Mike Finazzo

Chris Elliot has long been one of my favorite comedic actors. He plays such amazing creepy-funny yet endearing characters. I even got to see him in person once on the Upper West Side, and as opposed to introducing myself, I decided to make some sort of squeek-noise and just walked out of his way .

With today being Groundhog’s day (the movie in which he was the charmingly-smug cameraman Larry) and his new role as Eagleheart starting tomorrow night on Adult Swim (yes, technically Friday morning, but that’s pretty half-empty thinking, ya jerk), I decided to do a rundown of my top 5 favorite Chris Elliott roles:

This theme is up here as a placeholder, as I’m reevaluating what I actually want to do with this site. I’ve been doing a lot less web work and focusing more on comedy writing of late. The new design of the site will focus more on my comedy writing and my ultimate goal of getting into the comedy writing business. New design will hopefully be up by the end of Fall, although we’ll see if I can find the free time to make that happen…

Create a WordPress Archives Page with Yearly Headers

The only thing worse than the good ‘ole “Fail Whale” when you try checking out a Twitter profile, is when Twitter’s slowness effects the content on your site.

A lot of sites are using Widgets and Sidebar space to display their user timeline. This can be very handy to display the last x number of posts (for info on how to to add a Twitter Feed, check out the post “Integrating a Twitter Feed onto Your Site“).

Kind of annoying that the only pre-set WordPress code for this type of thing prints the link and doesn’t let you use it as a variable. This is very useful as a “back” button and keeps the user within your site if they got to the specific post from outside, which wouldn’t be the case if you used a Javascript onClick=”history.go(-1)“. The only caveat here is if you have a post tagged in more than one category. This defaults to the category in the 0 position of the array returned from “get_the_category”, which I believe defaults to the category with the lowest ID#.

<?php
 $category = get_the_category($post->ID);
 $first_cat = $category[0]->cat_ID;
 $category_link = get_category_link($first_cat);
 ?>