Technically, I don't live there for another couple of weeks, unless moving one towel and my bathrobe into the house counts.
I think we need an mp3 of you pronouncing that, Ogged.
Also, Smasher hasn't called it the AHOB in a while. The flophouse and heart of dupont tend to be gaining favor.
Ogged's post manifests two confusions.
The first confusion is in precisely what name he's suggesting. He proposes "Chez Blog", but then, in his example of its use, writes "I'll be Chez Blog". But one does not write "I'll be X", where X is a name—for instance, "I'll be The Holt". No. One writes that one will be at the named place. So: "I'll be at Chez Blog". Clearly ogged temporarily forgot that "Chez" was part of the name, and thought it retained its use as a pretentious preposition (even though it was initially capitalized and in roman type).
The second confusion is much simpler to present: ogged seems to think that "Chez Blog" (or possibly merely "Blog", but only referred to locatively with "chez") is a good name.
Not particularly good suggestions:
The Blogcave
Inside the Blogway
The Bloghole
Ogged's suggestion morphs too easily into "Chez Blowjob". I can't tell if that's a bug or a feature.
I think we need an mp3 of you pronouncing that, Ogged.
I half-reached for the microphone as I was typing up the post, then I thought, "what the fuck am I doing?"
The problem with "The Heart of DuPont" is that it's too much a description, and not name-y enough. "The Flophouse" is better, but as names go smacks of the nick. Really, "The Awesome House of Bloggers" is the best of the three.
Hi Ogged, we don't know each other, but I wanted to know why I've got these slash/s in my n/me.
Americans will make "Chez Blog" sound too much like "Shay Blows," and so it's a short walk from there to either Moby Dick (Thar Shay Blows!) or ATM, or both.
So that you won't be googlable, Spence.
6 - Aw, come on. You have such a sexxxy deep voice.
The problem with "The Heart of DuPont" is that it's too much a description
Actually, the point is that it's in fact nowhere near Dupont Circle.
You have such a sexxxy deep voice.
Call me anytime, Becksy.
So that you won't be googlable, Spence.
Right. Thought you might not want your living arrangements showing up in a Google search of your name.
2 noteS:
1) In English, word-final "G" can't be pronounced in a soft way. It doesn't fit the rules of English orthography. You will have to call it "Chez Bloge".
2) Also, when you said "pronounce the G at the end of "blog" as if it were soft", I was sure you were going to suggest calling the house "The Blodge". It is a lodge, after all. I think that would also be acceptable, from the perspective of being a catchy name a la the Melrose Place or Saved By The Bell hangouts.
2 noteS
I don't know why that S is capitalized, unless it's trying to force its way into an acronym.
Point 16.1 is also true for French of course.
How about "Mineshaft on the Potomac"?
I think we should just take the initials of the inhabitants and call it ASSCAB.
When are you guys going to paint the floors? The photos make it pretty clear that that's the only solution. I vote for red. Then at least you could come up with some blog/blood pun names. And then you could turn the floor-painting into a goal-oriented party!
I guess "Megan's Place" is out now.
I think it needs a bottomless pit.
I like The Blodge. Also, the No-Blabbin' Cabin.
26 is a terrible name for a house.
Whatever the name is, it should be Googleproofed. I vote for "Teh Bl/dge".
I liked the blogcave actually. It will happily begin a never ending series of cheezy batman allusions.
"quickly becks, to the blogcave"
I'm partial to Blogcave or something like it. Maybe the Bath Haus. You don't want to go too cutesy/clever, I think. But this is really doing it backwards. First you need to name the group of people: the Furious Five, Legion of Doom, etc. Only then can you name the house.
If Ack/er/man came up with "Diabetes," he shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Maybe the Bath Haus.
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Jorn Barger's dead
You should name the house "Scott Bakula ate my balls".
No, no you shouldn't. You shouldn't name the house anything. It's a terrible idea.
But they should paint the floors anyway.
Why does standpipe hate fun? And m-fun?
You shouldn't name the house anything. It's a terrible idea.
Bridgeplate, sensing that the blog is less funny, is trying to get ahead of the curve, and get to "unfunny" before anyone else. Don't be fooled. The house needs a name.
It's very possible that I've just always wanted to paint floors.
Not that I have any idea of what kind of primer and paint should go into painting floors, mind you.
