Archive for subtitles

Since I can't get anyone else interesting in tags, I'm confident you won't be interested in archiving subtitles either, but I'm going to give it a shot and you should feel free to help out. When you create a new subtitle, make an entry on the new page for "Subtitle Archive" (at the bottom of the column on the right), with the date you published the new subtitle. Optionally, add a link to the source.

Blogging mystery

Why is my proof-reading proofreading more thorough and accurate after I post than it is before I post?

Update:  You'll think I misspelled proofreading for effect, but I did not.

Tags

Can I talk you gentlemen into tagging your own posts from now on?   (You're also welcome to go back and tag historical posts. I went back as far as 2/19/09.)

I started the tagging project because I wanted to find all the book posts.  Because they don't necessarily contain the word "book", there's no way to find them easily.

There are tags for the broad topics of: Economics, Politics, Religion, Books, Music (Other than Adam), Movies, Food, Dramatic Life Events.  If that's all you use, it'd be something.  Pixels are free, though, so feel free to include everything you'd ever want to use to find something.  Also, I see tags as an opportunity for editorial comment.  Feel free to create tags.

With regard to names, I've included people's first names and have not included titles. The result is that you can find them under their first name in the alphabetical list of tags.

Tip: Blogger interprets a comma as the end of one tag and the start of another.  Thus, if you tried to tag something with "Lambert, Adam", it would bear two tags, one for Adam and one for Lambert.

Tag away.

Update moments later:  Also, consider adding tags to reflect what's in the comments.

Chabon is a subtitle generator extraordinaire

Noir is perfect for blog subtitles. About 50% of the sentences in Yiddish Policemen's Union work as subtitles.

Update moments later: Our previous subtitle ("Sparkling with epiphanic dew") came courtesy of Chabon too, from an essay about short fiction. Quoting a Wikipedia entry:

In a 2002 essay, Chabon decried the state of modern short fiction (including his own), saying that, with rare exceptions, it consisted solely of "the contemporary, quotidian, plotless, moment-of-truth revelatory story." In an apparent reaction against these "plotless [stories] sparkling with epiphanic dew", Chabon's post-2000 work has been marked by an increased interest in genre fiction and plot. While The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was, like The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys, an essentially realistic, contemporary novel (whose plot happened to revolve around comic-book superheroes), Chabon's subsequent works — such as The Final Solution, his dabbling with comic-book writing, and the "swashbuckling adventure" of Gentlemen of the Road — have been almost exclusively devoted to mixing aspects of genre and literary fiction. Perhaps the most notable example of this is The Yiddish Policemen's Union, which won five genre awards, including the Hugo award and Nebula award. Chabon seeks to "annihilate" not the genres themselves, but the bias against certain genres of fiction such as fantasy, science fiction and romance.

Update another moment later: "An atmosphere of ruined festivity" by itself would have been more fitting for this blog, but the sentence as a whole is so great, it deserves full quotation.

Labels

I am slowly but surely adding tags or "Labels" to our posts.  I've made it through about 500 posts.  Just 2300+ more to go.  (Yeah, I'm not sure I'm that motivated.) The labels serve as an index; they're an additional tool to help find things.  Feel free to add or edit tags.

Update:  Two things:

1)  I've been inconsistent -- whimsical, really -- in choosing whether to tag a post liberally or sparsely and whether to include the topics that appear in the Comments.  Do not try to infer rhyme or reason; there is none.

2) I believe we can "hide" the Labels on the posts, so if you don't like the way they alter the look of the blog, we can fix that.

email or text updates to SSJ

Being a Luddite, I can't do the latter but if one checks the dashboard page, apparently there are ways to do that now.

Subhead: Crips

The subtitle nearly quotes Gen. Richard B. Meyers, from his appearance on The Daily Show on Monday, March 16. He was talking about the partisan political climate since 2004.

Thanks to reader RS for correcting my spelling of Crips.

When I posted it, I thought about rephrasing it as: "Like the Crips and the Bloods, except with better grammar" but I couldn't remember if we ever took liberties with quotes for the subtitle. Now it looks like I might have considered "Like the Crips and the Bloods, except with better spelling." Or would that be worse spelling, since I got it wrong?

Hey

Where did all the blog entries go?

[Update 3/9/09: Nevermind. They're back now. But they were completely missing moments ago.]

Re: Fixed

Great work. I never could have done that. I never even could have known my Bowie post did the damage.

Fixed!!!

I deleted some crazy html stuff in Scooter's Dec. 18 David Bowie post.