TheKey's Journal: Sarkis Gatsby Online

My home page is www.sgol.org. It's always been under construction, never really going anywhere. I pretty much design a site, update it for a week, and forget about it. So this time around, I'm just going to drop the whole blog/personal site thing. Since the domain doesn't actually have my name in it (Sean Gibat Online is what it stands for), I can use it for deceit and trickery. Woot.

From now on, the site is going to be Sarkis Gatsby Online. It's still going to be a blog/personal site, but for a completely fictional character. I'm thinking this is going to be a character who is in the 50 year old range. He's been through a lot of stuff and has a lot of life experience. As much as possible, I'm going to try and bring up past experiences (e.g. About 15 years ago, trekking through the Sahara Desert... blah blah, moral of the story). I've put up a temporary page. The picture there now is of some random fellow I found on google.

You might think that this is going to require as much work as a real blog or even more. I've got a plan though - since it's completely fictional, I can just give me friends the name/password to the news script and let them make updates as well.

If I even get a moderate crowd, perhaps I'll add an "Ask Sarkis" page.

one downside

[AssFace]

I actually read that and wondered if you were going to keep with a theme - I also wondered if you were continuing it with your slashdot name - but then saw that it didn't seem to be that way.

You have a vision in your head of what this character is like. You know what he looks like to you, you know how much he weighs. If asked, you could likely quickly come up with a story of where he went to high school and you can make him remember the painfully embarrassing story of his first kiss.

Which is all good - yo

Re:one downside

[TheKey]

I was thinking about just using the picture of someone I knew so that I would be able to get more than just one picture. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone quite as interesting looking as I would hope to use.

Re:one downside

[AssFace]

Or you could go the other route and make it totally obvious that it is a different guy in the pic sometimes. One time it is a black man in his 20s, another time it is a white guy in his 50s. One time the pic is set in the 30s, and another pic is from the 90s. Different race, nationality, time period, age... etc. Disabilities are good too.
But then never reference that it is always someone different. Or allude to liking "different outfits" or something.

have fun with it :)