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Bam!Let's get it on.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Wow. T's not gonna like that.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I can handle the occasional Emeril allusion.The house was fine when I got home (of course). The toaster is ALWAYS unplugged. I'll toast something, it will pop up, and Chris will race across the room to yank the plug out of the wall.
Yes, he is afraid of raw chicken. When I cook, he hovers over me with the Lysol. I mean, come on. I am 24 years old. I have been hanging out in kitchens my entire life. I am a clean person. None of my siblings have ever had food poisoning, and neither have I. Anyway.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Arrison! HYD look so pretty!I love your entry. So humble. So endearing. So very Allison.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Shall we talk about the mag today, then?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Arrison! It so good! Journey of a Girl feels ashamed.Except there are a few typos in 'what does it all mean'. Uh, you sad "mad" when I think you meant "man" and I guess that's it.
You good.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I hate frontpage and geocities. They were screwing with me last night.And then stupid Montego got out this morning and made me crazy with rage and then I was really late.
Ah. Wednesday.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, and yes, Al, I like the black and white photos.Where do you find all of your photos? Like the one of the lady with the rolls...
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Hmm. Should I buy littlemissbossy.com or is that silly for a journal?Al - who are you using for web hosting?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, please buy littlemissbossy.com!I want annachao.com really a lot. We all have journal! We all write, get famous!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
hmm, would that be a copyright infringement tho, since it is a book?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
See, I was wondering about the copyright thing, too.I always thought those books were dumb, for the record. I think that I had Little Miss Know-It-All and Little Mr. Impatiance. Whatevuh.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
hmm. "Mr. Men and Little Miss" is trademarked, but I don't know if the other ones are. I found a site called "Little Miss Magic" and a porn one called "little miss filth" and one that's littlemissfortune.comWho knows.
What else would be good for me?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Mayn. There ARE typos. I can't read AND write at 1 in the morning. And now I can't fix it until I get home. Aieeee!Are the layers messed up when y'all look at it? On my Mac, everything looked fine, and this morning, things are running into each other. Hmph.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Little Miss Filth - hee! That reminds me of Filthy McNasty. "this time, girls, we're doing it the easy way...with class!"I'm sure there are a lot that would be good. I'm kicking myself for not registering etiquette.com a few months ago. Dammit. teri.com is porn, and hannah.com probably is, too. Your mom does have a point - I agree that most of the internet is all about porn, porn, porn. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I just looked at the Yahoo list of their top fifty searches, and they're all Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and you KNOW that it's not little girls wanting fan info. It's gnarly old men wanting to see naked pictures.
But yeah. HannahBeth.com or something like that, maybe.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I don't remember where I got the Mother with the Rolls picture. I love it, though. I have a few more good ones from wherever I found that one.
That's really me on the front, though. And that's really my daddy.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Your daddy is precious, by the way. And so are you - those freckles!I had layering trouble on the most recent entry, but it seemed like it was working on the About HYD page.
Am I a big lazy ass because I use diaryland?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Al - yeah, layering was messed up on the entry, but fine on the about page.hannah.com is acutally some children's advocacy thing or something.
See, I really like littlemissbossy, but I don't want to get sued or something.
Yes, your dad. Precious.
I forgot about Filthy McNAsty! What movie was that from? 10 prison women or soemthing?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, I wish I wish that I could remember the name of that movie. I'm sure it's still in stock at the Champions Randall's video store. It was about women who escaped from prison, and it was a total Charlie's Angels ripoff. But lord, it was hysterical. I think I may add that quote to my diaryland site.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
We all LOVE Allison's daddy!Hannah, you should buy loveallisonsdaddy.com.
Y'all, I told my mom she was going to be involved in a revolving "Mother's Advice" column, and she's ready to go. Lynda make good advice!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
okay, scratch little miss bossy, because soem girl in the UK uses that as the name of her site and it's lame. And when I did a search it was all about the books and I don't want to get sued etc. by Roger Hargraves adn his Little Miss army.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Wait! I think the title did have something to do with ten women in prison, and what made that so funny was that there were never ten women in the movie - there were like seven. I guess they had budget issues. But yeah, Filthy McNasty was the name of their limo driver - "Mark VIII services provided by Filthy McNasty."
