Thu, June 12, 2003
Wandering the Blogsphere—2:36 PM
Through a convoluted but traceable series of links, I landed on Tim Young's blog and he was discussing music and, tangentially, band names.
Joe Mulder once said he was going to maintain some sort of ongoing repository of good suggestions for band names based on "The Simpsons." It would be a running thing for friends to contribute their ideas for the list. To my knowledge, this never happened, despite Joe's excellent start to the list: "Regular Daddy." In a nod to the most likely reason Joe discontinued the idea, I'd like my first suggestion to be "The Singing Jockeys." Of course, "Muddie Mae Suggins" and "Texas Cheesecake Depository" would also look damn fine printed on that annoying little sticker across the top of your new CD.
It didn't make it into the Onion's online archive (honestly, what good is the Internet?) but I recall a recent article along the lines of "90% of All Human Communication Via Online Product Reviews." As is the style, funny concept and fairly dumb article. After just a dip of the toe into the blogging ocean (with the madcap propensity for linking, there's truly a Six Degrees of Blogging thing going on), I have to say that I'm amazed how closely the blog world reflects the Onion article. I'm not trying to make any broad social-decay statement here. (It's been done anyway, and done to death.) I'm for it. Yeah, actual human contact is down, but what the hey! Actual human contact is overrated and requires pants. I'll take swapping blog entries over "hanging out" any day. Life's wittier when you have a backspace key.
