A Blog is a Blog

Subtitle: A Blog By Any Other Name

Names, obviously, are very important to me. I love the interplay of words. The way two or more sounds juxtapose to create a new idea.

I may even love words more than I like writing. In fact, I know I do because I have compared the process of writing to bloodletting, in some of my more dramatic moments. Of course, I like the vision this evokes, blood spilling onto a page, transforming the texture of the paper. Not that I like blood. It is yucky, but I hope you, dear reader, get my point anyway. As an evocative image, bloodletting is more palatable than say, words being burped or puked onto a page, a revolting metaphor, to say the least. Bloodletting puts one more in the mind of romantic vampires than frat boys who've had too much beer.

But, I digress. The reason for this post is that Griffin has re-named himself. It happened this summer in the sandbox. A split-second decision on his part has transformed him forever into "Browniefoot." A name that makes me smile and shake my head in pride for its own evocativeness and sheer brilliance.

Bela Simone has become to myself, and, lately, the rest of the family, simply BooBoo. I have loved the little girl character in Monsters Inc. since we watched that movie for the first time with Griffin years ago and always imagined that one day we would have our very own dark-haired, dark-eyed Boo. Bela is more red-head than her cine-predecessor, but whatever!

I am known online as Ooo Lala, a name I irreverently chose one day when I registered for some website and then thought was a hilarious choice as I began receiving mail addressed "Dear Ooo" or "Attention Mrs. Lala."

Terri Gross interviewed the screenwriter from the new film Juno yesterday afternoon, a woman named Diablo Cody. The really interesting thing about her (besides her crazy name and the fact that she may just have created a girl character that will become as iconic as Ferris Bueller) is that she got her break as a writer doing a blog about the sex industry. Most, of course, were more pornographic in nature than Ms. Cody's blog, which was very literary (with a few titillating videos and pictures).

All of this to say, I am considering changing some of the identifable information on the blog for privacy reasons. Not that anyone's reading it. But, I suppose, there is always the possibility. Treehuggermama had a visitor from Poland recently. Yours truly has stumbled, unawares, into the blogs and family websites of people I will never likely meet.

As for the details of this momentous change, pictures and videos will remain but our aliases will have to suffice in the descriptions and stories. Our location will have to go underground. And, this message will, of course, self-destruct.

Dear reader, please leave a comment about these proposed changes. And, for heaven's sake, if you are from Poland, introduce yourself, please!