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Okay, today is name Hannah's new domain day! (sorry, still trying to shake off my little miss bossy.)Oh, and name our magazine day, of course.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Y'all know there's a bar in Fort Worth called Filthy MacNasty's. I have a t-shirt from there.
My mother sent an e-mail that said "That picture of your daddy is not fair. I'm going to look so evil now! People are going to hate ME!" But y'all, that's the only one I have. That's not even CUTE compared to some of the ones we have in Birmingham.
Lord, grant me the wish that I have a black-haird, brown-eyed little boy like Bill Lowe.
An Bei! I send song! Can't berieve you think they not hollible.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
"Y'all know there's a bar in Fort Worth called Filthy MacNasty's. I have a t-shirt from there."Get. Out.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
mathazine.com is available
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
No, Arrison, An Bei rove songs! Vincent Feng Chao rook at them tonight, make guitar sounds with them!Today, for his job working with the Krazy Kriminals, Vince has to find out the blue book value of a 1985 Cadillac ElDorado Baritz. How could you not love a job with requirements like that?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I think that Filthy McNasty drove one of those, too.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Well, damn. I just tried to look it up, and I can't find it! I know there used to be one in FW. Oh well.
Apparently, there IS one in London, though.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Mathazine, eh?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Can we call it the MATHazine, though? Then it would be about US.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Al, did you know Shelby Lynne has guest vocals on Shawn Mullins' new cd?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But would that alienate all the other people who are gonna write for us?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
*running off to Amazon.com to buy that*No, I didn't know it. Shelby never tells me anything. 'S'ok, though. When Vince Chao makes my songs all pretty and I become a famous singer, me and AB will hang out with Shelby all the time and be her best friends.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I think it would actually alienate all the people we'd want to read us.
I think we should name it something separate from MATH. I had this great idea for a print mag two years ago. I called it New American Renaissance.
I eventually bagged it, and then I realized that to say New and Renaissance was redundant. Of course, I didn't really mind that.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Hmm. HOw about something that relates to our generation. Not really Xers, but not Yers either. There's something about that New American thing that I like, that could work.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, and Allison, I died at your modem noise. Internet Lovah, jr.! No second reply yet.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I am DETERMINED to crash the Atlanta DUMBcon.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I just one a Free 20 oz Diet Coke! Hooray! (It's exactly what I DON'T need.)
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I "WON" it. Damn. Y'all I's thu bestest editer thar iz.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Yeah, I'm sure Pam has a "conference" that weekend.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Magic 8 Ball just burned meg. Woo hoo!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
If she goes to that thing, I will nevah forgive her. WE already HAD SquishyCon. There can be only ONE!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
y'all, I am cracking myself up with the magic 8 ball. go ask it questions!Because it says dameeeetray loooooves me.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Dude, I'm talking to myself again.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, I had to do some work. One of our marketing biddies just sent an e-mail to our web designer that was so rude, I had to do some clean- up.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
You good workah.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Am I crazy? Where is the Magic 8 ball?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Ah. I found it. And asked a question.
Where T? Where AB? Must get idea for mathazine and hateyourdaddy.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
on squishy, in blabyou no crazy, i bad explainah
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Why do you need ideas for hateyourdaddy? it's good! I need an idea for a new journal/domain name
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Dude! Journey is good! Is journeyofagirl.com available? Woah - that looks really bizarre all typed out.
If you want a new one, just figure out something you say all the time, or do all the time, and use it. hateyourdaddy.com was a natural, yo.
You could make it shemaybe60butIlooooveher.com.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Mayn. Al and Hannah...bouncing the ball back and forth, all lonely.
Fine. We'll just make all the mathazine decisions without y'all. Ok, the new name is "A & H Save The World."
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I'm here - this morning was really, extra busy, and then I went to Victoria's Secret.Anyway.
I am fatty fat rat a tat fat.
Yeah, Mathazine might alienate some people.
