Tag: Daily Wag
A cat-egory by any other name…
by Cookster on Mar.05, 2009, under Blog Shorts
In my attempt to get more content on this blog, I decided to create a new category that barely had anything to do with costuming or props. It is not that I don’t like sharing those things with my readers, but there is a lot that goes into some of these blogs making them of almost epic proportion. It can take days or even weeks of preparation to even write something (Why have a blog if it isn’t updated frequently?). And of course, I know my audience (of two) is just sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what I come up with next.
Okay, so I thought about this all day yesterday (even as I was mowing the lawn). What would be a good title for this category? I wanted this to be like a daily journal where I could exercise my creative writing skills and basically be about nothing in particular. The thought that I latched onto for most of the day was to call the category “Kitty Litter.” Sounds strange, I know, but when you live in a household with 8-9 cats, thoughts of kitty litter never quite leave your mind (or your feet, the bed… or anywhere else). Anyway, my reasoning was a little skewed, but it was so perfect that this is where I could deposit all of the “crap” that didn’t quite fit into Kitchen Costuming. The rest of the day was spent on trying to come up with a cute acronym for CRAP. As my mind worked overtime with things like “Cookster’s Ranting Against Passivity” or “Central Repository About Props,” I gave myself a massive headache (of course, that could have been from the huge dust bowl I funneled into the air mowing the lawn earlier). At one point, I considered doing a blog like the new “Daily Wag” on Martha Stewart’s website written by her two French Bulldogs. I have lots of cats that would love to get in on the action and let their voices be heard. But then I remembered how opinionated they all were. I can see them fighting over who gets to write for the day,
and I would get bumped to subscriber of this blog. CRAP would now stand for “Cats Rule Amongst People” and the only content would be cats in tiny Harley Davidson garb or pirate costumes.
I decided the category should be called Blog Shorts.