The first post. The first thing that needed to be decided was the name. It needs to communicate. It needs to pop. It needs to be both sizzle and steak.
First thought was "...But there is an I in Tim". When I played little league, we used to take a knee and coach would say something about hitting or catching and end with..."remember there is no I in team". I would sit there and smugly think to myself... "but there is an I in Tim". I was the first 10 year-old who was playing for the name on the back of his jersey rather than the one on the front. However, that name just doesn't cut it.
So I did some browsing. It quickly became clear that far more important than what the name is - is what it would not be. There are a lot of Tims out there with horrible names for web sites. I quickly stumbled on whattimsays.com which is a collection of tweets from a Tim in Vancouver. As far as I can tell is the Anti-Tim (yes that's right... first post, first comparison to a religious icon. I am now bigger than the Beatles).
First off, "what tim says" is so wrong. My blog is an instruction, not a dialog. Think of it like Oprah (only with less reach). I intend to have a book club. I will have a Dr. Tim segment. I will have my favorite things. I will hide the fact that I know this much about Oprah.
More important than the title was the utter inanity of the posts on the sites. Let me just repost a few: "watching the mentalist...on the edge of my seat", "Accidentally ordered Starbucks at Tim Horton's" or "Fast and the Furious marathon!". I am sad to share my name with this individual. If you are going to have a movie marathon there are only a few legitimate choices:
1. Rocky
2. Indiana Jones
3. Alien/Aliens/Aliens3/Alien Resurrection/Predator/Predator2/Alien vs. Predator/Alien vs. Predator:Requiem)
It was in the realization that whattimsays was wrong that I found what was right. Tim does not say. Tim tells. That is the steak...when you add the sizzle...
TIM WILL TELL
and he will...stay tuned.
