fixed it. It was some bad code from blip TV in a recent post. this thread helped:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/151077?replies=8
I came here for help, not a pissing contest. You obviously know more about this than I do, that’s why I asked.
Am I wrong to assume that this problem is with the CSS and not the html page pointed to in that link? It seems that the errors identified there are inconsequential. I tried this same tool with my style sheet earlier but got an error: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vagrantart.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fwp-andreas01-12%2Fstyle.css&warning=1&profile=css21&usermedium=all