A lot of blog names turn me off. I could give some examples but I don’t have the heart.
On a related note, have you ever watched a really bad TV commercial from a major company and think to yourself, “Who the fuck signed off on that?”
I’m not talking about low budget local ads; I’m talking about Fortune 500 companies. It makes me wonder how people can put out complete shit and still keep their jobs. And you know the thing’s been screened by the biggest of wigs in many cases because the placement contracts are for a gazillion dollars. There are enough of these things out there in rotation where you must know what I’m talking about. Confusing ads where you don’t even know what product they’re selling, bad jingles…the whole nine yards.
I know that many things are subjective, but Christ, almost everybody has a benchmark for just plainbad. You know it when you see it. And I can picture a bunch of jackholes sitting around a conference table at the agency, slapping each other on the back and taking notes as they murder someone’s budget. And back at the ranch when they preview the 30 second spot, the head jackhole, the overpaid, under qualified friend of a nepotistic friend nodding approvingly, because it was, after all, his responsibility to relay the expectations and message to the ad agency.
I play these scenarios out in my head a lot. Sometimes I’ll be sitting in front of the TV completely spaced out for five or ten minutes and then realize I’ve been writing the back story for a bad commercial. I can see the faces of these people sitting around the conference room brainstorming, making critical errors, scratching their noses. It’s very real. Times like that make me realize how much I could benefit from a good prescription.
Take twice a day or as needed for unexplainable insanity.
You can't do that. You must name blog names.
Yours is not one of them!
But I'd say 70% of all blog names suck.
I hate blog names that are the author's name. It just absolutely reeks of:
1) Complete lack of creativity
2) Arrogance the likes of which no one should choose to subject themselves to.
Now, just IMO, creativity and self-deprecation are pretty much the only two reasons I go visit a blog. Tell me a funny story, or tell me about that time you made yourself look like a jackass. If you can get them in the same story, you're doing me one better.
I've watched these ads you speak of, then I've looked at my wife and asked "Was there an actual group of humans (not monkeys) that all decided that this was a good ad, not a great ad, just good?" and why are we now subjected to it....
After seeing the proof of concept are these companies afraid to say to the ad agencies "This is crap, you guys suck, you're fired, get the hell out and by the way give me back our deposit, that should just about cover the last two hours of my life that I'll never get back."
We call them Jackballs which I'm pretty sure is the same thing as a Jackhole.
Maybe I'll register www.this_blog_name_turns_me_off.com
The ones that piss me off even more than the really bad ones are the drug commercials that don't actually say what the drug does. Close up of a guy smiling, pan out to see he's on the breakwater with a boy. Voiceover "Ask your doctor if Nambla is right for you."
WTF?
Yeah Jim, those really suck, but the ones I really hate are absolute obvious ones, the ones that didn't take one synapse firing to create.
"This is Helen, she has a yeast infection"
"buy our shit, it will stop yeast infection"
"Look at Helen wearing a white thong on the tennis court"
I mean... have a BIT of creativity.
Oh and... yeah... I know my blog name sucks SHANK, but fine, whatever... you think up a description encapsulating the crap I post. Yeah... none...
Oh yeah! I could have called it "thecrapthatipost.com", looks like that's available.
A good blog name sure is hard to come by... I really happen to like Snooze Button Dreams.
But then again, I know where it came from.
But you're names not really Oorgo. At least, I hope it's not; because then you'd be a FREAK.
Wow, I fucked up the puntuation on that one eh?
That IS true it's not my real name, I guess I've been using ot for a long enough time I associate with it.
Oh, interestingly enough it means "crying" or "to cry" or something about tears in Korean. I just found out that recently.
Here I just pulled it out of thin air.
How about those drug commercials that don't tell you what the drug is supposed to do but do name all the icky side effects? You know, common side effects such as nausea, vomiting, insomnia, impotence, volcanic zits, smelly pits, anal seepage, vaginal warts, explosive flatulence, rainbow-colored stools, etc.
OMG that was funny! I should know better than to read this while I am work... fuckers!