I have site updates I've been saving up here, so thought I'd get them all announced quickly on a Sunday evening...

First, just a short logistical announcement, that the CCLaP Podcast now has a new logo, because of the recent overhaul of iTunes within Apple TVs so that they can now accept logo images of up to 600 x 600 pixels (to better display on full-size televisions, which is what the majority of Apple TVs are hooked up to). As long as I had the excuse, then, I thought I'd create a new logo as well as the new image size; that's it you're seeing above, half the size of the Apple TV version. Anyway, that's the logo that people will now see at CCLaP's iTunes channel, as well as within your iTunes menu at home if you're a subscriber, when you're scrolling through your podcast list.

Second, I just wanted to remind people that CCLaP's winter project, an extended look at the Victorian light-opera partners Gilbert and Sullivan, is going to begin here at the site before too long. Ah hah, you thought I forgot, didn't you?! Well, I didn't; I've been spending the entire winter, in fact, watching various films and reading various books about the duo, as well as viewing various videos of their productions that have been mounted over the years. And as a matter of fact, just last weekend I got to have a rather glorious little experience that not a lot of other people get the opportunity to take advantage of; I got to go down to Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and actually watch a live stage production of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, the masterful Iolanthe put on by a long-standing G&S chamber society down on the city's southside (this is their 49th year of operations, in fact), even held in a grand Victorian theatre hall on the University of Chicago campus, built only something like ten years after the operetta was freakin' written in the first place. It was a truly astounding and memorable experience, one that I will be writing up in full detail along with a lot of other reports, and presenting as a special week-long run here at CCLaP right before Memorial Day. Anyway, just wanted to give all of you a heads-up who wasn't aware of the winter project, so that you too can digest a little Gilbert and Sullivan if you want before mid-May, and be able to more easily follow along with the mini-series on the subject coming here soon.

And then finally, on a personal note, for those who are interested I thought I'd mention that I've started up yet another new specialty blog (will nerdy wonders never cease) -- in this case it's for "Fabb," the Second Life prefabricated-housing company I'm about to open in just a few short weeks. (The screenshot above, for example, is a nighttime shot from inside "Asimov," one of the first three prefab starter homes I'll be selling through Fabb.) It's become a conflict of interest to mention it here regularly anymore, in that I'm working so much on it now and have so many updates to share; I figured I'd just spin the entire thing off into its own publication, so that those who are interested can go directly there and those who aren't can just skip it. Anyway, you can click here to go to the new Fabb blog, if you want; it's still under construction, frankly, probably for another week or so.