Twice now my friends and I have been forcibly evicted from our blogging home.  It’s not like we’re drunk, noisy, rowdy, cousin-fucking hillbillies or anything but still we can’t seem to catch a blog-damn break when it comes to our communal hosts.  In the past week I have signed up at no less than five other blog sites.  They are all either full of children or they have no soul.  So now I find myself here at WP.  I was tempted to blog here once before but I had heard that this place was all hoity toity grammatical and snooty and well, that’s just not me.  I like to write and I am more than a bit voyeuristic when it comes to reading about the lives of others…and when it comes to watching them have sex too really.

My one big disappointment with WP is that my name was already taken.  I tried to log into the system, I punched in every password I ever used just in case at one time I did sign up here and forgot about it.  It would not surprise me if indeed I was the benthere here and I used some new password (that I picked because I would surely remember it) that I have long since forgotten.  My nana has Alzheimer’s and I know that someday it will be my fate to wear my pantyhose on my head too so most days I count myself lucky if I remember to wear pants.  Alas it appears that some other bent was here first.

I have been blogging as benthere for four years.  To have to come up with a new moniker at this point seemed like too much work…I am lazy so really doing most things feels too much like work.  I knew that I wanted to keep ‘ben’ in my handle because, well, that’s who I am.  That was when ‘benher’ came to me.  I know it sounds a little butch, a little Hestonesque but I love a good pun and when you take away the religion, the slavery and the chariots it’s just the story of a woman trying to find her place and her voice in a textual world.  I am a little more feminine than Charlton, I have better hair and I like to think I am a little more eloquent.  Now if you’ll excuse me I’d like to settle myself in here and rearrange some furniture…then I’ll deal with those damn dirty apes.

ben 

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