An explanation of the categories

In which your humble narrator attempts to clarify the category headings in the drop-down menu on the right hand side of the blog.

Bloggery – catch-all default category for posts I haven’t gotten around to categorizing otherwise and vague “this is what’s going on in my life at present” sort of things.

Books – regarding things I’ve been reading.  can include novels, short stories, graphic novels, and i suppose single issues of comic books, though I don’t think I’ve actually blogged about any single issues yet.

braindump – more for my benefit than anyone else’s.  random turns of phrase, stupid ideas, etc that I want to save for later.

Dobbs sightings – strange appearances of a smiling, pipe-smoking man in pop culture.  he has name, and it is J.R. “Bob” Dobbs, and many are the legends of who he is and what he’s accomplished.

Fandom – this category is reserved for demonstrations of just how dorky I actually am.  So far, it has been limited to speculation regarding an imaginary showdown between Jigsaw and Batman, but, as time passes, other manifestations of my dorkiness will doubtless arise and warrant filing in this category.

Fiction – I used to write. emphasis on the used to, and samples my struggling to return to the art get shuffled into this category.  At present, it is mostly vignettes about a group of epic-fantasy type adventurers with very non-epic (and actually downright villainous) personalities.  their wizard is a homicidal maniac (named Johnny, natch – reference to an old comic book i like), their spunky tomboy adventurer-chick is an anarchist revolutionary, their warrior is a former eunuch with anger management issues, and their leader is an alcoholic pirate who got into the whole monster-killing gig because he heard there was good money in it.

Forbidden Sciences – not actual sciences, mind, but FORBIDDEN ones, the kind i have my Doktorate in.  this deals with the paranormal, gadgets, religion, real and feigned crackpot pseudoscience, etc.  it is my favorite category.

Gaming – where i babble about video games i am playing recently.  overlaps with Fiction at times, if the game inspires me to fill in some dialog during the fights or whatnot.

Holiday – blogging about holiday festivities, or, more often, ranting about how annoying i find other people’s holiday activities.

Life in a Surveillance State – not about me being watched but about me watching others.  This category is more about the world around me than the contents of my brainmeats

Memes – surveys, quizzes, questionnaires, random meaningless stuff-about-me.

My Webcomic – kinda defunct for the past couple months, but, when it was in use, it was about the process of making my old webcomic.

Necro-curious – loving you is like loving the dead.  Necrophilia’s long been a favored theme of mine, so this is the category dealing with my fondness for corpses and zombies.

NWVO – the New World Veneer of Order, coined in a comment on Observant Bystander’s blog, this is the category originally meant to contain my world-domination schemes, but somehow it also contains explanations of why i do and don’t do certain things.  or, from the introductory post of the category, “New World Veneer of Order. NWVO. NWVO-riche, NWVO-cuisine. NWVOmancy. NWVOlogy. Simulated conspiracies for a low-fat low-carb high-fructose corn liquor future.  In this synthetic boozemaholic Splendaferous future, all posts pertaining to my world domination will be under the NWVO category, referring, of course, to the New World Veneer of Order.”

pics – pictures.  of me, or of other stuff.

Poetry – don’t read it.  seriously.  it’s bad.  it makes Vogon poetry look like hallmark cards, and no i will not explain Vogon poetry.

Quotes – interesting little text-blurbs that strike me as funny.  sometimes from others, sometimes my own words from somewhere else reposted here.

Rants – hateful venomous spewage about whatever’s pissing me off that day.

Reviews – reviews of movies, books, or whatever.

Surviving Solstice – Dealing with the winter holidays, typically a stressful time of year for me as I am generally fed up with the world and chock full of respiratory infections during those months.

Videos – things from Youtube usually

Year of the Zoobies! – the year that REALLY BITES!  this is because 2008 looks like ZOOB, and “Zoobies” is the Nadsat derivative of the Russian word for “teeth”  hence, year of the Teeth.  overlaps with Rants a lot, as it is generally an angrye xplanation about why things suck in general this year.