I like "New American." That's actually a term I use to describe a lot of music, like Wilco, Steve Earle, Victoria Williams, Shawn Mullins - they're not quite rock, they're not quite folk. They're New American. I guess Old American would be Hank Williams, Sr., that sort of thing. Crap like Garth Brooks and Faith Hill have undermined the Country label for folks like Patsy Cline and HWSr and Willie. Oh, Willie, how I love thee.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
yeah, journeyofagirl.com is a mouthful.This Shawn Mullins CD is gooood.
Just ran into the Texan - "why didn't you call me" "you were supposed to call ME" "you were supposed to give me your #" "oh." So he said we'll "try again this weekend."
Uh huh.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, HE said "why didn't you call me."I'm not that pathetic.
I like New American, but I don't think it sounds hip/dot.comm-y enough.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
newamerican.com
I don't know, that sort of works for me. I was thinking maybe it would be confusing and people might think it was for recent immigrants, but I then remembered that Salon.com, when they first launched and I was a DAILY reader of theirs, had a link up in the corner to point hairdressers to Salon.net, because they bought the site from them and people were also coming onto Salon thinking they were going to find a stylist.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
it sounds a wee bit stuffy. what about another word besides "new." or add something to it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But do we want to be all hip and dot-commy? Or is that a little passe?Another Atlanta boy made good (in the Shawn Mullins sense - btw, he and my cousin Brett swam together in high school) who y'all might like is Josh Joplin. He wasn't on Napster, a few months ago, at least, but SM just produced his first big-label album.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But we're young, and our target audience is young. And I'd like to think hip, and definitely dot.com savvy.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I know, H, but we're also smart. I think.That doesn't have to be it at all - I just like it. I think it would appeal to a young, educated audience though, because of the word new. I see what you're saying about the stuffy thing, but I like it because it's not so dot.comish and not so obscure, but it has the word New in it and that makes it...uh...new.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I just think of dot.com as a four letter word. I think that a lot of people our age are over that whole hipster, high-tech world thing. Dot.coms aren't having the big parties like they used to, and in Atlanta at least, that scene is dead and the alllure is old news. All over the country, in fact - last years dot.com hipsters were laid off last month. We can be hip, but not passé, at the same time.What are some sites that y'all like? I think that timmybighands is funny as hell, and theonion is, like, the penultimate of everything. I like that Feedzine.com, and the atlanticunbound. I think that people are more impressed by wit and intelligence than a slick site that has nothing behind it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But does "poptainment" and "ask lin chao" jive with "new american"? Maybe. I don't know. I guess I keep thinking of American Statesman everytime I hear it, and that's putting a very defined picture in my mind. And maybe I'm the only person in the world who would connote the two, but probably not.Let's call it JLo.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Um, I think that Lin Chao and "New American" definitely connotate something.I think that poptainment is classic New American.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
"new american" sounds very political.Potainment sounds very fun.
Are we trying to be George (RIP)?
and the lin chao/new american connotation isn't the one we'd want, I think.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
"Let's call it JLo."Oh, I laughed for a full minute. Y'all, let's call it A-Lo.
It doesn't have to be New American. It really doesn't - but somebody come up with something else, quick, because the more I think about it, the more I like it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
See, me too. I think that "New American" is all-encompassing. It deals with music, it deals with entertainment, it deals with youth merging with adulthood. Because even though we're young, we're adults.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
And it's available, if we want it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
this JLo cd suuuuucks. I can't believe how bad it is.I don't care y'all. I just think it's too political. And much too serious.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Y'all, I honestly think reading pamie's forum so much has made me overly sensitive. I just got this e-mail from Chris and it set me off from zero to rage in like, 1.8 seconds. And all he said was the Chinese accent was driving him up a wall. Why did it make me so mad?
I guess I can see where he's coming from, since we barely communicated without it in Vegas, but COME ON. I wrote back and said "Fine, Mr. Pamie. Enough of the Chinese, then."
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But wait - you said you liked it when it was first mentioned.I dig the Magic 8 Ball.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
That was to Hannah in reference to New American. Not the Chinese accent. I like the Chinese accent.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
There's something about it that I like. I like what you guys are thinking is the idea behind it, I just don't think that name, on it's own, gets that across to random net reader.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
So, I hate men.
