Top 10 titles

I started my blog The View from Saturday on Blogger in April of 2005 (my Multiply journal being only a mirror blog), and since then I have posted 440 blog entries, including this one. That also means I have come up with 440 blog entry titles, ranging from the obvious ("Tribute to a tenor") to the uncreative ("Cousins are cool") to the corny ("TARA, let's... not"), to self-gratifyingly clever references that no one seems to get anyway ("How do you like them Afflecks?").

As fellow blogger Sean pointed out in a recent blog post, the process of coming up with a title varies from writer to writer. I tend to take my titles seriously; I may have uncreative and corny ones, but I'd like to think there are no outrightly bad ones. There are times when I get stumped for a good title and it takes quite a while to come up with one ("2 guys, a girl and a Boston law firm"), and there are rare instances when I go back and change the title with a better one ("Steven Spielberg is a spoilsport (literally)" was originally "Shame on you, Mr. Spielberg"). But I find that my best ones are the bolts-from-the-blue, words or phrases that just pop into my head, sometimes as soon as I think of a topic to write about, sometimes when I finish composing a blog entry, and sometimes in the middle of writing or revising the piece. Here are my personal favorites:

• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugh - my recap of a long weekend in November 2005
• Wedding banned - my siblings' list of cheesy songs that are forbidden to be played at our weddings
• The abominable snob-woman - my contribution to the online outpouring of outrage against controversial columnist Malu Fernandez
  
• Ripped, roaring good time - my review of the kick-ass movie 300
  
• The chemistry of Anatomy - my review of the TV show Grey's Anatomy, before it went the way of Ally McBeal and got annoying
  
• Pido-phile - my homage to UST head coach Pido Jarencio
• A salute to the season when love ran high - my sentimental summation of the Blue Eagles' run in Season 70 of the UAAP (the title's culled from a line from The Zombies song "Time of the Season")
• End it like Beckham - my salute to David Beckham's last run as captain of England's football team
  
• Trillanes has cajones - my acknowledgment of Sen. Antonio Trillanes', erm, testicular fortitude
  
• Hysteria over Wisteria - my take on the overreaction to the perceived "racist" remark about Filipino doctors uttered by Teri Hatcher on Desperate Housewives

If anyone has their own personal favorite from my 440 titles (assuming anyone pays attention to the titles), feel free to post a comment here and let me know which one you like. :)