The Birth Of The Blog

by Patrick Jarenwattananon

Give us this day our daily diversion.

As A Blog Supreme hits its two-week anniversary, it seems appropriate to answer the question that we've fielded most frequently since this whole project was merely a seed-germ of an idea: Whence The Name?

We've mentioned the philosophy behind the choice before: reverence to the art form and its great works, amusement with its fundamental eccentricities. But it was a struggle to find something with the right tone: in second-guessing ourselves, we even threw it out to you folks to help us out.

We scanned far and wide for great jazz catchphrases, album titles (we totally would have used Point of Departure if it hadn't already been taken) and suggestive names of songs. In the end, though, we settled on one of the initial ideas that anyone nominated. First thought, best thought, as Kerouac practiced -- if he had deliberated over it for AN ENTIRE EFFING MONTH afterwards.

But we threw out an awful lot of wheat with the chaff. By which I mean totally sweet puns. Ahem:

Kind of Blog
Moody's Mood For Blog
Porgy And Blog
The Blues And The Abstract Blog
Percussion Bitter Blog
Blog Blog Blog Blog Blog
Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Blogs
Everybody Digs Blog Evans
The Amazing Blog Powell, Vol. 1 and 2 (my personal favorite)

And the ideas weren't just limited to LP nomenclature.

Plenty of standards fit the bill splendidly:

When I Fall In Blog
Blog Rondo A La Turk
Chant Of The Blog
Black Bottom Blog
Blog In Green
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Blog
Oh Blog, You Is My Woman Now
Better Get Hit In Yo' Blog
Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blog

Mingus could really be his own category. If anyone out there decides to launch a site called "All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Blog," I will throw it in the links sidebar immediately.

(We also thought up a whole mess of more serious things that didn't have the word "blog" in them. But those weren't nearly as funny.)

Any of you folks out there have any good suggestions you would have liked to see up for consideration?

7:25 PM ET | 06- 3-2009 | permalink

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