Friday, September 01, 2006

Nameys for Bloggeys

I've been thinking of some different names for my blog that I'm trying to invent. It's becoming clear that the one that I eventually focus on will not be this here Regular Chickens one.

Did you know that in French-speaking countries, the word cassette, as in cassette tape, is often abbreviated "K7"? I think that's real cool.

So some of the namey candidates that I recently scrawled across the cover of one of my notebooks are:

1. Mmmff (mmmff.blogspot.com)

2. ohmyshit [or] omyshit (ohmyshit.blogspot.com [or] omyshit.blogspot.com [or] oms.blogspot.com)

3. not even one STD (neostd.blogspot.com)

4. fuck fuck shit fuck (ffsf.blogspot.com)
[and / or]
4.5 shit shit fuck shit (ssfs.blogspot.com)

X. theinternet.blogspot.com, spain.blogspot.com, rap.blogspot.com

Key:

1. This was the crust-shedding (<--- maybe an overstatement) product of the beginning of today's brainstorm, graciously aided by caffeine. Anyway, "Mmmff" was initially the sound of forcing something out of your head (like an idea, or a spontaneous growth), but now it might be a bit more fluid--just a sound that could be applied to multiple things.

2. Mmmff...not sure.

3. This would have to be anchored around the subject of my oft partying downstairs neighbors, and other associated bullshit.

4/4.5 Not necessarily attached to a particular idea, but phrases generated by my friend Brian back in high school.

X. Pretty much throwaways, random and slightly ironic ideas that might be fun.

valueadded.blogspot.com ....here's another one. I've come across this term "value-added" quite often. It seems to fit in with a few other terms, like "pro-rated," that don't really mean anything to me. Maybe I could start a blog about adding value. We'll see what happens.

I like the idea of something that works based on its own system, that has a logic, but not an instantly intuitive one. This is not so much the product of a desire to be esoteric as the product of a desire to create something confusing, yet interesting and maybe investigatable. I also just like the idea, really.

Okay. Time to do some looking around the web log osphere and see what I can see.

mMMFff

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A Post

I think I need to tinker a bit more.

I've been jotting down ideas continually, whenever I think of something that might make for an interesting video blog. They're often reactionary ones, premises that channel my knee-jerk responses to what I've obesrved in my very short forrays into the blogosphere.

Like, for instance, the word "blogosphere."

But I don't really think that an ironic, contrarian "vlog" (*cough*) would be the best use of my time here. I'd much rather figure out something that, if not directly harnessing the abilities peculiar to the medium, at least uses it as a platform for other ideas that I'm actually somewhat invested in.

So I dunno. I need to tinker more. Around on the net, around with what I want this thing to look like. I also need to like, get the internet.

arright,
zach.

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

So I just . . .

Christ, look at all these options.