Gradual Dazzle of Anywhere But Here has honored IMAO with the “Best Use of Red & Black Color Scheme in a Blog” Award.
I’m a late-comer to IMAO, so Frank gets all the credit on this one. Still, it begs the question – why DID Frank choose red & black?:
a) his sublimated checkerboard fetish
b) his love of obscure Blue Oyster Cult tunes
c) he’s a HUGE Stendhal fan. Then again, who isn’t?
d) his unhealthy obsession with self-balancing binary search trees that 10 years of therapy have still not quite cured.
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Heh. Reminds me of my first visit to IMAO. Saw all the red and the IMAO and mistakenly thought Red China and I, MAO. Then I clicked the t-shirt ads in the upper right corner and knew immediately that everything was OK.
My unhealthy obsession is clicking “back” on the browser all the way to my start page before I go to another bookmarked page. Can’t stop myself. It’s like I just HAVE to traverse the whole tree before starting on another.
It’s quirks like that one that make me so interesting.
I don’t know, innominatus, I’m relatively sure you have other quirks. Like no fricken name! Personally, when I first saw the IMAO banner with it’s “Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated” I thought it was a Michelle Malkin referal site for recovering drug addicts. And then I learned this place really is unfair, unbalanced and unmedicated. But I feel better that Frank has added “passion and sanity,” just today, in fact.
Oh, and Gradual Dazzle, what’s up with your fuzzy capital letters? Or do I have a selective vision problem? (Nice job, though.) (Oh, and Harvey, I don’t think Frank does “balanced binary search trees.” No. He balances upside down in a tree holding on with two (thus binary) hands.)
Jimmy, I’d love to reveal my real name but the earth trembles each time it is spoken aloud. While I’d trust you to read it silently, I’m not so sure about some of the other readers here. Even if they don’t read out loud I bet their lips still move. Better not to tempt fate.
Nah, it’s just crappy Paint artwork produced in less than sixty seconds. I’m nothing if not hopelessly cheap. Which is why this Award played right into my hands, yanno. I may be an artist, but I am less than adept at digital art. 🙂
Oh, whew! I thought my eyes were getting worse, FuzzyDazzle, era, GradualFuzzy, I mean GD! 😉 You get an ‘A’ for effort and and ‘A’ for fuzziness. (Now isn’t that just presumptuous of me to grade you? It is, but this place is “Unfair.”)
(Frank’s just gonna sit there and take my logically impossible monkey inference. Where’s the passion?!)
I just liked the contrast as a kid.
Oh, that’s good, Frank. For a second I was worried that you might secretly be a black communist.
What are you kiddin’? Like all good Italians, Frank J Flemingiano loves red and black.
An award based on the color scheme…I like it!
why DID Frank choose red & black?
Oooh, I’m usually up for a good guessing game: Black (as in the Universe after a nuked Moon) and White (male) and Red (as in Republican) all over?
How ‘Bout Them Dawgs!
Being completely lacking in any artistic talents and motivated by nothing, I can only ask someone to use the AC/DC band style letters in a nice red and black with relevant message. For those about to nuke? Or anything except the Whole Lot Of Rosie award.
is it me or does the award look a little like HAL 9000?
It just may be that Frank is a big fan of Rouge et Noir brie and camembert, made in Petaluma, California, where the men are men and the women are men, too. Good cheese.
I guess that raises the question of whether Frank is more a camembert kind of guy or a brie kind of guy? I think brie, myself.
I thought about doing my uber-crappy MySpace blog in black & yellow, but I was afraid of it being mistaken as a fan site for this cheesy 80’s hair band for Jesus.
Of course, maybe if it was maybe I’d get some traffic once in a while…