You probably didn’t notice that I upgraded my site’s software today. From my end of the screen, the new Wordpress v 2.1 release installed without a hitch. If the three of you reading along are having issues, let me know.

In contrast, yesterday’s train wreck of a site upgrade at Chowhound has thousands of angry villagers lighting the torches and sharpening their escargot forks. CNet management continues to respond to pissed off site users, and repairs to the massive pooch screwing flow forth.

While the Chicken Little types run around like Bill Paxton’s character in Aliens, I’m certain a company with Cnet’s resources will sort out the mess they made. It’s easy to get pissed at them. Chowhound’s about us, the community. Hell, them’s are us. What’s with the hating, people?

Give it time, chowhounds. These site changes will work out. In the meantime, I’ll be twiddling the knobs on my own little website, waiting for the inevitable day when something breaks…

How do you adapt an incisive book into a 114 minute film with a cohesive story line and compelling characters? Fast Food Nation’s author changed his style from carefully annotated, investigative journalism into a character driven fiction piece in his own screen adapation of the 2001 best seller. With the successes of Super Size Me, and Farenheit 9/11, why not craft a documentary?

Santa Monica public radio station KCRW aired this interview with writer Eric Schlosser and director Richard Linklater on today’s The Business. The film makers describe the creative challenges of the adaptation, and those of financing and distributing a controversial fim through a Hollywood machine so closely allied with fast food corporations.

Fast Food Nation premiers in the US this Friday, November 17 with a cast of lesser known leads and star studded appearances by Bruce Willis, Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette, Luis Guzmán, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, and Avril Lavigne to name but a few.

This blog will vacation for a week in the wilds of Western Colorado. If fortune smiles, I’ll bring back some elk meat and prepare some tasty wild game for your vicarous enjoyment.

How do you like the new peach masthead? Like the good parent I am, I pledge to dress my blog in clean clothes once a year, whether it needs it or not.

If you’re still seeing the old cheese masthead, hold down the shift key and refresh your browser. Let me know if anything’s broken.