Journal subtitle

[pegkerr]

Tell me about your journal subtitle. Mine has been changed again to "I yell because I care." Because I've been all about that stage of motherhood lately, and it seems like a pretty good description of my ragging at the world in general in this journal. I saw daedala mention her journal sub-title in a post today.

What is your journal sub-title, and why? Well?

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[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Mine is "Musings from a clinkly insane mind"...

'Clinkly' is a word my best friend and I made up 9 years ago or so. We were sitting around being extremely silly, and so I ended up exclaiming: "If anybody heard us, they would think we were clinkly insane!" -- meaning clinically insane of course.

The word stuck, and got to mean 'insane in a very silly way'. I thought it was an appropriate subtitle for my LJ as I tend to be rather silly and weird from time to time.

Also, it reminds me of my best friend who lives in NZ and I therefore see WAAAAAY too seldom.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

Mine is "The American Girl".

Partially that's because of my new layout, with a gorgeous picture from an old The American Girl magazine cover. But more because, as an expat living in Australia, my reaction to having to continuously defend my nationality is to be even more blatant about it.

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

It changes a good bit. For example, after my recent breakup, it read "Man Eating Tiger in Search of Mystic Rajah for Long Walks, Dinner." which was a play on a poem I like that was relevant to the situation. Today it reads "The Avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." because that seems particularly apropos.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

"Come down now" is the opening line of the chorus of two songs by Stew of The Negro Problem -- which, as I think about it, and some of my most recent troubled posts, is scarily apt. The full chorus, which is beautifully sung is,
Come down now
Remove your bandage
so I can see you're damaged
more than the lord knows...

It's a weird sentiment, and now that I've thought about its relevance to my current situation, I think that despite the beauty of the song, I need to change it.

[aome.livejournal.com]

An open ear and a closed mouth

My main journal title is "Home of the Secret Keeper", so the subtitle is just further elaboration on that.

[eeyorerin]

Mine is "Where Nostalgia and Ambition Collide," which an author used to describe the experience of graduate school in a Chronicle of Higher Education article. I thought it fit both my experiences (even out of grad school) and the subjects I often write about quite well.

(The title comes from how kablooey described my journal to someone.)

[verstehen.livejournal.com]

Mine is 'pining for the fjords,' mostly because I'm unoriginal and love Monty Python.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Mine is. "Newfangled Varieties Need Not Apply," because I ran across this bit of Ibsen: "To live is to war with trolls
In the holds of the heart and mind;
To write is to hold
Judgment Day over the self."
I wanted to say something about the war with trolls, but I didn't want it to be the internet flavor, so I added the subtitle to "Fighting the Old-Style Trolls."

I didn't used to have a subtitle because I'd just grabbed a title that indicated my lj was the novel_gazing annex. But it isn't any more -- it's its own thing. So.

[carnotite.livejournal.com]

The subtitle of my journal is 'first do no harm' from the Latin translation of the Hippocratic oath. It reflects my attitude toward blogging. If no one finds my journal entertaining then I at least want to avoid injuring anyone with my words.

[incandescens]

I set mine at "Making bricks without straw" because I had been rereading Sherlock Holmes at the time. ("Data, Watson, data! I cannot make bricks without straw!")

[heinous_bitca.livejournal.com]

Mine is Aka Jules so that people have a chance to know my name, instead of just wondering who the Bitca is. ;)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Forty years after the sixties" because it, well, is. Sometimes we brain-damaged aging hippies need external reminders.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

"Blunders and Absurdities." It's an ironic title for a journal, meant for keeping, because it comes from a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote that advises the opposite:

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in--forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day--begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."

But sometimes I can be done with some of my old nonsense by writing about it.

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

"Napping towards glory."
I stole it from Dave Barry - it's a chapter title in _Dave Barry Slept Here_.
;-)

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Mine reads "Good in Mud." I used to drive a pickup truck with big (not monstrous) wheels and four wheel drive, and the main reason that it was good in mud, and I frequently found myself in the mud. For a while now my life has been in the metaphorical mud (complete with confusing and slipping and sliding); "Good in Mud" is my aspiration for myself, that I can dig out of this as well as the truck did.

[eudaimonia.livejournal.com]

Mine is "where is my head" because I often misplace it (Usually it's hiding under the bed).

[gamps-garret.livejournal.com]

Title: Simply Throbbing With Rich Treasures
Subtitle: Forget Yourself
Friends-page Title: Beautiful Souls and Interesting People

And the ote on all three from my info page:
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music: the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treaures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." (Henry Miller as quoted in The Artist's Way)


In the stress of my rain-inside-my-apartment weekend, I reread bits of The Artist's Way, and it inspired me to refocus a lot of my energies. That quote struck me in particular as a "call to duty" of sorts, and I wanted to remember it in connection with my own actions.

[leiabelle.livejournal.com]

My journal's title is Veni, vidi, velcro, and the subtitle is the "translation", I came, I saw, I got stuck. Which pretty much describes my attachment to LJ. :D

My mom used to have a shirt that said "I'm the mommy, that's why." She wore it until it fell apart. Your journal title made me think of that, for some reason. :)

[channe.livejournal.com]

Mine is "why, yes, it -is- all about me," because, well -- I've given up any pretense whatsoever about 'blogging' as either an academic exercise, audience-gathering discussion forum, or what have you. My blog is an exercise in selfish navel-gazing and a tool to let my friends know what I'm up to. Therefore, why, yes, it is all about me.

:)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Mine is "reading, writing, and what's for dinner" because that's the summary of what I think is in my journal.

My new (the kind of new you get for $35) monitor keeps changing colour as I type. This is very disconcerting.

Not a Pretty Girl

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lindsay_/]

My title is a reference to Ani Difranco's "Not a Pretty Girl" because I like and relate to said song. But my subtitle is "The Daughter of a King" so when I say I want to be more than a pretty girl it is to remind myself *constantly* that I want to be more than this world period, to act in accordance with God and be holy as my Father in heaven is holy.

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

Mine is "The wicked winding streets of my world" and it's from the song Hey Pretty by Poe. It just kind of describes how I feel about Livejournal as a representative tool of who I am as a person -- I touch on this and that, and go from topic to topic . . . winding around.

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

Or maybe that's the title. The subtitle is Hey pretty, do you wanna take a ride with me . . . ?, which is also a lyric from Hey Pretty, and is kind of an invitation to anyone to come and check out what I'm all about. :D

[franticgoddess.livejournal.com]

If she gets nowhere in life, at least she knows she's pretty. It's been this for a while now, probabaly about three years. Lyric from a Something Corporate song, and while part of me thinks it's incredibly adolescent (which HEY I still am) and vain I really felt that way for a while. Especially being stuck somewhere average where I'm not getting very far, while all my friends are off in big schools doing great things. Now I've realized I'm going next year to a great school, I'll be living my dream. But sometimes, I still feel that lyric.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Mine is "Latter Day Jezebel". folk dubbed me that after meeting me at Nimbus and I liked it.