OK, class, settle down now. While the News Viking ran aground a few years back, this here site should satisfy the three of you who have expressed remorse over that abandoned effort. This time around, there will be limited politics and more multimedia. Basically, ever since I started writing about technology, I haven’t had much of a chance to write about anything important, like glow-in-the-dark creatures from the deep or why New Hampshire is like an onion (because it stinks). I’ll try to post as often as I can.
As millions of self-indulgent teenagers and soulless hipster doofuses have discovered already, picking the right name for your blog can be very difficult. I’ve had the (utterly made up) name Pax Arcana in my head for a while, but here’s a partial list of names I bandied about before returning to my first choice:
Death Cab for Death (A decent goof, but too reliant on people catching the reference)
Clap Your Hands Say Blog (See above)
Iron & Whine (Ugh. Stop me now)
The Real Killers (Is OJ still in the news? Serves us right)
This Blog Kills Fascists (Homage to Woody Guthrie, but too violent for my taste)
Limning Lemons (Limning is a funny, pretentious word overused by academics and the New York Times. I dropped this idea for fear of being associated with either)
Herre Gud (As far as I know, the only Norwegian phrase that indicates excitement. Too provincial)
Casual Friday Hawaiian Shirt (FUKA)
And then there were the variations on the eventual winner:
Pax Iguana
Pax Obscura
Pax Errata
Pax Parmigiana
Pax Illuminata
Pax Illiterata
Pax Banana
I feel pretty comfortable in my decision. It ain’t the best name in the world. But at least it ain’t those other ones.
1 Comment
August 8, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Bitch-
Are you receiving this?
You should call your next blog “Pax Blogaristafliptas.” Either that or “Pax Blogapanakakas.” That way you could maintain the original Norwegian bent while not sacrificing the inanity. Just a thought.
IKEA rules,
-Chainsaw