Comments on: Monday Morning Stepback: Spring Break Edition

By: KMont

KMont — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:55:33 +0000

Hey, I just saw my feast was in your stepback! Thank you for the shout out. And congrats on getting this newer site up and going.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:24:48 +0000

@Liz: LOL. I love gratuitous parentheses, and I am a modernist to the core!

But if I get rid of “fiction” I am afraid people will think this is a relationship advice site — not that some romance blogs don’t aspire to be that. But I don’t.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:10:06 +0000

I liked the flames. But the brown looks vaguely like leather, which is good too.

I think if you just capitalized Romance in your tagline, you could drop “fiction” and it would be all Rs. But shouldn’t you be all academic-y and say “(Re)thinking”?
Hey, why not “Ro(man)ce”? I’m pretty sure you could work parentheses into ALL the words if you put your spring-break mind to it. (Am I dating myself with my ’90s French-theory PhD use of parentheses?) Kidding–I actually like that tagline a lot.

I’m just envious because my 2-week “no one will come to class during the Olympics and we can rent our parking” break is over.

By: Jill Sorenson

Jill Sorenson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:04:24 +0000

Cheers to the new RRR! I’ll do my best to lower the discourse with smutty talk and inane commentary.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:47:16 +0000

@Tumperkin: You found me! yay! i am working on a new project “How to sabotage your blog and alienate your readers in 24 hours or less.

but yes, please link, you may only have 12 readers but they are QUALITY. ”

By: Tumperkin

Tumperkin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:41:27 +0000

Oh good – I found you! (Not that easy actually – I forgot to save a note of your new URL so googled your new name and didn’t get a quick link to here. However, I got a Twitter result and found you via that). You should ask fellow bloggers to do a linky. I will do one and my 12 readers will be able to find you without difficulty *g*.

I won’t comment on taglines since I don’t have one myself…

By: Laura Vivanco

Laura Vivanco — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:55:51 +0000

Thanks, the email notifications are working now.

By: Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:26:58 +0000

It seems to be working for me now.

By: Maili

Maili — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:25:56 +0000

Laura pretty much stated why I had a problem with the old tag.

I basically felt it had an implication this blog was willing to slum by checking out genre fiction outside the respectable boundaries of literature. As in, “Hey, we’re going to do a two-minute drive through a ghetto! Whoo! So courageous of us, eh!” A bit dramatic, but it pretty much had that implication. Sorry I didn’t explain my comments earlier.

By: RfP

RfP — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:02:22 +0000

Pity I missed the Georgia O’Keefe flames. I could use a guffaw.