Fifty blog-description lines

For many years the first words of Van Dyke Parks’s song “Orange Crate Art” — “Orange crate art was a place to start” — served as what Blogger calls a “blog description line.” In May 2010, I began to vary the line, always choosing some word or words or element of punctuation from a post then on the front page, and always keeping the quotation marks that had enclosed Van Dyke’s words. I like looking back at these bits of language from a distance. Sometimes I recognize the context at once. “Puissance without hauteur”? Bob and Ray. “Fifty years late?” I had to look it up. I didn’t catch the repetition of “Traffic and weather.”

“Traffic and weather on the eights”
“Eccentric adventures”
“It’s just . . . it’s notes.”
“That ain't hay”
“As well-lit as a good film noir”
“Write a blog instead of posting to Twitter or Facebook”
“In so-called adult life”
“Perimeter oscillations”
“E.g, i.e., etc.”
“One fluke visible”
“Puissance without hauteur”
“Shortened studies”
“Created from a combination of many small precise
    decisions”
“Fifty years late”
“Mostly groovy”
“Great typos”
“Things keep accumulating”
“I wanna be where the people are”
“In the pencil what?”
“Office fritters”
“Books, always books”
“Scholarly voracity”
“:~:”
“Against the terrible odds of syntax”
“One more way to look like an outlier”
“Thick with virtual dust”
“ Are we really doing this?”
“I don’t feel human uptown”
“Tired of hitting”
“F♯min Emaj7 F♯min Emaj7 G♯min D E C B”
“Typing and typing”
“Is it raining on the phone, or outside?”
“Rattle OK”
“Viva música, bendita música”
“However fleeting, however partial”
“In the new old-fashioned way”
“Writer-y”
“It’s not as if we have only a finite supply of commas
    available”
“Subjects and verbs”
“You sure we’ve come to the right place?”
“To please not call me ‘Doctor’”
“‘Meticulous,’ ‘commendable,’ ‘intricate’”
“Knock, knock, who’s there?”
“Inventory”
“Got hyphens?”
“Get up, dress up, and show up”
“It goes idea by idea”
“I've run my random character generator”
“Traffic and weather”
“Please change your hold music”

More blog-description lines
Two hundred blog-description lines : Fifty more : And fifty more : But wait — there’s more : Another fifty : Is there no end to this folly? : It would appear not : Still more items in a series