I need a name for New York mag's new blog and I'm taking suggestions. Anyone? Anyone?... Bueller?
Posted by Elizabeth Spiers at September 18, 2003 02:22 PM-- badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger. (could be shortened to just "Badger")
-- TarNation (as in, "what in tarnation?")
-- Tawker (you know, with that insufferable Brooklyn accent.. but then again, Brooklyn is _so_ last week)
-- I Hate You All You Sniveling Whiny Celebs (but secretly love you at the same time).
More quick (and bad) thoughts.
-- The Anna Chronicles
-- Guestlist me and I'll mention you.
-- A New York State of Unkind
How about poseur?
Posted by: cc at September 18, 2003 02:50 PM
~The No-Hilton Zone
~Fanatical Apple-thy
~I got yer blog right here
~Does This Trucker Hat Make Me Look Fat?
~The Astor Place Poop
I actually thought yesterday's "New Yawker" suggestion was quite good.
You have two choices:
1. the title brane-extends NY Mag. e.g. "NYmagblog"
2. Or can it be anything? e.g. CosmopolitanScum or Stalker.com
You should know which option your new boss wants before spending too much time thinking about it.
ummm... "YNYN.com. We know NYNY backwards."
Hugh
Posted by: hugh macleod at September 18, 2003 02:51 PMNew YACKer
Mouthful
NYC BlogOut
Posted by: jim fouratt at September 18, 2003 03:04 PMNyawker..sorry, that's derivitive
Skewer
Snark - OK over used word but there's no blog out there with that name. Oh wait...there's Snark Hunting, sorry.
Sneer
Sneer Eye For The City Guy - oh that's horrible!
NYM - hey, it's simple
Celebu-blog
NYInsider
Celebu-Snark
Trash
AlwaysOn - on damn, that's not a blog, is it? :-)
BackBiter
ChatterBox
Hen Pecker
Snooper
Prattler
Babbler
Meddler
Blabber
NYBlather
Blurbler
Jabber Chatty - or just Jabber
Gush
The New York Bttch
The Mutterer
Back Stabber
Jeer
The Meddler
Prattler
Vituperater
Thanks Hugh...I'll take credit for New Yawker :-)
Posted by: Steve Hall at September 18, 2003 03:08 PMseeing eye blog
Posted by: mb at September 18, 2003 03:10 PMStay away from anything that rhymes with Gawker. Gawker is over. Readers want Elizabeth Spiers not text on a white page. Then again, you could name it Tawker and fail miserably so we could all await your comeback with a new blog called Topic Awe-ker.
-Ferris
Posted by: cc at September 18, 2003 03:19 PMCall it The Age of Dissonance. Symbol could be a hand holding up an empty champagne glass for the last drop.
Posted by: Simpka at September 18, 2003 03:26 PMHere are my suggestions for your column's title:
Notes from an asshole
Frivolity rules
If I had a brain i wouldn't have this gig
More vacuous than Paris Hilton, but poorer and uglier
Posted by: eladio at September 18, 2003 03:48 PMWolffBlog (Just Like Gawker, But Without Irony!)
Posted by: Vidiot at September 18, 2003 03:50 PMad hominem attacks 'eladio' say much about you.
-Ferris
Posted by: cc at September 18, 2003 03:56 PM
New Bloggin' York
I'm the worst at this game:
Something cheeky: Free Lunch.
Something stodgy: Metro Online.
Something tarded: NY2U
Metropolis or Vile Bodies.
Posted by: Mick at September 18, 2003 04:54 PMGuestlist
Posted by: jason at September 18, 2003 05:01 PM
I think the title of the Ed Klein piece you did, 'Friendly Fire', would actually make a pretty good name for a blog (that is, if it has the kind of mildly nasty metrosnark vibe I'm imagining).
You B'log to Me
NewAmsterdamNation
Snark Skin Suit
Stag at Snarky's
Rants on a Blog
The Snark Cage
The Drudgery Port
Bristly Spiers
Spier Fishing
Manhappenins
LES is More
Boroughed Times
Man, I gotta get back to work.
Posted by: puddy at September 18, 2003 05:19 PMOh wow. Guestlist is really good, Jason. That kind of rocks.
Posted by: Choire at September 18, 2003 05:32 PMI'm under the (not-so-)subliminal influence of New York Mag's new typography -- a tribute to Spy if ever there was one -- so "Naked City" is my suggestion. Though "Guestlist" is the best one so far.
