May
24
2009
The Empyreal Emblem
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In the last post, I requested readers to vote and comment on a possible tagline for this website. Those suggestions, for which I am very grateful, only affirmed that human opinion is anything but uniform, at least outside of politics, religion and morality, where we bear closer semblance to the creature Mark Twain characterized us as: “To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.” Continue reading
May
14
2009
Tag Teaming the Tagline
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Reader, can you spare a comment? I need your counsel. If you’ve been checking in on this website more than once a month (not that you’ve had any reason to until now), you may have noticed that part of my website has been as transient as the teenage playthings of Berlusconi. I’m not referring to the Twitter feed in the sidebar, which has admittedly become my recent teenage plaything, but rather to the tagline: the one-liner that identifies the website. I haven’t been able to settle upon a satisfactory phrase. Or rather I have settled upon too many. Or to be even more precise, my devotions fluctuate like those of a child plucking daffodil petals: “I love you, I love you not. I love you, I love you not.”
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