Intervention

Three of my last four posts end with ellipses. Only one of them was warranted. The post title-ending ellipsis might, in fact, be my own personal Silent Penultimate Panel. I'll try to watch out for this in the future.

Hand-wringing Accomplished

After 20 minutes of soul-searching and screwing around with the Blogger Dashboard, I have found out that while ballpointbanana is taken, theballpointbanana is not. So, in the name of image consistency, and because I feel that one cannot go wrong when referencing Adam West, I'm just going to change the web address right now to www.theballpointbanana.blogspot.com. This will prevent me from having to refer to this blog as "The Ballpoint Banana at Online Somewhere," which might be the worst name since "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim."

So all three of you who might have checked this page so far, update the bookmarks that you probably haven't made yet anyway.

On Titles

My original plan was to call this blog "The Ballpoint Banana." This is a reference to Batman: The Movie.

Batman: What has yellow skin and writes?
Robin: A ballpoint banana!
Batman: What people are always in a hurry?
Robin: Rushing people... Russians!
Batman: So this means...
Robin: Someone Russian is going to slip on a banana peel and break their neck.
Batman: Precisely, Robin. The only possible explanation.

"The only possible explanation" sums up the attitude many blog writers have toward their blogs, and a ballpoint banana is nonsensical and goofy enough to adequately describe my writing, so I figured it fit well. Then I noticed it was taken, so I changed to a weak plan B and called in Online Somewhere, because I routinely forget where I read things online and just tell people I "read it online somewhere" as if that explains things.

Now I've discovered that I can have Online Somewhere be the web address and The Ballpoint Banana be the Blog Title. However, if I choose to use both, as I sort of am at the moment, I can't very well have a green color scheme. I currently have the most image-lacking blog on the internets.

In short, much hand-wringing will be done over this in the next few days. Starting a new blog is hard work.

Fresh Start

I used to write in an online journal at diaryland.com, but then I ran into a few problems:

1. My life got very repetitive, which made for very boring writing.

2. I felt the need to write about other things, like music, sports, literature, and animation.

3. Since I really have no useful knowledge about at least two of those topics, I felt the need to be able to get comments on these things so that when I make uninformed moral judgments about them, people who know better can call me on it. Diaryland insisted that I pay them for a service that everyone else provides freely, and so I must relocate.

4. I tend to get a bit wordy, so I felt that the occasional illustration might help me out. Also, I can just link to things instead of quoting them.

5. My sister has one of these, and has a lot of imaginary internet friends as a result. Since I'm not going to be writing in detail about parenting, pregnancy, women's health, midwives and homebirth, vegetarianism, or Linda Hirshman, I'm guessing the Venn Diagram formed by our imaginary internet friend circles will not have a large middle section, so my plan is to find my own circle of blog friends and get them to follow my lead in posting snide comments on Casey's blog. A good time will be had by all. And who was this Venn character?

And so begins my new online home, which I have decided to call "Online Somewhere." I am marginally happy with this choice. I am very bad at thinking up titles.

Holy crap. My first entry is a bulleted list. I really am a blogger.