Anyway, H, yeah. You think it's political because you're thinking American Statesman. But, I think it's good because I think we can make it say this to the audience: "I am a New American. I am product, victim and beneficiary of new technology, and these are the things I think about and enjoy."
See, I got that whole New American Renaissance idea because I was thinking one day that, although surrounded by this bombardment of new tech and new convenience items, people are starting to try to figure out how to make their lives have less of the new stuff in it. I was thinking there was a definite move to de-clutter, calm down and get back to the basics - thus the popularity of Martha Stewart, Wellness information, the self-help boom, the geneaology boom etc. - but those things wouldn't be nearly as popular without the Internet and the media advertising of their availability on the Internet. So, as a result, people are now trying to use the Internet to make their lives not only easier, but better.
I know I'm not making any sense.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
No - no, you are making sense. It's like the popularity of that "Real Simple" magazine. It's an incredibly overpriced rag that allows affluent Americans to pretend they're living a spartan life. It's like the popularity of SUV's. Nobody uses them to go off- roading, but SUV owners know that if they wanted to, they could.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But is that what our mag's going to be about?Maybe we should have an ed plan before we nail down a name.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Exactly. I didn't mean to get off topic of the mathazine, but that's sort of the evolution on my thinking of the name New American.
I mean, we ARE going to talk about politics. And music, and sports, and parenting and fashion and whatever else we can think of to illustrate the life of people in our age group who are trying to be smarter, be stronger and be more clever in their daily life.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
And we're all New Americans, so...Y'all queenbri kills me.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
No, I don't think that's necessarily what it's going to be about.
I mean, it's going to be funny and young. It's not going to be Martha Stewart, but it can't be Salon or The Onion, either. And it can't be so "girl power" like everything else on the web. I just want it to be smart, with an edge, and appeal to edgy, smart people.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, god, a hearty "NO" on the girl power. I don't want to be like chickclick, clitclick, breakupgirl, ivillage, or any of that sort of thing. All it does is attract freaks like queenbri.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I have to go sit in on the World's Lamest Meeting. Y'all keep up the mag talk.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Man, dameetray hasn't written back yet.the magic 8 ball is killing!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Y'all, rudergirl went up another level. Just to put it in perspective, she's posted 3550 times. Pamie's posted 1750.Sick.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
That recluse girl starlight is up to about 4,000.That girl makes me sort of sad. She never leaves the house, she sits on the computer all day, she has crushes on these people who she meets through random IM things. That is just sad. Pamie needs an intervention program.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I know! She's like 19 and the only relatioships she's ever had have been with guys she's never met. Poor starlight.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
An Bei! You no terr math you know Palkah Posley!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Man! No dameetray letter. Hmph. Maybe he was just being nice. Al, why do you hate boys?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
See, I'm here alone again.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Al, do you hate boys because Chris was schmacking the Chinese accent? I mean, come on. He is one of the founders of the Chinese accent, what with the Chin Feng letters and all.Oh, Joh - the name of the movie was Ten Violent Women.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Wow. Thank God I'm back on days next week. This is like drinking from a fire hose.I think we need to decide what our magazine will be before we name it. If it's a sarcastic, satrire thing, "New American Renaissance" might not convey the right image.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Dude, Ten Violent Women. How on the money am I.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
You are the money, baby. I'm ashamed that I forgot it. I was thinking Ten Angry Women, but that's too close to Twelve Angry Men.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Starlight is one of those people I honestly worry about sometimes, especially with the train wreck of that ICQ crush. She needs to live in the real world more often and the internet world less.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Yeah - I think Renaissance should not be used. I didn't mean to confuse anybody with my little conversation on American society there - I was just trying to document why I like the name newamerican.com.Clearly, I am back from my meeting.
Regarding the sarcasm and satire angle - of course, yes, it's going to be that, but it can't be ALL that, because that's The Onion, yo. But it's going to have to be partly that, because that's MATH. As a matter of fact, we could have a section that's purely satire, written by a fictional character. (I did that for a friend of mine when he was working on a pub called bighair.net. It was going to be all about Texas, and I was writing his Letter from the Editor as a fictional character named Thelma Liz Johnston. It was brilllliant. He lost his funding and all his free time, so we couldn't launch it. Obviously, I am a jinx on all projects.)
