Complicated Fun in a bright new costume

You've noticed the blog has a new look, a new address, and new software (I know, bo-ring). It's a work in progress, so expect changes. The important thing is that the entire "old blog" (April, 2003 to September, 2005) has been dragged over here into Moveable Type, sort of the VHS to beta of blog software (I know, still bo-ring, and that's a crappy metaphor). In other words, you can still find old pages like the TC All-Ages Club guide and the Minnesota Hip-Hop links rundown (those links will soon work more quickly). You'll always be redirected here from complicatedfun.com and its variations, as well as from the old babelogue address, which I could never remember. But for speed's sake, the new address is: blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes

Many thanks to web maestros Karl, Corey, and Brian for redesigning citypages.com and keeping my old posts in the mix. Who knew that this little art project of staff blogs, launched by Steve Perry and Mark Gisleson nearly three years ago, would become the media norm? (Those guys, I guess.) Even the dailies have blogs now.

A few more (bo-ring, bo-ring) notes: Though I'm not crazy about the ads, and please feel free to belittle the Powerball, I'm happy to go along with some minor mind-control considering how long City Pages ran complicatedfun.com without any sponsorship at all. For anyone interested in what the posts looked like before, Google cache is your friend. As for the future, look for a tweaked banner, revised links, more writing from my friends Joseph Golden (in Minneapolis) and Jim MacTavish (in China), and mp3s. I always wanted Complicated Fun to be an audioblog, and starting next spring, citypages.com will come in stereo. Photo: dancers photographed by me at the West Indian parade in Brooklyn, September 5, 2005. Click for full picture.