Yup. This ol’ blog, Worship Naked, will soon be kaput. Phffft.
Within the next month — I imagine — I’ll be moving to shiny new digs elsewhere in the ‘sphere. I kinda have to “mourn” the loss of Worship Naked, but I just can’t keep that name any longer. The reason should be obvious to most of you. It should have been obvious to me back when I first picked it, thinking I was oh so clevah. It should have given me … pause.
But alas, I am a mutant, both clevah and stupid, and I was hopped up good on my clevah stupidity, so, frankly — as much as it deeply pains me to admit it — this thought never ONCE occurred to me:
“Well, jeepers, Trace, with that name, you just might end up getting heaps and heaps of skanky spam from pervy p-o-r-n-o pushers talking endlessly about p-e-n-i-s-e-s and potions and such. Hmmm.”
Nope. Not ONCE. It was more:
“KnowwhatIthinkwouldbeagoodblogname,Trace?Doya?DOYA?Wannahearit?It’srilly
great.Seriouslyit’sawesomeandIamjustfreakinsmartandeep.Ready?WORSHIP
NAAAKED.N-A-A-A-A-KED,Trace!Man,IamsomodernandcuttingedgeandSMART.
IROCK!”
Uh, yeah. Well, pride goeth before p-o-r-n — or somethin’.
(And yes, I spell the words because I don’t want to draw attention to them — because I don’t want to spend another second deleting all the damn SPAM! Grrrrrrrrrr!)
Soooo …. just for fun, if you could name the new blog, what would you name it? 😉
Naming a blog is a tricky thing. It’s so hard to come up with a name or idea that is going to last and stay relevant/meaningful as your life or tastes change.
Of course, you already know this.
Since I’m new to reading your blog, I don’t have any helpful suggestions, but I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
I’m with Jeannine…I don’t have a suggestion, but encouragement. I can’t wait to see what you come up with, as you are so “clevah”.
Today was my first day back in the office after 3 weeks, so forgive my cheesiness.
But, since you work in a coffee house, how about Bean There, Done That?
It should be something about drama, or acting or somesuch…
I know when you choose one it’ll be a stroke – OF GENIUS!
(Sorry, dd’s been watching “Producers”.)
Okay –
Many years ago when I was an innocent new Internet user, I was searching recipes for our food bank b/c we’d just gotten a big donation of a well-known processed pork product.
Who knew “Gay Male Escort Spam” wasn’t a recipe?
Howsabout combining one of your passions with a well-known title of something? Something like “Automatic For the Paper” or something less cheesy.
If you take the average amount of sleep a person gets in a lifetime, break it down into REM sleep and break that down into actual dream time, you get seven years. Seven (where’s Joey?) is a pretty cool number… Does lots of neato things in mythology as well as the Holy Word… “Seven Years Dreaming”. I’ve always liked it, anyway (and just the *idea* of dreaming constantly for SEVEN WHOLE YEARS). Might title an album, band, book or conceptual art firm that someday… You can have it if you want, though.
Seven Deadly Sims would be a great packaging name for a Sims collection.
… I’m just saying.
You could power them up with black throwing stars and telekinetic mind flames… OoOoOoh…
If you wanted to keep a similar “theme,” how about “David danced”? I mean, it references the Scripture more directly, it keeps the same theme…
but I also like Word Girl’s suggestion of Seven Years Dreaming.
Or “God grant me patience…” which would fit in well with some of your dealings with customers in the coffee shop.
if I were naming my own blog it would probably make no sense to most people, so I won’t talk about names I would use. (I’m an avid knitter so it would probably be something like, “I have stitch markers and I know how to use them” which cracks me up but most people think is dumb.)
What was that answer he gave to his wife? “I’ll become even “MORE UNDIGNIFIED” than this.” And it’s a cool song too!
I just found your blog, but I find it very interesting! I’ll be interested to see your new name, so that I can read more in the future!!
ricki-
“Sharp Pointy Sticks”
“A Tangled Web”
“Two Sticks and a String”
“Got Yarn?”
“Madame DeFarge’s Diary”
“Lachesis, Clotho & Atropos, Inc.”
I bet most of these have been used, though…
(I’m calling mine, should I ever get one “No Idle Hands”, so I have dibs!)
I am a fan of the current name… however, I totally understand why you are changing it. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Sal… I love “No Idle Hands”… good one.
Sal – A Tangled Web is indeed taken. I haven’t visited often myself, so click at your own discretion, but it seems fairly straight-arrow. (Brit-based, too, eh wot!)
I’d like to piggyback on Cullen’s suggestion (since he was soooo close) – “Automatic for the Steeple.”
Or maybe “Three 3 Three?” ::ducking::
I like “sharp pointy sticks” … not for me, for ricki — because I like sharp pointy sticks. Just so versatile, you know?
WG — You should keep that name. I won’t steal it.
You all know I already have a name in mind, don’t you? 😉
And Brian, I’m a fan of the current name, too, but it has to go away …. I’m actually quite sad about that.
BUT … I’m really excited about the new design. I’ve basically designed a banner, but since I don’t know how to design a web page, I’m giving the web designer REALLY specific instructions, as least on that. I’m all about the banner. I know in my head and from my own fiddling with it EXACTLY how I want it to look.
I’m starting to worry that he hates me.
And Nightfly — sorry, you went into limbo because of the link, but, yeah, you’d better duck! 😉
And anyway, my number’s 555, remember?
The rest a you numberless goobs are goin’ to hell, I guess.
How sad. I’m a numberless goob.
Hey. I’m half a pica. I’m not a numberless goob. That’s 1/12 of an inch. All kinds of numbers there. 🙂
Can I be a goob with a number?
I have a great name picked out, but I’ll end up using it someday so you can’t have it.
Maybe you should try reverse psychology and name it “I Love Spam” or something along those lines…
I can’t wait to hear what name you pick out.
Not fun trying to figure out a name for a blog. I know that I struggled with mine. When naming mine I thought about my experience with leading kid’s music, and the kids can’t say my last name correctly (Mrs. Bonham aka “Mrs. Bottom”). So, I thought about Rockin’ Bottom -but didn’t think that would be too appropriate. You can use it if you want!
Seriously – I can’t wait to see what you do with your creative genius!
I usually wear number 16 when I’m on the rink, so…
My old blog on blog-spot was called something that was HIGHLY meaningful to me in a really complicated Byzantine way having to do with ancient Ireland, mad King Sweeney, Seamus Heaney, and my entire childhood.
Uhm – obviously – it was entirely meaningless to anyone who was not me – but I didn’t care.
The name of the blog was:
Sheila A-Stray.
Sadly, no matter what I did, people saw it as “Sheila Ashtray” which was SO not what I was going for!! hahahaha
red — Hahahaha — yes, I can see the problem there. Um, you would NOT believe how many emails I’ve gotten where the person says, “Sooo … how do you worship naked? Like, do you go outside? Is it at night?” etc.
PEOPLE — I thought we had established that — EVEN THOUGH I MAKE EVIL PAPER VOODOO DOLLS AND SUCH — I am not a WICCAN!
It’s really clawing away at my self-esteem. 😉
hahahaha I can only imagine the types of emails you get! hahaha
“Like … give me DETAILS about this worship-naked thing. No, no, I’m really interested!”
Freak!!
Oh, I am so not a patient person. I need to know everything right now. What’s the name? What’s the design look like? When will it be done? When can we see it? What did you eat for dinner tonight? How so you actually worship naked? Do you get cold? Well, you get the idea…