Posted by: artless at September 18, 2003 06:14 PMUptown Downtown
Five Minutes Ago
("ashton k's opening a hair salon? that's so five minutes ago...")
It Pays To Be Nice
Posted by: Brad at September 18, 2003 06:15 PMSnark-Fu or 'My car just died, I leave for London in 2 weeks and I live 3 miles from a store' No wait, that's my current situation.
Got it-
Tweaker or Spun
You could really tap into the ever growing NYC methamphetamine scene!
Posted by: cc at September 18, 2003 06:16 PMThe Great Snark Hunt
Nicked
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me.
I also like Guestlist, but I’m also thinking you should try to get your name in the title somehow. This way you build your name recognition and celebrity as the blog’s popularity grows. Also, they can’t replace you as easily if the blog is named after you, so it would be an asset in future bargaining.
That said, I have no ideas. La Dolce Spiers is out. Spiers Report, nope. Spiersfiles…
How about Spiers' Mire? It's seems almost ... poetic. Ok, sorry, that was real bad. I am taken with the rhyming thing, though. Surely we can come up with something?
Live Wire ...oooh
Town Crier ...aah
Open Fire ...oh
Clothes Dryer ...ok, that's just wrong.
Noblisse Oblige
Posted by: Donna Bulford at September 18, 2003 11:12 PMhow about "i new york".
too cheesy?
ok the comments system edited out the KEY part of my title. i said how about "i blog new york" with the blog in angle brackets.
Posted by: jen at September 19, 2003 12:12 AMApplesauce
Posted by: NC at September 19, 2003 12:16 AMShit Sandwich
suckerpunch. (or, did someone already offer up, facetiously or not, stawker? Dumb, I know, but, whatever.)
Posted by: JC at September 19, 2003 01:11 AMjust don't use anything '-awk(er)'. denton will sue anyone for that.
Posted by: miguel at September 19, 2003 04:24 AMNYC 2003 E. SPIERS
Posted by: popwelt at September 19, 2003 05:55 AMGuestlist is a great name.
How about The Heidi Julavits Appreciation Society?
Posted by: Vidiot at September 19, 2003 07:07 AMmr. marbles?
Posted by: rich at September 19, 2003 09:53 AMOz.
Posted by: sean at September 19, 2003 10:19 AMNew Yorkistan Master Blaster
Posted by: otis at September 19, 2003 11:52 AMHow about Quidnunc? The advertising vehicle in my firm's elevators sez it means someone interest in gossip.
Posted by: Mickster at September 19, 2003 12:33 PMMaybe you could name Gregg Easterbrook's new blog and he could name yours.
Posted by: Joe M. at September 19, 2003 12:52 PMGuestlist is solid, solid. Some others:
PartyCrasher
The VIP Zip
Service Entrance
Back Door
The NYCry
SeenZine
Red Roper
Rosebud
Posted by: otis at September 19, 2003 03:07 PMRopeline
Guestlist and Free Lunch are my recent faves.
Yeah, definitely you want some common media-freebie word thing....
The kind of thing Toby Young would laugh at publicly but secretly drool over...
I'm so out of it, anyway. I quit NY to become a beekeeper. How very Union Square of me, I know, I know...
Posted by: hugh macleod at September 19, 2003 05:17 PMPlus 1, not Guestlist.
Whatever it's called, use the photo from the AdRants page. You look great: adorably cute and intense with a hint of melancholy, and obvious smarts.
Plus 1 sounds like a hipster maternity shop.
Bloggy Went A-courtin'?
something self-deprecatingly snarky?
B-List
(works well besides the A-List Invitations button)
Posted by: Andrew Gatsby at September 19, 2003 09:44 PMHow about this --
"I'm too cool to really care about gossip -- I'd rather be reading obscure academics -- so this is all meant ironically."
That's probably too long for a name -- so let's truncate it to --
"Too Cool for this."
Or --
"Too Cool."
Posted by: James at September 19, 2003 11:41 PMI agree.
use the photo from the AdRants page. You look great: adorably cute and intense with a hint of melancholy, and obvious smarts.
(I'm a NY:er who lives overseas, and NY
Magazine + Gawker have given me my 'NYC fix'
for a long while now. Just passing through.)
