Off the bat. I'm not calling this blog a blog. Don't like the word blog, never did. The root of blog is Web-log. Never liked web. Web, Cyber, Net, .com and the prefix e-, never liked any of these any of their derivatives.
No disrespect to my host blogger.com they offer a wonderful service and all but I'm into aesthetics and blog don't fit the program. It's an ugly word, like "jazz". I like jazz as a genre but in a phonetic context, "jazz" is considered one of the ugliest words in the English language and I agree.
"Jazz", an ugly word describing a beautiful thing. "Diarrhea", in turn, a quite beautiful word describing an ugly thing. A kindergarten classroom with limited vocabulary was once tested and chose "Diarrhea" as the name they would most likely name a baby. So, in that same context I find this (the hook):
"Blog" sounds like a slang term for "tampon".
As in "Jennifer, I switched purses this morning. You got an extra blog on you?" It makes me shudder writing it. I guess at it's root you have the "B, L and O" of blood and tampons are kinda log-like in their general oblong shape.
So if you imagine the silhouettes of Morgan Freeman and Hattie Winston reciting the two...
If you're still reading, don't worry, as I contribute to this thing it won't be a running list of likes and dislikes, that would make it a blog as most blogs are just that (I'll eventually link to the exceptions.) And just because I spoke of tampons and diarrhea, please consider the context . Again, I'm into aesthetics and scatological don't fit the context either.
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