Hilary Moon Murphy
January 7, 2001
Journal Index
The Petticoat Affair:
Liberty and Power:
Forgotten Household Crafts:
The Patent Office Pony:
Manners, Mutiny and Sex
In Andrew Jackson's
White House
by John F. Marszalek
The Politics of Jacksonian America
by Harry L. Watson
A Portrait of the Way
We Once Lived
by John Seymour
A History of the Early Patent Offices
by Kenneth W. Dobyns
Trey for web design
Tim Pratt for the Ganesh image
Bryan Andersen for the photo
IvyCat Graphics
for the cool arrows
Loyal readers like you
for nagging me!
Name This Journal!January 7, 2001
In lieu of our regular content, I have decided to offer a poll instead. Why?
Because this journal needs another name. “Adventures with an Elephant-Headed Muse” is long and unwieldy. It doesn’t scan, it’s not catchy, and it would make a horrible domain name.
For the last four days, there have been fifty of you clicking on this site every day. I know you’re out there, even if you don’t send me email and you don’t sign my guestbook. So now I’m going to request some feedback.
Click the appropriate button. Go ahead. You know you want to.
Back to the Dare. We have been a week into this thing, and I think that it’s time that you meet some of the other journalists who are doing this with me. I’m going to try to profile one each day until I’ve introduced everybody.
First on my list is Rob Vagle. Why? Two reasons. One, he has set for himself one of the most ambitious goals in this Dare. Two, he can’t read my journal because of a Geocities/WebTV incompatibility problem. This means that I can say whatever I want about him, and he can’t defend himself. Muahahaha!
I encourage all of you to visit his site, if only to see his way-cool rotating Marvin the Martian graphic. Rob is trying to get a “Mad Marvin Award” from his writing workshop by writing and submitting a new short story each week. That means that he plans to write five short stories in January. He’s already completed one of them, so he’s on track with his goals so far. Way to go, Rob!!!
Back to my writing. My output has been less than stellar the last three days. It’s time to drag out the mutual nagging society, folks… Nag me now. Nag me later. Nag me nag me nag me!
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