About
This page contains three sections, sorted in order of perceived importance: about the blog, about me, and the colophon (an odd word that means roughly “how it’s made”).
About the Blog
Frozen Toothpaste isn’t a political blog. It’s not a celebrity gossip blog. It’s not a blog of reviews. It’s not a blog about religion or non-religion. Nor one of fiction or quotations. And though it’s none of those things, it has some interest in all of those areas.
If you’re seeking a simple analogy for what you’ll find here, probably the best is that it’s similar to the columns you find on newspaper’s Opinion page and sprinkled through most newsmagazines. That analogy is better than most others but it still fails, as the content here can be both less timely and more diverse than you find in those types of writings.
The best short description that’s been mustered is the one that resides under the title: “quasi-intellectual part-time philosophizing.” As that playfully derisive tagline suggests, the content tend to be biased toward variations of philosophizing on issues of politics, culture, and life. If you’d like a slightly better idea of what it’s about, take a look at some of our archives, and specifically the recommendations section.
In general, Frozen Toothpaste is updated once a day Monday through Friday. As was stated in the August 2007 “State of the Blog,” that schedule is generally:
- Monday: Review, of just about anything I feel is worth telling the world about.
- Tuesday: Life, something either mundane or important but usually relating to the day-to-day.
- Wednesday: Politics/World, usually either something interesting I’ve noticed or something I feel a need to comment on.
- Thursday: Pretty Much Whatever I Want.
- Friday: Other People’s Words (OPW), poems or quotations that say things I’d like to say better than I can.
If you’re still not sure what Frozen Toothpaste’s about, a look at some of our former (but still relevant) taglines may be informative. They are, in reverse chronological order:
- A Blog of Ideas (revived because it’s predecessor began to feel a tad too accurate)
- quasi-intellectual part-time philosophizing
- A Blog of Ideas
- Unwarranted Opinion on Life, Politics & Culture
- Your source for the banal, the mundane, and (occasionally) the enlightening
About Me
David Hayes, the author of this blog, is a 22-year-old university graduate. He currently lives in Colorado. He also doesn’t like writing about himself in the third person.
I’ve blogged, with varying degrees of success, skill, and regularity since I was about 14. I’m confident that this blog is the best I’ve ever done, which is far from saying that it is either good or great.
I’m really interested in learning about the world in all it’s hopefulness and it’s misery. I think that we’re not so different, you and I, and that goes for any you (and any I as well). I think that this blog is great way for me to catalog things I think, learn, and hope for while also allowing me to share those things with the world.
About a year ago I wrote down the three big things I wanted to do in my life. Those three things were:
- To learn about the world.
- To share my understanding of the world.
- To change the world for the better.
I think this blog, and blogging in general, can help to do all three of those things. For that reason, I blog.
Colophon
Frozen Toothpaste runs on WordPress, a free blogging platform.
The theme — meaning layout, colors, fonts, et cetera — is a heavily modified version of the BWO_one theme by Ikiru Design (also me, by the way). The font you’re seeing is (probably) Georgia, by Matthew Carter, which is without question the most appealing web-safe serif typeface.
Frozen Toothpaste also takes advantage of a number of freely-available WordPress plugins including:
- Akismet — to save us from the staggering number of spam comments received (nearly 2500 at last count)
- Similar Posts — to add those handy links at the end of each post
- FeedBurner’s FeedSmith — to redirect subscribers to the site’s FeedBurner feed (which allows subscriber counts, etc.)
- WordPress Database Backup — to (hopefully) save us from a terrible loss of data
- Popularity Contest — to keep track of what’s being read, searched, and linked to
- wp-typogrify — to make two typed hyphens into “ — ”
- Subscribe to Comments — to allow you to, well, (see name)
- WP Contact Form: Askiment Edition — to allow you to contact me
Frozen Toothpaste is hosted by bluehost.