We here at Consider Your Ass Kicked have been wondering: was the rather off-hand choice of a title for this blog an unfortunate choice? It's aggressive, yes, and that's what was wanted. But it may also come over a bit smug. A bit, dare we say, arrogant. And while arrogance is fine - we love it, we are it, we love the sound of it! What a great word to describe us - but smug isn't so good. Smug isn't what was wanted. Smug smacks of complacent, which we're most decidedly not.
So two points here: the original selection of the title "Consider Your Ass Kicked!" was never meant as a threat of implied violence, nor as a peremptory claim of superiority over any ass that may conceivably happen along, nor as an implied threat of violence. No, the emphasis always rested roundly upon the word, "Consider." Consider...your ass kicked. Contemplate that. Reflect upon its inevitability. Even if not by we here at Consider Your Ass Kicked!, it is inevitable that one will get one's ass kicked, from time to time. Ponder that sobering fact.
See? Not smug at all. Kind of a downer, really. We're all in that same boat. But sometimes you get your ass kicked in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. Which balances it a bit - or at least, dilutes its usefulness as a meaningful phrase.
Which brings us to point two, or more accurately, which exhausts point one, freeing us to move on to point two: I'm kind of considering a name change. On the blog. To something with a little less of the ring of an imposing pose. Those who chose to adopt an imposing pose sowed foes where friends could otherwise have been reaped, and that ain't me - or least, it's not how I see me. I don't want to be stuck with one ill-considered decision for the rest of my however long I bother with this.
But then...other days, seems like a perfect title to me! So.
Just musing around with it, I guess. Any suggestions will be gratefully...dealt with.
So two points here: the original selection of the title "Consider Your Ass Kicked!" was never meant as a threat of implied violence, nor as a peremptory claim of superiority over any ass that may conceivably happen along, nor as an implied threat of violence. No, the emphasis always rested roundly upon the word, "Consider." Consider...your ass kicked. Contemplate that. Reflect upon its inevitability. Even if not by we here at Consider Your Ass Kicked!, it is inevitable that one will get one's ass kicked, from time to time. Ponder that sobering fact.
See? Not smug at all. Kind of a downer, really. We're all in that same boat. But sometimes you get your ass kicked in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. Which balances it a bit - or at least, dilutes its usefulness as a meaningful phrase.
Which brings us to point two, or more accurately, which exhausts point one, freeing us to move on to point two: I'm kind of considering a name change. On the blog. To something with a little less of the ring of an imposing pose. Those who chose to adopt an imposing pose sowed foes where friends could otherwise have been reaped, and that ain't me - or least, it's not how I see me. I don't want to be stuck with one ill-considered decision for the rest of my however long I bother with this.
But then...other days, seems like a perfect title to me! So.
Just musing around with it, I guess. Any suggestions will be gratefully...dealt with.
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