How about something simple like "nydiary" or "nycdiary"? A simple but fun/edgy name would be better.
Posted by: jim at September 20, 2003 12:58 AMSnoblesse Oblige
It's actually from the Hungarian publication Magyar Narancs (Hungarian Orange), but no one will know (aside from those reading this thread).
Posted by: ? at September 20, 2003 01:35 AMGuestlist sucks. I'd recommend you come up with a name yourself, as you're much mroe clever than anyone on this list, from what I've seen.
Posted by: X at September 20, 2003 01:37 AMCidiot Avant
Galhattan
Begin de siecle
Metapolitan
Spin Lizzie
Bald Faced Spiers
Cityscape With Spiers
"Espier"
(Def. One who espies.)
BTW if you use that, I demand compensation in the form of a date, heh.
the spiers list
or
Spiers Spys (or Spies whatever the copyeditors declare)
Posted by: frances at September 21, 2003 12:11 PMCarl?
Posted by: marty wombacher at September 21, 2003 01:01 PMNew York Magazine Weblog
Posted by: Arthur Godfrey at September 21, 2003 03:14 PMnym.blog or blog.nym
A bit minimalist but I like it.
Posted by: BillSaysThis at September 21, 2003 04:00 PMGiven a weblog is an interactive medium, perhaps you can name it:
MyNY (as in My New York)
This way the readers feel like they belong there.
The Blog Apple
The Words We Weave
Words Webbed Welkin
Satori
Schadenfreude
Posted by: Ace King at September 21, 2003 07:22 PM"You're soaking in it."
"E-List"
"Mag Hag"
"Out and About"
"Obsessive Guide to Repulsive Entertainment"
"Blog, the New Black"
Posted by: Derek at September 21, 2003 11:27 PM"City on the Decline"
"ilovebrooklyn.com"
"CityBleat"
"Kokie's sold Ephedra"
emmy sleaze.
pleaze explode the emmy sleaze
pleaze pleaze pleaze pleaze pleaze pleaze
those peeple make my skin craawl
the losers win the winners stall
it's all completely bullshit.
how dare they.
what is the average IQ
60?
"NY Crabbie"
"I'll Shut Up Now"
The Third Rail
Earshot
The Grid
The High Line
Jaywalk
Ellis
Blister
Red Eye
Slant
Boombox
Riot
Gatzby
Brown Bag
The Balloonist (Hey, Eggers didn't want it)
Do we win a prize?
Posted by: PS at September 21, 2003 11:53 PMSnoop Bloggy Blog
Posted by: Holly H at September 22, 2003 12:28 AMHow about:
Empire Rules
"And now for something completely different..."
Posted by: Marek at September 22, 2003 02:53 AMnycoughdrop
Posted by: Mink Coat at September 22, 2003 09:36 AMiblogny.com
(a take on i love ny)
looks funny and sounds funny (when you pronounce it as it's written) but it could be catchy...
marty
- former battery park resident
I kinda like the "Blog is the new black" one, but it's too wordy. Maybe just "The New Black".
Posted by: Sterling at September 22, 2003 11:46 AMThree Martini Blog
...or something like that. I wanted "Three Martini" something, but couldn't come up with the closer.
And we all know about Spiers' love of the martini...or two...or three.
"The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?" -- Gerald R. Ford
Posted by: Mark at September 22, 2003 12:34 PMSold out
Posted by: Brigitte at September 22, 2003 12:44 PMVal
voyeuristically absurd living
Yag NY
yet another gossip-column
(and gay backwards...shhh....)
Decadenter
Intellimodo
Gawncer
Intelligiz
Posted by: Matty at September 22, 2003 02:51 PMname for blog: Bloggy-eyed
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:00 PMname for blog: Elizablog
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:03 PMname for weblog: New York Magazine Web log.
( ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha )
lwmyn
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:21 PMfree spier
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:22 PMI mean "free spiers"
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:23 PMbottomless blog
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:29 PM"Bright Lights, Blog City"
I blog the city electric
Posted by: A at September 22, 2003 03:30 PM"Diary of a Scene"
"Yada Yada Prada"
Revolting Backlash Blowouts
Oblongatal Ticklebrush Vows
Allah's Overblowing Buttocks
Workboat's Unsolvable Glitch (oops... that one's taken)
A Black Boot's Hurtling Vowels
or, my personal favourite:
Brava! Tits! Blowholes! Gunlock!
note: all of these titles are anagrams of the title of my blog, "Luboknovich Saltwater Blogs" which can be found at www.luboknovich.blogspot.com
yours primus inter pares,
Alexander P. Luboknovich
Noodle
-or-
Guava is the new black
-or-
Pretender
-or-
Squawker
"Inblognito"
Posted by: Derek at September 22, 2003 05:24 PM"O'Really?"
