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, sometimes not. “Who are we as a country?”: Jonathan Capehart, on PBS, November 5, 2024. “Yes”: my mom’s last word to me. “Trying to work off some ‘writing’ on you”? I had to look it up.

“Pineapples don’t have sleeves”
“Puzzled over”
“Off the streets and out of trouble”
“Minus glases”
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“Do not obey in advance”
“Forward”
“It is never too late to change the future”
“You just open it up and you go”
“Could be screens”
“Constantly but quietly in motion”
“Who’s shining you?”
“No kings”
“WWDFWD?”
“I think starting an essay with a quote is a bit clichéd”
“No last-sale date”
“A bag with different things in it”
“Orange door hinge”
“On hiatus”
“Yes”
“Bananas”
“Love and mercy”
“Trying”
“Looking out”
“Across an imaginary transom”
“It doesn’t bend on its own”
“Two words”
“Like we used to say as kids on the playground, it’s a free country”
“Blërg”
“Writes a chronicle”
“The beauty of fall is the beauty of things fading away”
“Too”
“Later, who knows?”
“Oh yeah?” “Yeah!”
“M’onderstanding”
“Overthinking”
“Early blogger energy”
“Trying to work off some ‘writing’ on you”
“Oh, I know that one”
“Look at this”
“Squirrels do bark”
“Take me to your simulacrum”
“Yes, Virginia”
“Tonight we bake”
“Not to be confused with fictional characters”
“Such as”
“Part-beagle”
“Wade through weeks”
“Is this the same morning, or a different morning?”

More blog-description lines
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