I’m starting a new meme. It’s the “Why-did-you-give-your-blog-its-specific-name” meme, and the guilty parties who are tagged will be listed at the end of this post.
Of course, I don’t expect too many people tagged to actually even perpetuate the meme, because hey - I’m gonna effin’ set the tone with this post. I can see how it would be difficult for others to surpass this blog entry’s superiority in narrative, wit and nostalgia, all of which are exceeded only by the hugeness of my ego and delusions of grandeur stemming from it.
Readers of the best blog in Grandin have likely noticed I change my blog’s subtitle more often than I change my underwear, and there’s a reason for that. Pure and simple, it’s an alteration of identity. I’m systematically destroying the old static self in the pursuit of the “best me”, and settling into patterns is something I don’t want to do anymore.
However, the blog always has been and alway will be Grandinite because I am the essential Grandinite, which is a resident of the happenin’est neighbourhood in E-Town. This little neighbourhood is a microcosm of cool.
Within a 2 minute walk, I can:
* Go to the Globe Nightclub and get stabbed.
* Hit up G & R liquor for some dirty Pabst or Wild Turkey.
* See a statue of a dead police officer.
* Take a pee in the fountains at the Legislature.
* Buy milk from a really cool guy from India at his corner store.
* Eat the best fruit & yogurt mueslix bowl at a cafe’ and hijack other people’s wireless signals.
* Deal with my union benefits.
* Go for a jog in the river valley, which I rarely do.
* Get some new eyewear using previously mentioned benefits.
* Attend a Catholic mass, if I ever so desired.
* Visit old cottonhead grannies in the nearby retirement homes.
* Yell at little kids playing in the playground at the elementary school.
If you ever get a chance to live here, by all means, hit this place up. I’ve sat on my balcony and watched the sun shine through the C02 over West Edmonton Mall, thrown eggs at cars that have their alarms going off all the time and seen my fair share of interesting people scurrying about their lives.
So how’d I name this blog?
One day I was just wondering what residents of my little ‘hood would be called if they were their own little people group.
Grandininians?
Grandinonians?
Grandinans?
Grandinites.
I googled it to see if anyone had used the name before, and nobody had. It was original, and id had the the hard “g” “r” “i” and “t” that just spells “grit”. The name has stickiness, it is not likely to be used by many others (so it comes up in a google search) and it even sounds like a star of a 70’s blaxploitation film. As far as I know, I invented the name “Grandinite”, as I am the first person in my little sphere of a world to adopt this identity.
A blog usually reflects something about the personality of the author. For example, my baby bro, MK, probably named his blog after himself, because, basically . . . he is an egotistical maniac, and if you can’t get your head around that, you can go pump sand. Right on brotha, you tell ‘em how it is - thunk it down, yo.
Then, you’ve got the coolest old codger on the interweb, Ivan, who named his blog creativewriting.ca. It reflects my pereptions of Ivan as a straight up, fairly practical guy.
Who likes to write.
Creatively.
You’re not going to look at an url like his and immediately think Ivan’s blog is about the experiences of an expatriate Mongolian dental student living in Baltimore. I’m sure there’s a blog about that, and if there isn’t already I’m predicting there will be. One day.
So, I’m going to tag a few people and ask them why they named their blog its particular name.
After that, tag whomever and however many you want, get them to do the same to others, and we’ll see if we can’t make this thing fizzle out faster than one of my lame metaphors.
HOWEVER: it would be VERY helpful if EVERYBODY who has been tagged sent a trackback to this original post (just trackback the permalink you get when you click on the title of this post) so I can track and study the results a bit. That would be a great help.
Ie: the trackback link is: http://www.grandinite.com/2006/05/17/why-did-you-give-your-blog-its-specific-name/
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