What’s in a name
Now that I’ve gone and told everyone where to find me, I start thinking about moving this blog to a subfolder of this site. 
Don’t move your bookmarks just yet, though. I’m still trying to sort it out.
In good news, I got my business cards today for my freelancing business. Hooray! They’re so pretty. Glossy, shiny, new and MINE. Mine, all mine. My business. My future. My PRESENT. I was like the dorky guy on the commericals who gets his new business cards and furtively sniffs the freshly printed paper, reveling in the scent of the fresh ink where his name is now printed.
I kind of did that at the post office today. I was mailing a letter off to my good buddy Isabel, and she got the first business card of the bunch. I almost wept when I saw my perfect little cards. I didn’t order a ton of them, just enough to get by for the next couple of months. Hopefully, I will have a grand identity and logo to launch when the time comes to re-order.
Anyway, I got to thinking about blog names. Of course, I would want something related to journalism, because that’s the highly esteemed educational degree I hold. But it’s funny about journalistic terms — they’re macabre, to say the least. We “kill” stories we don’t want or need and offer “kill fees” to authors for their trouble. We write “heads” and “cutlines.” “Deadline” was a prison term back in the days of stockades. Your lead paragraph of a story is the “nut graf” (not so much morbid but appropriate — it’s usually a nut who’s writing it!). Our archives are “morgues.” We “bury” fluffy stories in the back of an edition. Etcetera. People call us renegades, muckrakers, watchdogs. The general public talks about “violence in the media,” not understanding that the violence is in the WORLD and we’re just responsible for telling them about it.
Thus, you see the conundrum in coming up with an intriguing blog name when this is the material with which I have to work!
Suggestion box (er, the comment box) is below — what would you name this joint?
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September 7th, 2004 at
–Vote for Kerry–!!!
September 8th, 2004 at
Dawn Does Dal… Oh, wait. I like “Dawn Enterprises.”
Big help, eh? You’re welcome.
September 8th, 2004 at
You think YOU’VE got it bad… Try holding a philosophy degree.
September 8th, 2004 at
I think “Dawn” says it all. Fresh start, beautiful new beginning, clean slate, etc.
Either that or “Whip Me, Beat Me, Make Me Write Bad Checks”. Aimed at a different demographic, to be sure.
September 8th, 2004 at
*giggle* LOVE it!
September 8th, 2004 at
“Will Show My Boobies for Food”? I kid, I kid.
How about “Dawn of the Dead”? No, that would’ve been perfect for the last blog.
Why don’t I get back to you on this?
September 8th, 2004 at
I think I fall into the “Will Show Boobies For Food” camp. Seriously, you could use “Dawning On Me” but that’d just be cheesy.
-Amy
September 11th, 2004 at
Oops, just realized that I was “anonymous”. That “whip me, beat me…” comment was me. But you probably knew that, right?
Ted
September 11th, 2004 at
LOL, Ted, I’d recognize your penmanship anywhere!