the goblin in the library

As I’ve written before, when I first started blogging, I picked the name “goblin cartoons” because it seemed to sum up my writing and my approach to writing, particularly when it came to poetry. I used to write quite a bit of poetry, but I haven’t written any in ages. When it comes to poetry, I have a confession: I didn’t really write because I loved the art of poetry (although there is a lot of poetry that I like); I wrote because the medium of poetry seemed like one of the better ones to express my love of words.

I’ve always loved words and the magic of words, the way you can practice “word alchemy”–combining two or more words that don’t usually go together to evoke images and feelings of mystery and wonder.

The new website Wordie is a natural site for me, then. It’s brilliant in all kinds of ways. You can create lists of words you like, which is cool enough. (I’ve done that on my own anyway, but it’s nifty to be able to put them up on the web and share them with other people.) Signing up and creating a profile automatically generates an hCard–cool! Your word lists generate RSS feeds–cool! And let me say that I wholeheartedly approve of this trend of being able to link to your profiles on other social sites in your profile. LibraryThing does this, too, and I think it latches right onto the magic of the social interweb.

Here’s my profile. My word lists will probably update frequently. Like I said, I love words. And so I love Wordie.