exciting new appearance; same old content

I've finally got round to skinning my LJ properly; it's WiP, lots of bits not done or dodgy at best, but at least I know what I'm doing now, subject to the excitingly incomplete S2 docs.

The main purpose was to get the stuff running off an off-board stylesheet so I can edit it easily; only trouble is that I'm ending up pretty much re-implementing the entire Layout layer I started from (magazine, FWIW). It's only a matter of time before what's now a Theme layer becomes a Layout layer in name as well as content...

Dog means rach, rach means clock, clock means time. We watch time. Dog is God involuted, manifested

After a discussion with ramtops that didn't lead to conformity of purpose, or to mutual satisfaction of requirements:
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