Ver - bitch - en

This blog is called 'Verbitchen' for the following reasons;  'FuckYourBlog' was already taken, as was 'FuckYerBlog'.... etc. etc. Also, 'Laika' was unavailable, which is too bad because it would have been great to have a blog named after the first real space-bitch.  So I decided to consult the all-knowing wordoid, which spat out Verbitchen... 'verboten' with 'bitch' in it - perfect.

You might be wondering why the hatefulness. I'll damn well tell you. I read a really shitty blog, about essentially nothing (not the interesting, nihilist nor the relateable existentialist nor the perplexing post-modern nothing) just a shame-filled, unclimactic masturbatory nothing.  Normally, reading this kind of hapless nothingness would not piss me off but it was written by a former classmate of mine who has gone on to great things (in the literary world no less) and I had a gut feeling she was capable of much more.  It made me consider the possibility that I needed to show her how it's done.... this writing thing... since I had a letter to the editor published once when I was in high school.  Since I am indeed a dilettante as well as a bitch, that possibility evolved into a necessity in my mind. 

I should also confess that I have started numerous blogs. As in; made up a name, set up an account, come up with terribly witty posts, acerbic and cutting as fuck, and then failed to ever publish said posts (because they had been composed and satisfied my need to prove to myself that I could do it better).  This time, I got through made-up, set-up, come-up and now moved to put-up. 

Today's bitchen is sponsored by Lakeview cemetery, where a once-in-a-century flood finally delivered on the implied promise;

Lakeview Cemetery in the spring

copyright Masha Petrovic-Anderson 2011