Xanadu. Or maybe Blanadu.
Paint does not work well on floors unless they are concrete -- we painted the wooden floor of our porch and it constantly needs touching up. Floors do a lot of flexing that chips and abrades paint.
Our Lady of Blogalupe/Dupont/the Perpetual Flophouse
is trying to get ahead of the curve, and get to "unfunny" before anyone else.
Alas for me, Farber got there first.
I saw a sign that said Standpipe Connection, and I thought, cool, SB could get a bus here.
Why are there so many signs about standpipes?
(and what's on the other side?)
52 pwns, if SB didn't have that song in mind when he posted 50.
If SB did have that song in mind, then 52 is totally lame.
Oof. That earworm's going to stick around for a while.
I am certain Standpipe had that song in mind when posting 50.
55: Yeah, me too, pretty much. I just wanted to give good old Clownae the benefit of the doubt.
foxtail -- 's long as it's in your ear, might I recommend you check out these alternate lyrics?
"The Bloje" is stupid. "Chez Bloje" is stupid and pretentious.
Blogcave is okay, ish. I don't see what's wrong with the Mineshaft auxiliary, or "the shaft" or something like that, though.
Also, you can paint wood floors, but it's a hell of a lot of work to do it right. Ideally you should seal the wood, to create a smooth surface, then use a porch paint, then apply varnish to make the surface harder and less chippable. And of course you have to keep fucking dust off it the entire time you're painting, and wait several days before moving furniture in or walking on it.
El Sendero. Might as well get the FBI involved early.
Ideally you should seal the wood, to create a smooth surface, then use a porch paint, then apply varnish to make the surface harder and less chippable...
Perhaps I should clarify that we're talking about sheets of plywood staplegunned to the a-frame and not real hardwood floors that just need refinishing. And we're renting. So, yeah. This is never going to happen.
The Alamo -- in honor of 'Smasher's presence. Or "The Alamo Lofts".
58 -- Jackson Pollock pioneered a less arduous method of floor-painting.
Surely there's a way to combine "Chez Blowjob" and "Mineshaft" in some clever punacious or riddling way? Blowshaft is probably not the way to go.
63 -- "Mineshaft Blowjob" has a certain Standpipe Bridgeplatey ring to it.
I really do like "Megan's Place" the best of all the suggestions so far. "The Blodge" is pretty good too.
But how about "The D.C."?
Alas that Aaron Spelling will never dramatize these bloggy living quarters! Maybe Tori has a producing career ahead of her.
48 is funny.
Chez Bloje is anything but pretentious. But it is, clearly, too good for this crowd.
"The Blodge" is the best of the rest.
Mindjob Blowshaft I think is more like it, if we're looking for that sort of thing.
But no, let's not look for that sort of thing.
Here's the thing about renting, though: sometimes you end up staying there for a while. So if you know you'll be out of there in a year, max, then, sure, blow it off. Otherwise, it's really worth doing the quick-fix stuff that will make you happy as early as possible. As long as the landlord is cool with it, of course.
"The Blodge" is the best of the rest.
Except it keeps making me think "The Nuge."
Well, if they were real hardwood floors, painting them would be a crime. I considered painting the ugly-ass linoleum at my last place, but decided it was too much hassle. Even though the lino was really, truly, ugly. Like gray puke.
Whoa, you can paint non-concrete floors? Doesn't it flake?
If Sp/ncer were still around, I'd ask him how it is that he's lived in DC for however long he's lived in DC without running into Ian Svenonius until recently. Can anyone work "Ian Svenonius" into a bloghaus name?
73: Not if you varnish it and use proper floor (porch) paint, no. You can do some beautiful stuff; just google "paint wood floors" or whatever if you're interested.
Ackerm/n calls it The Heart of DuPont
Please, the Fireplace is the heart of Dupont.
My vote's for the Pundithole, which sounds dirtier than it actually is.
WOW.
My eyes get opened about the oddest things here. Thanks b.!
As a matter of actual advice, the only acceptable way to name the house is to have someone, someone who neither lives there nor knows you're trying to name it, refer to it casually by some name or other, and then adopt it.
77: Heh, n//p. Like I said, I thought about it myself. Good luck with the project in the link!
I saw one once where they'd painted it all just a solid, very shiny, red. The rest of the room was pretty bare with pretty minimalist furniture. It looked fabulous.