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I think that she has legitimate agoraphobia. SHe wrote some letters about the meningitis scare in Houston and was all about how she was afraid to leave the house for fear that she would catch it. I've read her journal a few times, and it really is sad. She's this girl who lives with her mom, who makes a living off an ebay business, and all they both do is live on the computer. Her dad has a drinking problem, and she gets wrapped up with these ICQ people. It's depressing.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Oh, starlight makes me so sad, too. She has mentioned somewhere that she does have an anxiety disorder, yeah. I can't read her journal, because it depresses me. And I can only skim her posts, because most of them are just too sad.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Yeah, starlight's site is sad. I think she needs herl.Re: the name ... The Onion is a good example of what I'm talking about. That name says "humor" (you certainly wouldn't name a serious publication "Onion", "rutabega" or any other vegetable).
We're all smart, young, funny people with an edge. What's a name that conveys that? What will make people who don't even know us say "Man, these people must rock?"
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
She needs "help." "Herl" is clearly not a word.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
herl? Does that mean Help In Real Life? Crazy internet talkah.
What about herl.com. That's hip and funny and edgy. And it also sounds like throw-up.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Heh. Yeah, and you don't spell "In" with an "E". I don't know what I'm talking about either. Clearly.Shit. Why don't we just call the magazine Clearly.com?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I thought you'd just messed up the accent.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Am I dumb? Because I don't understand the new level. "Benefactor?"
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
"This is like drinking from a fire hose."Bermanater right on again! Y'all, I go run errands and pick up Madeleine, and you have conquered the free world.
I like the name, too. No think too poritical. This just echoes what everyone has already said, but if we're going to be the least bit serious the name can't be all "Our Magazine Rocks! And Stuff."
Han, you no know I babysat by Palkel Posey? It true. Actually, she lived right down the street from us--I think I was around 5 or 6. Their family moved to Laurel, MS shortly after. She has a twin brother who is cuuuuuuute.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I think it's an allusion ... you know, if you donate a lot of money to charity, you're listed in the program as a "Benefactor".
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Well, if y'all all like it, it's cool. It doesn't have to be unanimous.I even think newamericans.com is better. It makes it more about us, and our audience, than about some ideology, or classification, which is what "new america" or "New american" connote to me.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But I'm still lost ... what does New American Renaissance mean? And would y'all really check out a mag, site unseen, with that as the name?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Yep - I think it's Pamie's way of either thanking or making fun of the people who give her a gazillion page views.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I think, in this name conversation, we're establishing what the thing is going to be about, and that's good. And I think that each of us choosing a section and developing it - whether we even end up keeping that section at all in the end - will get us farther down the road to deciding what ideas we want to keep and what we want to throw out.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I agree. And I do really like newamericans.com. I think it is all- encompassing.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
See, but don't y'all think "newamericans" suggests the census bureau or an Ellis Island tribute page or something like that. If you were searching the web and typed that in now, and it was taken, what would you expect to find there?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
"But I'm still lost ... what does New American Renaissance mean? And would y'all really check out a mag, site unseen, with that as the name?"
We'd drop Renaissance, I said. And use New Americans. Dude, what does The Onion mean? We'd explain what it means, and that would be what it means. Shite, I've been trapped in marketing hell for so long, I could easily come up with one paragraph on what it means.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Check out my endless bold. Does this fix it?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Hope that fixes the tag.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But it's not taken. I don't know - I just see New Americans as an ideology. I think it is an apt description for so many things - books, music, society, politics, pop culture.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I did look it up, and here's what I found:1. New Americans, The - PBS project presenting immigrant experiences, an interactive timeline, perceptions and misconceptions, a list of notable immigrants, and a teacher guide.
