About …
The Site
The current ’Bred Crumbs site was launched on 01.10.06 billing itself as "The Entertainment Guide for the Unentertained.” It was revamped on 11.12.06; now, its only approximate purpose is purposelessness.
The previous version of ’Bred Crumbs, a rambling, general blog/journal, was launched exactly five years earlier, on 01.10.01. That site’s predecessor, DangerBoy’s Cavalcade of Stuff, was first published 10.25.98. An associated site in 2003 was SonnetBlog.
The Author
The author is a Kentucky native and San Francisco resident who, determined to be different, has allowed himself to become both gay and left-handed. (What with the genetics and all.)
His TV-influenced route to San Francisco and this site runs like this: In 1990, he became obsessed with Mystery Science Theater 3000. A few years later, he joined CompuServe and had the good fortune to find a cluster of fellow MSTies who also happened to be good, hilarious people. They started meeting up all over the country; bonds were formed, marriages were hatched. As a result of one new couple’s union and relocation, a rare affordable housing opportunity arose in San Francisco, and we decided to take the chance to finally escape Kentucky for the promised land. Many years later, I’m still here, with a wonderful boyfriend and an expanding circle of good, hilarious, witheringly intelligent friends.
The author enjoys bacon, long rum drinks on the beach, and using personal pronouns inconsistently. Besides MST, the standards by which he judges entertainment include Farscape, the Lord of the Rings movies, and the books of Christopher Moore. By day, he is a web producer/designer/UI guy. And like everyone else in California, he’s started making movies.
The Specs
’Bred Crumbs is built to web standards using CSS and XHTML. It has been tested on Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6 for the PC, but should display and function as intended on any modern, standards-compliant browser.
The site is hosted by DreamHost and published through WordPress, using PHP scripting and MySQL databases.
The Mascot
The ’Bred, this site’s longtime mascot, has left to pursue other opportunities. We wish him well in his future endeavors.
The Thanks
The author remains grateful to Chris for pointing me toward blogging, PHP, and Web-standards development; to David for finding DreamHost; to Jack for test-driving the Lifetime Movie Title Generator; to Robbie for humoring my many
quirks and flaws of all kinds; and to people too numerous to mention for support and kindness.
