A question for y’all
So how did you come up with the name for your blog?
Mine, obviously, I got from the Kate Bush song not because of anything the song says but because I liked the title. For a long time my personal web site was just “Dawn Friedman’s Work” so “this woman’s work” made sense when I started my journal in 1/01. I knew that I would talk about my writing and my kid, the two important “works” in my life and so it seemed appropriate.
I recently found another woman who is running a journal also titled This Woman’s Work; it’s very striking.
If you answer this at your own journal will you either let me know in the comments or ping me so I can go read it? ‘Cuz I’m interested.
My blog is titled ‘Joker on the Run.’ I first started blogging when I decided to train to run my first marathon. I wanted a place to record my progress and my feelings about taking on such a daunting task. It turns out I suffered a knee injury in July and I haven’t been training since but I’ve kept the blog up and continued to write about whatever I feel like. ‘Joker’ is a nickname given to me by a group of online friends, btw. I do hope to start training again soon. I don’t know if I will be ready for my marathon in April though. Wish me luck!
I called mine Talk Talk because that’s what I do the most…well, really I named it Talk Talk because that was the name that kept coming to my mind when I was creating the blog.
I really have no idea where I came up with mine. My website use to be called Veronica’s temple…so temple…goddess…Goddess Talk..nah, goddess musings? hey…that could work. Word association I guess. And lack of creativity.
Full Bleed is the title of a novel I have been piecing together for a small eternity. Its subtitle is “confessions of a zine girl” and it’s about my life during and just out of high school and all of my publishing adventures. Full Bleed is a printing term that refers to print and/or graphics that go all the way to the edge of the paper. I only very recently thought about how it went with my pseudonym.
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Here are the two reasons this journal bears its name. The first has been passed around on the Internet and is an excerpt from Dave Eggers ranting about selling out, actually, but I had one of those random late-night conversations last summer that compl…
Mine is called “Help, help, I’m being repressed,” a nod to Monty Python. I chose this name as a play on the screen name “revolution” (9), which I have used online for many years. “Revolution 9,” of course, is a track off the Beatles’ White Album, an obscure and almost indecipherable collection of recorded sound snippets. I selected this because nine is a lucky and significant number to me, because I like the abstraction and absurdity of the track, and because of my left-of-center politics.
“Madame Fabulous” is a name that was given to me by a co-star in a play I did a number of years ago. He walked into a room where I was hanging out with friends, and came over to me and flamboyantly (sp)proclaimed, “Look! It’s my favourite straight person, Madame Fabulous!” LOL!!! I loved it immediately, and have made it mine ever since. I’m known as Madame Fab by a lot of my IRL friends now, as well.
I think “Jazz June” would be an excellent title for a blog. Someone take it!
And, Dawn, if I may, ten points to the first person who recognizes the literary reference. LOL.
Sorry, Dawn.
;o)
I call my blog “wicked thoughts” because it needed a title - it had just been sitting on my site (wickedpersephone.org) with no name for awhile.
My journal title (edge of the season) came from a state of mind, mostly waiting for change, which was where I was personally when I started the journal 2 years ago.
Conflict Girl was the name of a zine I used to do when I was in high school and my first year of college. It wasn’t widely distributed.
I gave it that name because I’ve always felt that because I can usually see both sides of an issue, that often creates a conflict within me. A former boyfriend once called me “Conflict Girl” because I’m such a mess of contradictions. A lot of people think it means that I like conflict and I actually don’t - I’m a conflict avoider IRL.
I named my blog Partial to the Bean after an obscure song by an obscure band (Platypus). I don’t even particularly adore the song (it’s on a CD that belongs to my husband) but, since my daughter’s nickname has been bean since before she was born, and I’m the beanmom, and all that stuff, I was always partial to that song’s title.
When I started my blog, that was the first thing that popped into my head when I realized I needed to have a name for it, so I went with that impulse, figuring I could always change it later. I probably never will…
I’ve been intending to answer this question for a week now, and now that the post has fallen off the page, I guess I should get my butt in gear.
It is a line from a poem a wrote a long time ago, that seemed appropriate. The poem is posted on my blog.