Comments on: Wherein Whelk Wants Wonderful Words

Question: Wherein Whelk Wants Wonderful Words

The Whelk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:06:07 -0800

Name My Blog! After years of creating things and then casually tossing them aside, I've decided to create a blog to put them all in. Cartoons, short fiction, audio clips, short video, etc. A bit like Lore's Bad Gods. The only problem is, I've got no idea what to call it.

I'm torn between something direct like "John Did That" or something that just sounds cool, "Automatic Inspiration" was a leading contender for a while. Want to avoid anything suggesting random, junk, or trash (Even though that's what it is, the whole theme is overused). Shower me with your minds, Mefites!

By: i_cola

i_cola — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:09:16 -0800

Is The Whelk already taken?

By: box

box — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:13:17 -0800

Leavitt Alone

By: ostranenie

ostranenie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:20:02 -0800

ZOMG SELFLINK?

Leavitt To Me! (with the exclamation point)
Whelkland?
Something to do with a pun on marine biology?

By: box

box — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:21:32 -0800

Ooh, Busycon Whelks, like that Richard Scarry cosplay convention.

By: mikepop

mikepop — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:37:12 -0800

John Left It
The Curated John Leavitt

By: Confess, Fletch

Confess, Fletch — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:38:43 -0800

Not a Whelks Chance In A Supernova

By: The Straightener

The Straightener — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:41:23 -0800

WHELKOME TO HELL

By: Phire

Phire — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:53:31 -0800

Wherein Whelk Weaves Wonderful Worlds?

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:56:30 -0800

my go-to naming-shit link

By: Jaltcoh

Jaltcoh — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:16:35 -0800

Whelking Hours

Whelking Life

Warp and Whelk

By: orme

orme — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:34:31 -0800

Whelk Zombie

By: like_neon

like_neon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:38:15 -0800

Whelk Droppings

By: Iridic

Iridic — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:46:49 -0800

"What Ho! - Elaborations, Larks & Knaveries"

By: foooooogasm

foooooogasm — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:00:40 -0800

You're creative, but creating a name is doing you in.

Use that as your generative and call it...

...Whelk Doesn't Know...

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:27:26 -0800

[please link to your site in your profile, not here, thanks]

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:07:16 -0800

WHELK'D

or

Leavittown

(My band 15 years ago had a song called "Levitt House Gone Wrong" but that is spelled slightly wrong...)

By: jamjam

jamjam — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:07:40 -0800

Continuing your marine shell theme:

The Chambered Noodleist.

By: lore

lore — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:08:02 -0800

The nice thing about a random collection of material is that you can have a random name associated with it. I have a habit of picking up domain names associated with various phrases that I come across or come up with. Bad Gods was the title of a story I was going to write someday. I had a site called Little Fluffy Industries, that was just a phrase I liked, probably influenced by Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds." I named the old Wired blog Table of Malcontents based on a random pun I came up with years before, and more recently I registered dogsandsorcerers.com because I ran across the phrase in Revelation 22:15.

The point is that if you've been creating things and tossing them aside for years, there are probably some titles and phrases in those creations that you're fond of. I'd go over them and pick one that's short and that corresponds to a domain name that hasn't been registered yet.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:46:34 -0800

A Calendar for Betelgeuse
Angels and Pins
Bluffing is for Children
Build the Granary First
Casually Tossed Off
Circular Barometer
Creamershots
Dropping Pieces
Either Here or There
Fathoms and Farthings
For a Dying Breed
Inhibited Zygotes
Mai Tai Cents
Mounting Above the Mantelpiece
Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Whatevers
Shells in the Sand
Stray Thoughts
The Granary
These Are the Frequencies
Universal Grandma
Your Easy Guide to Understanding the Universe

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:36:19 -0800

Personally, I like simple, so I don't see how something like The Whelk by itself isn't sufficient. But then maybe you don't want to use your username (I see there is no reference to it on your website now). What comes to mind then might be something based on your name. I like

Leavittry

By: zennie

zennie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:23:06 -0800

Leavitt Alone

Hah. Clever.

Problem with the "cool-sounding" phrases is that they lose their lustre unless they really mean something to you.

By: zinfandel

zinfandel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:16:53 -0800

I was thinking today that "I have scissors" would be a good name for a craft blog (I own about eleventy-eight pairs of scissors.) So "I have [something]"?

By: stray thoughts

stray thoughts — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:12:45 -0800

What the Whelk. Don't know why but I just like the way it sounds.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:40:29 -0800

Hey guys, I decided to go with THE WHELK, which you can find if you go to my site in my profile and click ..THE WHELK. Some of it is stuff I've done in Metafilter before, some not. I'm going to try for one *thing* a day for a while, see how that works. Again, thanks to everyone who helped!

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:59:57 -0800

Do I get commission?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:49:36 -0800

Only if I become wealthy and famous beyond my wildest dreams.

And I got pretty wild dreams.