An Interesting New Venture
Lately, I've been thinking I want to be creative again. My writing muse has fucked off to parts unknown, even though I came up with a pretty good plot for a Stargate Atlantis fic. I've been trying to think of ways I can be creative that doesn't involve writing, and until today, I came up empty-handed. I love music, but I don't know how to play the piano, and we can't afford lessons. I like dancing, but again, we can't afford lessons, and I'm so out of practice (last time I took ballet was 3rd grade, and even earlier for tap dancing) that I don't know if I'd be able to re-learn any of the things I don't remember, nor am I positive I'd be able to successfully pull off the things I DO remember.
And then, in the middle of water aerobics, it hit me. I like making people laugh. I've been meaning for years to do a vlog of some sort, and I have a rather spiffy still-relatively-new laptop with a built-in webcam. Why couldn't I combine the two into a weekly comedic video? I could make it as snarky as I want, but not offensive snarky, maybe do a Q&A or something, but whatever I did, I wanted it to be funny. The only thing I didn't have for it was a title and a place to host it. When I got home, I decided that I didn't want to delete either of my YouTube channels to create a new one, nor did I want to delete any videos from my old channels to make room for this. I'd been interested in checking out Vimeo for a long time now, and when I looked at the site, I was pleased with what I found. I signed up and confirmed my email address as soon as I could.
After putting up some rather cryptic Tweets about my intentions, watching as LeBitchGate exploded all over my Twitter feed, and setting up the look of the channel on Vimeo, I was missing only one thing: a name. I thought long and hard (hurr) about what I wanted to call my little project, and after much thought (and a trip to Google to make sure the name wasn't already taken), I came up with "Sunday Night Snark." As strawberrysgirl says, "Sundays can be quiet, and a fun thing can spice it up." She's right...Sunday night is inherently depressing for a couple reasons:
I'm opening the forum for questions. I only ask a few things of those who ask me:
And then, in the middle of water aerobics, it hit me. I like making people laugh. I've been meaning for years to do a vlog of some sort, and I have a rather spiffy still-relatively-new laptop with a built-in webcam. Why couldn't I combine the two into a weekly comedic video? I could make it as snarky as I want, but not offensive snarky, maybe do a Q&A or something, but whatever I did, I wanted it to be funny. The only thing I didn't have for it was a title and a place to host it. When I got home, I decided that I didn't want to delete either of my YouTube channels to create a new one, nor did I want to delete any videos from my old channels to make room for this. I'd been interested in checking out Vimeo for a long time now, and when I looked at the site, I was pleased with what I found. I signed up and confirmed my email address as soon as I could.
After putting up some rather cryptic Tweets about my intentions, watching as LeBitchGate exploded all over my Twitter feed, and setting up the look of the channel on Vimeo, I was missing only one thing: a name. I thought long and hard (hurr) about what I wanted to call my little project, and after much thought (and a trip to Google to make sure the name wasn't already taken), I came up with "Sunday Night Snark." As strawberrysgirl says, "Sundays can be quiet, and a fun thing can spice it up." She's right...Sunday night is inherently depressing for a couple reasons:
- Nothing good on TV
- Work the next morning if you're an adult
- School the next morning if you're a kid
- Possibly too damn hot to do anything else if it's summer
- Possibly too damn much snow to do anything else if it's winter
I'm opening the forum for questions. I only ask a few things of those who ask me:
- I'd like to read whatever questions I get on-camera, so you'd have to allow me permission to read your question on-camera.
- I won't use any real names, but I don't want to just read the questions and take credit for any brilliance that isn't my own. If you give me permission to read what you ask on-camera, please give me a name to go with it, or I'll use LJ or Twitter names.
- For the love of whatever deity you worship or don't worship, nothing offensive! I reserve the right to refuse to answer any questions that are racist, homophobic, or generally offensive to mankind.
- With the last point in mind, I realize that political questions could cause a problem. Thankfully, I don't have a problem with sharing my opinions and views with the general public, so go ahead and ask them. HOWEVER, I will IP track, find the home of, and summarily bitchslap the living shit out of anyone who asks me if I think that Obama was really born in the USA. I mean, really people...don't you think we would have found out BEFORE THE ELECTION if he wasn't? Common sense, mofos.
- It doesn't matter if the question is silly or serious, ask it! I'll answer it!