The HerbNation Focus
or
What You Might Expect Around These Parts
(Note: the following started out as an introduction to this site to those of you who know me via Spades. It suffices quite nicely for others too. Therefore, without further ado...)
Howdy. As some of you may know the herb plays Yahoo! Spades. Due to several inquests by various curious fellow Spaders, it has come to the attention of management that an explanation of sorts is in order.
Which is to say I'd boot up and download and mouse around, and, well, finally I'd have to plug in my computer... only to soon enough find myself tossing cards via my Cox cable connection. Then, while minding my own business as per my usual (low-key like a hurricane), I'd get all this "Hey, why is your nickname 'herboverstreet_com'? What are you, some kind of website editor?"
And I'd have to answer. In the affirmative. Then I'd try to resume playing cards. You know: keepin' it on the down low, from the get-go. But sometimes, well, quite often, they wouldn't let me. I mean I play cards to get away from all this. This is the hard part. This is where my mutton gets waxed. Over in Spades is where I go to relax.
But, frequently, they'll keep pestering. "What's on your site?" That's definitely their most popular question.
Now, if this isn't your first time to the HerbNation you probably already know about the vast stores of massive verbiage hereabouts. You know about the prose. You know about the blurbs and the quips. You know about the planks of my platform.
I'm not sure: is this pirate smiling? Also, is that a breast or a sail?
Hmmm. How to approximate an accurate description of all this Herboliciousness? Is that even possible? Certainly such a monumental task is daunting. But in 25 words or less?
Which is par for the course over at Yahoo! Spades.
Most exchanges in their tiny chat boxes are conducted in bytes of five words or less. Once in a great great while someone might soliloquize: ten words, all in a row. To literally possess the nerve, the audacity, the moxie (if you will) to jam on your thinking cap and actually plunk down fifteen words? In one fell swoop? I mean to do more than muse on it--to seriously do it?? OMG is that verboten.*
(*In other words, initially pooh poohed, then quickly forgotten... or ignored, talked over, whatevered. It's all about the lowest common denominator conversationally. Also, using internet shorthand like LOL or TMI or BRB or IDK** seems to be respected more and/or seems to attract more chatters than using unabbreviated phrases.)
So, after being asked for the umpteenth time about the scope and the breadth of this stuff "rye-cheer," I figured it was time for an update.
Listerine!?
So here goes.
I can't think of anything.
Sure I have a few ideas. But to reach around and pat myself on the back? That's just not me.
And to call this a "blog"? First off, that word sounds like drudgery, like "blogging" is what a pimply ogre does when he's schlogging through eerie slippery misty dripping swamplands at dusk, bludgeoning hapless hamlet inhabitants as he plod plods along.
Wife greeting hubby at door: "Hi hun. How was your day?"
"Same ol' same ol'. Bedraggled at the bog once again. Trudged and meandered begrudgingly through humid minutiae. How was yours?"
"Oh? You mean you were blogging?" (Kissy kissy.)
So, yes: I have a hard time calling this a blog.
To inform my fellow Spaders about this site's ironic juxtapositions, to allude to its humor, its satire, to do that first is to, in effect, downplay its more serious ponderings. Sure, we here at HerbQuarters will occasionally and lightly touch on political matters, but only in an unbiased way. Hehe. That's a joke.
Which reminds me: I absolutely abhor having to include a laugh track. In real life when I'm not trying to be funny, people laugh at me. If I fall on my face, they giggle.
But when I'm trying to be funny? Dead serious stares. Like I just said something tawdry about their grandmothers.
Oh, well. So, if a "tee he he" is in order, then what? I rewrite it so I don't have to. I think it's better if you, my surfing visitor, get to pick out the what and the why and the how of what you find entertaining.
Speaking of grandmothers... yes, the HerbNation is geared toward the entire family.
Do I rely on focus groups to help trim, tweak and/or truncate content? Not... really. I listen to emailers and a few others, but mostly I self-edit.
So what else does the herb's site entail?
Just... look: you've been properly introduced. Go back to my homepage and if--after you roll over it--it changes colors and gets bigger, do the clicky click thing. Feast your eyes, do some scrolling, rinse, repeat.
Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it.
** This "IDK" is a new one on me. I don't know what it means yet. I've asked other chatters/surfers and they don't know what it means either... or so they say. It's quite frustrating.