…the Site
This site is devoted to excercises in both writing and life, through the embarkation (it’s a word, promise) upon Projects intended to entertain, enlighten and challenge both author and reader.
It was created as a way to simply get the author to write (nearly) every day, and has evolved into something that allows said author (that’s me) and said audience (that’s you) to explore, indulge in, push boundaries on and otherwise rub a metaphorical nose in, such disconnected topics as love, online dating, linguistics, bad poetry, “modernity,” San Francisco The World in all Her glory, and how to be a decent human being. (Still working on that last one.)
…the Author
Shannon currently lives in San Francisco Sonoma County, is diurnal, and works as a Verbal Branding. No, really: there is no noun in her job title. This gives her a false sense of importance and she likes to think she has the presence of an entire department. The fools that sign her pay check actually give her money to name stuff In Jan. 2007 Shannon jumped corporate ship and now makes her way swimming the freelance waters as a Naming Consultant & Writer.
The picture you see here is included in the event that you are unimpressed with her verbal skills. She may not always be eloquent but she can always fall back on gymnatic party tricks.
A graduate of UC Berkeley in Linguistics and Mass Communications, Shannon is fascinated by words, sounds, and other productive things to do with the mouth. Her favorite sounds are guttural plosives; her favorite words are “snarky” (number one) and “susurrus” (number two). If she had a third favorite word, it would be “aubergine” (maybe).
Shannon is very interested in creative writing and journalism, branding and the ubiquity of mass communications, pop and global culture, the intersection between art and technology, bright colored shoes with bright colored laces that make her look FAST, and how cities are like people. Shannon is currently seducing San Francisco Penngrove. Hello, Lover.
She is a big fan of social experiments, the borders and delineations of society and the self, and utter uniqueness in appearance or character—despite the fact that she is pretty generic looking and hasn’t said anything that hasn’t already been said before.
And she is grateful you’ve visited.
4 responses so far ↓
1 hanoi jenny,not hanoi jane // Jan 19, 2006 at 11:28 pm
I prefer aubergine as your third favorite word, if readers are in fact allowed to vote, since it incites color as well. Great reads, here, m’dear. You are a true artist with your words. Go Novel. Why wait? hanoi
2 CoRiNnE // Dec 12, 2007 at 4:49 pm
I have to say… You are an amazing writer Shannon.
3 vince // May 3, 2008 at 4:29 am
Vince and Alia are especially impressed with the back flip picture. Not to diminish the import of your words, but back flips are pretty fucking cool.
4 Kari // Jul 30, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I’ve spent the last 6 hours reading your blogs and, can I way, catching up, as I’ve spent the last several years away from SoCo. Since I cannot think of a better term, you really, truly are an amazing writer. Even if what you are writing about sucks, thank you for making it real to us. And, as such, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch for me to believe someone, were he or she to remind me that I myself had/suffered a similar loss at some point in the past year. You have that capacity to make us (your readers, loyal and new) empathize with you in such a fresh and raw way. My love to you, your family, the dogs…but especially to you. Hugs
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