Recently Jake Squid
made a delightfully frivolous post that
was solely a list of potential band names. (I think my favorite is “Winking
Cheese”, though “Always a Brideshead” is also very good) This
is a game that Kip loves to play, sometimes interrupting a conversation with
a sudden inspiration. He will also rate band names, and I guess I would too,
mostly on the disparaging side, pointing out names that proved that people were
running out of ideas.

Many people play this game or variants—for example Johnzo
and Victoria develop car names. Then there is, of course, the internet, the
challenge to come up with the domain name that means something that no one else
has snagged. But even more, I think blog names are the new band names, what
with names like “Skippy
the Bush Kangaroo”, “Hot
Buttered Death”, and “Two
Tears in a Bucket”.

Typically, I have a very boring blog name, or, really no blog name; my journal is rolled either as “Jenn Manley Lee” or “Jennworks,” either of which works fine for me. Not that I’m not constantly amused by what people come up with. In fact, I am very fond of the idea Amy has for a name for her as yet non-existent blog. I don’t feel free to reveal it, but maybe she’ll share it, either in the comments section or, finally, her own blog.