"BlogNobbin'"
"BitchGoddess"
(some Simpson's reference to Showbiz)
"Small-town blog (or gurl)"
"No she didn't..."
"dateline: Sara Jessica's underpants"
additional thoughts:
now,here
it
candy apple (ewww!)
clinical notes
newyorkana (ugh!)
reactionary counter-decadence (or is that too long?)
Spiers List
influx
Blawg
Posted by: otis at September 22, 2003 08:39 PMGoing back into the history of NY magazine, I remember this one. Perhaps you can use something similar.
Fare From the Madden Crowd
But it's been years since NY had the Competition.
Posted by: Eric Jablow at September 22, 2003 10:35 PMtownspiers.com (if your name is pronounced spy-ers, this works. Otherwise not)
blogrolling.com (a nod to the "log rolling in our time" Spy mag column)
"StarBlogger" (a nod to starf*cker)
"Name Droppings"
"PartyGurl"
"After the Afterparty"
"GlammerGurl"
"You go (to the party), Gurl"
"Wha' Happened?"
"Shorter in Real-Life"
"BlogStar"
"Night Stalker" (talk to Kolchak first)
"Fantacular"
"E-Musings"
"Sex, Lies, and Moveable Type"
Nothing with "blog" in it.
How 'bout: Crosstown Traffic
too old-hippie? or, um...
Too Rich or Too Thin?
nah...
Posted by: xian at September 23, 2003 02:30 AMBonfire of the Inanities
Posted by: Sterling at September 23, 2003 08:57 AMOsama Bait
Posted by: Kooky at September 23, 2003 08:27 PMturd ferguson
Posted by: Norm at September 24, 2003 12:48 AMfrom the "Keep It Simple" dept.:
SpiNY
(there you get your Spy, Spiers and New York references, plus something a little more pointed... ouch.)
"cheerful lies"
Posted by: andy at September 25, 2003 05:21 AMI have to say, these have gotten much better in recent days. I think you owe it to us to hear which of these you actually were amused by.
Posted by: X at September 25, 2003 09:19 AM
Jesus thinks you're hot.
"Diamonds and Water" 0r "Water and Diamonds"
(ya know, that economics take on restricting supply to increase demand. PR baby!)
"Sashay Cache"
"Passed-Out in a Pile of Puke"
"Passed-Out"
"15 seconds... and counting."
"Siliconey Island"
""
"Gone in 15 seconds"
"Clownfish in a Fishbowl"
"Through the Looking Glass Snarkly"
Sorry, I suck at literary references, which is what this really needs.
Posted by: Derek at September 25, 2003 06:50 PM"Spiers and Loathing"
Posted by: Derek at September 25, 2003 06:51 PM"Starry-Eyed Surmise"
"Party Whore"
"Simply Irascible"
"Pickled Spiers"
"Spierly Speaking"
"Spiers' Head"
"Siliconey Island"... That's good.
"The Bellman"
Down he sank in a chair--
ran his hands through his hair--
And chanted in mimsiest tones
Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity,
While he rattled a couple of bones.
"Leave him here to his fate--it is getting so late!"
The Bellman exclaimed in a fright.
"We have lost half the day. Any further delay,
And we sha'nt catch a Snark before night!"
Derek, please get your own life.
Posted by: X at September 27, 2003 01:19 AMAww, is that it? Are we done? What name is ms. Spiers going with?
Posted by: Derek at September 27, 2003 10:29 PMstarfucker
altho i originally thought of it when i first heard mention of gawker's forthcoming porn site i think it would be appropriate for any blog elizabeth edits as well
Posted by: panawave at September 30, 2003 11:27 PMHere's "the kicker"...
All of our work... RUINED!!!
harumph.
Posted by: Derek at October 2, 2003 02:09 PMExpecting to Flyover
Posted by: charles austin at October 9, 2003 12:43 PMTryst.
Posted by: B at October 17, 2003 04:11 AM