2. New American, The - a publication of the John Birch Society. The URL for this is actually thenewamerican.com.
Those are only two, but Mike may have a point. Even though I do like it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
The Onion doesn't mean anything, but it's a funny, original name for a funny, original site so it fits.I mean, Hannah said earlier that this doesn't have to be unanimous, and she's right ... and what we put in the magazine is more important than what it's called. I just think newamericans.com is kind of bland, and doesn't really say anything about what we're doing. Names like "Slate" and "Salon" are catchy and short, and I think that might be what we're looking for.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
And I think we're New Americans because we live in our own New America (stepping out of the political arena, here). We are the next generation of power. We are amused and enthralled by different things than our parents were, while at the same time maintaining an appreciation for the traditional.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
And I realize that, and I like it, but I think when most people hear New Americans they think of people newly arriving to the country.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Ooh, see, that's it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Ok, then. I don't want to be associated with John Birch or whoever. But I don't think it's bland. Let's move on to another suggestion, then.Y'all say.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
"And I realize that, and I like it, but I think when most people hear New Americans they think of people newly arriving to the country."
Dude, that's what makes it interesting. We are newly arriving to our own America.
Next suggestion!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I'm heading home, y'all. Have good nights, all of you.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
But I do want to say that we could make our own America, y'all. Not in a Red Dawn way, but in a lifestyle/culture way.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Going on Mike's one catchy word thing, why don't we throw out words related (or sort of related) to our idea, and see if we like one?I go first:
Notice. Greenhouse. Nova Vita. Restore. Phoenix.
That's all I got right now. I think of more!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I like Notice.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Hello?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I'm here. I'm thinking.Do you like anything from mythology? Aurora, Io, Prometheus, Pan?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Hey, I'm all about mythology.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I mean, basically, it's like "Our New America." But for a URL that's too long adn kind of like, huh?One word is good.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
y'all, I'm still laughing over Magic 8 Ball. Did you see where it's interests are "predicting the future."I love it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Also, putting "Americans" in the title may turn off our legions of fans from Holland and Denmark.I'll try and brainstorm tonight if I get a chance.
I really like the mythology idea, but the only charachters I can think of who are as cool as we are wind up getting turned into spiders by an angry goddess.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Well, Aurora's the dawn goddess--kind of like new life, or something. Io's the one that Prometheus prophesied would beget a very powerful and famous heir (purported to be Alexander the Great), so she's all about living for her fate.Prometheus doesn't really fit. Pan is just fun.
And I love the Greek idea of ate, which is that which drives you, but I'm afraid people would read it as ate. As in, I ate at McDonald's for lunch.
What about duende? It's sort of like ate, but more emphatic. Like how Aretha Franklin sings. That girl got her some duende.
I'm so reaching now.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
So did you rig Meg's answer, or is that the 8-ball's honest opinion?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Meg's was pure 8 ball. They're all pure 8 ball.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Chris suggested we name it sweeeet.com.
I say clearly.com.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I like duende. I mean, we'll have an "about" page anyway.I'm going home soon. Probably check in latah. Y'all be on the YM?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I'll have it open all night.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I'll be around. I've got to make a tape for Not T's Cousin Jim McKay.
AB - call house if Vince Chao like song! Or get on YM. Whichev.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Al, I will! I make him rook soon after he come home!I'll still be thinking of more names, but I do like clearly.com.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
For the record, I hate one word titles, but if someone comes up with something great, I'm all for it.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I meant to say one syllable titles. Clearly, I like clearly.com. (And I'm sort of half-joking about that, but it could work.)
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I kind of like it. We could call it "Clearly...", and it would reflect everyone's opinionated nature very well.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Or, hell. We could take the Magic 8-ball's advice as a name suggestion and cal it "signspointtoyes.com"
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
I'm going home, but I just realized that Dolly Parton wrote "Daddy" which I quote on my front page, and not Emmy Lou. How ashamed am I? Who loves Dolly more than me? No one, that's who.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Stupid bart getting all high tech on Magic 8 Ball's ass.Still no dameetray letter!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Did you see fred backing Magic 8 Ball up, Han?Arrison was here, now she gone. I no know where.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
Anna Beth! Where you be?
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
H! We chatting! Get on YM!
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001
YM can kiss my ass right now.
-- Anonymous, January 31, 2001