I just cannot put it down.
During my lunch breaks at work I have been reading Salamander by Thomas Wharton. It is a quixotic novel about books, puzzles, and the human condition. Its subject matter and writing style look promising.
At the Cinema
Anyone who asserts that The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is not a great movie is, well, correct. It is not a great movie. But anyone who expects a great movie is, well, a simpleton. The movie is what it promises to be and should be: Steve Irwin being Steve Irwin, and lots of Australian beasties. I had fun (which was my objective), and if you like his television show, you will, too. Wooooo!!!
On the Telly
If you have never seen Home Movies on Cartoon Network, give it a try. It is the most intelligent, perceptive, and offbeat program currently on American television. I had my doubts at first, but I watched an episode and it is now the only program I watch regularly (since I am boycotting Coronation Street). Give it a try! It won't kill you, but it just might enlighten you to the mysteries of the universe. Or not. But it might...not. Trust me: it's funny; you'll laugh. Unless you don't get it. In which case you'll probably not laugh, unless you're crazy. Then you might laugh even though you don't think it's funny. That's scary. Now I'm scared.
Quotations, Possibly?
"You've had your coffee rations, Robespierre!"
--Daffy Duck
I'll keep posting if you keep reading. Be seeing you... :-?
