Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Why oh why didn't I label?
Was I too cool to label my posts? What was I thinking? Now it's difficult to figure out what to label them as. I don't really like labels. I guess I want to organize. Hmm. How in depth do you go with this? In my Quickbooks software it says to be very general to keep things simple. I was fine with that in accounting...(I'm bad at accounting) but blogging is so different. Even if there are 7 poem posts I don't know that I want to call them poems. I started out just writing, not even knowing they were poems. I am not entirely comfortable with writing poems. Maybe this is an identity issue. Maybe I'm freaking out at being labeled myself. Take off my labels. I don't like them. They itch. They cause redness. They make me fall over ottomans. If I start labeling my posts maybe they will fall over, too. I wouldn't want that. Maybe being more searchable isn't necessarily a good thing. Maybe I should make people dig. That's fun, like a corn maize. It's that time of year. Let's get lost in eachother's blogs.
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Rachel,
Nice echo of the Chet Baker standard, but you know what happened to him.
Let's Get Lost is a great admonition if at least one another person is willing.
But that gets back to your "will" issues.
Make people dig: now that's the spirit. Few will (there's that word again), but at least you've drawn the line.
As someone who's put up 500 poetry posts, all unlabeled, all lost, all I can say to you on this subject is: let's get lost.
I accept the lost challenge. It's so much fun to find a way out. And yes, I would like to avoid falling to my death for no apparent reason. No one is that cool.
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