What’s normal living in Seattle?
So we changed the tagline here to “Normal living in Seattle”. Not only did we do this as a crass attempt to influence more positive Google results but we also did it to reflect what goes on here.
This is the third or fourth incarnation of Panzo.org and, frankly, I’m pretty damn tired of futzing with it.
I started out online back in the days when the Internet was a system of soup cans with fishing line strung between them. In those days, America Online was king and dialup speeds of 56k were the household norm.
Some of us who hung out in a section of AOL that was dedicated to topical humor were kicked to the curb on the Information Super Causeway when AOL closed the section down. Unloved and homeless and having started our own little occasional humor e-zine (really, that’s what they were called then!), we added a message board to the site it so we could lark about.
Well, the site was confiscated by the Secret Service after our siteholder forgot to pay the rent so I took it upon myself to learn HTML and buy a site of my own.
After adding a flaming logo and blinking text, I added message boards and we were back in the business of goofing off.
This worked for years but what to do with the front end of the site, Panzo.org? It was a one-man attempt at an e-zine for a while. I sold shirts here for years. Rather, I had shirts for sale at CafePress that i advertised here but I think i made one $30 over three years or so.
It was a blog with versions of b2eveolution software and we had a YaBB-driven message board.
Now there’s WordPress and Panzo is reborn as a better blog on a new server (hosted at MDDHosting.com) and everything’s coming up noses.
So we changed the tagline again.
The original tagline for the redesign, which I came upon after spelunking a bottle of Bombay Sapphire, was “You might like this”. That’s how I feel. This is going to a blog that is as eclectic as I am. Given my background in humor, making fake ads, rewriting song lyrics to make fun of something and all that jazz, there’s just not going to be anything static here.
I don’t know how to sell that to the Internet of today where there’s a niche audience for any kind of weirdness but rarely two or three kinds of weirdness at once.
I mean, how do you develop concise keywords for a site that has a photo of Hugo Chavez in drag, tirades over local politics and rants about Christians and greed?
I guess if you’re me, you have to tag it as: Normal living in Seattle.