I think we should just take the initials of the inhabitants and call it ASSCAB.
I had the same idea but came up with "Casa BS". I'm not sure which is more appropriate.
"Casa BS" should totally win. BTW, anyone know if casa is cognate with chez?
I vote for "Megan's Place."
AKA "The Fun Hole."
I like "ASSCAB" because it means we get a sixth roommate and new names.
Please, the Fireplace is the heart of Dupont.
You have to read all the comments and links contained therein.
we get a sixth roommate
on the contrary: one of you (Spence A.) has been riven in twain.
riven in twain
There's one floor you won't have to paint red.
85: not only has Spence A been riven in twain, but you get to keep your old names: Ack/rman Sp/ncer Saiselgy Catherine Armsmasher Becks. Duh.
So themed parties are out, but themed residences are cool?
Just checking.
Ooh, and then you could have a themed party called "Blog Jammin'"!
I have a question for Jackmormon or any of the other French speakers.
"Chez" basically means "at the house of."
"Chez pas" means "I don't know." Is this just a mispronunciation of "Je ne sais pas" after it's been elided to sound like "Jeunsay pas"?
Is there an etymological connection between the two uses?
In "chez pas" "pas" has the meaning of "step". "Step" is also the name of one of the Moors is recounted to have faced in various legends not included in the Song of Roland, who captured French soldiers and brought them back to his home where he gave them amnesia-inducing drugs (a nod to the Lotus-Eaters) and compelled them to fight for him, and against their erstwhile comrades. So, by a process of conflation, if you are "chez pas" you don't know something (or really, anything).
Whenever I read the title of this thread, I'm reminded of the Golden Smog song "To Call My Own".
Is this just a mispronunciation of "Je ne sais pas" after it's been elided to sound like "Jeunsay pas"?
I'm no French speaker, but I'm pretty sure this is the case. No etymological connection to "chez." Pay no attention to Ben.
English "dunno" is a corruption of the French de nos, itself a colloquialism abbreviating de nos oubliettes, expressing in a colorful Platonic mode that the object of ignorance is "of our dank places of forgetting".
So then who's going to volunteer to become the Blogcabin Republican?
Pay no attention to Ben.
Always bad advice.
98 -- Well they can always invite Idealist over.
(Though he may desire only sweaty self-abandonment.)
I thought Yglesias lived there? I'm pretty sure he's not Spence A, unless he's got a Tyler Durden thing going on, and I don't think he's Becks or Catherine because I'm a gender essentialist like that. So I can only surmise that you people call him Saiselgy or Armsmasher. This blog is confusing sometimes.
Sometimes people who use their real names elsewhere comment spell their names backwards when commenting for a little mild Google-proofing.
Yikes. "...who use their real names elsewhere spell their names backward when commenting here..."
92, 95; I'm not a French speaker either, but I've heard French people say "Je sais pas", dropping the "ne", in colloquial speech. It would be easy to get from there to something like what you report.
I read Alterdestiny for like three weeks before getting that "Erik Loomis" and "Lyrad Simool" might have something to do with one and other.
If you're trying to make me feel better, witless chum, it's not working because I didn't notice that either (and I actually know Erik and have been reading his blog for years). I'm not always a complete idiot, but I've got a real cognitive problem ever picking up on things spelled backwards.
How about a name having nothing to do with blogs?
Wouldn't that be kind of a contradiction in terms?
Bostoniangirl, I didn't see your question until now; the non-w-lfs-n commenters have it right. "Je sais pas," which is colloquial usage, is often further elided to be pronounced "chez pas." I don't think that that's its proper phonetic representation, though.
Bostoniangirl, I didn't see your question until now; the non-w-lfs-n commenters have it right.
Why does everyone value truth over artistic expression?
You had it most beautifully, w-lfs-n; the others had it right. There. Feel better?
How about a name having nothing to do with blogs?
Maybe:
Shafthaus
The Florida Street Project
Unfoggy Bottom
Any of the residents of said location care to weigh in on the suggestions so far?
You know, to give us hope that you're hearing us??
You people and your damn housing arrangement aren't worthy of our generosity!!!
Why, I bet your party wasn't any fun, either!!
Oh, hello there, sorry, pant, pant, what with all the orgies, who can keep up?
I have to say, I like Shafthaus.