For my inaugural post, I’ll get right to it (after introducing myself i’m Adam Lisagor you can call me Lisagor or Adam and i have a tumblr blog of my own here hi how are you) by taking you along as I figure out what it is I’m getting into here on lookshiny. My first process was a deconstruction of its name.

Based on various inflection, the title of this now collarative blog (collaboblog) that Nick has invited me to join as a contributor could mean a few different things:

• “Look! Shiny!” Probably the most common read, this title exuberantly dances and points to things fun and enticing to distract the reader from the boring and awful.
• “Look, Shiny.” Somewhat derogatory, the author of the blog assumes poor hygiene on the part of the reader and the resulting oils secreted from the skin form the basis of a cruel epithet.
• “Look shiny!” would name more of a self-help, style and beauty guide of a blog, encouraging readership with the promise of a healthy and radiant glow, tips for which can be found within. Probably not so much of this kind of thing here.
• “Looks Hiny” For the buttman or buttlady (buttress?), a group to which I belong and a feed to which I would eagerly subscribe.
• “lookshiny” just a string of letters tastefully arranged into phonemes, giving only ambiguous cues as to any possible semantic significance. I’ll go with this one, and will contribute under its auspices.

Please stand by and we’ll see if I don’t just fuck this up. Nick, can I say ‘fuck’? It’s kind of my thing.