Tooth and Claw

At last… my own blog.  I somehow felt the need for this because of the ever shrinking pool of user names, proprietary labels, and in this specific case, blog site names in the Internet.  Ten years from now, someone just might offer to buy out this blog’s name.  Originality sells, it’s just a matter of foresight.  You see I could have used my name, but that wouldn’t sell now would it?  Unless of course I become someone famous, but chances are, I’d be dead by then.

Come to think of it, my original blog site name should have been "Food for a Crow".  I tried to create a blog for two months now with that name, and every time Friendster would send an error report.  I thought all this time the blog engine was under repair.  Serendipitously I tried another name and here I am writing about it.

To give justice to the origin of the phrase, it’s part of the lyrics of Sting’s "I Was Brought To My Senses":

It’s written in a sky as blue

As blue as your eyes

As blue as your eyes
If nature’s red in tooth and claw
Like winter’s freeze and summer’s thaw

The wounds she gave me

Were the wounds that would heal me

I don’t know if ten years from now the same phrase would still sound as cool as it did now.  In fact, ten years from now, "cool" would probably be just as uncool as hearing our parents say "groovy".  Too bad they didn’t come up with "un-groovy" back then.

Frontage of Malangabang Elementary School, Barangay Malangabang, Concepcion, Iloilo