Chris​Hubbs​.com

Four years ago I started this thing called blogging, not, as they say, with a bang, but with something more akin to a whimper. Since then the blog has relocated twice (from rmfo-blogs.com/cakeboy to thehubbs.net/chris and finally to chrishubbs.com), undergone several theme makeovers, and has generally featured relatively mundane commentary on life, church, politics, and whatever else is on my mind.

Thanks to those of you who stick around to read my stuff, and thanks even more to those who interact in the comments. I wonder what this place will look like four years hence?

House of Cakeboy had about run its course, so after reflection the new blog title, as you can obviously see above, is “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key”. This wonderfully picturesque phrase is the title of a song from the album Mermaid Avenue, with lyrics by Woodie Guthrie and music by Billy Bragg & Wilco.

I don’t know that I have much more to say about it at the moment; I created the new blog header and I’m fairly happy with it. Otherwise the layout hasn’t changed much; I might switch it up when I get time to make it a little more customized.

So that’s it for now, and it’s late - I’m heading to bed.

Well, I at least switched up graphics and a bit of the color scheme. It’ll do for now.

I’m thinking of renaming the House of Cakeboy blog…. it seems to have about run its course. I’m thinking through new names right now, and will take suggestions if anyone has them.

Here’s a few proposed names I’m mulling over. Many of them are from song titles… well, actually, all but one are from song titles, and the other one is probably a song title, I just haven’t heard the song. :-) If you have any opinions or other ideas, let me know. Not that I’ll really pay attention, but I might.

Proposed Names

• Push To Talk
• Trying to Get This Right
• Over Yonder In The Minor Key
• Erase and Rewind
• Running on Faith
• Didn’t He Ramble
• You Didn’t Know Me When
• The Things We Leave Behind
• Between Green and Grey

(Bonus points to anyone who can name all of the artists who did these songs…)

I’ve just finished upgrading all of the thehubbs.net blogs to Wordpress 2.0. It all seemed to go smoothly. Now we just have to use it for a while to gain some familiarity. I will say that this WYSIWYG editing seems pretty slick so far.

If you are reading this post, you’re reading it from my new web address: www.thehubbs.net/chris/. This is the beginning of an effort to pull all of my siblings’ blogs together into one family site. Hopefully one day soon there will be not only a /chris, but a /ryan, /aaron, /andrew, and /rebecca as well.

Geof Morris, my web host, has done a lovely job at moving the House of Cakeboy over to its new location and doing all the magic of redirection. Still, it would behoove my readers to update their links and subscriptions to use my new address.

Happy blogging! Now I’ve got to get out and do some yard work.

Chris

I’ve made the switch today from my old blogger.com blog to my new rmfo-blogs.com blog. Don’t get too confused; this blog hasn’t really been here since back in December. I just copied some of my old blogger entries over here to give this one a nice “lived-in” feel. :-)

I will do my best to keep this updated. If you read this, post a comment so I know it’s being read! And remind me if I haven’t updated in a while…

Well it’s better than the old “hello world” message… :-)

Thanks to GFM for setting me up with this blog. Now I’ve got some setup work to do….

-Chris

Or so my sister tells me. Of course, she’s 17, a senior in highschool, and has the time to keep up her blog. But the least I can do is actually give it a shot. Don’t know how interesting it’ll be, but I’ll give it a try. This will probably be more informational than thoughtful, but if info’s what you’re after, then you’re all set.

I watched a couple interesting high-school movies the other night: the recent Napoleon Dynamite, and then Ghost World, which is 4 or 5 years old. Napoleon Dynamite is a hit among some of my friends, and I wasn’t sure what I’d think of it. I laughed at parts, and was generally amused by the whole thing. It’s one of those films that my wife just rolls her eyes at (“that’s two hours I’m never getting back”) but I enjoyed the pastiche of the high school life. It certainly sums up the experience of being a loser in high school. And I just have to have appreciation for a movie where basically no one is a decent actor in the whole movie, and that’s almost the point; the guys just have blank-faced stares the whole time. Am I rambling here? Have I made any sense? I dunno. Yep, that’s pretty much the movie.

Ghost World was different. It was snappy, incisive, and incredibly profane. But at the same time it painted a good picture of two girls headed different directions in life, and their search for life after high school. While the language/dialog probably prevents me from recommending this to everyone, I really enjoyed it.

I don’t know why the sudden interest in high school movies; I was home schooled and never went to high school. I guess I’m reverting back 10 years for a little while. :-)

So that’s the interesting news from my life today. Now it’s back to work.