Friday, May 22, 2009

Choosing a blog name is difficult

First of all, I hate the word blog. It sounds like "clog." It sounds like it should be something bloody you cough up in the morning. It's just one of those words that makes my stomach turn. But if I'm going to have one, then it's going to have a decent name. But how can I make a play on a word I despise? I started out with words that rhyme with blog:

Clog
Slog
Dog
Bog
Pog
Frog
Jog
Flog
Cog
Fog
Hog
Snog
Mog
Gog and Magog (I'm' stretching here--I don't know how these are actually pronounced and I think those may be soft "g"s)
Shog...and now I'm just making up words

Then, in addition to the variations on these words, there are the words with rhyming syllables:

Goggle
Toggle
Eggnog
Soggy

Those are harder to think up.

I'm not using "clog," for reasons stated above. "Walking the blog" is too obvious. Or "Wag the Blog." What about "The rattling blog" or "The blog down in the valley-o"? Apparently someone else thought of this rhyming trick too. "Flog"? That could be interesting, but I'm pretty sure "Blogging Molly" is taken. I won't even bother to check.

"The Bloglodyte"?

"Angus, thongs, and full-frontal blogging"? A little risque, with a literary edge to boot. I like it, but it's already taken. Oh, well. I generally aim to be clever and entertaining, not creative. And I've taken up too much time with this already. And I haven't even touched on any kind of library topics. Yet.